Report updated Jun 17, 2026

Juice Recipes Encyclopedia is a struggling food & drink app that is a paid app. With a 3.0/5 rating from 2 reviews, it struggles with user retention.

What is Juice Recipes Encyclopedia?

Juice Recipes Encyclopedia is a paid recipe repository for health-conscious adults, available on iOS.

Users hire the app to manage health conditions through specific nutritional intake, but the static format fails to provide the ongoing value expected at a $9.99 price point.

Current Momentum

v2.0 · 22mo ago

Zombie

Last updated 668d ago. 3 versions tracked.

Active Nemesis

Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes

Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes

By Mealime Meal Plans

Other Rivals

Bobby Approved - Food Scanner
eMeals - Healthy Meal Plans
Cookpad Recipes, homemade food
Factor_ Prepared Meal Delivery
Thermomix® Cookidoo® App
Eatr: Tasty Cooking Recipes

7-Day Rank Pulse 🇺🇸

Food & Drink
#55
13

Rating Pulse 🇺🇸

Recent User Mood

What makes this app unique?

What Does It Look Like?

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What Are The Key Features?

Health Condition SearchDifferentiator

Filters recipes based on specific health goals like arthritis, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Custom Shopping ListsStandard

Generates and prints ingredient lists based on selected recipes.

Substitution ChartDifferentiator

Provides alternative ingredients for fruits and vegetables that are difficult to source.

How much does it cost?

Paid
  • Single upfront purchase at $9.99

The app utilizes a one-time purchase model, relying on the author's brand authority to drive conversion.

Who Built It?

Raj Kumar app icon 1
Raj Kumar app icon 2
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Raj Kumar

(40.6K)

Providing specialized reference and educational content for professionals in aviation, business, and medical fields. Focused on delivering technical knowledge through offline-capable mobile tools.

Portfolio

13

Apps

Free 5Paid 7
Medical17%
Education17%
Food & Drink8%

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Books
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Reference

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What do users think recently?

Low confidence · 1 reviews analyzed

How did the latest release land?

Overall
3.0/ 5
(2)
Current version
3.0/ 5
0.0 vs overall
(2)

What is the recent mood?

Upset

Recent user voice shows a upset sentiment. but report lack of promised item substitutions creates a deceptive user experience post-purchase and failure to process refund requests after discovering missing core functionality.

Limited review volume (1 reviews). Sentiment analysis will deepen as more data lands.

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Mood gauge, ratings & review-volume history, every praise / complaint / request, and sentiment over time.

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What is the competitive landscape for Juice Recipes Encyclopedia?

How's The Food & Drink Market?

How does it evolve in the Food & Drink market?

Rank progression

3 active rankings tracked — 30-day window

No rank history available for this chart.

Which niche is Juice Recipes Encyclopedia in?

Nutrition Guides

to prepare healthy juice recipes for nutrition

GuideNutritionAdultsPremiumEstablished

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Every app in this space — 6 tracked, the niche's live rankings, and Marlvel's editorial take on the job-to-be-done.

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The rivals identified

Nemeses(1)

Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes icon

Mealime Meal Plans Inc

4.8(53.3K)

Directly targets the health-conscious user with structured meal planning rather than just a static recipe list.

Differentiators

  • Provides automated grocery list generation based on selected meal plans to reduce user friction
  • Focuses on personalized meal planning workflows rather than simple static recipe encyclopedia browsing

Contenders(2)

Bobby Approved - Food Scanner icon

BA Global Holdings, LLC

4.9(141.4K)

Captures the health-conscious audience through ingredient transparency and scanner-based utility.

Differentiators

  • Utilizes a barcode scanner to provide instant health ratings for packaged foods at the store
  • Builds authority through a specific personality-driven brand focused on ingredient quality and clean eating
eMeals - Healthy Meal Plans icon

eMeals, Inc.

4.6(51.5K)

Strong competitor in the healthy eating space with a mature subscription-based meal planning model.

Differentiators

  • Integrates directly with online grocery pickup services to bridge the gap between planning and shopping
  • Offers curated diet-specific meal plans that provide more structure than a general recipe encyclopedia

Same space(3)

Adjacent competitor that solves the 'what to eat' problem by removing the cooking step entirely.

Differentiators

  • Delivers fully prepared meals directly to the doorstep, bypassing the need for recipe preparation
  • Monetizes through a high-value subscription model focused on convenience and specific dietary health goals
Thermomix® Cookidoo® App icon

Vorwerk, LLC

4.9(33.7K)

Hardware-integrated recipe ecosystem that locks users into a specific high-end kitchen appliance experience.

Differentiators

  • Provides guided cooking instructions that sync directly with proprietary kitchen hardware for seamless execution
  • Maintains a closed-loop ecosystem where recipes are specifically optimized for the Thermomix device
Cookpad Recipes, homemade food icon

COOKPAD INC. (CA)

4.6(346.1K)

A massive community-driven platform that serves as a general-purpose recipe repository.

Differentiators

  • Leverages a massive user-generated content flywheel that provides infinite recipe variety for home cooks
  • Features social sharing and community interaction tools that create high daily active user engagement

New entrants(1)

High release velocity indicates an aggressive attempt to capture market share in the recipe space.

Differentiators

  • Maintains an extremely high update cadence to rapidly iterate on user feedback and feature requests
  • Focuses on a modern, streamlined UI to differentiate from legacy recipe apps with cluttered interfaces

Compare Juice Recipes Encyclopedia against every rival

All rivals in one side-by-side table — identity, store metrics, ratings & sentiment, and strategic intel — plus a head-to-head page for each.

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The outtake for Juice Recipes Encyclopedia

Strengths to defend, gaps to attack

Core Strengths

  • Health-condition filtering positions the app as a targeted health-utility tool

Critical Frictions

  • Premium tier at $9.99 above category median
  • High-frequency complaints regarding missing substitution features
  • Unresponsive refund support driving reputational damage

Growth Levers

  • Integrate with grocery delivery APIs to bridge the gap between planning and shopping

Market Threats

  • High-velocity competitors like Eatr iterate faster
  • Community-driven platforms like Cookpad offer infinite free variety

What are the next best moves?

highPivot

Audit and fix the substitution chart feature because users flag it as missing → reduce refund surge

Substitution-feature complaints are the #1 driver of negative sentiment and refund requests.

Trade-off: Pause the planned UI cosmetic updates — fixing core functionality has 4x the impact on retention.

highMaintain

Implement an automated refund policy because ignored requests are driving theft accusations → protect brand reputation

Multiple reviews cite ignored refund requests as a primary reason for low ratings.

Trade-off: Same-quarter capacity available — no major lever displaced.

A counter-intuitive read

The $9.99 price point is not the primary failure; the failure is the lack of iterative updates that makes a static recipe list feel like a legacy product.

Feature Gaps vs Competitors

  • Automated grocery list generation (available in Mealime but missing here)
  • Barcode scanner for ingredient transparency (available in Bobby Approved but missing here)
  • Grocery delivery integration (available in eMeals but missing here)

Key Takeaways

The app fails to deliver on its core value proposition, because the promised substitution features are missing, so the PM must prioritize fixing these functional gaps to stop the refund surge and reputational decline.

Where Is It Heading?

Declining

The healthy-eating market is consolidating around service-oriented apps that bridge the gap between recipe planning and grocery execution. Juice Recipes Encyclopedia remains stuck in a static, paid-encyclopedia model that cannot compete with the high-velocity updates of new entrants, so the app faces continued rank erosion unless it pivots to a service-based utility.

High-frequency complaints regarding missing features and ignored refund requests signal imminent reputational collapse and churn.

Downward rank movement in both Paid and Grossing categories suggests the current pricing model is losing market share to free alternatives.

Disclosure: Independent intel to help mobile builders succeed.

AI-powered analysis with editorial review, built from publicly available sources. Marlvel.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Juice Recipes Encyclopedia, its developer, the app publisher, Apple, or Google Play. All trademarks, logos, and screenshots referenced remain the property of their respective owners.

What's new

The app's competitive position has declined as users report missing features and failed refund attempts, highlighting a gap between marketing claims and actual functionality.

improved

Health Condition Search Repositioning

added

Substitution Chart

declined

Emergence of Deception and Theft Claims

added

Reputational Risk Factors

shifted

Legacy Product Framing

Cite this report

Marlvel.ai. “Juice Recipes Encyclopedia Intelligence Report.” Updated Jun 17, 2026. https://marlvel.ai/apps/juice-recipes-encyclopedia

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