NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals: iPhone vs Android
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals by The New York Times Company is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Food & Drink GrossingNYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-24. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A subscription-based recipe and meal-planning platform from The New York Times offering editor-curated collections, video tutorials, and grocery integration for home cooks. The app holds the #2 grossing position in both the US and Canadian Food & Drink categories, indicating strong monetization performance in its primary markets.
Similar apps: Yummly, SideChef, Allrecipes Dinner Spinner
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals’s App Store privacy label declares 7 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 10 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v2.127.0, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 1k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 500+ | 1M+ Measured |
| Total | 1k+ Confidence | 10M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Monthly Cooking Subscription subscription | |
| 2 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | Annual Cooking Subscription subscription | |
| 4 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 5 | Cooking - Annual subscription | |
| 6 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 7 | All Access - Monthly subscription | |
| 8 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 9 | NYT Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 10 | Cooking - Annual subscription |
Hidden keywords
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals shows up in App Store search (US) for 5 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.9 ★ | 549k |
| Google Play | 5.0 ★ | 19k 4.2k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.9 ★ weighted by ratings | 568k |
What users say about NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals
From the 159 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the high quality of tested recipes and the app's intuitive design for cooking assistance. However, recent updates have triggered significant backlash regarding forced AI features, aggressive advertising, and compatibility issues with older devices.
Mostly positive (81% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Easy to use great results”
- Features & content: “The tag/save feature is so handy”
- Useful: “The grocery list is very helpful”
- Fun: “But I’ll take it as entertainment”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Way too many ads for a paid subscription”
- Updates: “You broke it with the update”
- Features & content: “It might come with new features?”
- Ads: “Ruined my recipe box, tons of ads”
About NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals
Subscribe to New York Times Cooking in the app, or if you’re already a subscriber, log in for unlimited access to our recipes and much more.
THE NYT COOKING APP INCLUDES:
DELICIOUS AND SIMPLE RECIPES
- Healthy, hearty, vegetarian or anything else: We have 30-minute dinner recipes for seamless meal planning.
- From morning muffins to desserts for a crowd, we have tried-and-true baking recipes for every occasion.
- Our recipes include ratings, reviews and helpful tips from thousands of other home cooks.
COOKS YOU KNOW AND LOVE
- We have quick recipes and cooking videos from cooks you trust, including Samin Nosrat, Ina Garten and more.
- Plus, tips, tricks and demonstrations from our editors, including Melissa Clark and Eric Kim.
HELPFUL COOKING VIDEOS
- Follow step-by-step demonstrations and guides.
- Scroll through hundreds of short-form cooking videos to discover new recipes.
- Sit back and enjoy episodes of our longform shows, like Cooking 101 and The Veggie.
MEAL PREP MADE EASY
- Search our database of over 20,000 recipes by diet, cuisine, meal type and more.
- Save and organize the recipes you want to make each week in your Recipe Box.
- Add the ingredients to our built-in grocery list, or skip the hassle and order grocery delivery via Instacart.
EASY VIEWING WITH iPAD COMPATIBILITY
- Watch high-resolution cooking videos and photos on a larger screen.
- Keep multiple windows open for simpler cooking.
- Drag and drop simple recipes into folders in your Recipe Box.
BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING APP, you agree to:
• The New York Times Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy
• The New York Times Cookie Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/cookie-policy
• The New York Times California Privacy Notices: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice
• The New York Times Terms of Service: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-service.html
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals iPhone
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals is #2 in Food & Drink Grossing in United States and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 Food & Drink GrossingNYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-24. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A subscription-based recipe and meal-planning platform from The New York Times offering editor-curated collections, video tutorials, and grocery integration for home cooks. The app holds the #2 grossing position in both the US and Canadian Food & Drink categories, indicating strong monetization performance in its primary markets.
Similar apps: Yummly, SideChef, Allrecipes Dinner Spinner
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals’s App Store privacy label declares 7 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 10 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Monthly Cooking Subscription subscription | |
| 2 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | Annual Cooking Subscription subscription | |
| 4 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 5 | Cooking - Annual subscription | |
| 6 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 7 | All Access - Monthly subscription | |
| 8 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 9 | NYT Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 10 | Cooking - Annual subscription |
Hidden keywords
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals shows up in App Store search (US) for 5 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Food & DrinkGrossing | #2 |
 Canada | Food & DrinkGrossing | #3 |
 China | Food & DrinkGrossing | #16 |
| United Kingdom | Food & DrinkGrossing | #10 |
 India | Food & DrinkGrossing | #6 |
 Australia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #9 |
 Russia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #7 |
 Germany | Food & DrinkGrossing | #18 |
 Japan | Food & DrinkGrossing | #34 |
 France | Food & DrinkGrossing | #18 |
 Brazil | Food & DrinkGrossing | #17 |
 Indonesia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #10 |
 South Korea | Food & DrinkGrossing | #32 |
 Italy | Food & DrinkGrossing | #31 |
 United Arab Emirates | Food & DrinkGrossing | #17 |
| Canada | Food & DrinkFree | #57 |
 Saudi Arabia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #44 |
| Germany | Food & DrinkFree | #145 |
Apps near NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals on the chart
Food & Drink Grossing, around #2.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals
From the 159 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the high quality of tested recipes and the app's intuitive design for cooking assistance. However, recent updates have triggered significant backlash regarding forced AI features, aggressive advertising, and compatibility issues with older devices.
Mostly positive (81% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Easy to use great results”
- Features & content: “The tag/save feature is so handy”
- Useful: “The grocery list is very helpful”
- Fun: “But I’ll take it as entertainment”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Way too many ads for a paid subscription”
- Updates: “You broke it with the update”
- Features & content: “It might come with new features?”
- Ads: “Ruined my recipe box, tons of ads”
About NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals
Subscribe to New York Times Cooking in the app, or if you’re already a subscriber, log in for unlimited access to our recipes and much more.
THE NYT COOKING APP INCLUDES:
DELICIOUS AND SIMPLE RECIPES
- Healthy, hearty, vegetarian or anything else: We have 30-minute dinner recipes for seamless meal planning.
- From morning muffins to desserts for a crowd, we have tried-and-true baking recipes for every occasion.
- Our recipes include ratings, reviews and helpful tips from thousands of other home cooks.
COOKS YOU KNOW AND LOVE
- We have quick recipes and cooking videos from cooks you trust, including Samin Nosrat, Ina Garten and more.
- Plus, tips, tricks and demonstrations from our editors, including Melissa Clark and Eric Kim.
HELPFUL COOKING VIDEOS
- Follow step-by-step demonstrations and guides.
- Scroll through hundreds of short-form cooking videos to discover new recipes.
- Sit back and enjoy episodes of our longform shows, like Cooking 101 and The Veggie.
MEAL PREP MADE EASY
- Search our database of over 20,000 recipes by diet, cuisine, meal type and more.
- Save and organize the recipes you want to make each week in your Recipe Box.
- Add the ingredients to our built-in grocery list, or skip the hassle and order grocery delivery via Instacart.
EASY VIEWING WITH iPAD COMPATIBILITY
- Watch high-resolution cooking videos and photos on a larger screen.
- Keep multiple windows open for simpler cooking.
- Drag and drop simple recipes into folders in your Recipe Box.
BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING APP, you agree to:
• The New York Times Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy
• The New York Times Cookie Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/cookie-policy
• The New York Times California Privacy Notices: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice
• The New York Times Terms of Service: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-service.html
Latest updates
Store changes
What NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
More from The New York Times Company
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals Android
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals is #5 in Food & Drink Grossing on Google Play in United States and charting in 13 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Food & Drink GrossingNYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-22. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A subscription-based recipe and meal-planning app from The New York Times offering editor-curated collections, video tutorials, and grocery integration for home cooks. The app ranks in the top 15 of Food & Drink Grossing charts across diverse markets including the US, Canada, India, and Southeast Asia, indicating strong monetization performance relative to its free download rank.
Similar apps: Allrecipes Dinner Spinner, Yummly, SideChef
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v2.127.0, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Monthly Cooking Subscription subscription | |
| 2 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | Annual Cooking Subscription subscription | |
| 4 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 5 | Cooking - Annual subscription | |
| 6 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 7 | All Access - Monthly subscription | |
| 8 | Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 9 | NYT Cooking - Monthly subscription | |
| 10 | Cooking - Annual subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Food & DrinkGrossing | #5 |
| Canada | Food & DrinkGrossing | #3 |
| India | Food & DrinkGrossing | #8 |
 Mexico | Food & DrinkGrossing | #9 |
| Indonesia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #8 |
| Saudi Arabia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #9 |
| United States | Food & DrinkFree | #98 |
 Netherlands | Food & DrinkGrossing | #9 |
 Turkey | Food & DrinkGrossing | #9 |
| United Arab Emirates | Food & DrinkGrossing | #9 |
 Thailand | Food & DrinkGrossing | #10 |
 Vietnam | Food & DrinkGrossing | #8 |
| Canada | Food & DrinkFree | #73 |
| United Kingdom | Food & DrinkFree | #167 |
| Australia | Food & DrinkFree | #92 |
Apps near NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals on the chart
Food & Drink Grossing, around #5.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals
From the 167 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the high quality of recipes and the helpful community comments that offer practical cooking tips. While most reviews are positive, a few users report frustration with search functionality, link handling, and recipe sharing features.
Mostly positive (95% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Features & content: “Love the cook mode feature”
- Ease of use: “Easy to follow and prepare”
- Useful: “They can really be useful”
- Fun: “cooking might be fun again”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “couldn't save recipes at all, kept getting errors”
About NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals
Subscribe to New York Times Cooking in the app, or if you’re already a subscriber, log in for unlimited access to our recipes and much more.
THE NYT COOKING APP INCLUDES:
DELICIOUS AND SIMPLE RECIPES
- Healthy, hearty, vegetarian or anything else: We have 30-minute dinner recipes for seamless meal planning.
- From morning muffins to desserts for a crowd, we have tried-and-true baking recipes for every occasion.
- Our recipes include ratings, reviews and helpful tips from thousands of other home cooks.
COOKS YOU KNOW AND LOVE
- We have quick recipes and cooking videos from cooks you trust, including Samin Nosrat, Ina Garten and more.
- Plus, tips, tricks and demonstrations from our editors, including Melissa Clark and Eric Kim.
HELPFUL COOKING VIDEOS
- Follow step-by-step demonstrations and guides.
- Scroll through hundreds of short-form cooking videos to discover new recipes.
- Sit back and enjoy episodes of our longform shows, like Cooking 101 and The Veggie.
MEAL PREP MADE EASY
- Search our database of over 20,000 recipes by diet, cuisine, meal type and more.
- Save and organize the recipes you want to make each week in your Recipe Box.
- Add the ingredients to our built-in grocery list, or skip the hassle and order grocery delivery via Instacart.
EASY VIEWING
- Watch high-resolution cooking videos and photos on a larger screen.
- Keep multiple windows open for simpler cooking.
- Drag and drop simple recipes into folders in your Recipe Box.
BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING APP, you agree to:
• The New York Times Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy
• The New York Times Cookie Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/cookie-policy
• The New York Times California Privacy Notices: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice
• The New York Times Terms of Service: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-service.html
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