Recipes
Photos, ingredients, steps, ratings, timings, notes, and collections. Search will find the lemon thing you saved back in March.
For iPhone · Built for iOS 26
Your recipes,
organized.
Plate is a fast recipe manager for iPhone. Paste a link, snap a photo of a cookbook page, or type one in from memory. Cook from big, clear steps, plan the week, and send the shopping list straight to Reminders.
Features
The whole job, from saving a recipe to shopping for it.
Cook Mode
Big text, hidden chrome, and protection against stray touches. The screen stays on while you cook.
Timers
Tap any duration in a step to start a timer. It follows you around the app and stays visible in the Dynamic Island while you get on with the rest.
Meal Plan
Put a recipe on any date, or a plain note like "eating out". Week and month views show the whole plan at a glance.
Shopping List
Build it from any recipe, share it with the household through Apple Reminders, and check things off at the store.
Import & export
Bring recipes in from the web, a photo, or a PDF. Two-way support for Paprika, Recipe Keeper, and Crouton.
Yours, end to end
Your data is yours.
Plate stores your recipes in your private iCloud account, never on a server we control. Anything you brought in from another app, you can export right back out. If you ever leave, everything goes with you.
On-device intelligence
Point the camera at a cookbook page.
Plate reads the photo and pulls out the title, the ingredients, and every step. All of it runs on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Made for iOS 26
At home on iOS 26.
Built fresh on iOS 26 with Liquid Glass throughout. Every timer gets a Live Activity, countdowns sit in the Dynamic Island, and Siri can add to the shopping list while your hands are covered in flour.
Your iCloud, not ours
No analytics. No trackers. No accounts.
All AI runs on your device
Built for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass
Frequently asked
A few common questions.
Is Plate free?
Plate is a one-time purchase on the App Store. No subscriptions, no ads, no in-app upsells.
The price is the price, and you can find it on the App Store listing.
Where is my data stored?
On your iPhone first, with a private CloudKit backup in your iCloud account. Your recipes
never touch a server we control, and we cannot read them. The only thing that ever reaches
us is a quality report you choose to send when an import goes wrong, and those are encrypted
and hold no personal information. The shopping list also writes to Apple Reminders so the
rest of the household can see it.
Does Plate work offline?
Yes. Everything is stored locally, and the iCloud backup catches up in the background when a
connection is available. Web import needs a network because it fetches the source page.
Everything else works on a plane.
Can I import from another recipe app?
Yes. Plate reads archives from Paprika, Recipe Keeper, and Crouton, plus individual recipes
from recipe websites, with or without structured data. It also reads recipes from PDFs and
photos. Whatever you brought in, you can export back out in the same format.
What about iPad and Mac?
Plate is iPhone-only today. iPad and Mac versions are in the works, and they will ship when
they feel right, not before.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no account system, no signup, and no password. Backup runs through the iCloud
account already on your phone.
Start cooking with Plate.
One-time purchase on the App Store. No subscription, no account, no ads.