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PocketCook vs. Paprika

When the recipe comes from a video, keep the video.

Paprika is a long-loved recipe manager, built for recipes on the web. PocketCook is built for the cooks you watch: share a video to it or paste its link, get the recipe, and cook with their video at every step.

Get PocketCook on the App Store Free on iPhone and iPad · Android is in testing

Step six of seven for Sam the Cooking Guy's grilled chicken, slice it into strips against the grain and pile it onto a platter, with his video at the moment the sliced chicken is on the board.
The cook’s video, at the step you’re on.

At a glance

PocketCook and Paprika, side by side

What you wantPocketCookPaprika
Recipes from websitesYesYes
Recipes from YouTube videosShare or paste the linkIn the Paprika 4 beta, with Premium
A video with no written recipeWatched and written out, with PlusReads the post’s caption or description
The cook’s video while you cookAt every stepNot offered
PlanningThe week, with each dinner timed so every dish is ready togetherDay, week and month calendars
ShoppingThe products you buy, sent to a Walmart or Kroger cartA combined list sorted by aisle, and a pantry

From a video

Paste a link. Get every dish.

When a video makes several dishes, each one becomes its own recipe, with its own ingredients and steps, credited to the cook and linked back to their video.

No written recipe in the description? With Plus, the video is watched and the recipe written out for you.

The app after Brian Lagerstrom's soup video is pasted: three recipes found, Broccoli Cheddar Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup and French Onion Soup, each with its own ingredients and steps, and a button to save all three.

While you cook

The right video. At the right step.

Each step takes the video to the moment it happens, not the start of the video. Let it play, and the recipe moves along with it.

Step three of seven for Sam the Cooking Guy's grilled chicken, flip the thighs and brush them with the reserved marinade, with his video at 6:30 of 9:43 as he turns them on the grill.

While you cook

Stuck at a step? Just ask.

Ask how to tell when it’s done, what to swap or how to fix it, and get a short answer from the recipe you’re cooking.

The questions that fit the step are there to tap, or type your own.

Asking about a step of Joshua Weissman's High-Heat Skillet Steak. How do I get a deeper crust? Don't crowd the steak, and leave it alone until it releases. How golden should it get? A deep golden color, like good toast, not pale. Two more questions wait to be tapped.

For dinner

One dinner, several videos.

Put two or three recipes together and cook them as one dinner. PocketCook works out what happens when, so every dish is ready at the same time.

Each dish keeps its own cook’s video, and every step brings up the right one, at the moment it happens.

The dinner's first step, set the oven broiler to high, for America's Test Kitchen's roasted peppers, with their video at that moment. The next step, bag the chicken thighs with the marinade, for Sam the Cooking Guy's grilled chicken, with his video at that moment.

The cooks you follow

Their new videos come to you.

Everyone you save a recipe from is kept together in your book. Follow them, and their new videos show up there, ready to turn into a recipe with one tap.

The recipe book, with new videos from the creators it follows at the top, from Sam the Cooking Guy, Nick's Kitchen and Sally's Baking Addiction.

Have a video in mind? That’s all you need to start.

Get PocketCook on the App Store Free on iPhone and iPad · Android is in testing

Paprika is a trademark of Hindsight Labs LLC, which is not affiliated with PocketCook. What this page says about Paprika comes from paprikaapp.com, its App Store listing and its Google Play listing, read on October 3, 2026. The cooks shown in PocketCook’s screens have not endorsed PocketCook and aren’t affiliated with it.