Crouton: Recipe Manager
Crouton: Recipe Manager generates an estimated $3k–$19k/month in revenue from 6k–25k downloads/month on the App Store, according to AppCurrents estimates (updated 2026-10-02).
| Est. revenue / month | $3k–$19k |
|---|---|
| Est. downloads / month | 6k–25k |
| Estimate confidence | low |
| Pricing | Free + IAP |
| Rating | 4.82 ★ (2,857 ratings) |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Best chart rank | #71 Food & Drink Grossing |
| Released | 02.09.2019 |
| App last updated | 13.09.2026 |
| Platform | iOS |
Modeled monthly estimate · rating velocity · low confidence
About
Crouton is simple feature packed recipe organizer & meal planner. The best place to store your favorite recipes from where ever you find them, websites, cookbooks or a handwritten note from your Grandma. IMPORT ANYWHERE Crouton supports importing recipes from almost everywhere! Pull recipes automatically out of websites and just save the bits you need. You can also scan recipes straight out of…
Trends & analysis
Chart rank trend
US · categoryWhy it's surfacing
Scout 30Ratings & velocity
★ -0.01 in windowRating distribution
96% positive · 3k ratingsGeographic reach
best rank · 1 storefrontRevenue & downloads trend
ARPU $1In-app purchases
8 tiersUpdate history
4 updates tracked- v2026.419d ago
NEW FEATURES • Hands-free hand gestures: Move between recipe steps by pointing your thumb left or right • Ingredient substitutions: Get suggested replacements or check whether an ingredient you have will work. Apply substitutions to ingredient quantities and cooking instructions without changing your saved recipe. Requires Crouton Discover. • Weekly meal-plan widgets: See your week at a glance with new extra-large layouts, including portrait support on supported systems. • Make-ahead badges: Spot recipes that need marinating, chilling, proofing, thawing, or other advance preparation directly in your current week’s meal plan. • Expanded Siri and Shortcuts support: View interactive recipe cards, find recipes and empty meal-plan dates, add recipes to your plan, add ingredients to groceries, create recipes from schema data, and launch step-by-step cooking for today’s meal plan or a specific meal section. • Import recipes using schema.org Recipe JSON or JSON-LD. Paste structured recipe data or import individual JSON files and ZIP archives from Settings → Import Recipes. • Select and export multiple recipes at once as Crouton files, PDF, plain text, or Markdown. • Scale recipes directly from Step-by-Step mode by multiplier, serving count, or a selected ingredient. • Reorder or hide navigation tabs. • Added “sprig” as a supported ingredient measurement. IMPROVEMENTS • Refreshed styling, navigation controls, . • Improved Step-by-Step layouts, ingredient panels, recipe switching, and text sizing across screen sizes and orientations. • More accurate ingredient highlighting and recognition of cooking times, temperature ranges, and measurements in recipe instructions. • Improved French Smart Step matching so common words such as “au” are not incorrectly highlighted as ingredients. • A cleaner grocery list that automatically clears checked items after a short delay, plus quick access to add individual ingredients while cooking. • Redesigned Discover cards, a two-column layout on wider screens, and loading of older posts as you scroll. • Richer recipe information in Shortcuts, including recipe IDs, instructions, servings, preparation times, and nutrition, alongside additional phrases. • Search now ignores accents and diacritics, supports quoted phrases, and provides more consistent matching across recipe names, ingredients, notes, sources, folders, and tags. • Recipe tags are now included when exporting .crumb files. • Improved recipe detection. • Ingredient importing now understands formats where the quantity appears after the ingredient, such as “Olive oil, 2 tbsp.” • Improved loading and error handling during Smart Import, including more reliable dismissal and retry behaviour. • Fixed recipe scaling sometimes failing to apply when entering Step-by-Step mode. • Fixed recipe scaling affecting every recipe in a multi-recipe Step-by-Step session. Each recipe now keeps its own scale. • Fixed SharePlay step synchronization and improved shared cooking-session startup and recipe changes. • Fixed timers overlapping manual timer entry and corrected timer positioning. • Fixed camera text scanning when adding recipe ingredients or instructions. • Fixed tag import handling for tags without a colour, and improved tag layouts. • Fixed dragging meal-plan notes between different weeks. • Improved meal-plan scrolling and loading stability when additional dates are added. • Corrected navigation flashes, section-header alignment, and cooking-screen insets on smaller devices. • Fixed a crash when rotating or resizing while navigating Settings. • “Copy Local Link” has moved into the recipe Share menu.
- v2026.1.22mo ago
• Minor improvements
- v2026.1.12mo ago
• Minor fixes to recipe creation flow • Fix for incrementing timers
- v2026.15mo ago
• Improved import from websites • Broader support for PDF import • Fix for upgrading to Discover from Plus • Various small fixes that should have things running a little more smoothly
Crouton: Recipe Manager — FAQ
How much money does Crouton: Recipe Manager make?
According to AppCurrents estimates, Crouton: Recipe Manager generates approximately $3k–$19k per month (low confidence), modeled from its the App Store chart performance, rating velocity, and monetization signals.
How many downloads does Crouton: Recipe Manager get?
Crouton: Recipe Manager sees an estimated 6k–25k downloads per month on the App Store, per AppCurrents modeling.
Is Crouton: Recipe Manager free?
Crouton: Recipe Manager is free to download on the App Store, monetizing through in-app purchases.
What is Crouton: Recipe Manager's rating?
Crouton: Recipe Manager holds a 4.82-star average from 2,857 ratings on the App Store. It currently ranks #71 on the Food & Drink grossing chart.
When was Crouton: Recipe Manager released?
Crouton: Recipe Manager launched on the App Store on 02.09.2019. Its latest version shipped 13.09.2026.
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