SpicesChoose Spices if
- You want recipes kept private in your own iCloud, with no community feed.
- You cook from recipes in other measures and want them converted for your oven and shop.
- You want the household to share notes and one week of dinners.
Recipe app comparison
Spices vs Samsung Food
Samsung Food, formerly Whisk, mixes a recipe saver with a community, AI meal plans and grocery delivery. Spices is a private recipe keeper for your household, with no feed and no ads.
At a glance
- Feed
- none
- Ads
- none
- Your recipes
- in your iCloud
Spices and Samsung Food, feature by feature
| Spices | Samsung Food | |
|---|---|---|
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Android, web |
| Pricing | Free up to 25 recipes; Pro monthly, yearly or once | Free; Food+ subscription |
| Save from websites | Yes | Yes |
| Instagram, TikTok, YouTube | Yes, from the caption or description | Not listed |
| Photos and cookbook pages | Screenshots and cookbook pages, read on the device | Cookbook photos, limited on the free plan |
| Unit conversion | US, UK, Australian and metric, based on where the recipe is from | Not listed |
| Oven: °F, °C, fan, gas mark | Yes, for your fan or conventional oven | Not listed |
| Ingredient names by country | US, UK or Dutch names | Not listed |
| Scaling | Servings, pan size, or an ingredient you have | Yes |
| Meal planning | A week of dinners; shared with Pro | Weekly; AI plans with Food+ |
| Shopping list | Built from the week; shared with Pro | Shared, with grocery delivery |
| Household sharing | Shared library, notes and week through iCloud (Pro) | Shared lists |
| Account | None, uses iCloud | Not listed |
| Cook mode | One step at a time, named timers, screen stays on | Smart Cooking Mode (Food+) |
| Pantry | No | Automatic (Food+) |
| Nutrition | No | Health scores and goals |
| Sync | iCloud | Not listed |
Samsung Food features checked on 10 November 2026 by Thien Nguyen, who makes Spices, against its official website, help pages and App Store listing. “Not listed” means we couldn’t find it there, not that the app lacks it. Prices change, so check the developer’s site.
Which one fits you?
Samsung Food adds AI meal plans, grocery delivery and SmartThings appliances. Spices keeps recipes private and converts them to the measures and oven you use.
Choose Samsung Food if
- You want AI-generated meal plans and nutrition goals.
- You order groceries for delivery from the app.
- You own Samsung SmartThings kitchen appliances.
Switching from Samsung Food
Spices can’t read a Samsung Food export file yet. For the recipes you cook most, share the original web page or post to Spices from Safari, Instagram or TikTok, or import a screenshot. Spices reads it, converts the amounts and marks anything it had to guess.
Spices imports full libraries from Paprika, Mela and Crouton.
Sources
Samsung Food (formerly Whisk) is a product of its developer. Spices is not affiliated with it.
Other comparisons
- All recipe app comparisonsFeature tables for nine recipe apps.
- Spices vs PaprikaPaprika 4 added a Premium subscription. Import your whole library from one file.
- Spices vs CroutonBoth are Apple-only and sync with iCloud. Crouton adds Mac and Apple Watch.
- Spices vs MelaMela keeps plans in Calendar and lists in Reminders. Import your .melarecipes file.
- Spices vs Recipe KeeperRecipe Keeper runs on Android and Windows, with its own account.
- Spices vs PestleBoth save from TikTok. Pestle’s free plan holds 15 recipes.
Questions
Is Samsung Food the same as Whisk?
Yes. Whisk was renamed Samsung Food.
Can I import my Samsung Food recipes into Spices?
Not from a Samsung Food export. Share each recipe’s original link to Spices, or import a screenshot of it.
Let your recipes convert themselves
Spices shows every saved recipe in the units, oven setting and ingredient names you use, and you can switch back to the original at any time. In testing for iPhone and iPad.