Family Recipe Heirloom Archive
Last updated: April 10, 2026
Grandma's Cookbook stores everything — your photos, recipes, family stories, and transcriptions — only on your device. Nothing is ever sent to a server. Nothing is shared. No account required. No internet required.
We collect nothing. Grandma's Cookbook does not transmit any personal information to any server, database, or third party.
All data you create — cookbook archives, scanned page images, OCR text, corrected transcriptions, family stories, keywords, and notes — is stored locally on your iPhone or iPad using Apple's standard Application Support directory.
The app requests permission to use your camera so you can scan cookbook pages. It requests permission to access your photo library so you can import recipe photos you've already taken.
These images are processed entirely on your device using Apple's Vision framework for text recognition (OCR). No image data, no OCR output, and no metadata is ever sent off your device.
All text recognition is performed locally using Apple's built-in Vision framework. The app does not connect to the internet at any point during normal use.
Grandma's Cookbook contains:
We do not share any data with any third parties — because there is no data to share. Everything stays on your device.
To delete all app data, simply delete the app from your device. This permanently removes all cookbooks, page images, transcriptions, and family notes stored by the app.
Individual cookbooks can also be deleted from within the app at any time.
Grandma's Cookbook does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under the age of 13.
If we ever update this privacy policy, the updated version will appear at this URL with a new "Last updated" date. We will never introduce data collection without updating this policy first.