Recipe Kit ‑ Blog Post Recipes vs Smart Recipes
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 12, 2026 for Recipe Kit, Oct 14, 2026 for Smart Recipes.
The short answer
- Only Recipe Kit lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $25/month for Recipe Kit and $14.99/month for Smart Recipes.
- Recipe Kit lists 18 features Smart Recipes’s listing doesn’t mention, including AI generation, Analytics, Article tags.
Head to head
Beautiful, SEO optimized & shoppable blog post recipes
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Australia
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Free Plan
- · 3 recipe nutrition analyses included
- · 4 beautiful recipe designs
- · Add Shopify products to ingredients
- · Auto-generated, SEO-rich snippets
- · Blog tag filters
- · Social media sharing
Essentials Plan
- · 3 recipe nutrition analyses included
- · 4 beautiful recipe designs
- · Add Shopify products to ingredients
- · Auto-generated, SEO-rich snippets
- · Blog tag filters
- · Social media sharing
Growth Plan
- · 25 recipe nutrition analyses included
- · AI generated recipes
- · Add-to-cart buttons in ingredients
- · Everything in Essentials
- · Multi-language recipes
- · Multiple direction images
Enterprise Plan
- · 1-on-1 consultation call with our team
- · Custom recipe card styling changes
- · Everything from Growth
- · First access to new features
- · Multi-language recipes
- · Priority support
Starter
- · Cook mode enabled recipe
- · Link ingredients to URL
- · Recipe ratings
- · SEO optimized recipe rich results
- · Stock recipe themes
- · Unlimited recipes
Business
- · Custom recipe themes
- · Everything in Starter
- · Link ingredients to Shopify product
- · Recipe Assistant
Starter
- · Cook mode enabled recipe
- · Link ingredients to URL
- · Recipe ratings
- · SEO optimized recipe rich results
- · Stock recipe themes
- · Unlimited recipes
Business
- · Custom recipe themes
- · Everything in Starter
- · Link ingredients to Shopify product
- · Recipe Assistant
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureRecipe Kit helps food brands, bloggers, and CPG stores publish shoppable recipe cards on their Shopify blog. Every recipe includes automatic recipe schema for Google results, nutrition labels, and add-to-cart buttons that link ingredients to your products. Track views, prints, shares, and sales per recipe in the built-in analytics dashboard. Choose templates or match your theme with custom styling.
Smart Recipes makes it easy and quick to share simple or complex recipes that include fields like prep/cook time, 500+ cuisines, categories, diets, nutrition, images, video, flat/grouped ingredients, and instructions. Need help getting started? Use Recipe Assistant to generate this data for you. Ready to share them?
- Create beautiful recipe blog posts that help you sell more products, easily
- Automatic SEO optimized rich recipe snippet schema for Google Search Results
- Choose from 4 gorgeous recipe blog post designs, or customize your own with code
- Recipe cards integrated directly & natively into your Shopify blog posts
- No-Code app installation
- Recipe editor designed to help you create simple or complex recipes quickly
- Mobile optimized themeable recipes w/ print button, reading mode, and cook mode
- Link recipe ingredients to URLs or Shopify products
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Recipe Kit |  Smart Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | 562 | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | +5 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | 5 | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | 22% | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Home & Garden, Health & Beauty | Not published |
| Top store countries | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | Recipe Kit | Smart Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 4.9 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 106 | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | 1 | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | 78% | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Recipe Kit | Smart Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Not listed |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $25/month | $14.99/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | 14 days | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 4 | 4 |
Listing
| Measure | Recipe Kit | Smart Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #6 | #168 |
| Shopify App Charts | #2 in Blogs | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | Yes | No |
| Launched | May 11, 2020 | Jun 26, 2024 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Bolle Apps | Good Times In Particular |
FAQ
Recipe Kit and Smart Recipes: common questions
- Is Recipe Kit or Smart Recipes cheaper?
- Only Recipe Kit lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $25/month for Recipe Kit and $14.99/month for Smart Recipes. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Recipe Kit lists 18 the others don’t mention, such as AI generation, Analytics, Article tags, Custom code. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Nov 12, 2026 for Recipe Kit, Oct 14, 2026 for Smart Recipes; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Nov 12, 2026 for Recipe Kit, Oct 14, 2026 for Smart Recipes. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.