Plate

For iPhone · Free to download · iOS 26+

Your recipes, organized.

A fast* recipe manager for iPhone. Import from a website, snap a photo of a cookbook page, or type one in. Plan the week, send the shopping list to Reminders, then cook from clear steps.

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The recipe library list in Plate, showing saved recipes with photos and titles.

Recipes

Every recipe, kept the way you saved it.

However you think about your recipes, Plate holds that shape.

The recipe library list in Plate, showing saved recipes with photos and titles.

Cook Mode

Larger text, focused on the recipe content.

Cook from big, clear steps with extra details tucked away. Protection against stray touches. Screen stays on while you cook.

Cook mode in Plate, showing a highlighted step in large text with an ingredient popover.

Meal Plan

Plan your week.

Decide what you're eating and which meal it's for, a week or a month at a time.

The weekly meal plan in Plate, with recipes on each day and nutrition totals.

On-device intelligence

Snap a photo of a cookbook page.

Plate reads the photo and pulls out the title, the ingredients, and every step. All of the processing runs on your iPhone.

Importing a recipe in Plate by pointing the camera at a cookbook page.

Light & Dark

Looks right, day or night.

Whether you prefer light or dark mode, looks great in both.

The recipe library list in Plate in dark mode.
A cooking timer Live Activity for Plate expanded in the iPhone Dynamic Island.

Made for iOS 26+

At home on modern iOS.

Built fresh using Apple's new design language.

Pricing

Start free. Buy once when you need more.

Every feature is in the free version, with some limits on the number of recipes you can have.

Plate Pro removes all limitations.

Plate

  • 15 recipes. They stay in your library, with no trial period.

  • 3 scans a week. Import from a photo, PDF or free-form text.

  • Export up to 15 recipes. Paprika, Recipe Keeper, Crouton, or a Plate file.

  • Every feature works. Cook mode, timers, meal plan, shopping list, and more.

  • iCloud syncing. Included out of the box, not a separate charge.

Plate Pro

  • Unlimited recipes. Create or import as many as you like.

  • Unlimited scanning. No weekly limits for photos, PDFs or text imports.

  • Unlimited export. Export a few recipes or the whole library, in one file.

  • Family Sharing. Turn on Purchase Sharing and your family gets it too.

  • One purchase. No recurring payment.

Bought Plate before it went free? You are already on Plate Pro. Thank you for the support!

Everything Plate does.

Getting recipes in

  • A link, a photo, a PDF, or plain text, in Plate or shared from another app
  • Sites behind a sign-in, once you sign in through Plate
  • A whole library from Paprika, Recipe Keeper, or Crouton, in one file
  • Or write your own from scratch
  • Refresh from the source later, reviewing each change before it lands

Organizing your library

  • Collections you define, and a recipe can sit in several
  • Categories that arrive with the recipes you import
  • Favorites, pins, and ratings
  • Search names, ingredients, notes, and sources, filtered by category or collection

Meal Plan

  • Any day, any meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a snack
  • Notes instead of recipes, for the nights you eat out
  • Week and month views of what is coming
  • Send a whole day's recipes to the shopping list

Shopping List

  • Pick just the ingredients you need from any recipe
  • Quantities merge across recipes, and each item says which ones wanted it
  • Add your own items, with recent ones a tap away
  • Lives in Apple Reminders: share it with the household, tick off in either app

Extras

Timers. Tap a time in a step to start one. They run on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

Scaling. Take a recipe from ¼× to 8×. Quantities, servings, and the shopping list all follow.

Conversions. Tap a quantity for other units, or a temperature for the other scale.

Ingredient mentions. Tap an ingredient named in a step to see how much you need, already scaled.

Nutrition. Calories and macros per serving, plus totals for a planned day.

Photos. Crop in the app, choose the one that shows in lists, swipe the rest full screen.

Sharing. A link, a PDF, plain text, a printout, or a Plate file that carries its photos.

Export. Your whole library as a Paprika, Recipe Keeper, Crouton, or Plate file. No lock-in.

Bulk actions. Select several recipes at once to favorite, pin, share, or delete together.

Privacy

No signups, tracking, or ads.

Plate uses iCloud to store your data, and doesn't need a new account to use. We don't know who you are, and we can't see your data.

Your iCloud account

Data is only stored on your phone and in your own private iCloud account.

No trackers

No analytics, no trackers, no signup.

On-device AI only

All the intelligence runs on your iPhone.

Works offline

Everything is stored locally and syncs in the background if you wish.

A few common questions.

Is Plate free?
Plate is free to download, with every feature included. The free version holds 15 recipes and scans 3 a week from a photo, a PDF, or free-form text. Plate Pro is a single purchase that removes all limits. Family Sharing is enabled, so you only need to buy it once for your household. If you bought Plate before it went free, you have been automatically upgraded to Plate Pro.
What happens when I reach 15 recipes?
Plate stops taking new recipes and offers you Plate Pro. Nothing you already saved is touched: every recipe stays readable, editable, and syncing.
Where is my data stored?
On your iPhone first, with a private backup in your own iCloud account. We cannot read it. The only thing that ever reaches us is a quality report, which is something you can choose to send if an import doesn't work as expected. The shopping list also writes to Apple Reminders so the rest of the household can see it, if you use a shared Reminders list.
Does Plate work offline?
Yes. Everything is stored locally and the iCloud backup catches up in the background. Web import only needs the Internet to read the source page; everything else works when you have no network access.
Can I disable syncing?
Yes. Settings ▸ iCloud lets you turn it off.
Can I import from another recipe app?
Yes. Plate supports importing from Paprika, Recipe Keeper and Crouton. Whatever you brought in, you can export back out in the same format.
What about iPad and Mac?
Plate is iPhone-only today. iPad and Mac versions are in the works, and will ship when they feel right, not before.

For a more complete list of questions and answers, please see our Support page.

Start cooking with Plate.

Free on the App Store. No account, no subscription, no ads. Plate Pro is one purchase, whenever you need the room.

* Tested with a real-world library of ~3000 recipes: import, export, search and general use. Frame drops? We want to know about it.