Crouton is a cookbook. FOODIE is a kitchen.
Crouton is a lovely native iOS cookbook. FOODIE shares that respect for craft — and adds AI, social saves, tap-to-advance cooking, and a real meal plan.
unique to FOODIE
Crouton has a small, devoted following for good reason: it's a clean, native iOS recipe organizer with great taste in design. We respect it. But Crouton is a cookbook. FOODIE is everything around the cookbook too — generating new recipes with AI chat, importing from Reels, planning weeks, building grocery lists, and a hands-friendly cooking mode.
Crouton is a beautiful cookbook. FOODIE is the kitchen it lives in — with AI chat, hands-friendly cook mode, planning, and shopping built in.
Why FOODIE
Made for the way you cook.
AI recipe generation.
Generate full recipes from a photo, a chat about your kitchen, or just a craving. Crouton has no AI generator.
Save from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
FOODIE imports recipes from social videos. Crouton focuses on URL clipping and manual entry.
Built-in meal planner + grocery list.
Plan a week and FOODIE generates a smart shopping list. Crouton's planning is much lighter.
Cook in your language.
FOODIE auto-translates any recipe. Crouton is English-first.
Side by side
FOODIE vs Crouton.
Every feature that matters when you actually cook.
Being fair to Crouton
Where Crouton wins.
Crouton has Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro support polished in, and a one-time purchase option that some people prefer. If those matter most to you, Crouton is a great pick.
The bottom line
So which should you pick?.
“Crouton is a beautiful cookbook. FOODIE is the kitchen it lives in — with AI chat, hands-friendly cook mode, planning, and shopping built in.”
Free to download. Premium $2.08/mo, billed annually.
Common questions
Frequently asked.
2 answers to the things people ask us most. Tap any question to expand.
01Is FOODIE as native-feeling as Crouton?
Yes — FOODIE is built natively for iOS with the same care for design, gestures, and performance.
02Can I import my Crouton recipes into FOODIE?
Yes — Crouton supports recipe export, and FOODIE can import URLs, JSON, or text via AI.