Family Recipe Book: MealStash

Photograph your family's handwritten recipe cards and cook with big, glanceable steps tonight. No account, no ads, no tracking. Free for your first 10 recipes.

Your family recipe book, kept and cooked from.

MealStash is a recipe keeper and meal planner for the recipes that matter: the handwritten cards in the tin, the links you meant to save, the dinners you make every week. Scan them, save them, plan the week, shop one list, and with Pro, make them into a family cookbook to print and pass down.

SCAN THE HANDWRITING YOU GREW UP WITH Photograph a stained index card, a magazine clipping, a church cookbook page. Apple Vision reads the ingredients, fractions and steps on your device, in your own languages, and keeps the card photo beside the recipe, so the handwriting survives. Anything it was unsure of is flagged for you to check. No image is uploaded.

FAMILY COOKBOOKS & RECIPE CARDS (PRO) Choose the recipes and MealStash makes them into a cookbook PDF with a cover, contents and chapter dividers, to print or share. Or export press-ready 4×6 recipe cards. A single recipe can be sent as a file that opens straight into MealStash on another phone.

MEAL PLANNER & SMART GROCERY LIST Plan the week, Sunday to Saturday, and turn it into one shopping list. An ingredient several recipes call for becomes one line where they measure it the same way, grouped by store section. Pro hands the list to Apple Reminders.

SAVE RECIPES FROM LINKS AND FILES Paste a link and MealStash reads the recipe from the page, or paste the recipe text from a note or a message. Markdown files come in too, one recipe or a whole folder of them, like the recipes an AI assistant writes or a notes app exports. A folder of over 200 comes in with a count and a Stop, skipping recipes you already have. However a recipe arrives, MealStash keeps the ingredients, yields and instructions, files it under its course, and leaves the life story behind. Long runs of directions are broken into shorter steps, and where Apple Intelligence is available your iPhone's own model helps.

ARM'S-LENGTH COOKING MODE For messy hands and hot stoves. Cooking Mode shows one step at a time in type you can read across the counter, keeps the screen awake, and brings that step's ingredients up beside it. Recipes made in stages show each stage's name above its steps.

LIVE ACTIVITY TIMERS ON IPHONE Run several kitchen countdowns at once without losing your place. Each keeps counting on the Lock Screen, up to five at a time, and on models with a Dynamic Island the next to finish takes the island.

KITCHEN HELP (FREE SAMPLES, FULL LIBRARY WITH PRO) Substitutions, fixes for a split sauce, techniques and reference charts, all inside the app, no connection needed.

ZERO-LOGIN SYNC, AND A BACKUP YOU KEEP With iCloud on, recipe text, meal plans and your grocery list sync between your iPhone and iPad through your Apple Account. Recipes use your own iCloud storage and no longer stop at about 100; plans, the list and older versions' recipe copy share MealStash's 1 MB. Photos do not sync. No account, no server of ours anywhere. Back the library up to one file with the photos in it, restore it on a new phone, or erase it here and in iCloud; your other devices keep their own copies and can sync them back.

MEALSTASH PRO The free tier is genuinely usable and has no ads: 10 saved recipes, 5 filled meal-plan slots and 15 grocery items, with the planner and aisle-sorted grocery list included. Pro lifts every cap and unlocks Reminders sync, sharing and printing a recipe, cookbook export and the full Kitchen Help library. Monthly, yearly or a one-time Lifetime unlock, all with Apple Family Sharing. Saved recipes stay readable and cookable even if a subscription lapses.

PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST Scanning, parsing, PDF rendering and any Apple Intelligence tidying happen on your device. We do not track you, collect personal data, or sell advertising — there is nowhere for it to go.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jasonf90.github.io/MealStash/privacy.html