Tonight, you could make
Tick off your shopping list in the shop. Every item you tick goes into your pantry: there is nothing to keep up to date, it is the gesture you were making anyway.
Native app for Mac, iPhone and iPad
Recepta
Cook what you already have
Tick off your shopping list and your pantry fills itself. Recepta then tells you what you can cook tonight, and what you're only one ingredient away from.
What’s new in version 2.0.1
Recepta 2.0.1 makes the recipe page clearer and quantities more accurate, everywhere. • The servings control now says what it sets, with “Reset” as soon as you move away from the recipe's own number. “Cook”, “To shopping list” and printing now follow that number: no more cooking for six and printing for four. • Quantities rounded the way you measure: 1.85 kg rather than 1,833.33 g, spoons in fractions (1 ¾ tsp). The recipe, cooking mode, shopping list, editor, printouts and sharing all write each quantity the same way, in the measurement system you chose. • Nothing you type is lost: an ingredient or step typed without clicking “+” is added when you save, and a quantity is read with a comma, a full stop or a fraction. If saving fails, Recepta tells you why, and the window stays open. • Keyboard and menus: delete a recipe from the context menu, the Recipe menu or with ⌫, and the confirmation names it. A shopping item comes off from its context menu or with ⌫, a recipe in your week from its context menu. Esc closes the welcome tour, and ⌘N, ⌘I and “Discover Recepta” work even with the window closed. • More reliable iCloud: categories duplicated between two devices are merged, an included recipe you edited on one device is no longer replaced by a fresh copy from another, and iCloud diagnostics show the error in detail. • And also: the printed page lines each quantity up with its ingredient, in your measurement system; “To shopping list” confirms what it added; deletions that can't be undone name what they erase; included recipes whose photo showed a different dish now appear without a photo.
What’s new in version 2.0.1
Recepta 2.0.1 makes the recipe page clearer and quantities more accurate, everywhere. • The number of servings has its own line on the recipe page, with its number, and “Reset” as soon as you move away from the recipe's own. The “+” can no longer be mistaken for adding an ingredient: “Add an ingredient” has its own button below the list, and “Edit” sits in the recipe's toolbar. • Quantities rounded the way you measure: 1.85 kg rather than 1,833.33 g, spoons in fractions (1 ¾ tsp). The recipe, cooking mode, shopping list, editor, printouts and sharing all write each quantity the same way, in the measurement system you chose. • Nothing you type is lost: an ingredient or step typed without tapping “+” is added when you save, and a quantity is read with a comma, a full stop or a fraction. If saving fails, Recepta tells you instead of pretending it worked. • Shopping and Week: an item can finally be removed, and on iPhone tapping anywhere on its row ticks it off. A recipe in your week opens with a tap and comes off through its “⋯” menu. • More reliable iCloud: categories duplicated between two devices are merged, an included recipe you edited on one device is no longer replaced by a fresh copy from another, and iCloud diagnostics show the error in detail. • And also: a link pasted without “https://” now imports; deletions that can't be undone name what they erase; on iPad, deleting a recipe from its page is reliable, and the sidebar stays within reach from Shopping and Week; printed quantities line up with their ingredient, in your measurement system; included recipes whose photo showed a different dish now appear without a photo.
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Features
Recepta answers one precise question: what do I cook tonight, with what I already have?
Seventy recipes to begin with
A new notebook is an empty one, and an empty notebook can tell you nothing. So Recepta arrives with seventy simple recipes: ten French, ten Italian, ten Spanish, ten German, ten English, ten Japanese, ten Chinese, each written in its own language, each photographed. The ones in your language come first.
Several timers at once
A stew is a twenty-minute rest inside a forty-five-minute simmer. Recepta holds all your timers together and puts them on the Lock Screen, in the order they will ring, each with its name and step number. You see what is coming without unlocking, and each one rings on time.
What it contains, what it suits
Every recipe states its allergens and the diets it suits (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, lactose-free, pork-free), worked out from its ingredients, with nothing for you to enter.
A notebook, not a feed
Your recipes are yours. Write them, photograph them, sort them. Or share a page from Safari, Instagram or TikTok: Recepta pulls out the title, the ingredients and the steps, and lets you correct them. Nothing is published, nothing is shared, there is no feed, and nobody sees what you cook.
While you cook
Cooking mode shows one step at a time, large, the screen stays awake and the background turns dark. Say "next" or "repeat" when your hands are in the flour, or let Recepta read the steps aloud.
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What you can
Preview
What you can
make tonight.
Five iPhone screens, in the language of this page.
The recipes you can make tonight, ranked by what you’re missing, with time and difficulty.
The shopping list sorted by aisle, with the quantity and the recipe each item comes from.
Two named timers running at once, above the current step.
A single step on screen, in large type, with read-aloud and voice control.
Your recipes with their photo, time, difficulty and category, with filters at the top.
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The same cookbook,
On iPad
The same cookbook,
with room to breathe.
The same five screens on iPad, in the language of this page.
The recipes you can make tonight, ranked by what you’re missing, next to your pantry.
The shopping list by aisle, next to the recipe the items come from.
Two named timers running at once, above the current step.
A single step on screen, in large type, with read-aloud and voice control.
Your recipes with their photo, time, difficulty and category, with filters at the top.
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Three columns,
On Mac
Three columns,
menus, shortcuts.
Four Mac screens, in the language of this page.
The recipes you can make tonight, ranked by what you’re missing, next to your pantry.
The shopping list by aisle, next to the recipe the items come from.
Cooking mode opens in its own window, one step at a time, in large type.
Three columns: collections and categories, the recipe list, then the open recipe with its ingredients.
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By voice,
Siri, Spotlight & Shortcuts
By voice,
or in a shortcut.
10 Siri commands and 16 actions in the Shortcuts app, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Siri commands
What I can cook
- “What can I cook with Recepta”
- “What can I make to eat with Recepta”
- “What should I cook tonight with Recepta”
What's planned
- “What's planned in Recepta”
- “What am I eating tonight in Recepta”
- “My menu for tomorrow in Recepta”
Search a recipe
- “Find a recipe in Recepta”
- “What recipes do I have in Recepta”
Add to shopping list
- “Add to my shopping list in Recepta”
- “Put that on my Recepta shopping list”
Add from a link
- “Add a recipe from a link in Recepta”
My shopping
- “What's left to buy in Recepta”
- “My shopping list in Recepta”
Cook
- “Start cooking with Recepta”
- “Open cooking mode in Recepta”
In Season
- “What's in season in Recepta”
- “Seasonal recipes in Recepta”
Log a Cook
- “I cooked with Recepta”
- “Log a cook in Recepta”
Open a recipe
- “Open a recipe in Recepta”
Actions in the Shortcuts app
- 01Open a recipeShows a recipe from your book.
- 02Cook a recipeOpens cooking mode: one step at a time, large, screen stays awake.
- 03Add a recipe to the shopping listPours a recipe’s ingredients into the shopping list, merging them with what is already there.
- 04Still to buyLists the unticked items on the shopping list.
- 05What I can cookSearches your book for what your pantry allows.
- 06Add a recipe from a linkReads a page or a video and adds the recipe to your book. If the page gives neither ingredients nor steps, the link is kept as a bookmark.
- 07Add a written recipeCreates a recipe from a title, ingredients and steps, one per line.
- 08Search a recipeSearches your book by dish name, by ingredient or in the notes.
- 09What's plannedSays what your plan holds today or tomorrow.
- 10Add to shopping listAdds an item to your shopping list.
- 11Seasonal RecipesThe recipes in your collection whose produce is in season this month.
- 12Log a CookAdds an entry to a recipe's history, with its rating and what you changed.
- 13Add a Note to a RecipeAdds a remark at the end of a recipe's notes, without erasing the earlier ones.
- 14Back Up RecipesWrites a full backup of your recipes to the backup folder, and returns it to the shortcut.
- 15Recepta Card for a RecipeCreates a card for a recipe, with nothing personal, to send to someone who has Recepta.
- 16Add a Recepta CardAdds the recipe from a Recepta card to your collection. A recipe that's already there isn't added twice.
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Data and privacy
Your recipes stay yours.
Recepta collects nothing. No account, no tracker, no advertising, no usage analytics. Your recipes stay on your devices, and in your iCloud if you turn it on, which we cannot read.
Read the full privacy policy →
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Support