Family Recipe Keeper
Grandma’s handwriting.Kept forever.
Recipe Tin keeps the actual card — the coffee stain, the crossed-out step, the handwriting you’d know anywhere — right next to a typed, scalable version you can actually cook from. Photograph a card and Recipe Tin retypes it for you, add a voice note explaining why it’s your grandmother’s, browse The Box by the person who gave it to you, and print the whole collection as a family cookbook.
For iPhone · iOS 17 or later · No account required
What it does
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
Built to disappear into the moment it’s helping with.
Photograph the card, keep the card
Every recipe holds onto its original photo — stains, handwriting, cross-outs and all — right alongside the typed version.
Retype it in one tap
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Recipe Tin reads a photographed card and turns it into a structured recipe — ingredients, steps, quantities — ready for you to review. Nothing saves until you say so.
Scaling that does fractions properly
Double a recipe, or make a third of it, and every quantity recalculates in real fractions — ½, not 0.5.
Voice notes, not just text
Record why this dish matters, in your own voice or theirs, right next to the recipe it belongs to.
The Box, organized by person
Browse everything one person gave you, or every recipe in the tin at once.
A printable family cookbook
Turn the whole tin, or one person’s recipes, into a typeset PDF cookbook worth keeping on the counter.
On-device intelligence
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Recipe Tin can retype a photographed card into a structured recipe and suggest an ingredient substitution — both run entirely on your device, both are optional, and Recipe Tin works completely without them by typing everything in yourself.
Private by design
No accounts and no servers of ours. Every recipe, photo, and voice note stays on your device unless you turn on iCloud sync — and then it lives in your own private iCloud, for your own devices. Share a single shopping list with family and only that list is shared, only with the people you invite.
The full Recipe Tin privacy policy
Effective September 19, 2026. Plain English, no defined terms you need a lawyer for.