Recipe Keeper

What Recipe Keeper is for

Recipe Keeper is a recipe library for phones, tablets and desktop computers. It holds recipes you type yourself, recipes copied in from other documents or apps, pages saved from the web, and scans of printed or handwritten cards. The listing describes it as a way to collect, organize and share favorite recipes.

It suits people who cook from a mix of sources and want them in one place. Families with handwritten recipes that exist only on paper are the case the listing returns to most often.

Adding recipes by typing, importing or scanning

A recipe can be entered with as much or as little detail as you want. You can paste in text from existing documents, attach photos, and sort each recipe by course and category. Each one can also carry a rating and a favorite flag.

The web importer searches for recipes online and saves them to your collection. The listing says hundreds of popular recipe websites are supported, and imported recipes can be edited afterward to suit your needs.

For printed or handwritten material, the camera can capture a page, or you can use photos and PDF files already on the phone. OCR converts the image to text so the recipe becomes searchable. The listing says this is meant for keeping family recipes safe.

Finding a recipe you already saved

Search matches recipe names, ingredients and directions, so you can look up a dish by any of them. Browsing is also possible by course, category or rating, which helps when you want to see everything in one group.

The listing gives a specific use for ingredient search: entering what is left in the fridge returns recipes that use it up. It also presents the search as a way to rediscover older recipes you stopped making.

Shopping lists, meal planning and syncing

The listing's summary names a shopping list and a meal planner alongside the recipe collection. Both are described as synced across all your devices, so a recipe saved on a phone should appear on a tablet or desktop signed into the same setup.

Sharing recipes is also part of the listing, though it gives no detail on how a recipe is passed to another person.