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Personal Cookbook

Recipe Organizer for iPhone & iPad

Apple App Store Link

Overview

Personal Cookbook was designed for use in the kitchen, with convenient ways to digitally save and find recipes.

Along with the usual ingredients and directions, recipes in Personal Cookbook can be tagged by category, color, and star ratings. There's also options for pictures in the directions (for step-by-step visual directions), a field for nutrition, and filterable cook times.

Cooking features include a servings/scale converter, a units converter and calculator. These tools are available on the same screen as the ingredients and directions, keeping app switching to a minimum.

Share with family and friends, either digitally or with printouts.

Includes 4 starter recipes.

Search

Includes a search feature for quickly finding recipes.

Search recipes by name, category, or author.

Or search for ingredients or directions, throughout your recipes.

Filter

Find recipes by cook time, star rating, categories, bookmarks, or color tag.

For example, find recipes that take 20 minutes or less to cook, and/or recipes with 4 stars or higher.

Shopping List

Easily keep your groceries organized with the shopping list.

With customizable sections, add groceries, and keep them organized by store or type.

The shopping list is sharable, and cloud synced.

Web Importing*

Save recipes from the web with a few taps, using the included Safari extension.

Using Apple's Safari browser, just tap the share icon, then the Personal Cookbook icon. The app will get to work gathering any relevant recipe info. Then, you will be presented with the recipe, allowing any changes that need to be made before adding it to your cookbook.

* Requires Apple Safari, not all webpages supported.

Collections

Create collections for dinners, parties, or events, with your favorite recipes together, sorted and organized.

Entire collections can be shared or printed, all at once.

Web Importing

Smart Collections

Smart collections are collections that automatically stay up to date with your recipes, adding recipes when certain conditions are met.

Want a collection containing recipes with 'sugar', and 'cream' in the ingredients, and 'chocolate' in it's name? A smart collection is always searching your recipes, and adding them to it's collection, when needed.

Automatic Cloud Sync*

Personal Cookbook will synchronize recipes, categories, collections, the shopping list, and themes automatically.

*Apple iCloud account required. Devices must be signed-in with same account to sync.

Share & export

Formats include:

  • PDF
  • TXT
  • .personalcookbook file - Can contain one recipe or a collection of recipes, and themes, to share with others who use Personal Cookbook.
  • Printouts

Global text formatting

  • Auto-bold keywords - Specify keywords to be in bold in every recipe.
  • Pretty fractions - Auto convert typed fractions to unicode, such as 1/2 to ½.
  • Unified measurements - Keeps your measurements similar throughout the app, such as teaspoon to tsp.

Built-in tools

  • Servings/Scale Converter
  • Units Converter
  • Calculator

Improvements

  • Manual backups - Store your entire cookbook in single file, in case something happens to your device or iCloud account.
  • Updated navigation - Now supports iPhone, and the iPad menu has been to moved to a hidable list for improved navigation.

Themes

  • 40+ included themes
  • Customizable options include your own background image, custom colors, and fonts.

Help Guide

  • Includes an offline help guide for more obscure features, and instructions.

What's new from version 2?

IMPORTANT: Please do not delete your older version of Personal Cookbook until you have successfully transferred your recipes. The older version stores recipes on your device, and if the app is deleted, so are your recipes! Please view the help guide for info on how to transfer your recipes.
  • Cloud sync
  • Recipe features:
    • Multiple categories
    • Star Ratings
    • Color Tags
  • Recipe viewing options:
    • Auto-bold keywords - Specify keywords to be in bold in every recipe.
    • Pretty fractions - Auto convert typed fractions to unicode, such as 1/2 to ½.
    • Unified measurements - Keeps your measurements similar throughout the app, such as teaspoon to tsp.
  • Smart Collections - Smart collections automatically stay up to date with your recipes, adding recipes when certain conditions are met.
  • Shopping list upgrades:
    • Custom sections
    • Re-orderable sections
  • New filters refinements:
    • Filter by cook time (recipes from version 2 require cook times to be manually updated using the editor.)
    • Filters by color tags, star ratings, multiple categories, and bookmarks.
  • Search scope increased to include categories and author.
  • Drag and drop ingredients into shopping list (iPad only).

Please visit the Features tab above, for more info.

*macOS support is not available at this time.

iPhone

iPad