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Grandma's Cookbook

Save the flour-stained pages, turn them into recipes you can scale and cook from, and print a keepsake book for the whole family.

iPhone & iPad Works Offline No Account Needed No Subscription Private by Design
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Everything a family recipe deserves

From faded handwriting to a searchable heirloom PDF — in one sitting.

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Scan the whole cookbook

Use your iPhone or iPad camera to capture every page in one sitting. The built-in document scanner straightens and crops each page automatically.

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On-device text recognition

Apple's on-device Vision framework reads printed and clear handwriting and turns it into editable text — you fix anything it misses. No internet required, no data ever leaves your phone.

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Fix up the words

Correct anything the scanner misread. Add family notes — the stories behind the recipes that only you remember.

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One beautiful heirloom PDF

Every volume becomes a single long PDF you can share with the whole family over iMessage, email, or AirDrop.

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Search every page instantly

Search across every cookbook, every recipe, every family note — by dish name, ingredient, keyword, or any word you remember.

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Import photos you already have

Already photographed those recipe cards? Pull them straight from your photo library and build a searchable album in minutes.

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Turn a page into a real recipe

Tap "Make it a recipe" and any page becomes an editable ingredient list and steps — keeping the original photo right beside it.

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Scale servings & convert units

Cooking for a crowd? Scale a recipe up or down and use the built-in offline converter for cups, tablespoons, grams, ounces, and oven temps.

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Cook Mode with timers

A big-text, step-by-step cooking view that keeps the screen awake and starts a timer right from the step ("simmer 15 minutes").

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Collections & recipe index

Browse every recipe across every cookbook, grouped into categories like Mains, Breads, and Desserts — and filter to find one fast.

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Aisle-grouped shopping list

Build a checkable grocery list from any recipe. Duplicate ingredients merge automatically and sort by store aisle.

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Typeset Keepsake Book

Export a print-ready family cookbook with a cover, a table of contents, and one nicely laid-out recipe per page — share it or AirPrint it.

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Starter recipes built in

A dozen classic home recipes come bundled so you can try scaling, Cook Mode, the shopping list, and the keepsake book the moment you open the app.

How it works

Four steps from dusty pages to a family keepsake.

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Scan or import

Use the camera to scan a whole cookbook in one session, or import recipe photos you already have in your library.

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Name the volume

Give it a family name, a hometown, and a short story — "Grandma Rose's Sunday Kitchen, Clayton, Georgia."

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Fix up any page

Open any page and correct the transcript, add keywords, and write in the family memories that belong with the recipe.

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Cook, shop & share

Scale servings, start Cook Mode, or build a shopping list. Then export a typeset Keepsake Book — cover, table of contents, one recipe per page — to share or AirPrint for the whole family.

Your family's history stays in your family

Grandma's Cookbook works completely on your device. Your recipes, photos, and memories are never uploaded, never tracked, and never shared.

✓ No account required ✓ No internet required ✓ No analytics or tracking ✓ No ads. Ever. ✓ No subscription
"Every smudge and scribble tells a story. Keep the family kitchen alive — one recipe at a time."
— Grandma's Cookbook

Start preserving the family kitchen today

Free on iPhone and iPad. No account. No subscription. Just your family's recipes, finally safe.

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