153 Best Apps for Every Aspect of a Busy Mum’s Life

Food and�Cooking Apps

Dinner Spinner

The All Recipes Dinner Spinner app has an extensive range of 50,000 different recipes! This app is about putting the fun into cooking without the fuss. This app has all sorts of viewing options with videos and photos with reviews and ratings included. Dinner Spinner has been shared by a whopping 50 million home cooks! And can be used on multiple phones including iOS, Windows, Android and can be used on Kindle.

Platter

Image showing a perfectly cooked beef roast, red wine, and vegetables.

Platter is an app for those who like to cook and share recipes. It is known to be an app that is a ‘social network for foodies’. This app is designed to allow users to engage with each other by sharing ideas for creative outlet and see what fantastic recipes everyone can create! You can like and share others’ recipes, take photos and find new recipe ideas.

Foodspotting

App icons for meal planning, social media, and entertainment on smartphones.

Foodspotting is an app that allows you to find fantastic dishes through a local guide. ‘It’s about dishes, not just restaurants’ as this app provides visual photos of nearby food for users to judge by the dish not the restaurant. This app is a positive and creative way to find your favourite dishes in your local area!

Big Oven

Stay at Home Mum app for busy mums' meal planning and grocery shopping.

The Big Oven app has over 350,000 recipes! And over 13 million downloads. This app is for access to fantastic recipes at any given time as it can be used over multiple different devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android and Kindle. This app offers viewing photos of your favourite recipes.

Yummly

Yum app for quick and easy cooking and meal planning.

The Yummly app has over 1 million recipes with multiple genres including paleo, gluten-free, food allergies, favourite cuisines, nutrition, savory, fried etc. This is an app that anyone can use as they have gone above the standards of a general cooking app. This app offers extensive knowledge on recipes and ingredient.

Tender

The Tender app is known for being a simple and easy way to find the world’s most beautiful and delicious culinary delights. This app emphasises on the art of creating beautiful dishes at your fingertips. This app has fantastic reviews and is used worldwide.

Epicurious

Easy 3-ingredient recipe for a fluffy, delicious dessert.

This is an app that provides professionally created and tested recipes. It offers straightforward and easy access to recipes with step-by-step stove-side instructions and helps you too make interactive shopping lists. You can also share and save your favourite recipes from the app.

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Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.
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