Samsung Food genuinely costs nothing and does not paywall the core of it, which makes "just use the free one" a fair thing to say. It is also a broad food platform with a big company and an appliance ecosystem behind it. Feelspoon is free too, and much narrower on purpose: get the recipe in from whatever form it arrived in, then cook it.
| Feelspoon | Samsung Food | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free to save, cook, plan and shop. Premium $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr for AI captures only, up to 40 a day. | Free, with no paywall on the core features. |
| Who is behind it | One developer at Shift-9, named on the Play listing. | Samsung, with its appliance and account ecosystem alongside it. |
| 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 here. |
| Save from a photo or handwriting | Scan a recipe card, a cookbook page or handwriting; paste text from a message; or describe a dish. | Not documented here. |
| Scaling | Change the servings and every quantity follows; US cups or metric. | Not documented here. |
| Meal plan and shopping list | Drop recipes on a day, turn the week into a list sorted into produce, dairy, pantry, bakery. | Meal planning and lists are part of the platform. |
| Scope | A recipe organizer. Not a social network, not a shop, not an appliance remote. | A broad food platform with community and ecosystem features. |
| Offline | Recipes live on the device and sync when you sign in. | Not documented here. |
If free is the whole question, Samsung Food answers it and so do we. The difference is scope: theirs is a platform that includes recipes, ours is a recipe organizer that helps you cook the thing. Try ours; it costs nothing to find out which one you open on a Tuesday night.