YumYums

Paste a link, share from any app, or tell your AI assistant to add it. Every recipe lands in one private library on your device. No account, no subscription.

YumYums collects every recipe you cook into one library on your own iPhone and iPad. There is no account to make, no subscription, and no server holding your food. The library, the meal plan and the shopping list are files on your device, and they open in a kitchen with no signal.

BRING RECIPES IN FROM ANYWHERE

Most recipe sites publish their recipe in a form YumYums can read exactly. Paste a link, or a batch of links one per line, and each one arrives as a preview to look at before it joins the library. The photo is downloaded once and kept, so the recipe still looks right years later when the site has moved on.

Share into YumYums from anything with a share sheet: Safari, Instagram, TikTok, Notes, Mail. The app picks it up next time you open it.

Send a recipe to somebody else who has YumYums and it travels as one small file through Messages, WhatsApp or mail, arriving as a recipe they can read over and keep rather than as a screenshot. One recipe per file, and no accounts anywhere in it.

TELL YOUR ASSISTANT TO ADD IT

That same small file is an open format, and any AI assistant or script can write one. Send your assistant a recipe link and say "add this to my app": the recipe arrives on your phone as a file, and tapping it opens the review screen with the ingredients, the method and the photo filled in, ready to check and save. The free tool that builds the file is on GitHub and works with any assistant that can run a command, and the format is written down so an assistant that cannot run commands can still produce the file. The app itself contains no assistant and sends nothing to one. It opens a file, the way it opens one a friend sent.

For everything else there is the on-device AI import. Paste a note, a copied page or an email and it is read into a recipe on the device itself. Pages that publish nothing structured offer to be read the same way. Anything the model read is tagged "AI read", so you know which imports are worth a glance before you shop from them.

MOVE IN FROM ANOTHER APP

The Migrate section takes a Paprika export file, a text document with several recipes in it, or a pile of recipe screenshots out of your photos. Screenshots are read on the device with Vision and then turned into recipes. Nothing joins the library until you have looked at it, which matters most when there are two hundred of them.

COOK, PLAN, SHOP

Cook Mode gives you one step at a time in large type and keeps the screen awake.

The meal plan is seven days and nothing more complicated than that. Fill the week, then make a shopping list from it in one tap.

The shopping list is written for a supermarket, not for a recipe. "3 garlic cloves" from one recipe and "2 cloves garlic, crushed" from another become one line, and every line remembers which recipes asked for it. Send the list to Reminders when you want it on your watch.

ONE COLLECTION ON BOTH YOUR DEVICES, IF YOU WANT IT

Sync is off when you install YumYums and there is a switch for it in Settings. Turn it on and your recipes, meal plan and shopping list are kept in your own iCloud account, so your iPhone and iPad show the same collection and a recipe saved on one is on the other. It is your account and your storage: there is still nothing to sign up for, and nobody else can see any of it. Leave it off and YumYums does not connect to iCloud at all.

PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION

YumYums has no analytics, no accounts and no server to have an outage. It uses the network when you ask it to fetch a page you pasted, and, if you have turned sync on, to reach your own iCloud. Everything else, the AI import included, happens on the device.

Apple Intelligence note: the AI import needs an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, switched on, with the model downloaded. Every other part of the app works on any supported device.