Forked vs Recipe Keeper

Where Recipe Keeper wins

iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac. Genuinely cross-platform.
Strong OCR for digitizing physical recipe cards and cookbooks.
Alexa support for hands-free cooking.
Export when you want to leave.
Free to try, then a $19.99 Pro upgrade. No subscription.

Where Forked wins

Those cards get a history. Everything Recipe Keeper digitizes is still a static copy. In Forked, the moment someone changes a recipe it becomes a fork, with the original still there.
Nobody can overwrite anybody. Recipe Keeper syncs one library. Forked is a household where editing someone else’s recipe creates your version, not a silent overwrite.
Recipes come from where you find them now. Social video extracted as a card, photos, and ChatGPT share links. Then the recipe can fork, instead of sitting as a static scan.
Ask on the card. Scale it, swap it, or fork a variation, without retyping the scan. Then choose just for now, save, or fork.
Make mode. Built for the ten minutes you’re actually cooking, not a scrolling recipe page.
The week fills the list. Both apps have a planner and a list. In Forked the week’s rotation builds a grocery list from structured quantities, so scaling a recipe scales the groceries.
New recipes, not just digitized ones. Recipe Keeper is good at getting what you already have into a database. Forked can also put tonight together on a canvas, and write a new main or side from what you already cook.

The switch

Bulk import from Recipe Keeper is built in. Scanned cards come across with their photos. Keep Recipe Keeper installed; nothing is deleted.

Be honest about

iPhone only right now. If half your household is on Android or you plan on a Windows PC, Recipe Keeper still wins on reach. Their camera OCR and PDF scanning are built for cookbooks. We import from a photo too. Their scanner is the more dedicated tool.

	Forked	Recipe Keeper
Fork a recipe and keep its lineage	Yes	Duplicate only
Shared household library	Nobody can overwrite anybody	Synced library
Import from TikTok / Instagram / YouTube	Yes	Website claims Instagram and TikTok
Talk with a recipe you already have	Just for now, save, or fork	Manual editor
Suggestions from your own cooking	Like / Explore from a taste profile	No
Import from ChatGPT share links	Yes	No
Describe a new recipe from a prompt	Yes	No
Generate a new recipe from your own library	Yes	No
Bulk import from Paprika / Recipe Keeper	Yes	Export
Distraction-free cook mode with step timers	Yes	Scrolling recipe page
Grocery list from the week’s rotation	Fills from the week	Aisle-grouped
Weekly rotations	Yes, days optional	Yes
Export your library	Not yet	Yes
Works offline / no account required	Needs an account	Yes
Android	iPhone only	Yes
Price	Free, then $49.99/year for the household	Free, then $19.99 Pro once

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