10 user-friendly applications with step by step recipes for Android and iOS

1. Kitchen Stories

Kitchen Stories - a convenient and at the same time very beautiful application that contains an impressive collection of recipes.

Recipes are grouped into categories: "Best breakfast and snacks," "good meal", "Food for vegans" and so on. In addition, Kitchen Stories is a search and filtering records. You can find a few clicks of meals containing some special ingredient or belonging to a particular cuisine.

For beginners, there is a separate section with tips and tricks. Many of the recipes are accompanied by video instructions. And finally, Kitchen Stories It allows you to quickly generate a shopping list of the ingredients for the dishes selected.

However, their own meals in the application can not be added. And the localization of many recipes are not up to par.

2. RecipeBook

Quite an interesting application that has an entertaining feature Snap'n'Cook ( «shocked and ready"). It works like this: you find what ingredients you have in the fridge, mark them in the search, then shaking the phone. And the program shows that out of all of this you can prepare.

Another trick - photography ingredients. Make a picture of the product, shake, and the program will tell you what it is and that it can be prepared.

The application is very popular abroad, and allows users to add their own recipes, so here gathered a lot of options from around the world. However, Russian dishes once or twice and obchelsya. Although our relatives pelmeni, Soup and burgers are available, with different species.

Localization in RecipeBook is, but it is lame - automatic translation. However, to understand the recipes succeed without any difficulty.

3. The best recipes of the world

But this app is focused already on the English-speaking users, so no tricky foreign words in the list of products you have here is not waiting. At the base of more than 6000 recipes, and all of them are equipped with detailed instructions, photographs, illustrating the cooking process, and comments from the dish to try out amateur cooks. Software can be used without internet access - useful if cooking outdoors or at the cottage.

Like all chips Snap'n'Cook, like the notorious RecipeBook, not here, but the recipes are sorted by category and are great looking. A special section contains articles and tutorials for beginners in the spirit of "How to determine the freshness of the eggs," or "How to Beat the whites."

The app looks good and a great help in the kitchen. The only negative - the absence of a special category for vegans, so that opponents have to look for meat recipes without animal protein, checking the lists of ingredients by hand.

4. What's cooking?

"What's Cooking?" Is also able to select dishes from the set of ingredients. In the middle of its start-up screen has icon refrigerator. Click on it and fill in the open the list of products that you have in stock. Then, simply choose from the list of ingredients, marking their check boxes, and press the button "Generate recipes."

Base of the "What's Cooking?", Frankly, not very big - somewhere 850 recipes, but it is constantly updated. In addition, you can add to your application options dishes. The program includes a shopping list, which can make products of the recipes that you are going to try.

Those who become generous at 45 rubles for the premium version, will be available a package of additional prescriptions and the ability to send lists shopping via e-mail and instant messenger.

5. Cookpad

Very nice app with a clean interface, which also is not advertising and solicitations to buy the premium version. Recipes here are added by users, on which you can subscribe, comment on their culinary creations and even send them private messages. It looks like a social network where instead of seals - photos borscht and meatballs.

Many recipes. Here and drinks, and desserts, and meat dishes, and diet, and salads, and pastries. The list of categories you can find the national dishes - Belarus, the Caucasus, Tatar and others. There are then, for example, and recipes for the Muslims. Or vegans. However, certain categories are not marked and searched only search.

Favorite recipes added to favorites, and even they can be sent to any Pocket or by e-mail.

6. Smachno

Undeniable plus Smachno applications - extensive database of recipes. Slight negative - is not particularly user-friendly interface. For example, the search results are given recipes continuous text, no pictures and the intervals between the lines. True, there are at least filtering the type of dishes and ingredients.

But for yourself recipes decorated with very high quality. Each step is described in detail and is equipped with photographs. The app has a shopping list, which adds the necessary products for cooking. And if you sign up, you can leave comments for recipes and add your own courses.

7. ShefKot

Lovely application with a bunch of recipes - they are here about 5000, all categorized and well-sought search. It is useful that the program has a timer, so you are not confused, what and how much time to cook or fry. Just tap the icon next to the next step, set the time and click "Save".

shopping list, recipes to share, comment on them and add your own, too, is present. There is a good mode advanced search - by ingredients, cuisine, vegetarian, halal or diet foods and so on.

The only thing that annoys "ShefKote" - partition with logical games... in the side tab. Why is it in the cookbook? Apparently, not to be bored while jelly brewed.

8. Patee

In Patee very high quality feature-step recipes. Each stage of the preparation with photographs and descriptions. Especially good is that on a separate tab to see options such dishes as nutritional value, content of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and other Artful things that will be useful for athletes and those who sit on diet.

But for all it has to pay. Firstly, the program is overloaded with advertising. You open the vending recipe, and the entire screen is displayed any banner with music for 10 seconds - and smartphone in a pan drop not for long. Secondly, some of the recipes here can be viewed only by purchasing a premium membership.

9. Yummly

A popular application that is worth mentioning, despite the fact that it is in English. However, links to your favorite recipes, you can, for example, throw in a translator. Yummly uses chefs from around the world, and it contains thousands of recipes from a variety of people. It is useful if you want to diversify your diet and find out what people eat in some of Brazil or New Zealand.

In Yummly very beautiful design - looking at the colorful pictures of the dishes just drools. When you click on a photo in front of you a list of products and the approximate cooking time. If you think that you can afford to the recipe, click on the View button and get a step by step process of cooking.

Yet there is an opportunity to plan meals, to watch what and when you are going to cook. In general, there would be a Russian language - and Yummly can be used safely described as the best compilation recipes.

10. My CookBook

This application is different from all of the above. He does not have its own recipe database - instead, it is able to collect food from the Internet and save the process of their preparation in an easy step by step form, with pictures and a list of ingredients. And as a result you get a stylish digital notepad for an infinite number of dishes.

Search for recipes can be directly through the search in the app - it gives the options of the Web and offers just add them to the cookbook. On a separate tab will display a description on the next - a list of products, another one - preparation. You can edit the saved recipe by writing something on my own, if desired. Then share it with friends or send it to the note manager.

Even more cool feature My CookBook - the ability to save recipes from any site in the browser, for example with Layfhakera. Just click "Share", select My CookBook, and a prescription will be issued and added. All no longer superfluous actions. Definitely the best app to create your own cookbook.

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Google Play and AppStore is no shortage of culinary applications. If you have in mind some kind of program - tell us in the comments.