Application record · ID 294363034
BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner
by BigOven.com · Food & Drink · Free
- Average rating
- 4.7
- 14K ratings
- Ratings
- 14K
- On store since
- 2008
- 17 yrs 270 d
- Languages
- 2
Analyst summary
Last verified 7 Aug 2026BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner is a Food & Drink application published by BigOven.com. It holds a 4.7-star average across 14,028 public ratings.
It is actively maintained: the most recent update we observed shipped 17 Jul 2026. The listing has been on the store for 17 yrs 270 d.
On the listing it is localized into 2 languages, a 89.0 MB download, runs on iPhone 5s and newer · iPad.
Position in category
Each bar shows where BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner sits in the distribution of Food & Drink apps we track. Percentiles are computed over apps with the field observed, not the whole category.
Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report
Review intelligence
Medium confidenceUsers praise the app for recipe variety and organization but are frustrated by ads and usability issues.
Looking for something different to cook this is a good app to look at.
Registers as a background receiver, so the recipes are imported silently and stored before you see anything. They are then hard to find when you go to the app. ReciMe has a much better design.
Trajectory: stable · recomputed when new reviews arrive · limitations
Health timeline
A dated record of what has actually happened to this app — launch, updates, price moves and record-board milestones. Every point is a stored observation, never an estimate.
- 17 Jul 2026 Update Updated to v16.76 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
- 13 Jul 2026 Board Entered Oldest Survivor in Food & Drink Reached #1 on this board.
- 13 Jul 2026 Board Entered Longest Continuous Run Best position observed: #3.
- 13 Jul 2026 Board Entered Oldest App Still Updated Best position observed: #6.
- 13 Jul 2026 Board Entered The Oldest Survivor Best position observed: #15.
- 9 Jul 2026 #1 Took #1 — Oldest Survivor in Food & Drink Became the record holder on this board.
- 23 Oct 2008 Launch Launched on the App Store Original release date stated on the listing.
Dates are read from the listing and from our own daily observations; the rating curve accrues going forward. How we track.
Listing & advisories
Download size
89.0 MB
Minimum iOS
15.0
Devices supported
iPhone 5s and newer · iPad
Age rating
4+
Advisories
None listed by the publisher
Screenshots
10 on the listing
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Rankings this app appears on
Peer set
Peers are well-rated apps in Food & Drink, selected by category and rating — not by similarity of description, so the comparison is like-for-like on scale.
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner | 4.7 | 14K | Free |
| Coffee Dose | 5.0 | 2,030 | Free |
| Nothing Bundt Cakes | 4.9 | 147.9K | Free |
| Juice n’ Bowls | 4.9 | 2,743 | Free |
| Chick-fil-A | 4.9 | 4.1M | Free |
| Dutch Bros | 4.9 | 862.6K | Free |
| Too Good To Go: Save Good Food | 4.9 | 550.7K | Free |
Questions this record can answer
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Why can the star average and recent opinion disagree?
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What can this page not tell you?
Downloads, revenue, active users, subscription pricing inside the app, and anything about security or data handling. None of those are visible in public store metadata, so we do not estimate them.
Provenance
- Source
- Public App Store listing metadata and public customer reviews.
- Collection window
- Last read 7 Aug 2026. Listing re-read daily; reviews re-read on a slower cadence.
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