3 alternativesCrouton: Free to start
The best Crouton alternatives
For most people the best alternative to Crouton is Paprika, and the best free one is Mela.
PaprikaPick it if you plan meals for the week and want the grocery list built for you.$4.99 onceCompare at a glance
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| App | Price | How you pay | Mac | iPhone | iPad | Watch | App Store | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Crouton | Free to start | Free, with paid upgrades | 4.8 | |||||
| Paprika | $4.99 once | Pay once | 4.9 | |||||
 Mela | Free to start | Free, with paid upgrades | 4.6 | |||||
 PlateDiary | Free to start | Free, with paid upgrades | Too few ratings |
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The alternatives, in order
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Pick it if you plan meals for the week and want the grocery list built for you.
Pulls recipes off cluttered food blogs into a clean cookbook and turns your meal plan into an aisle-sorted grocery list.
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Pick it if you mainly save recipes from blogs and want a clean iCloud cookbook, with Mela+ at $6.99 once.
Strips the ads and backstory off any recipe blog and keeps the recipe in a cookbook that syncs over iCloud.
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Pick it if you eat out a lot and want to remember what you ordered, where, and who was at the table.
An iPhone food diary that cuts each dish out of a table photo and files it by place and company.
Crouton head to head
When Crouton is still the right pick
You cook from food blogs and cookbooks and want every recipe in 1 place without the ads and life stories.
Crouton prices and verdictFree to start