Free recipe apps for whatever (and however) you want to cook

With a decent recipe app, you can instantly convert your smartphone or tablet into a veritable library of cookbooks. We've tried and tested five fabulous free recipe apps that together offer you well over 100,000 recipes from all around the world. 

Many of these also give you the ability to save recipes you want to make, allow you to easily create shopping lists of the exact ingredients you need, and even let you shop for the ingredients with integrated purchasing abilities. 

Here, in alphabetical order, are our favorite free recipe apps.   

1BBC Good Food

The BBC Good Food app is a British option, so you'll need to convert the measurements to U.S. versions, but if you can handle that, this is a really well-designed app with a clean user interface and a wealth of high-quality recipes, many of which are from popular celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsey and Mary Berry.  Read more...