Clove review

Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

Clove is a mobile recipe app for home cooks who want to collect recipes and coordinate household meals. It imports recipes from websites, social media, cookbooks, screenshots and handwritten notes, then lets users organize them into custom collections and search by name, ingredient or cuisine. A catalog of over 1,200 recipes offers another way to find meal ideas. The free app is a fit for solo cooks or small households that want recipe capture and planning in one place, rather than a broad recipe discovery service.

Its planning tools connect saved recipes with day-to-day shopping. Users can schedule meals for the week, get suggestions based on ingredients in a pantry or fridge, and generate grocery lists from recipes or meal plans. Household members can share those lists, meal plans and recipe collections. Serving scaling, nutrition information and ingredient substitutions add practical detail when adapting a dish. This makes Clove more useful for ongoing household coordination than a simple digital recipe box, especially when multiple people need access to the same plan.

Clove's recipe organization and meal-planning features are free, while some optional features, including pro nutrition and personalized recipe settings, may be upgraded. The product is available on iOS and Android, so its fit centers on mobile use rather than desktop planning. Choose Clove if recipe capture, weekly meals, pantry-aware suggestions and shared grocery lists are the main needs. Cooks seeking a much larger built-in catalog or a desktop-first workflow may prefer another option; Clove's catalog is over 1,200 recipes, and its value is more in organizing a household's own recipes than in sheer library breadth.

Clove pros and cons

• Where it wins
  • Imports recipes from websites, social media, cookbooks and handwritten notes
  • Builds weekly meal plans and grocery lists from saved or suggested recipes
  • Shares collections, plans and grocery lists with household members
• Where it doesn't
  • The recipe catalog is limited to over 1,200 recipes
  • Designed for mobile use on iOS and Android
  • Some nutrition and personalized recipe settings may require an upgrade

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Last updated 9 Oct 2026 · How we research and update