Offline recipe apps for Android: My Baking Book, My Cooking Book or RecipeHub?

If you bake, start with My Baking Book. If you cook everything, start with My Cooking Book. If your recipes live on paper, start with RecipeHub. All three are free of ads, work without an account and are built to run offline — we made them, so this guide tells you where each one fits and where it doesn’t.

At a glance

	My Baking Book	My Cooking Book	RecipeHub
Best for	Baking collections	Everyday cooking	Getting paper recipes onto your phone
Organising	Keep every recipe in one place	Filter by cuisine, method and course; save to collections	Snap, edit, organise
In the kitchen	Steps read aloud with built-in timers	Steps read aloud with timers; scale servings	Capture on the spot
Sharing	Only if you choose to share a recipe	Import and export recipes	—
Offline	Fully offline	Fully offline	Standard capture offline
Account / ads	None	None	None
Price	See Google Play	See Google Play	Free to use

My Baking Book

Built for people with a baking collection they love and don’t want to lose. Everything stays on your device unless you choose to share a recipe, and the hands-free mode reads the steps aloud with built-in timers, so you never touch a floury screen.

My Cooking Book

Built for a bigger, more varied recipe collection. You can browse and filter by cuisine, cooking method and course, save favourites into your own collections, and scale any recipe to the number of people you’re feeding. Import and export makes it easy to swap recipes with family.

RecipeHub

Built for the shoebox of handwritten cards and the cookbook you keep photographing. Snap a photo of a recipe and have it saved, editable and organised in seconds. For trickier photos — handwriting, unusual layouts — you can use optional AI credits; that is the only time it goes online.

What they all have in common

• No account. Open it and use it.
• No ads.
• Offline by default, so it works in a kitchen with bad signal.
• Your recipes stay yours.

Which should you install?

If you can’t decide, install the one that matches where your recipes are today: a baking folder, a mixed collection, or a pile of paper. They don’t conflict, and you can use more than one. All three are on Google Play — see the Apps page.