Expensive and heavy cooking books might not be an ideal choice today when we have our little smartphone. If you love cooking and making new dishes, we bet that 5 best cooking apps below will be your priority.

BigOven – an endless store of recipes

BigOven is a great demonstration why a cooking app is better than a cooking book. It includes a wide variety of choice with over 350.ooo recipes. It has a powerful search engine which allows you to find any recipe by typing the keywords. The app also comes with a suite of tools that make cooking meals much easier. Base on your chosen recipes, you can make a grocery list.

Besides, BigOven allows you to make calendar-based planing to arrange and organize meals during the week. That would be save a lot of time and effort. The great thing is, you can capture your dishes and share them to your friends, or follow your favorite bloggers thanks to a social app feature. And this app is available on both iOS and Android.

Yummly – customize your choice

Included in one of the best apps in 2014, Yummly puts every recipe in your pocket. It is considered to possess the most powerful search engine. Their unique search filters and diet and allergy preferences allow you to find a perfect recipe. With the simple tap of a “Yum” button, you can save your favorite recipe and create your own collections for easy organizing. After following your eating habit for a while, it will automatically suggest the dishes that it thinks might be suitable for you. The best thing of Yummly is that it is integrated with Instacart, where you can order cooking materials directly and the goods will be delivered to your place within one hour.

Cookpad – a sharing platform for cooks

Cookpad is literally a social media for cooking addicts. You can create your own profile and build your private wall. In your own “home”, the app allows you to upload beautiful pictures of your completed dishes and people who follow you can comment on it. Cookpad is really an amazing place to exchange recipes with friends, family and even strangers. There are version available on both iOS and Android device.

SideChef – where a new cook should begin

In SideChef, you can follow top food bloggers and chefs to pick up some cooking tips from them. More than 3000 food recipes are waiting for you when you download this app. SideChef is an ideal app for new and inexperienced cooks because it has a variety collections of photos, videos, voice commands and timers. Furthermore, the app will guide you through every recipe step by step, so it makes sure that everyone can follow. If you have an intention of studying cooking, SideChef shall be a good choice.

Pepperplate – some help in the kitchen

With pepperplate, you can create and edit your own recipes or import from a popular site by pasting a URL. It allows to categorize and organize your recipe library unlimitedly. When you are in the middle of your work, you can turn on “Cook mode” to keep the screen running. And the app is connected with Email, Facebook, Twitter, so it is easy to share your favorite recipes with friends and family. Pepperplate will help you to add menus and other items to your shopping list.

5 best cooking apps

Above are top 5 cooking apps that we highly recommend. If you are searching for any app specialized for cooking, let’s download one of them and try. Or do you have any interesting app that want to share us?