Import from any website
Open the built-in browser, find a recipe, and select “Import Recipe”. No pop-up ads or drama. Set up your favorite recipe sites in settings so they are just one tap away.
All your recipes on your device. Get cooking.
Collect your favorite recipes.
Keep them forever.
A favorite website recipe. A cookbook page. Grandma’s recipe card. SimmerSteps tidies it up and saves it on your device, ready to search, scale, shop for and share. No account. No subscription. No cloud required.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
- Free for up to 10 recipes
- One-time unlock, no subscription
- Available in 8 languages
Import RecipesFrom the web, a photo or plain text
PrivateApp and data on your device
YoursNo account, no ads, no tracking
OncePay one time, keep it for good
Recipes end up everywhere. Except where you need them.
Screenshots buried in your camera roll. Bookmarks to pages that vanished. Index cards stained with butter and, someday, lost. SimmerSteps gathers them into one beautiful, searchable collection that works in the kitchen, even with flour on your hands and no signal.
Everything you need
Built for real kitchens
Scan any recipe
Photograph a recipe card, cookbook page or printout. SimmerSteps reads the text right on your device and sorts it into title, servings, times, ingredients, steps and notes. Recipe spread over two pages? Add more photos.
Review and perfect
After importing a recipe, compare the imported results with the original recipe. Make any edits you would like. Reorder ingredients and steps, change units, add your own notes and tags. You have the power.
Scale to any crowd
Cooking for two instead of eight? Scale from ¼× to 3×, or type any amount like 2 ½. Ingredient amounts and servings update instantly. You can use that scaled recipe just once or save the scaled version. You can change it to a different scale at any time.
Smart grocery list
Add a recipe’s ingredients to your list in one tap, uncheck what you already have, and SimmerSteps sorts the rest by store aisle: produce, meat & fish, dairy, bakery, pantry, frozen and more. Use the list in the app while you shop or share the list with whoever is shopping.
Lists for every store
Keep as many named grocery lists as you need, like one for the supermarket and one for the farmers’ market. Set rules to send ingredients from certain aisles, such as produce, to the list you want, and move items between lists any time.
Plan meals and your week
Group recipes into meals, like a main, a side and a salad, and add a whole meal to your grocery list in one tap. Put recipes and meals on a weekly meal plan, then pick the days you’re shopping for and make one grocery list for all of them.
Find anything fast
Search by recipe name, ingredient or tag. Filter by tags (like “Dinner” or “Vegan”) and sort by name or recently added. You can create as many custom tags as you like.
Separate recipes you’ve tried from ones you haven’t
Mark what recipes you’ve used before versus which ones are on the “to do” list. No longer will you retain a recipe to try only to have it get buried in bookmarks or a crumbled up piece of paper.
Can’t decide? Shake it.
Shake your device and SimmerSteps picks a recipe at random. Narrow the pool first with search and filters, like “Dinner + Quick,” and let fate settle the dinner debate.
Share and print
Send a recipe as a PDF to anyone, print it, or share it with another SimmerSteps user as a file they can add to their own collection in one tap.
Backup and restore
Save every recipe and photo to a single file and tuck it in Google Drive, iCloud or email. Lose or upgrade your device? Restore everything on the new one.
Your units, your size
Show any recipe’s amounts as originally written, in metric or in imperial. See calories, protein, carbs and fat per serving when they’re available, and choose a larger text size for the ingredients, steps and notes.
Cook-friendly
Settings offers options to keep the screen awake while you cook, so it never goes dark mid-step. Choose from Light and Dark modes or, optionally, set it to match the mode of your device.
Speaks your language
English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português (Brasil), 日本語, 简体中文 and 繁體中文, following your device’s language or your own choice.
Private by design
Your cookbook never leaves your device
No account, no email address to hand over and no monthly subscription fee. Your recipes are exclusively yours.
- On-device text recognition. Apple Vision on iPhone and iPad, and Google ML Kit on Android are used on the device by the feature which attempts to read recipes from photos. Your photos never leave your device.
- No account. Open the app and start. There’s nothing to sign up for.
- No subscription. Unlock once and it’s yours. No ongoing subscription cost.
- Works offline. Everything is stored on your device, so your recipes are there in the kitchen, at the cabin or on a plane.
Simple, honest pricing
Try it free. Unlock it once.
Free
$0
- Up to 10 recipes
- Scan, import and edit
- Scaling, grocery list, sharing
- Backup and restore
Best value
Unlimited
One-time in-app purchase
- Unlimited recipes
- Everything in Free
- No subscription, ever
- Restore on any of your devices
Pay once in the app. No recurring charges.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an account?
No. Open the app and add your first recipe. There’s nothing to sign up for.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The feature which attempts to read a recipe from a photo on your device is read using Apple Vision on iPhone and iPad, and Google ML Kit on Android. Your recipe photos never leave your device.
Does it work offline?
Yes. All your recipes live on your device. You only need an internet connection to search for recipes on the internet.
How accurate is importing a recipe from a photo?
Very good in many cases, but results will vary based on how the recipe is formatted, how well-lit the photo is and other factors. Once imported, you can review the information and compare it to the original photo. Then make any edits that were possibly incorrect or incomplete before saving the recipe to your collection.
SimmerSteps’s free version only limits the number of recipes you can store, compared to the paid version. Therefore, you can try this feature out for yourself before purchasing the app.
What if I get a new phone or tablet?
Usually your recipes move with you when you set up a new device from a backup or transfer. For extra safety, or when switching between iPhone or iPad and Android (or vice versa), use the back up feature within SimmerSteps to back up your recipes to a single file and share it to a location other than your device (e-mail, Google Drive, etc.). On the new device, use SimmerSteps’s restore feature to import that backup file.
Can I share a recipe with someone who doesn’t have SimmerSteps?
Yes. The app allows you to share any recipe from your collection as a PDF or print it. If they have the SimmerSteps app, you can easily share it with that person as a SimmerSteps file, allowing them to import your recipe with a single tap.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets.
I have a question or found a problem.
We’d love to hear from you: support@20mmedge.com.
Your recipes deserve a home.
Try out the app for free. Pay once to store an unlimited number of recipes.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.