For the keeper of the family recipes

Save the recipes your family cannot afford to lose.

The cards in the box, the binder on the shelf, the cookbook with notes in the margins, the spaghetti recipe nobody ever wrote down clearly. Chef Notebook turns them into a private, searchable family recipe collection.

Start preserving recipes See how family recipes stay yours
7-day free trial iPhone, iPad, Mac Private iCloud sync
0server-side recipe databases
6ways to import recipes
3native Apple platforms
1portable recipe collection
The problem

Paper recipes are precious, but paper is fragile.

  • Handwriting fades, cards get stained, and binders disappear during moves.
  • Only one person knows where the real family recipe lives.
  • The recipe exists in someone else's memory, but not in a form anyone can inherit.
  • Most apps make you trust a company server with something personal.
The promise

Make the family recipe box searchable, backed up, and still yours.

Chef Notebook helps you capture old recipes without erasing their story. Save the structured recipe, keep notes, add photos, print cards, and export the whole collection whenever you want.

Included with Chef Notebook
  • Photograph handwritten cards, cookbook pages, and printed recipes.
  • Type recipes from memory and keep them beautifully structured.
  • Print recipe cards when someone still wants paper.
  • Export everything as plain text anytime.
  • Keep recipes in your private iCloud under your Apple ID, not in our recipe database.
Built for this cook

For the recipes that deserve to outlive the paper.

Chef Notebook is a family recipe keeper app for preserving handwritten recipe cards, cookbook pages, inherited recipes, and private family recipes on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Photo import

Capture cookbook pages, printed recipes, and handwritten cards.

Private iCloud

Recipes sync under your Apple ID with no server-side recipe storage.

Plain-text export

Walk away with every recipe in a format any app can open.

Print-quality cards

Share recipes with relatives who still prefer paper.

Ownership

Your recipes stay yours.

Chef Notebook stores your recipe collection in your private iCloud under your Apple ID. We do not keep a server-side recipe database, and every recipe can be exported as plain text.

No adsNo attention-tax business model.
No lock-inExport your recipes anytime.
No server vaultYour recipes are not stored in our recipe database.
Questions

What this cook usually asks.

What is the best app for saving family recipes?

Chef Notebook is designed to preserve family recipes from cards, cookbook pages, screenshots, pasted text, and typed notes while keeping the collection private in iCloud.

Can Chef Notebook import handwritten recipes?

Chef Notebook can import from photos of handwritten recipe cards or cookbook pages, then turn them into structured recipes for review and editing.

Can I export my family recipes?

Yes. Chef Notebook keeps export visible so your recipes can be exported as plain text anytime.

Free for a week

Cook three recipes. Keep what you write down.

Try the full app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Cancel before day seven and pay nothing. Your recipes stay exportable.

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