RecipeScale is a recipe scaling and conversion app for home cooks on iOS, designed to automate ingredient math and kitchen measurements.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire RecipeScale to eliminate manual calculation errors and awkward decimal fractions when adjusting serving sizes, ensuring recipe integrity through chef-calibrated scaling logic.
For Home cooks who frequently scale recipes and require precise, kitchen-ready measurements.
What does it look like?
Key features
Adjusts ingredient quantities based on target servings using kitchen-friendly rounding logic.
Flags 40 specific ingredients where linear math fails, suggesting chef-calibrated adjustments.
Provides a hands-free checklist interface with progress tracking and screen-awake functionality.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model uses a hard cap on saved recipes to drive conversion to a $19.99 lifetime or $9.99 annual subscription.
Velocity
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RecipeScale: Recipe Converter has remained in a state of inactivity since its initial release on April 23, 2026. With 109 days elapsed since the last update and only a single version in the history, the development cadence is classified as maintenance. There is no evidence of ongoing feature development or operational support. The app currently lacks any subsequent patches or content updates to indicate active maintenance.
Who built it?
Alex Galkin
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What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for RecipeScale: Recipe Converter
How's the Food & Drink market?
RecipeScale operates in the Food & Drink category with a freemium model, but the 110-day update silence indicates a lack of active market movement.
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Key takeaways for RecipeScale: Recipe Converter
Where is it heading?
The recipe-utility market is consolidating around apps that offer automated import, making RecipeScale's manual-entry model increasingly dated. Without a shift to active feature development, the app risks losing its niche to more aggressive, feature-rich competitors.
- The 110-day update silence indicates a shift to maintenance mode, which signals a lack of investment in the competitive Food & Drink category.
The SWOT
- Non-linear scaling logic provides a defensible barrier against generic calculator apps
- Direct URL recipe import would remove the manual paste friction that currently limits user conversion
Next best moves
Ship URL recipe import because it is the top-requested missing feature → unlock user conversion
The counter-intuitive read
The app's manual-only input constraint is a feature, not a bug…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The product remains in maintenance mode, but the competitive analysis has sharpened to identify the manual-entry model as a specific, dated weakness against modern recipe-scraping alternatives.
Bottom line
RecipeScale offers high-utility math for home cooks, but the 110-day update silence threatens its long-term viability, so the PM should prioritize URL-scraping integration to drive user retention before the app loses its competitive edge.
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- [1] App Store, source
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