Photograph it and it reads it
A screenshot off Instagram, a page from a website, a photograph of a printed recipe. It pulls out the name, the ingredients, the method, the oven and how long it takes — and shows you the lot to correct before anything is saved. It reads Afrikaans pages as happily as English ones.
Handwriting stays handwriting
No reader will ever manage your grandmother’s handwriting, and it should not have to. Photograph the page and keep it on the recipe, where you can read it perfectly well — tap it and it opens full width, in the hand that wrote it. Type out as much or as little beside it as you like.
Half, double or triple, properly
It understands what a quantity is, so half of ½ a cup is ¼ and double of “2–3 cloves” is 4–6. The method, the oven and the time are left alone, because doubling a cake does not halve the baking.
The ingredients go to your shopping list
One tap and they are on a real shopping list, sorted into the order you walk that shop — without the grams and the chopping, because a shop wants “butter” and not “250 g butter, softened”. Tick something off in the aisle and the recipe knows it is bought. This is the reason ShopPal Recipes is part of ShopPal.
Nothing you write leaves your phone. No account, no email address, no password. The recipes and the photographs live on your own phone, and the only thing that ever travels is a recipe you deliberately send to somebody.
One recipe, one page, on paper
Print it and you get the recipe and nothing else — ingredients in two columns, method underneath, none of the app. What prints is what is on the screen, doubled quantities and all, so it can be handed to somebody or stuck to a cupboard door.
The oven, four ways
Your oven is marked in Celsius, her book says gas 4, an American blog says 350 °F, and half the ovens sold now are fan ovens wanting twenty degrees less. Write down whichever one the recipe gave and it shows you the rest.
Send one recipe to somebody
Send a link and it opens in any browser, with nothing to install at their end. They can read it, print it, or keep it — and if they keep it, it is theirs to change. Correct a quantity later and the same link shows the correction.
Findable a year later
Search the names, the ingredients and where a recipe came from — so “butternut” finds the soup, and you can ask the collection what to do with what is in the fridge. Twelve chapters, from breakfast to preserves, each with its own colour, and everything listed by name the way a book’s index is.
Free, and quiet about you
No account, no adverts, nothing collected and nothing sold. It works with no signal, it installs on your home screen on its own, and a backup file is one tap when you change phones. It comes with six recipes so there is something to look at before you have typed anything.
That drawer of loose pages
Start with one. Photograph it, correct what the reader got wrong, and it is safe.
Open the app