Culinara: Easy Cooking Recipes icon

Culinara

For home cooks of varying skill levels seeking structured, video-based guidance for daily meal preparation.

1app5.0(511)Food & Drink

Snapshot

Who is Culinara?

Providing structured, video-guided culinary instruction to home cooks. Simplifies meal planning and preparation through a localized, chef-curated recipe library.

Target audience

Home cooks of varying skill levels seeking structuredVideo-based guidance for daily meal preparation

Active nemesis

Éditions Burda

Other rivals

Portfolio

Free 1
1
app
Food & Drink1

Last updated

Culinara: Easy Cooking Recipes

v2.0.94

7mo ago

Intense

Publisher DNA

What defines Culinara?

Publisher DNA

Primary focus

Culinary and meal planning utility

Scale

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Target audience

Home cooks of varying skill levels seeking structured, video-based guidance for daily meal preparation.

Origin

Founded as a culinary platform with the mission to simplify daily cooking and promote the enjoyment of food preparation.

Signature Patterns

  • •Integration of video-guided, step-by-step instructions for all recipes
  • •Extensive categorization of global cuisines and dish types
  • •Focus on utility-driven features like automated meal planning and shopping lists
  • •Free-to-access pricing model
Intense

Portfolio momentum

Released 12 updates in the last 6 months for their single active app, indicating a high-frequency development cycle.

Last release 28d agoActive apps 1

Portfolio

What does Culinara ship?

Apps

1 app analysed

Culinara: Easy Cooking Recipes icon
Culinara: Easy Cooking Recipes

Chef-made food & drink recipe videos. Easy cooking recipes with Culinara.

5.0(511)

Distributed across 12 markets, strongest in Europe.

Based on 1 of 1 app with localized market data · last scanned .

Americas (3)

  • Brazil1 / 1
  • Mexico1 / 1
  • United States1 / 1

Europe (7)

  • France1 / 1
  • Germany1 / 1
  • Italy1 / 1
  • Netherlands1 / 1
  • Portugal1 / 1
›+2 more europe markets
  • Spain1 / 1
  • Sweden1 / 1

Asia-Pacific (2)

  • Japan1 / 1
  • South Korea1 / 1

Core markets (1/1 apps)

BrazilFranceGermanyItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPortugalSouth KoreaSpainSwedenUnited States

Rivals

Who does Culinara compete with?

The rivals identified

Nemeses(1)

Éditions Burda

known forSaveurs : Recettes de cuisine

1 app4.8Food & Drink

Both apps target home cooks with free, step-by-step recipe collections, creating direct competition for daily meal planning and cooking instruction.

Contenders(1)

Firehawk

known forHealthy Recipes Offline

1 app4.8Food & Drink

Both apps compete for the same home cook audience by offering free, categorized recipe libraries for daily meal preparation.

Same space(20)

auFeminin.com

known forMarmiton, recettes de cuisine

1 app4.1Food & Drink

Marmiton provides a localized French recipe database that offers seasonal inspiration, serving as a regional alternative to Culinara's global library.

CmonApp

known forMy Recipe Box: Cookbook & Menu

2 apps4.6Food & Drink

My Recipe Box serves as a digital archive for users to consolidate web-based recipes, acting as a personal cookbook that lacks Culinara's integrated video guidance.

Cookpad Inc (UK)

known forCookpad recipes, homemade food

1 app4.6Food & Drink

Cookpad functions as a community-driven repository that allows users to store personal collections, contrasting with Culinara's professional chef-led content model.

Cookpad

known forCookpad recipes, homemade food

1 app4.2Food & Drink

Cookpad serves as a community-sharing platform that complements Culinara by allowing users to upload their own recipes and photos.

Days Until

known forRecipe Keeper - Recipe Bro

2 apps4.8Food & Drink

Recipe Bro provides a management tool for importing and organizing web-based recipes, acting as a personal digital cookbook for Culinara users.

Eatr - MealPlans

known forEatr・AI Healthy Meal Plan・Diet

1 app4.3Food & Drink

Eatr provides AI-driven meal planning and food scanning, targeting Culinara users who need automated diet management rather than just cooking instructions.

Factor_

known forFactor_ Prepared Meal Delivery

1 app4.8Food & Drink

Factor_ offers ready-to-heat meals that remove the cooking step entirely, serving as a premium convenience alternative to Culinara's guided cooking.

HARUNI

known forFrigo Magic : French Recipes

2 apps2.7Food & Drink

Frigo Magic focuses on food-waste reduction by mapping pantry inventory to recipes, providing a utility that Culinara lacks.

HelloFresh SE

known forHelloFresh: Meal Kit & Recipes

1 app4.7Food & Drink

HelloFresh provides a physical meal-kit service that complements Culinara's digital-only instruction by removing the grocery shopping friction entirely.

JoJo Apps: Meal Planner and Shopping List

known forMeal Planner & Grocery List

1 app4.5Food & Drink

Meal Planner & Grocery List focuses on household management, providing a utility-heavy alternative for Culinara users who prioritize grocery bills over chef-crafted content.

KptnCook

known forKptnCook: Cook & Meal Planner

1 app3.7Food & Drink

KptnCook uses a daily delivery loop to solve meal-planning fatigue, providing a high-frequency engagement model that differs from Culinara's library-based approach.

Lidl

known forMonsieur Cuisine App

1 appFood & Drink

Monsieur Cuisine App provides guided cooking for specific hardware owners, serving as a companion tool that Culinara users might use alongside their appliance.

NatiMate

known forAll My Meals - Save Recipes

2 apps4.6Food & Drink

All My Meals serves as a social-media recipe aggregator, providing a tool for users to save viral content that Culinara does not natively support.

ReciMe

known forReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner

1 appFood & Drink

ReciMe aggregates social media content into a repository, serving as a discovery layer for home cooks who find Culinara's chef-curated library too structured.

SamsungFood

known forSamsung Food: Meal Planner

1 app4.5Food & Drink

Samsung Food acts as a central hub for web-based recipe clipping, providing a broader discovery tool for users who want to aggregate content beyond Culinara's library.

SEB

known forMy Moulinex, cooking made easy

1 appFood & Drink

My Moulinex links recipe discovery to specific hardware, serving as a retention tool for appliance owners that Culinara does not target.

Stashcook

known forMeal Planner & Recipe Keeper

1 app4.4Food & Drink

Stashcook acts as a recipe organizer that simplifies the collection of digital inspiration, providing a management layer for Culinara's recipe-focused users.

SuperCook

known forSuperCook - Recipe Generator

1 appFood & Drink

SuperCook provides an ingredient-matching engine that helps users utilize existing pantry items, serving as a waste-reduction tool alongside Culinara's recipe library.

The New York Times Company

known forNYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals

2 apps4.9Food & Drink

NYT Cooking offers editorial-grade recipes that provide a high-trust alternative to Culinara's diverse global library.

youmealplan.com

known forMeal Planner & Macro Tracker

1 app4.7Food & Drink

Meal Planner & Macro Tracker adds nutritional tracking to the recipe-keeping workflow, appealing to Culinara users who require health-focused data.

New entrants(2)

Paralel Apps

known forAirfryAddict: Airfryer Recipes

1 app0.0Food & Drink

AirfryAddict provides appliance-specific recipes and reviews, serving as a niche tool for users who prioritize air fryer cooking over Culinara's general library.

TEGS LABS

known formise - meal planner

2 apps4.6Food & Drink

mise targets UK grocery shoppers with pantry-aware planning, offering a retail-integrated utility that Culinara does not provide.

The Analyst's Read

The bottom line on Culinara

Bottom line

Culinara is a highly active, single-product studio that has successfully established a localized culinary brand. Their focus on high-quality, video-led content provides a clear value proposition for home cooks looking for structured guidance.

Frequently asked questions

How many apps does Culinara publish?
Culinara has 1 app tracked by Marlvel, primarily in the Food & Drink category.
What kind of apps does Culinara make?
Culinara's portfolio is concentrated in Food & Drink, with an average rating of 5.0/5 across rated apps.
What is Culinara's top app?
By review volume across the portfolio, Culinara: Easy Cooking Recipes is Culinara's best-known app tracked by Marlvel.
In how many countries are Culinara's apps available?
Marlvel has tracked Culinara's apps across 12 countries.

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 Culinara, 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. “Culinara intelligence.” Updated 2026-05-09. https://marlvel.ai/publishers/culinara-llc

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