Tired of juggling your phone with messy hands while trying to follow a recipe? Look no further than the best hands-free cooking apps!
Today, I'll get into the best cooking apps. Plus, I’ll introduce you to a solution that revamps your favorite recipes to make them hands-free.
So, if you're a foodie wanting convenience or a blogger craving a site upgrade, I have just the answer for you.
Let's dive in!
The best cooking apps
Touch your ingredients, wash your hands, dry your hands, touch your phone screen. Repeat.
It adds time to your cooking process, and it's flat out — annoying. 🙄
Well, these hands-free cooking apps are here to help.
It's also worth mentioning that the Food Network Kitchen App used to be on this list. However, it hasn't been available since May 1, 2024.
SideChef
With over 16,000 recipes SideChef is one of the best free cooking apps for recipes and meal planning. Dare I say, it's the perfect side chef.
Use it to search for recipes, save your favorite recipes, or create your own. Make a grocery list and do your shopping in one place. It even gives you personalized recommendations.
Have Amazon Alexa?
It'll guide you through every step so you can keep your hands in the dough. This cooking app uses voice commands to choose recipes, set timers, and get step-by-step instructions.
Have an iPhone or Android? Grab it from the app store. You can also connect it to certain LG appliances.
Recipe Keeper
Recipe Keeper is the perfect kitchen food and recipe app for food lovers and bloggers alike.
This cooking app lets you find recipes, keep your favorite recipes, create shopping lists, plan meals, and even import recipes from websites or blogs. It's available on all your devices, making it easy to access your recipes wherever you go.
Plus, you can pair it with Amazon Alexa for a hands-free cooking experience!
Yummly
Yummly is one of the most used cooking apps. There are over 2 million recipes on Yummly.
You can use it to discover new recipes, create meal plans, and more. You can even use it with little to no hands between its guided cooking videos and voice instructions (if you have an Android device).
Kitchen Stories
Have a million cooking recipes of your own to share? Download Kitchen Stories and create a profile.
This app, for iOS and Android, has tons of recipes with step-by-step photo instructions.
Although it may not have voice assistance, the photo instructions let you follow the recipe without constantly touching your device. It also connects to the Home Connect app to bring you more recipe-based smart features.
Tasty
The Tasty app is a popular cooking app that has video-guided recipes, cooking tips, and more.
It's not entirely hands-free, though. It gives step-by-step video instructions, which you can pause and play with one tap.
This free recipe app is available on iOS and Android devices.
No cooking apps needed with hands-free cooking on your blog!
Now, let me talk about cooking apps that food bloggers use on their websites. Aka — food blog plugins.
Do you use them? If not, you need to. A WordPress recipe plugin like Tasty Recipes takes your recipe blog to new heights. It does what some cooking apps don't.
Unlocks hands-free cooking on your food blog.
With Tasty Recipes, you also get:
- Cook mode is on from the start. That way, your audience can cook without relentlessly tapping their phone or tablet screen.
- Beautiful recipes cards with seasoned with recipe SEO
- Save, Print, Jump to Recipe buttons, and so much more
Ready to add cook mode to your recipe cards?
Here's how to make your food blog handier (or should I say hands freer?) than the best cooking apps above!
1. Set up your WordPress website
If you don't already have a WordPress recipe website, don't worry!
WordPress.org is the go-to platform for bloggers, offering a user-friendly interface and endless customization options.
Need help starting a food blog? We have a whole series on our YouTube channel! Watch the first video below. ⬇️
2. Install Tasty Recipes
Download Tasty Recipes and install it on your site.
It's an easy process, but if you need help installing, uploading, or activating the plugin, there are lots of support docs to help.
By default, when you install Tasty Recipes, Cook Mode is automatically enabled on your recipe pages.
But if you need to change anything, go to WP Tasty > Tasty Recipe > Settings. With just a quick click, you can enable (or disable) Cook Mode.
It's as easy as that!
Why is Cook Mode so important? It really improves your readers' experience, especially when their hands are messy. It makes it easy to view instructions and ingredient lists without touching their smartphones.
Enable Cook Mode for Your Blog
This lets them follow your recipes in a stress-free, convenient way.
It also helps that Cook Mode blends beautifully into the Tasty Recipes recipe card.
Start cooking hands-free with the best cooking apps and plugins
These cooking apps are your secret weapon to hands-free cooking and endless recipe inspiration.
And if you're a food blogger, don't miss the Tasty Recipes plugin. It's the best WordPress recipe plugin for adding beautiful recipe cards in WordPress with a built-in Cook Mode that your audience will adore.
Interested in trying Tasty Recipes?
With our easy-to-use, customizable recipe card plugin, Tasty Recipes helps you look good — and your recipes look even better.
Take a look at all Tasty Recipes has to offer.
Also, don’t forget about our 14-day money-back guarantee! Trying Tasty Recipes is risk-free!
Want to cook up a storm on your food blog?
Check out my guides on updating old blog posts to keep the success going.
