The 7 best Crouton alternatives for Android, the web and iPhone.

Paprika is the long-standing recipe manager with native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows, so it covers the devices Crouton doesn't. Its built-in browser saves recipes from any site, and it has a weekly and monthly meal planner, a grocery list sorted by aisle, a pantry, timers it finds in the directions, scaling, and your data stored on the device, so recipes open with no connection. Paprika 3 is bought once per platform.

There's no web app, each platform is a separate purchase, and Paprika 4, in open beta since September 28, 2026 with a cook mode that reads steps aloud, will need a subscription for its premium features after the beta. Crouton isn't among the imports of either version, so recipes come across by saving them again from their websites.

If you're staying on iPhone and love Crouton's step-by-step mode, Pestle is the closest in spirit: guided cooking you can control hands-free, as many timers as you like, quantity reminders with a tap, and SharePlay, so someone on FaceTime follows the same steps. It saves recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and websites through the share sheet, and runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and on Apple-silicon Macs as the iPad app.

The free version keeps 15 recipes, with the shopping list, a pantry and guided cooking. Pestle Pro ($2.99 a month, $24.99 a year, or a lifetime purchase) adds unlimited recipes, sync, a 14-day meal plan, Households for sharing recipes and plans, and importing from photos and PDFs. Like Crouton, it's Apple-only, and Crouton isn't among its imports.

AnyList is one of the best shared grocery lists, with a recipe box and a meal-planning calendar on top, on iPhone, iPad and Android, plus a Mac app, Apple Watch and a web app with AnyList Complete. Its cooking view lets you mark off ingredients, highlight your step and switch between recipes, and in the phone apps it turns times in the steps into timers, several at once, as Crouton does. Everyone in a household has their own AnyList account, and Complete is $9.99 a year for one person or $14.99 for a household.

The free version is mostly a list: recipe imports from websites stop at five, and the meal-planning calendar, scaling, recipe photos, the Mac app, Apple Watch and the web app are part of Complete. Moving from Crouton means saving recipes again from their websites.

Plan to Eat has helped people plan meals from their own recipes since 2008, on the web, iPhone and Android. Its Recipe Clipper saves recipes from websites, Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest; the calendar plans a week, a month or longer with menus you can reuse; the grocery list is organized by store and aisle; and the Cooking View has a Step by Step mode that taps through one instruction at a time with the ingredients in view, plus named timers. The phone app keeps working with no connection and syncs later.

It's subscription-only: $5.95 a month or $49 a year after a 14-day trial with no card. A household shares one login, and Crouton isn't among the apps its bulk import reads.

Recipe Keeper has native apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and Windows that sync with each other and work offline. Like Crouton, it scans recipes from cookbooks, magazines and handwritten cards with OCR, from the camera, your photos or PDF files, and it saves recipes from hundreds of websites. It has a weekly and monthly meal planner, a shopping list grouped by aisle, and hands-free, step-by-step cooking through its Alexa skill (English only).

The Pro upgrade is bought separately on each platform ($19.99 on iPhone and iPad, $29.99 on Mac), there's no web app, and Crouton isn't among the apps it names for importing.

If you're happy on Apple devices and want to pay once, Mela is a beautifully designed recipe manager for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Mela+ is a one-time $6.99 on iPhone and iPad and $14.99 on Mac, recipes sync through your own iCloud, and its App Store listing says the developer collects no data. It saves recipes with an in-app browser, scans cookbook pages with text recognition, follows recipe blogs' feeds like Crouton, and has a full-screen cook mode that dims every step but the current one.

The meal plan lives in Apple Calendar and groceries in Reminders, it imports only Mela and Paprika files, and its last update was in June 2025, so weigh how actively it's developed.