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Low carb recipes

  1. Market

    Installs
    28.1M

    Across 4 of 11 apps we could match.

    • Tasty: 17,564,311 installs
    • Carb Manager: 7,100,306 installs
    • Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes: 2,479,774 installs
    • Green Chef: 934,453 installs
    • 63% leader share. Tasty, by Google Play installs, across the 4 of 11 apps we could match
    • #77 Food & Drink rank. Tasty, top grossing, the best rank any app here holds
    • $6.74 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 4 apps that list one. 4 of 7 charge.
    • 2 of 7 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. Carb Manager28 May736k ratings$29.99 to $59.99 a year
    2. Tasty17 Aug433k ratings$34.99 a year
    3. Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes2 Oct54k ratings$2.99
    4. Keto Diet App & RecipesJul 202429k ratings$4.99 to $39.99
    5. Green Chef30 Sep24k ratings
    6. Keto Diet RecipesJan 20213k ratings$46.99 to $47.99 a year
    7. Keto RecipesFeb 2021517 ratings
    8. Low Carb Diet Appnot given71 ratings
    9. Low Carb Recipes & Keto Dietnot given11 ratings
    10. Low Carb Recipes & Mealsnot given1 ratings
    11. Keto Recipes | Low Carb Dietnot given1 ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 2,219 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Billing+6.5%6 of 7 apps
    2. Wishlist+1.6%6 of 7 apps
    3. Sync & data+0.6%5 of 7 apps
    4. Limits & caps+0.4%4 of 7 apps
    5. Ads−0.5%6 of 7 apps
    6. UX−1.3%7 of 7 apps
    7. Support−4.3%5 of 7 apps
    8. Login & auth−4.8%5 of 7 apps
    9. Performance−7.0%6 of 7 apps

    We have not counted the wishes for this market yet.

  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries

    Checked. Nothing to show.

    Google suggests no wishes for this term.

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 27 September 2026.

  6. Your test

    Free for 7 days

    What to call it. Where to launch. What a user costs.

    • What to call it
    • Where to launch
    • What a user costs
    • Every review, word for word
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Is there a market for a new low carb recipes app?

11 apps compete here. They hold 28,078,844 installs on Google Play, counted across the 4 we could match. We hold 2,219 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do low carb recipes apps charge?

4 of the 7 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $6.74 or less. 4 more apps have no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want a low carb recipes app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing low carb recipes completes to “low carb recipes & meals” in 40 of them. Then “easy keto: low carb recipes” in 25, “low carb recipes & keto diet” in 23. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in low carb recipes apps?

1. Billing: in 6 of 7 apps, 28.3% of reviews (21.8% in Food & Drink apps); 2. Wishlist: in 6 of 7 apps, 9% of reviews (7.4% in Food & Drink apps); 3. Limits & caps: in 4 of 7 apps, 1.2% of reviews (0.8% in Food & Drink apps); 4. Sync & data: in 5 of 7 apps, 1% of reviews (0.4% in Food & Drink apps). Counted from 2,219 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures across subscription apps

Their report has no category matching low carb recipes apps, so only all-category figures are shown. A near-match would be a guess.

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 592 Food & Drink apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated.