Cookbooks, magazine clippings, your grandmother's handwritten cards, that thing you screenshotted from Instagram at 11pm. They all end up in your camera roll and you never find them when you're actually standing in the kitchen.
Recipe Folio turns a photo into an actual recipe. Point your camera at the page, crop to what matters, and the app reads the text and structures it — title, ingredients, method, the works. You can designate which section is which, so a messy two-page spread or a recipe with notes scrawled in the margins still comes out clean.
Whether you're a home cook building a collection or a chef archiving prep notes, it goes from photo to searchable recipe in a few seconds.
Search by ingredient
Half a bunch of cilantro to use up? Find every recipe that calls for it.
Scale servings
Dinner party for twelve, Tuesday night for two. Quantities adjust.
Edit everything
Fix OCR mistakes, swap ingredients, rewrite steps. Make it yours.
Private by default
No account. No cloud. No tracking. Your kitchen, your recipes.
A note on how it works
On newer iPhones (15 Pro+), everything happens on your device. Nothing leaves your phone.
Older devices use OpenAI for the formatting step — just the text, not the photo. Costs about a tenth of a cent per recipe. Setup guide here.
| Apple Intelligence | OpenAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Devices | iPhone 15 Pro+ | Any iOS 26 device |
| Processing | On-device | Cloud |
| Cost | Free | ~$0.001/recipe |
| Privacy | Never leaves phone | Text sent to OpenAI |