Mastercook Alternatives

Mastercook is described as 'Over a dozen powerful tools and features to help you do more with your recipes and cookbooks. More than 8,000 recipes & 30 cookbooks for all occasions and levels of experience with tools to scale recipes or analyze nutrition and cost for the perfect portioned meals' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Mastercook for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, iPhone, Mac and Web-based apps. The best Mastercook alternative is Pestle, which is free. Other great apps like Mastercook are CREME: It’s Time to Cook, Seasonal Foods Calendar, AnyMeal and Gourmet Recipe Manager.

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Over a dozen powerful tools and features to help you do more with your recipes and cookbooks. More than 8,000 recipes & 30 cookbooks for all occasions and levels of experience with tools to scale recipes or analyze...

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Mastercook alternatives page was last updated Jul 10, 2024
  1. Pestle icon
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    Pestle is an app that allows you to save and import recipes from anywhere online, keeping only the ingredients and steps. It offers guided cooking which turns any recipe into a step-by-step process that can be controlled hands-free.

    49 Pestle alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Pestle Features

    1.  Timer
    Pestle iconMastercook Icon

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    • Pestle is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Mastercook.

    • Pestle is the most popular free alternative to Mastercook.

    • Pestle is Freemium and ProprietaryMastercook is Paid and Proprietary
  2. CREME: It’s Time to Cook icon
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    CREME: It's Time to Cook is a digital cooking platform that offers step-by-step video recipes from professional chefs, available through an auto-renewing annual membership.

    65 CREME: It’s Time to Cook alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • Android

    CREME: It’s Time to Cook Features

    1.  Timer
    CREME: It’s Time to Cook iconMastercook Icon

    CREME: It’s Time to Cook VS Mastercook

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    • CREME: It’s Time to Cook is the most popular Android alternative to Mastercook.

    • CREME: It’s Time to Cook is Freemium and ProprietaryMastercook is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Seasonal Foods Calendar icon
     1 like

    This App shows you which foods are in Season right now and are thus available from nearby produce. Not only are they cheaper and tastier, but also their transport is less harmful to our environment.

    53 Seasonal Foods Calendar alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid

    Seasonal Foods Calendar Features

    1.  Food suggestions
    Discontinued

    The developer has announced on GitHub that he won't maintain the app anymore as of Nov 8th 2024. The app can still be downloaded from F-Droid though.

    Seasonal Foods Calendar iconMastercook Icon

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    • Seasonal Foods Calendar is the most popular Open Source alternative to Mastercook.

    • Seasonal Foods Calendar is Free and Open SourceMastercook is Paid and Proprietary
  4. AnyMeal icon
     2 likes

    AnyMeal is a free recipe database software. It can manage a cookbook with more than 250,000 recipes, thereby allowing to import, export, search, display, edit, and print them. AnyMeal is available for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.

    53 AnyMeal alternatives
    AnyMeal screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Meal planning
    AnyMeal iconMastercook Icon

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    • AnyMeal is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Mastercook.

    • AnyMeal is Free and Open SourceMastercook is Paid and Proprietary
    • AnyMeal is LightweightMastercook is not according to our users
  5. Gourmet Recipe Manager icon
     14 likes

    Gourmet Recipe Manager is a simple but powerful recipe-managing application. Gourmet is intended for the GNOME desktop environment, but works on any platform that gtk supports, including windows.

    63 Gourmet Recipe Manager alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline
    Discontinued

    Last release was in 2014.

    Gourmet Recipe Manager iconMastercook Icon

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    Comments about Gourmet Recipe Manager as an Alternative to Mastercook
     
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    Free Alternative with a no fuss nothing forced approach. While it is definately missing some features the team are more than happy to listen to ideas for the future. note tat my use is on windows 10x64 with a current recipe database holding over 60k recipes at a file size of 110mb (no images)

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    • Gourmet Recipe Manager is the most popular Mac alternative to Mastercook.

    • Gourmet Recipe Manager is Free and Open SourceMastercook is Paid and Proprietary
    • Gourmet Recipe Manager is LightweightMastercook is not according to our users
  6. BigOven icon
     13 likes

    BigOven's mission is to help home cooks get inspired and organized, in the kitchen and on the go. BigOven helps home cooks get better meals on the table. Cooks can:

    56 BigOven alternatives
    Recipe view

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    BigOven Features

    BigOven iconMastercook Icon

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    • BigOven is the most popular Web-based & Android Tablet alternative to Mastercook.

    • BigOven is Freemium and ProprietaryMastercook is Paid and Proprietary
  7. CookBook+Calendar icon
     8 likes

    Cookbook+Calendar is a scheduler, that enables to plan a menu, a diet or a dinner party, and to store recipes. A handy tool for those who want to manage meal planning calendar quickly and easily, it will be essential for grocery and restaurant managers, for sportsmen and those...

    53 CookBook+Calendar alternatives
    Create your own recipe database and manage a diet, a menu or a dinner party.

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    CookBook+Calendar Features

    1.  Scheduling
    2.  Planner
    3.  Meal planning
    CookBook+Calendar iconMastercook Icon

    CookBook+Calendar VS Mastercook

    Is CookBook+Calendar a good alternative to Mastercook?
     
    • CookBook+Calendar is the most popular commercial alternative to Mastercook.

    • CookBook+Calendar is Paid and ProprietaryMastercook is also Paid and Proprietary
  8. Copy Me That icon
     2 likes

    Recipe manager - app and website. For managing recipes, creating meal plans and shopping lists.

    75 Copy Me That alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • Android

    Copy Me That Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Meal planning
    Copy Me That iconMastercook Icon

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  9. Cookbook icon
     3 likes

    Cookbook is a free recipe manager. You can assign recipe to categories, add multiple photos and compose menus from saved recipes.

    45 Cookbook alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android

    Cookbook Features

    1.  Portable
    Cookbook iconMastercook Icon

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  10. Krecipes icon
     5 likes

    The KDE cookbook.

    A highly configurable recipe manager, designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy. Features include: shopping lists, nutrient analysis, advanced search, recipe ratings, import/export various formats, and more.

    48 Krecipes alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    This app is unmaintained and no longer released by the KDE community.

    Krecipes iconMastercook Icon

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  11. MacGourmet icon
     7 likes

    MacGourmet is a recipe management application that allows users to create, edit, and scale new recipes or import recipes from their favorite websites, then share them via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

    40 MacGourmet alternatives
    MacGourmet screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    MacGourmet iconMastercook Icon

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  12. Bites icon
     1 like

    Bites is a cook book application. Recipes can be created on your phone, downloaded from the web and shared with friends via sms. Pick a recipe to make, tick off the ingredients you need, then add the ones you need to the shopping list in Trolly or SMS them to someone to pick up...

    32 Bites alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    Discontinued

    The last version (1.3) is from 2012.

    Bites iconMastercook Icon

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