Paprika is the oldest name in recipe managers and it earns that: buy it once, keep it forever, run it on your phone, your Mac and your laptop. Feelspoon is newer, Android-only, and free — and it is built around the bit before that: getting the recipe in, from whatever form it turned up in.
| Feelspoon | Paprika | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Android. No iPhone build yet. | iOS, Mac, Android and Windows. |
| Price | Free to save, cook, plan and shop. Premium $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr for AI captures, up to 40 a day. | $4.99 one time, and each platform version is sold separately. |
| Save from a link | Yes — title, ingredients, steps, times and photo, with the life story left behind. | Yes — saves recipes from anywhere on the web. |
| Save from a photo or handwriting | Yes — scan a recipe card, a cookbook page or Grandma's handwriting. | Not documented on its homepage. |
| Cooking, hands-free | Cook mode: one step at a time in big text, read aloud, screen kept awake, timers in the steps that need them. | Not documented on its homepage. |
| Scaling | Change the servings and every quantity follows; US cups or metric. | Scaling is a long-standing Paprika feature. |
| Meal plan and shopping list | Drop recipes on a day, turn the week into a list sorted into produce, dairy, pantry, bakery. | Monthly meal planning and grocery lists auto-sorted by aisle. |
| Offline | Recipes live on the device and sync when you sign in. | Yes, with sync across the devices you bought. |
| Track record | New. Launched 2026. | 500K+ downloads and 20.6K ratings on Google Play. |
Neither of these is a trick question. If you live across four platforms, Paprika is the better buy and $4.99 is not the reason to avoid it. If you cook on an Android phone from whatever you saved this week, Feelspoon costs nothing to try and is built for exactly that.