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Recipe scanning apps

Digitize written or printed recipes with a camera. Look for a way to correct amounts and steps after scanning a page, particularly if the recipe has handwritten notes or unusual measurements.

Krelo: Recipes & Food Scanner

A kitchen app for recipe ideas, food scanning, meal logging, macro estimates, and weekly planning.

Brasa: Recipe Keeper & Saver

Brasa saves recipes from websites, social posts, photos, and videos, then connects them to hands-free cooking and weekly meal planning.

Foodie saves recipes from social apps, websites, photos, and text, then organizes ingredients and directions. It can normalize ingredient names, build combined grocery lists, scale servings, suggest substitutions, guide cooking by voice, and show nutrition details. Foodie Plus is a monthly or yearly subscription for unlimited imports and expanded cooking features.

HappyChef: Meal Planner

A meal planner that builds personalized weekly menus, combines recipe ingredients into a grocery list, and imports recipes from links or photos.

Hungry Shelf: Recipe Organizer

A recipe organizer that imports recipes from social video links, photos, and cards, then helps plan meals.

Recipe Keeper: CookBook

Save recipes from social media, websites, and photos, then organize meal plans and grocery lists in CookBook.

RecipeGo: Recipe Organizer

A recipe organizer that imports recipes from links, videos, or photos, translates and adapts them, and builds meal plans and grocery lists.

Recipes We Share: Cookbook

Build a shared family cookbook from scanned recipe cards, saved recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists.

Savor・Recipe Keeper, Meal Prep

Collect recipes from websites, social links, photos, or copied text, then cook from a step-by-step library.

sirprep: Fitness Meal Planner

sirprep plans meals around preferences, kitchen equipment, cooking days, and calorie, protein, and fiber goals. It includes photographed recipes, meal swaps, grocery lists, weight and progress-photo records, and optional read-only Apple Health access. Pro is an auto-renewing weekly or annual subscription; current local prices appear before purchase.

A scanned recipe is useful when the text is editable and you can still see the original card for tricky handwriting.

How to choose

Scan a recipe with fractions and a note in the margin, then compare the saved version with the card.

Frequently asked questions

Will handwritten changes come through correctly?

Recognition varies with handwriting and image quality. Look for side-by-side editing and verify every quantity.