Fire Free App of the Day: Recipe Guru Pro and bonus app Allrecipes Dinner Spinner

Today's Free App of the Day is Recipe Guru Pro
Originally $1.49

This was previously the free app of the day on April 26, 2012. It was not well reviewed then and continues to be dinged for recipes copied from the internet. I looked at two recipes, one I found elsewhere on the internet, one I did not (or at least not using the same words). This is a cookbook app; it is not an app for adding your own recipes. You are pretty much stuck with the recipes shown. I can't really recommend it based on the questionable source of the recipes. No permissions are listed on the web page.

118 of 191 reviews are four stars and above.

So we have a bonus pick: Allrecipes Dinner Spinner.

This is an extremely popular recipe app--most are probably familiar with it but it bears repeating for those new to apps.  Note that it is not shown as compatible with the original Kindle Fire.

668 of 904 reviews are four stars and above.

These apps are compatible with the original Fire and with my Fire HDXs except as noted above.. To tell if an app works for your Fire HD or other Android device registered to your Amazon account, click on the above link and look on the right side of the web page.  Amazon will tell you if it will work with your registered device.

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Today's Amazon Fire Free App of the Day: My Recipes plus Bonus App!

Today's Free App of the Day is My Recipes
Originally $2.99

This is a very nice recipe app. You can't bulk import recipes from your favorite sites--if you have a recipe box at a site, for example, but you can easily add a recipe right from many web pages that I tried. Visit the recipe's web page using your Fire's browser. Tap on the menu icon and select Share and then My Recipes. Recipes from Pioneer Woman, Tasty Kitchen and AllRecipes imported flawlessly with ingredients in the proper place.

A favorite recipe for Fish Tacos from Martha Stewart's website had mixed results--the picture and title imported but the text didn't--but was easily pasted in. Recipes from Cooks.com would not import. :(

 You can't print out recipes or grocery lists :( but you can send grocery lists via email to yourself and then print it. If I could print grocery lists from this, it would be close to perfect. Or export as a text file to import into another app. You can also paste a recipe URL in from within the app to add a recipe.

 You can create shopping lists from your recipes and save shopping lists (for example, I created a Thanksgiving shopping list as we typically have the same dishes every year. You can save your recipe file to Dropbox to be accessed via the web, so you can access your recipes from the browser on other devices. The developer says the ability to import from other popular websites will be added over time. You may want to pick this one up now so that you'll have it with the upgrades.

Overall I like the look of the recipes on this app. If the import worked a little better over a few more sites, it would be a strong four star app; five star if I could print out grocery lists. There are some one-star reviews that I found to not be true, so it's better than the review average would indicate. One of the reviewers recommended another app, which I already own but had never tried out. So that app is our KBAAD* today.

20 of 34 reviews are four stars and above.

So we have a bonus pick: My CookBook.

This app is very similar to the My Recipes App, but with a few more capabilities. One thing I really like about it is you can search for a type of recipe--say sweet potato casserole--within the app, get a Google list of recipes, select one and import. You can even specify the website you want to search. It sucessfully imported from all of the sites I asked for, including Martha Stewart and Cooks.com I liked it well enough that I bought the ad-free version--currenlty $3.61 but you get 108 coins back, making the effective cost $2.53.

My CookBook Pro (Ad Free)

 The ads are not intrusive. Both apps will work in either landscape or portrait mode. 97 of 137 reviews are four stars and above.

These apps are compatible with the original Fire and with my Fire HD 8.9" 4G. To tell if an app works for your Fire HD or other Android device registered to your Amazon account, click on the above link and look on the right side of the web page.  Amazon will tell you if it will work with your registered device.

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Kindle Fire Free App of the Day

Today's Free App of the Day is Grill-It!
Originally $0.99

Looks like this may have been the FAOTD back in 2012, but I don't have it. It's a grilling cookbook. Some early one star reviews had concerns about the permissions and the end user agreement, but it seems those have been resolved--at least no current complaints.

From the product page:

Grill-It! features detailed instructions and professional photos of your favorite grilling recipes for beef, lamb, seafood, poultry, and more. If you can cook it on the grill, chances are GrillingCompanion will try it out and take photos of the process.

 Browse your favorite grilling recipes by category. Search for ingredients or keywords to find the perfect grilling recipe for your next cook-out. Save and quickly access your favorite recipes for future reference and your next trip to the grocery store or meat market. Automatic updates add new recipes to your Grill-It! app as soon as they are available on the website. Grill-It! automatically checks for and adds new recipes each time you launch the app.

53 of 100 reviews are four stars and above.

These apps are compatible with the original Fire and with my Fire HDXs. To tell if an app works for your Fire HD or other Android device registered to your Amazon account, click on the above link and look on the right side of the web page.  Amazon will tell you if it will work with your registered device.

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Kindle Fire Free App of the Day: Allrecipes Dinner Spinner Pro and Bonus App Chef Tap

Today's Free App of the Day is Allrecipes Dinner Spinner Pro
Originally $2.99

This is the "pro" version of the popular recipe app Allrecipes Dinner Spinner. Allrecipes.com is a very nice recipe site. The app lets you search for recipes or use the "dinner spinner" to randomly find something to cook. I've never much cared about the dinner spinner, but it's growing on me. You get three categories--type of dish, ingredients and "ready in." Spin to find the category you want, for example "cookies" and tap on it to turn it orange, which means it is locked in. You can randomly spin all three categories for entertainment value. Strangely, when I did that, and asked to view matches, I got the message: "We couldn't find any Vegetable Cookies recipes ready in Slow Cooker. Try a different combination." You must have WiFi or 3G connectivity to access your recipes, even those in your recipe box. I was hoping the pro version would allow one to download recipes. You can search for recipes with various filters if you don't want to do the spinner thing The pro version allows you to access your recipe box on allrecipes.com (as long as you have internet access) and to scan barcodes to add things to your list. Although it didn't recognize anything I scanned, so that needs work. My other nitpick with the app is that certain screens (like browsing your recipe box) require portrait mode, and others (like actually using the recipe) require landscape mode. Really? I can tap on a recipe with a knuckle if my hands have flour on them, but I can't rotate the device. Minus a half star for that and one star for not being able to download recipes. I'll round up to give this four stars but it really needs to be able to save a recipe to your device. However, there is a solution.

483 of 663 reviews are four stars and above.

So we have a bonus pick: ChefTap Recipe App.

This is my other favorite recipe app, Chef Tap. And, you can import recipes from allrecipes.com to your Chef Tap app and use them without WiFi. (Though if you have a ton of recipes at allrecipes.com, space on your device might be a concern. You can also import recipes from the web and add them to Chef Tap. 565 of 637 reviews are four stars and above.


These apps are compatible with the original Fire and with my Fire HD 8.9" 4G. To tell if an app works for your Fire HD or other Android device registered to your Amazon account, click on the above link and look on the right side of the web page.  Amazon will tell you if it will work with your registered device.

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Kindle Fire Free App of the Day: Healthy Recipes and Bonus Recipe App!

Today's Free App of the Day is Healthy Recipes!
Originally $0.99

This recipe app has such bad reviews I didn't even download it. Besides the excessive permissions, the app apparently consists of links to recipe sites rather than recipes themselves? So we have a bonus app.

14 of 33 reviews are four stars and above.

So we have a bonus pick: BigOven 250,000+ Recipes and Grocery List.

This is a very good app/website combination. I've used this on other devices. You do need an Internet connection to search, but if you have a recipe you need, you can access it online and save it, apparently. 119 of 142 reviews are four stars and above.


These apps are compatible with the original Fire and with my Fire HD 8.9" 4G. To tell if an app works for your Fire HD or other Android device registered to your Amazon account, click on the above link and look on the right side of the web page. Amazon will tell you if it will work with your registered device.

Have fun!

Also check out the other digital deals from Amazon, including great deals on MP3s and videos: