Recipe Gallery Reviews

Update: I literally just put a review on here a few weeks ago for the first time after using it for years praising this recipe site as you can read below. But right after I did that they changed a little bit on it and now for some weird reason, it doesn't work as good. And when I try to click on "edit" or "done" for on a recipe I have to keep clicking on it until finally it'll go back. It was working fine until they put the new picture on it and stuff. So if they fix the bug, I will come back and give them my five star rating again.


I've used this recipe app for years. I hope that they never do anything that changes, since my recipes are all on here and I don't want to ever lose my recipes. The one thing I would change is that I would be able to have an account. Because although I can keep my recipes in the cloud, I can't share my recipes with my husband who has a different Apple ID.

With the majority of new recipes online these days having a program like this is indispensable. You can save a bookmark but it's useless if you want to take notes on modifications. I don't import the web pages because I'm always low on space so I copy the link and put it in there. Sometimes recipe web sites go away too though so if you do go ahead and import those pages then you have those recipes forever.

It's pretty straight forward to use. I love being able to do a search and get a list of recipes that include an ingredient or a keyword! So if I picked up an eggplant at a farmers market for instance I can easily get a list of all the recipes that include that.

It has one annoying bug. When you do a search sometimes a category heading won't scroll off the page with the rest of the search results as you scroll down. That is the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars

Granted it has taken me days to sort through and upload my hundreds of recipes but RecipeGallery makes it about as easy as it can get. You can upload them from websites in several different methods by screen shooting recipes or copy and pasting texts from websites (which is awesome for my dozens of Pinterest recipes that I’ve had nothing to do with for years). Or you can just simply take a picture of your recipe cards or books! Then you can categorize them into pasta, seafood, etc making it incredibly easy to find your favorite recipes! And finally my favorite part of RecipeGallery... you can get the recipes on your phone or iPad. Which comes in handy if I’m out and about at the store but realize I forgot my recipe card at home or something... don’t have to worry about that anymore! And then when I get home I can pull up my iPad to view the recipe on a larger and propped up screen. Incredibly user friendly and easy to use. And customer service is SUPER responsive. At first I didn’t think my recipes were uploading between devices so I contacted customer service and they responded within 24 hours explaining each time you upload recipes and reopen RecipeGallery on a different device it sometimes takes a little while to upload the new recipes... and problem solved! :) recommending RecipeGallery to all my friends and family that love cooking!!

I have been using RecipeGallery for years. It is so user friendly and I can honestly say that it just keeps getting better all the time. I use it
1-2 times per day (every day). My favorite part is how easy it is to add recipes .....copy a favorite recipe from my aunt in her writing, down load something from a website or just use the text function to input a new recipe. I have over 500 recipes and ready to add more. Another favorite aspect is the ability to put the recipe in more than one category (Non-dairy pasta may be tagged as vegan, vegetarian entree, pasta etc). You may add any categories that you wish. I have categories for holidays so that I may see at a glance what I traditionally make for Thanksgiving, Christmas etc
Thank you Recipe Gallery for making such a fine app

It has been YEARS since I wrote an app review, but this one is so good I felt compelled to chime in with the others celebrating its usefulness and excellent execution. What pushed me over the edge was the ability I “discovered” to take a photo of a recipe in my 95 year old Mom’s favorite recipe books, and effortlessly upload the photo into RecipeGallery, to have Mom’s cherished favorites at my fingertips whenever I want! I had already been helped and impressed by the effective and bug-free manner in which RecipeGallery clips recipes from websites, so now I am just over the moon! THANK YOU to the developer for making an app that serves such a helpful purpose, does it easily and effectively, and does so in a variety of formats— in a world saturated with over-promising but under-delivering software. I appreciate your efforts and your high level of skills and integrity!

I decided to give RecipeGallery a try, because it seemed to have all of the functions that I would want. I had some questions before I wanted to spend to buy it, so I emailed Mike, the developer. I heard back right away about my questions, and he checked in later to see how I liked it. I haven’t had a lot of time to play around with it, but so far it’s pretty amazing! I’ve kept a file of recipes in my photos on my iPad, and I’m slowly transferring them to Recipe Gallery. Super Duper easy! I’m doing a lot of canning right now, and adding my recipes as I go, simply by taking a photo and typing the name of the recipe. Then I take a photo of the food item to add to the recipe. That’s it! So, I’m really happy with RecipeGallery. One addition I’d love to see would be a way to share this recipe with family and friends who have Recipe Gallery . Other than that, it’s pretty perfect.

I’ve saved hundreds of recipes in RecipeGallery during the last 5 years of using it daily. I love it so much that I contacted RecipeGallery creator to thank them! It is so flexible. You can save recipes by copying, from your photos, camera (great for grandma’s handwritten recipes) or screenshots. You can also type in your own recipes and add notes to recipes. I get them from Facebook, Insta, Pinterest, and searches. If an app won’t let you copy, then I take a screenshot of it! Finding recipes is easy (especially if you have hundreds like me) just search by category (you can make your own categories too; keto, sugar free, pressure cooker, spouse’s favorites, etc) or by keyword (broccoli, chocolate, Christmas.) I did not receive anything in exchange for this review- I am just grateful that it exists and want to share it with others. Happy cooking!

I admit I have not tried every app for recipe organizing, but I have to say I LOVE RecipeGallery! It has everything I wanted for keeping my recipes safe and handy. I love that I can take a photo of a written recipe—both sides—and not have to type it into RecipeGallery , though I CAN type one in if I want. Once the recipe is entered, I can edit it on-screen with written notes or typed text. I can take a photo of my completed dish to include with the recipe. Or I can download and save photo and recipe from the web, or take a screen shot from an email and save that. While cooking, it gives me the option to keep my iPad on long-term, so I don’t have to keep powering it back on. It’s just fabulous—and I haven’t even used all the features! I almost never pay for apps, and I almost never write reviews, but I fall in love with RecipeGallery every time I use it. Worth every penny!

I hate having paper recipes all over my house so I decided to organize them. I read the reviews and selected RecipeGallery. I have not been disappointed. I am having so much fun adding my recipes, selecting pictures, and then knowing they are right where I can access them when I need them. I don't have anything I would change. Just wish I would have known about it sooner.

One year later...still loving my Recipe Gallery but I had to add a comment about customer service. I bought a new IPad and couldn't figure out how to transfer my recipes from old IPad to new. Contacted customer service and the next day Michael Davey sent a very detailed explanation on how to do it. Even my old brain had no trouble following his clear instructions. Just had to let people know that RecipeGallery has it all...a great way to keep recipes and service that is highly responsive and friendly.

RecipeGallery is amazing. I had recipes in pictures, Pinterest, cookbooks, hand written, everywhere and could never remember where the recipe was when I tried to find it to make a fish again. I found RecipeGallery and fell in love! The created thought of everything! It’s so easy to add recipes from all different mediums in minutes. I’ve been adding them as I make dishes and it’s changed my life. It’s also super nice to be able to share recipes right when people ask with RecipeGallery. It also doesn’t go to sleep while you are in the recipe app, which I thought was a genius move!

My only suggestion would be to add ‘time’ and ‘servings’ fill-ins under the title (in RecipeGallery and on the pdf) section. I also wish it didn’t print quite so big, but can see how that would be helpful for most people.

Other than that, I love RecipeGallery.

I have been using RecipeGallery for years and I have hundreds of recipes in it. I have photos of my grandmother’s hand written cards, on-line recipes with notes of my own variations, photos of cookbook pages, and my own recipes typed in. Most of them have photos. It’s easy to add a bookmark to a recipe online and import it later. I love the link to go to original recipe site, since so many people put ads in the middle of the recipe to interfere with screen grabs.

I run it on my phone (for shopping) and my iPad (for cooking). I share recipes with my sister who also loves RecipeGallery.

I recently upgraded my phone and RecipeGallery wasn’t downloading the recipes from iCloud correctly. It has been a problem for a while, and I hadn’t prioritized fixing it. But this morning I needed a recipe and decided to fix it. The support materials didn’t apply, so I used the built-in email support. It’s a Sunday, so I didn’t expect to hear anything for a few days. I was so surprised to get a step-by-step email addressing my exact problem within 3 hours. On a Sunday. Great product and great customer support.

I’ve been using Recipe Gallery for several years now, and it has made organizing my recipes so easy. I get most of my recipes from Facebook or other online sites. I screen print the recipes, which I crop into pages in RecipeGallery . I can also add a text note with a link to a URL, if I want to retain the original link. Once I’ve made the recipes, I can add text overlays on the pages to note changes I’ve made, or reasons why I like or dislike the recipe. I’ve added my own categories (like Favorites), and it’s easy to search for recipes by their names or terms included in my notes. My only suggestion would be to add a Source field at the top to identify the recipe’s source (like Sally’s Baking Addiction, Half-Baked Harvest, etc.). I appreciate that I can view recipes across all my devices so I can easily check ingredients for a recipe while at the store. RecipeGallery rocks!

I've tried several apps to save recipes; my own recipes, recipes from the web, from magazines, and emails. RG is the best I've used. It's easy to use, even saving pictures of recipes, and ability to add your own notes within each recipe. You are able to "capture" recipes and "crop" the area you want to save to GB. You can add your own favorite "categories" to manage your recipes easily.

You can use the camera on your iPad/iPhone (probably other devices too) to add a recipe from magazines or your own recipe cards. So easy! Just take a photo, then you can crop the photo of the recipe narrative before adding it to RG. And, you can even make the words darker or lighter for easy reading!! If necessary, you could take more than one photo of the recipe if it's on two pages, cards, etc., and just keep adding "cards" to the one recipe on RG. You add the photo of the dish the same way! And when you go in to use the recipe, when you tap the "card" it opens up into a larger kitchen friendly version. Can't be easier.

I've had several questions and Mike always responded in less than 24 hours, with clear, complete and easily understood answers. Thanks, Mike! Awesome support!

My suggestion is to read ALL the HELP, TIPS & FAQs, and BOOKMARK sections, especially if you use Safari.

Try it! I know you will love the ease and versatility. And Mike's quick, friendly, excellent support is just an email away if you encounter problems or have questions. It really is the best recipe management system.

I love RecipeGallery and use it every single day.

I purchased RecipeGallery in January of 2020 and have used it nearly everyday since. I began a Keto/low carb lifestyle last January and needed a place to store my new recipe collection. I am so grateful to this developer for sharing his talents! RecipeGallery is so easy to set up and use. I was so tired of dealing with ads whenever I would try and look up a recipe on a blog...moving the recipes to RecipeGallery is an incredible time (and frustration) saver! I set up “ideas” folders (Dessert Ideas, Side Dish Ideas, etc.) to give me a place to put recipes I want to try. Once attempted, they either make it to my regular folders with my ratings and comments, or, if terrible, they go in the “Duds” folder so that I can make sure I don’t get duped by pretty Pinterest pictures and attempt them again. (This old brain has trouble remembering things like that sometimes.) Thank you, again, for continuing to provide us this wonderful app!!!

I’ve tried several different ways to digitize my recipe cards, with limited success. I’ve used other apps plus trying some of my own but all fall short of RecipeGallery. Not only is it great for adding your existing recipe cards but being able to import the recipes from the different websites is really cool. The annotation tool in RecipeGallery (for adding comments to imported recipes) is very robust and covers everything you’d need to do to add some notes to the imports. You can also add your own cards to an existing recipe and type in there anything you need. The rating system, importing, and annotating features are pretty straightforward which makes them easy to learn/use.

I almost never rate apps but, having just used this one extensively again getting ready for Thanksgiving, it really reminded me how versatile this thing is. TRY IT! I don’t think you could go wrong or do better.

I do like RecipeGallery but it does get irritating when my recipe disappears after I've done all the work of getting it typed in there! So I put it in again and then discover that it reappears the next day...so what is up with that?
Well now that it’s the end of 2022 I can answer my own question from what I posted above! I really put RecipeGallery to the test and blew it out to where the writer of RecipeGallery had to work with me on the issues of RecipeGallery. Now it is working just fine and I use it almost daily. I have a lot of categories on RecipeGallery and store it all here. Now what I did notice that i have on some recipes there are 2 of the same recipe but I learned if I delete one of them they both disappear so if you have 2 of the same don't delete or you will have to input the recipe all over again. Don’t know what caused this to happen…..so the writer may have to work on that!! Other wise I love RecipeGallery!!

This description is just one example on how are use RecipeGallery. I always burned bacon. Now I figured out how to make it without burning it and without a lot of mess. I cut each piece in half width wise. Place four of the pieces around the circumference of the pan and the other four within the first four pieces. For the first batch I set the alarm for five minutes. I cover the large frying pan with a gadget that is a circular metal screen with a wooden handle, that protects this stove from splattering. After five minutes I check and if the bacon looks a bit crispy I turn it over and cook the second batch for 2 to 3 minutes, again set on medium. I remove the bacon from the pan and place it on toweling. Then I put the next batch in carefully so I do not splatter on myself and it is now cooking in the bacon fat from the first batch. Which means it will cook faster so I cook the second batch in less time than the first.

In each case I do set a timer so that I don’t get distracted.

The bacon comes out perfectly. I like the consistency better than putting it in the microwave which always seems to make it feel like cardboard The bacon comes out perfectly. I like the consistency better than putting it in the microwave which always seems to make it feel like cardboard.

I have this description of how to make the bacon in my Recipes so that I can have this description in how to make the bacon where ever I go.

I have collected recipes for a long time in pretty much every form...paper, Facebook, web sites. Every time I wanted to find a specific recipe it was a nightmare to figure out where I got it so I would have some clue how I might have stored it. With Recipe Gallery all that mess is in one place and categorized making it pretty easy to find recipes and a search feature that offers another way to locate things. I like that I can add notes as I make adjustments to the recipe. I also really like the fact that I can share across devices so my phone has everything stored too making it simple to pick up the ingredients for a recipe when I am shopping. And one last thing I have used quite often is sharing the PDF of a recipe in my gallery with others. No more writing it down every time someone asks me for a recipe...just export it to email and away it goes.
There are so many apps out there that are only semi useful at best. It has been a great experience to find an app that does what it says it will do and is so useful it has become a tool I go to almost every day.

Been looking for a good recipe app for several years. This one is gave me everything I needed plus more. I hesitated at first when I saw the price, not that $2.99 was expensive. My problem was with other apps I paid for that were buggy, incomplete and soon deleted. All of the great reviews for Recipe Gallery convinced me to give this a try. It was worth it!!!

I am extremely pleased with RecipeGallery! It is very easy to use and complete for my needs. You can easily take pictures of your existing recipes, crop down the size, alter the contrast as needed. It's very easy to type notes to add to the recipe or type out the entire recipe if you wish. Then to be able to go through RecipeGallery to go out on line to find pictures and/or complete recipes was so easy and in my case helped me complete my recipes with pictures that I didn't have.

There are a generous number of categories in RecipeGallery and you can easily add new categories if desired. If I had any suggestion to give to the developers, there is only one - I haven't been able to get the categories to take my additions and alphabetize all of the old and new categories together.

I have been looking for a recipe filing system for ages. I found RecipeGallery yesterday and I have had so much fun adding all the online recipes that I have photographed over the years. I started there and will add my box full of handwritten recipes when I'm done. Magazines next!
You can capture recipes from websites, take pictures of your own recipes and add Google images. I made three recipes from my box tonight for dinner and have made my own pics and added the recipes to RecipeGallery .
I found some websites will not capture, but I just take screenshots , no problem.
I always decide what I want for dinner at the office and stop at the store on the way home. I have wished so many times that I had my recipes to get ingredients, now they will all be at my fingertips!!!
I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I am.