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Recipe One recipe keeper and meal planner: $2.1K in 30 days
Recipe One is a searchable recipe keeper with meal planning, grocery lists, and an organized cooking view. Its $2.1K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Superwall), as of September 30, 2026.
What it actually sells
Recipe One lets home cooks save recipes, plan weekly meals, build grocery lists, organize cookbooks, and open a structured cooking view. The site says, “Plan meals and build grocery lists from one searchable recipe keeper.”
Recipes can be imported from links, videos, websites, photos, screenshots, handwritten cards, or text. The app uses AI to extract ingredients, steps, and cooking time, and its organized cooking view is ad-free.
How it charges
The pages we read do not state a price. The site does not show currency amounts or describe a pricing structure.
Month by month
Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.
| Month | Revenue (USD) |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | $168 |
| 2025-11 | $1,018 |
| 2025-12 | $1,153 |
| 2026-01 | $3,005 |
| 2026-02 | $2,619 |
| 2026-03 | $2,783 |
| 2026-04 | $1,981 |
| 2026-05 | $1,571 |
| 2026-06 | $2,356 |
| 2026-07 | $2,190 |
| 2026-08 | $1,592 |
| 2026-09 | $2,136 |
Where customers come from
The site presents an App Store rating, user reviews, and availability on iOS and Android. It promotes a distraction-free app experience with no ads, no pop-ups, and a screen that stays awake while users cook.
What stands out
The product combines recipe storage with weekly meal planning and grocery lists. Users can create cookbooks, tag and rate recipes, filter by diet, share recipes, export PDFs, and sync cookbooks across devices.
The site reports 1,000+ home cooks, 100,000+ recipes saved, and a 4.5★ App Store rating. The app also imports recipes from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, photos, screenshots, handwritten cards, or pasted text.
From the official site
Loved by 1,000+ home cooks · 100,000+ recipes saved
Clean, structured, ad-free view when you cook
4.5★ App Store rating
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
Recipe One's $2.1K in the last 30 days is higher than 83% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Content Creation” category (1,345 projects) it is higher than 86% (category median $156). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
In my view, demand would come from home cooks who want one place to save recipes, plan meals, and make shopping lists. The buyer is a consumer managing recipes across phones, tablets, websites, videos, and other sources, so distribution would need to reach people already looking for recipe and meal-planning tools.
Building this would require handling recipe imports, structured extraction, device synchronization, search, and a usable cooking view. The hard parts include maintaining reliable extraction across many input formats, organizing changing dietary and tagging needs, supporting sharing and exports, and competing for attention in a crowded app category.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
The clearest product lesson is to connect the full recipe workflow: save the recipe, plan the week, build the grocery list, and cook from the same organized system.
Sources
- Recipe One official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Superwall), as of September 30, 2026
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure