Can I move my recipes out of Paprika?

Paprika can export your recipes, and you keep whatever you export. Fork & Spoon has no bulk importer for Paprika's export file yet, so moving a large collection today means re-importing recipes from their original links, which is realistic for tens of recipes and painful for hundreds.

Over several years, almost certainly yes. It is a one-time purchase per platform against a subscription. If price over time is your main criterion, buy Paprika.

Does Fork & Spoon work on a computer?

Yes, at app.forkandspoon.app in any browser, with no separate purchase and nothing to install. Paprika has no browser version; its Mac and Windows apps are sold separately from the phone versions.

Can an iPhone user and an Android user share a cookbook?

In Fork & Spoon, yes: the same shared cookbook, week menu and shopping list on both at once. Paprika syncs your own devices across platforms, but sharing a collection with another person means sharing a sync account.

Which one handles a video recipe better?

Fork & Spoon reads YouTube transcripts and social captions as a first-class path. Paprika's importer is built around web pages.

Fork & Spoon as a Paprika alternative

Paprika has been the answer to "which recipe app should I use" for over a decade, and it earned that. It's fast, it doesn't nag, it hasn't got a feed, and you buy it once. If you're looking at alternatives you've probably got a specific complaint, so let's start with which complaints Fork & Spoon actually answers.

Prices and features below were checked on 30 August 2026. Both apps change, so check their own pages before deciding on cost.

The honest summary

Stay with Paprika if you want to pay once and be done, you mostly save recipes from recipe websites, and you don't need anyone else in your household editing the same list.

Look at Fork & Spoon if your recipes come from videos and social posts as often as from websites, if you want the same account on a phone and in a browser without buying twice, or if you want a partner editing the same shopping list live.

Where they actually differ

	Fork & Spoon	Paprika
Payment model	Free tier, Premium EUR 4.99/month or EUR 49.99/year	One-time purchase, sold separately per platform
Desktop	Browser version included, no extra purchase	Mac and Windows apps sold separately
Import from a web page	Yes, uses the page's structured data when it's there	Yes, long-established
Import from a YouTube video	Yes, reads the transcript and description	Not a supported path
Import from an Instagram or TikTok post	Yes, reads the caption	Not a supported path
Import from a photo of a page	Yes, up to four pages merged into one recipe	Not a supported path
Shared editing with a partner	Shared cookbooks and a live shared shopping list	Sync is per-account
iPhone and Android sharing together	Yes, in the same shared cookbook	Sharing means sharing one sync account
Offline shopping list	Yes, offline first with sync on reconnect	Yes
Share a recipe with a non-user	A link that opens in any browser	Export or copy

The one-time purchase question

This is the real argument and it deserves a straight answer rather than a dodge.

Paprika costs a fixed amount and then nothing. Fork & Spoon Premium costs EUR 49.99 a year. Over five years that isn't close, and no amount of feature comparison changes the arithmetic.

What the subscription buys is the part with a running cost: the imports. Reading a video transcript and turning it into a structured recipe happens on a server and costs money every time somebody does it. An app that does that can't be a one-time purchase without either capping it or eventually stopping.

Which is why the free tier here is drawn where it is. Saving, editing, organising, cooking and sharing your own recipes is free with no limit on how many, because that costs almost nothing to run. Import is what you pay for.

If you rarely import and mostly type recipes in yourself, you can use Fork & Spoon for free indefinitely, and Paprika would also serve you well for a single payment.

Where Paprika is better

No subscription. Already covered, and it's a real advantage.
Maturity. Ten-plus years of edge cases handled. Fork & Spoon is new.
Native desktop apps. A browser version is convenient, but a real Mac app is faster and works offline. If you plan menus at a desk, Paprika's desktop app is nicer than a web page.
A large, loyal user base, which means the answer to your obscure question is probably already on a forum somewhere.

Where Fork & Spoon is better

Video and social imports. This is the actual difference. Paprika's importer was built for recipe web pages, in an era when that's where recipes were. A large share of recipes now arrive as a Reel, a TikTok or a fifteen-minute YouTube video, and those need a different approach: reading transcripts and captions rather than parsing HTML.
Photo import. Photograph up to four pages of a cookbook or a handwritten card and get one recipe back.
Cooking together. Shared cookbooks and a shopping list two people can tick off at the same time, updating live. This is the thing people ask for most often and it isn't what Paprika's sync is for.
One account, every screen. Phone, tablet and browser, included. Paprika hasn't got a browser version at all, and its Mac and Windows apps are separate purchases, so the machine you found the recipe link on is either another payment or not covered.
Two people, two ecosystems, one cookbook. An iPhone and an Android phone share the same cookbook, week menu and shopping list at once, updating live. Paprika's Cloud Sync is built to keep your own devices in step; sharing with another person means sharing an account or emailing them a recipe.
Sharing outward. Send a recipe to someone as a link that opens in any browser, with no app required at their end.

Moving over

Be realistic about this. Paprika can export your collection, so nothing's trapped. But Fork & Spoon hasn't got a bulk importer for Paprika's export format yet, which means moving today is a per-recipe job using the original source links.

For thirty recipes that's an evening. For eight hundred it isn't worth it, and the honest advice is to stay where you are, or run Fork & Spoon alongside for new recipes only.