Top 7 CookShelf Competitors & Alternatives in 2025

Updated on 9/19/2025

Find more companies like CookShelf. We've shortlisted leading alternatives and mapped their strengths, pricing, and go-to-market focus.

CookShelf

Best for consumers

CookShelf is a mobile app that lets you scan, index, and search your physical cookbook collection to find recipes by ingredient or name and shows the book and page number.

Starts at $4.99 / per user / monthly

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Competitors

#1

Forage
Best for consumers

Forage converts cookbook indexes into a searchable library — add books by barcode, upload index pages, and search recipes across your collection.

Starts at $14.99 / per user / yearly

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#2

BigOven
Best for consumers
Est. 2004 • 1 employee

Recipe manager and meal-planning app that helps home cooks organize recipes, plan meals and generate grocery lists with an optional Pro membership.

Starts at $0

Has a free trial

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#3

Paprika
Best for consumers
Est. 2010 • 2-10 employees

Paid recipe manager and meal-planning app focused on recipe import, meal calendars, grocery lists and cross-device sync.

Starts at $4.99

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#4

AnyList
Best for consumers

AnyList provides shared grocery lists, recipe saving/importing and meal-planning features designed for families and household collaboration.

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#5

Recipe Keeper
Best for consumers

Recipe Keeper is an all-in-one recipe organizer, shopping list and meal planner that supports importing recipes and OCR scanning from cookbooks and magazines.

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#6

CookBook
Best for consumers

CookBook is a recipe manager and planner app that supports importing from the web, OCR photo-to-recipe conversion, meal planning and shopping lists.

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#7

Reciscan
Best for consumers

Reciscan focuses on scanning and transcribing handwritten and printed recipes and turning them into editable, printable custom cookbooks.

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