# Ambre: Recipe Book & Organizer

> Meal Planner & Grocery List

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1102236212](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1102236212)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1102236212`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ambi Studio AB
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (65 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-18
- **First published:** 2016-07-12
- **Size:** 207 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ambre-recipe-book-organizer/id1102236212)
- **Website:** [https://ambre.app](https://ambre.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://ambre.app/privacy/](https://ambre.app/privacy/)

## Description

**Ambre** is a recipe organizer, meal planner, and shopping list app for Apple devices. Save recipes from websites, social media, videos, photos, PDFs, or voice recordings, then organize them into collections and sync your library across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro.

Plan weekly meals, add ingredients to a shared Reminders shopping list, and cook step by step with automatic timers, Dynamic Island, Live Activities, widgets, Siri, and Shortcuts. Ambre also supports recipe scaling, metric and imperial conversions, translations, offline access, cooking circles, Visual Intelligence, Dark Mode, and Dynamic Type. The free app includes an Ambre+ subscription for unlimited recipes and advanced features.

## Rankings

- #160,523 — Overall

## Review summary

Ambre shines with polished visuals, a clean UI, and strong cross‑device sync (iPhone/iPad/Mac and Apple Watch) plus a community recipe portal. It’s praised for a focused, intuitive workflow. But reviewers repeatedly cite reliability issues: importing recipes from Pinterest, Paprika, or other sources often fails or imports partial data; sharing/export can be broken; offline access is missing; and the lack of traditional categories (only tags) plus no built‑in grocery list hurts organization. Many also want a lifetime purchase option or a non-subscription plan.

### Pros

- Beautiful visuals and a clean, minimalist UI with adaptive recipe card backgrounds.
- Strong cross-device sync via iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
- Flexible, focused workflow and intuitive organization.
- Community recipe portal for browsing and inspiration.
- Apple Watch app support adds convenience for on-the-go cooking.

### Cons

- Importing recipes from Pinterest, Paprika, and other sources is buggy or unreliable, often missing data.
- Subscription-based pricing with demand for a lifetime purchase option.
- Offline access is missing; the app isn’t usable offline.
- Lack of traditional categories (only tags) and no built-in grocery list.
- Sharing/export features can be broken or not work as expected.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1102236212)