Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes icon

AJNS New Media

For home cooks seeking organized recipe discovery, meal planning tools, and a centralized digital repository for culinary ideas.

1app4.8(22.8K)Food & Drink

Snapshot

Who is AJNS New Media?

Simplifying home cooking through structured, step-by-step recipe guidance. Helping hobby chefs build culinary confidence with an organized digital cookbook.

Target audience

Home cooks seeking organized recipe discoveryMeal planning toolsA centralized digital repository for culinary ideas

Active nemesis

Gronda

Other rivals

Portfolio

Free 1
1
app
Food & Drink1

Last updated

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes

v27.2.3

6mo ago

Intense

Publisher DNA

What defines AJNS New Media?

Publisher DNA

Primary focus

Food & Drink · digital recipe management

Scale

indie

Target audience

Home cooks seeking organized recipe discovery, meal planning tools, and a centralized digital repository for culinary ideas.

Signature Patterns

  • •Focus on step-by-step photo-guided instructional content
  • •Freemium monetization model
  • •Integration of utility tools like smart shopping lists
  • •High-frequency update cadence for core product features
Intense

Portfolio momentum

Released 12 updates in the last 6 months, maintaining a high development cadence for their single flagship application.

Last release 28d agoActive apps 1

Portfolio

What does AJNS New Media ship?

Apps

1 app analysed

Rivals

Who does AJNS New Media compete with?

The rivals identified

Nemeses(1)

Gronda

known forGronda: Recipes for Chefs

1 app4.8Food & Drink

Both apps compete for the same culinary audience by offering digital recipe repositories, though Gronda targets professional skill development while Kitchen Stories focuses on home meal planning.

Contenders(4)

AILIFE TECHNOLOGY PTE

known forCookGo: Easy Recipe Import

1 app4.9Food & Drink

Both apps target home cooks seeking to organize recipes from social media, creating direct competition for users who want to centralize digital culinary content.

Eatr - MealPlans

known forEatr・AI Healthy Meal Plan・Diet

1 app4.3Food & Drink

Both apps target home cooks with meal planning and grocery list features, competing for the same user base seeking culinary organization.

Riafy Technologies

known forAmerican Recipes Planner

1 appFood & Drink

Both apps target home cooks with meal planning and recipe discovery tools, creating direct competition for users seeking culinary organization.

Rohit Iyer

known forEasy Recipes for you

1 app4.3Food & Drink

Both apps target home cooks seeking recipe discovery and organization, competing for the same user base through free recipe access.

Same space(20)

BuzzFeed

known forTasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos

1 app4.9Food & Drink

Uses video-led discovery to capture the cooking journey from inspiration to ingredient fulfillment.

CookBook Co. Pty

known forCookBook - Recipe Keeper

1 app4.7Food & Drink

Focuses on digitizing physical and digital collections through advanced scanning and AI tools.

Cookpad

known forCookpad Recipes

1 app4.6Food & Drink

Competes for daily recipe discovery by prioritizing community-shared content over professional editorial databases.

Crouton

known forCrouton: Recipe Manager

1 app4.8Food & Drink

Provides a native Apple-integrated cookbook for users who prioritize hardware and ecosystem compatibility.

Days Until

known forRecipe Keeper - Recipe Bro

2 apps4.8Food & Drink

Provides a centralized cookbook for importing recipes from websites and screenshots.

Deliveroo

known forDeliveroo: Food & Shopping

2 apps4.6Food & Drink

Provides an alternative to home cooking by offering rapid delivery of restaurant meals and groceries.

eMeals

known foreMeals - Healthy Meal Plans

1 app4.6Food & Drink

Provides structured, diet-specific meal plans that integrate with grocery delivery services.

Flavorish

known forFlavorish | Save Any Recipe

1 app4.7Food & Drink

Targets the same social media-heavy recipe savers but uses AI parsing to automate the ingestion process.

GENERAL DIGITAL CONNOISSEURS

known forOsta: Save & Share Recipes

1 app4.8Food & Drink

Offers a collaborative digital space for saving and organizing recipes from social media platforms.

HelloFresh

known forHelloFresh: Meal Kit Delivery

1 app4.7Food & Drink

Operates as a meal kit delivery service that provides pre-portioned ingredients for home cooking.

HelloFresh SE

known forHelloFresh: Meal Kit & Recipes

1 app4.7Food & Drink

Captures users through meal kit delivery, using a free cookbook feature to attract non-subscribers.

Hindsight Labs

known forPaprika Recipe Manager 3

1 app4.9Food & Drink

Offers a paid, utility-focused solution for digitizing and managing personal recipe collections.

Mob.co.uk

known forMob: Meal Planner and Recipes

1 app4.2Food & Drink

Bridges recipe discovery with supermarket shopping to simplify weekly meal planning for home cooks.

ReciMe

known forReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner

1 appFood & Drink

Functions as a social media aggregator that competes for the same recipe-saving user base.

Red Honey

known forHoneydew: Recipe Manager

1 app4.8Food & Drink

Offers AI-powered recipe importing and meal planning for home cooks.

Stashcook

known forMeal Planner & Recipe Keeper

1 app4.4Food & Drink

Consolidates digital recipe inspiration into a meal planning system for busy families.

TEGS LABS

known formise - meal planner

2 apps4.6Food & Drink

Targets UK grocery shoppers with pantry-aware planning tools that reduce food waste.

The New York Times Company

known forNYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals

2 apps4.9Food & Drink

Challenges the discovery model by offering high-trust, editorial-tested recipes that casual aggregators lack.

Tudorspan

known forRecipe Keeper

2 apps4.8Food & Drink

Competes by offering a one-time purchase model for recipe management and digitization.

Vorwerk

known forThermomix® Cookidoo® App

1 app4.9Food & Drink

Serves as a hardware-locked companion that forces users into a specific appliance environment for guided cooking.

New entrants(2)

NickKaz Fit

known forRecipeLab - Healthy Recipes

2 apps4.7Food & Drink

Targets fitness enthusiasts with AI-powered nutrition tracking and recipe planning.

Tempo Labs Creative

known forHerbi: Meal Planner + Recipes

1 app2.3Food & Drink

Simplifies weekly meal planning by creating personalized dinner plans based on user preferences.

The Analyst's Read

The bottom line on AJNS New Media

Bottom line

Kitchen Stories maintains a strong product-market fit by prioritizing high-quality, curated content over raw volume. Their focus on utility-driven features like shopping lists and recipe organization creates a sticky user experience that effectively differentiates them from generic recipe search engines.

Frequently asked questions

How many apps does AJNS New Media publish?
AJNS New Media has 1 app tracked by Marlvel, primarily in the Food & Drink category.
What kind of apps does AJNS New Media make?
AJNS New Media's portfolio is concentrated in Food & Drink, with an average rating of 4.8/5 across rated apps.
What is AJNS New Media's top app?
By review volume across the portfolio, Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes is AJNS New Media's best-known app tracked by Marlvel.

What fed this analysis

Apps analyzed:
1
With full intel:
0
With overview:
1
Website scraped:
yes
Social presence:
yes

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AI-powered analysis with automated quality gates, built from publicly available sources. Marlvel.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by AJNS New Media, its developer, the app publisher, Apple, or Google Play. All trademarks, logos, and screenshots referenced remain the property of their respective owners.

Cite this report

Marlvel.ai. “AJNS New Media intelligence.” Updated 2026-05-10. https://marlvel.ai/publishers/ajns-new-media

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