Save grandma's handwritten recipes. Before the card fades.
Snap a photo of a recipe card or a page from an old notebook. RecipeKeep reads the handwriting and turns it into a recipe you can search, scale and cook from, right next to the ones you save from the web.
Free account · 10 AI imports a month · you check every line before it's saved
Nan's scones
8 oz S.R. flour, 2 oz butter
1 tbsp sugar, ¼ pt milk
Rub in, mix soft. Hot oven 12 min
Nan's scones
- 8 oz self-raising flour
- 2 oz butter
- 1 tbsp sugar
- ¼ pt milk
- 1. Rub the butter into the flour.
- 2. Mix to a soft dough with the sugar and milk.
- 3. Bake in a hot oven, ⏱ 12 min.
From shoebox to search box in three steps.
Snap the card
Take a photo of the card or notebook page with your phone. Front and back, or several pages of the same recipe, go in together: up to 5 photos.
AI reads it
In about 20 seconds the photo becomes a title, an ingredient list and numbered steps. Words stay in the language they were written in.
You check, then save
Nothing is saved until you've looked it over. Fix a word the AI misread, add the note only you know, then keep it next to every other recipe you love.
A good photo does most of the work.
- Lay the card flat by a window. Daylight beats the kitchen spotlight.
- Fill the frame with the card, straight on rather than at an angle.
- No flash on glossy cards or plastic sleeves: the glare hides words.
- Faint pencil? Turn the exposure up a little before you take the photo.
- Recipe runs over the back or onto a second page? Add those photos in the same import.
What it won't do.
- Very faded pencil or tightly joined handwriting can come out with misread words. That's why you check before saving.
- It never guesses. If the card says “a knob of butter” or leaves out the oven temperature, so does your copy.
- One recipe per import. A notebook page with three recipes is three imports.
- Your photo is used to read the recipe, then discarded. It isn't stored or used as the recipe picture.
Before you dig out the recipe box.
Is it free?
Yes. A free account includes 10 AI imports a month, and each photo import of one recipe uses one. Pro (490 kr a year or 59 kr a month in Sweden, €42 or €5 elsewhere in the EU) makes AI imports unlimited, handy if you're doing a whole recipe box.
Grandma wrote in Swedish (or Urdu, or Polish). Will it translate?
No, and on purpose: the recipe is kept in the words it was written in. You can edit any line afterwards.
What happens to the photo?
It's sent to the AI to read the recipe and then discarded. We don't keep it, and it doesn't become the recipe's picture. Your recipes are stored in the EU (Supabase, Ireland).
Can I add the story behind the recipe?
Yes. Every recipe in your Keep has your own notes: who made it, when, and that it's better with extra cardamom.
The card in the drawer won't last forever. Your copy can.
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