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Recipe Keeper alternative: Recipe Keeper vs Fooma

Recipe Keeper saves recipes from websites, Instagram and TikTok, scans recipes from photos and PDFs, and has a weekly or monthly meal planner and aisle-sorted shopping lists, synced across almost every platform.

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Recipe Keeper vs Fooma at a glance

Based on each app's own website and App Store listing, checked October 14, 2026. “Not advertised” means Recipe Keeper's own pages don't mention it.

Save recipes from TikTok & Instagram videos

Fooma

Yes

TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook

Recipe Keeper

Yes

Instagram and TikTok

Save recipes from websites

Fooma

Yes

Share sheet, paste a link, or copy it and Fooma offers to import

Recipe Keeper

Yes

Hundreds of recipe sites

Scan recipes from photos or cookbooks

Fooma

No

Not yet. Save by link or type the recipe in

Recipe Keeper

Yes

OCR for photos and PDFs

Meal planner

Fooma

Yes

Plan my week autofill and planned leftovers

Recipe Keeper

Yes

Weekly and monthly

Grocery list sorted by aisle

Fooma

Yes

Merged items, iPhone widget, Reminders sync

Recipe Keeper

Yes

By aisle, multiple lists

Nutrition per serving

Fooma

Yes

Calories, macros, fiber, sugar, sodium

Recipe Keeper

Not advertised

AI recipe assistant

Fooma

Yes

AI Chef chat and Recipe Maker (Pro)

Recipe Keeper

Not advertised

Share with your household

Fooma

Yes

Shared recipes, list and meal plan, live

Recipe Keeper

Partly

Share your meal plan with family

Saved recipes work offline

Fooma

Yes

Your cookbook is stored on your phone

Recipe Keeper

Yes

Platforms

iPhone & iPad

iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac

Pricing

Free download with free import tries. Meal planner, grocery list and household sharing are free; Fooma Pro adds unlimited imports and AI Chef.

Free to try, with a paid upgrade

Prices and features change. Check Recipe Keeper's current details before you decide.

Key differences between Recipe Keeper and Fooma

Scanning recipes from photos and cookbooks

Fooma doesn't scan photos yet. Family recipes can be typed in as new recipes with their own photo.

Recipe Keeper offers this too (oCR for photos and PDFs).

Nutrition information

Fooma shows calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar and sodium per serving, and adds up each day in the meal planner. Nutrition facts in Fooma →

Recipe Keeper's website and App Store listing don't mention this.

AI cooking help

Fooma's AI Chef suggests full recipes from what's in your fridge and answers cooking questions by text or voice. Recipe Maker builds a recipe around ingredients you pick. AI Chef in Fooma →

Recipe Keeper's website and App Store listing don't mention this.

Sharing with your household

In Fooma you create a household, invite people with a code and choose which recipes to share. The grocery list and meal plan can be shared too, and update live. Household sharing in Fooma →

Recipe Keeper covers this in part (share your meal plan with family).

Where Recipe Keeper is strong

  • Runs on nearly everything: iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Mac.
  • Scans photos and PDFs with OCR.
  • Separate shopping lists for different stores.

Where Fooma is different

  • AI Chef builds recipes from your ingredients and answers cooking questions.
  • Nutrition per serving, plus daily totals in the meal planner.
  • Plan my week autofills empty slots and plans leftovers.
  • Household members share recipes, the list and the plan live, with notifications.

What you get with Fooma

An AI chef that cooks with what you have

Tell AI Chef what's in your fridge, how much time you have or what you're craving. Get recipe ideas with full steps, and save the one you like to your cookbook.

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Know what's in every serving

Recipes in Fooma show calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar and sodium per serving, with a macro breakdown you can read at a glance.

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Plan the whole week in minutes

Drop your saved recipes into breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, or let Plan my week fill the gaps from your own cookbook, with no repeats and quick meals on weeknights.

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Switching from Recipe Keeper to Fooma

  1. 1

    Share each recipe's original link to Fooma to rebuild it.

  2. 2

    Add handwritten favourites as new recipes with a photo.

  3. 3

    Invite your household so the list and plan stay in sync.

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Recipe Keeper vs Fooma: questions

Is Fooma a good Recipe Keeper alternative?

Fooma is a good fit if you're on iPhone and want AI help, nutrition and a smarter weekly plan. Recipe Keeper may suit you better if you need Windows, Mac or Android apps, or scan a lot of printed recipes.

Can I move my recipes from Recipe Keeper to Fooma?

Fooma doesn't import Recipe Keeper export files. The quickest way is to share each recipe's original link (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or a website) to Fooma, which rebuilds the full recipe. Recipes you wrote yourself can be typed in as new recipes.

Is Fooma free?

Fooma is free to download, with free recipe import tries. The meal planner, grocery list and household sharing are free. Fooma Pro adds unlimited imports and AI Chef; prices are shown in the app before you subscribe.

Is Fooma on Android?

Not yet. Fooma is available on iPhone and iPad today.

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Sources and method

We compared Recipe Keeper using its own public pages, checked on October 14, 2026. We don't list a feature as missing unless Recipe Keeper says so; anything its pages don't mention is marked “Not advertised”. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@fooma.app.

Recipe Keeper is a trademark of its owner. Fooma is not affiliated with or endorsed by Recipe Keeper.

Try Fooma next to Recipe Keeper

Free to download on iPhone and iPad. Save your next recipe and see the difference.

Download on theApp Store
  • Free to download
  • No account needed to start
  • Saved recipes work offline