Recipe box

A recipe box that remembers

A private digital recipe box for every recipe you write, every one a friend shares and every one you save. One searchable recipe manager that remembers when you last cooked each dish.

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A sandwich with omelette, carrot and lettuce, halved on a plate with salad, on a wooden tray

Find it by name, ingredient or tag

The search carries across Mine, Friends and Saved.

Organize with three views: yours, your friends' and saved

The recipes screen has three scopes. Mine is everything you have written. Friends is every recipe a current friend has shared, with their name on the card. Saved is the ones you have favourited, yours or theirs, so the dish you keep coming back to is one tap away.

Search your recipe box by ingredient or name

Type a dish, an ingredient or a tag and the list narrows as you go. “Egg” finds your waffles and ramen by their ingredients. “Weeknight” finds the ramen by its tag. The search stays when you switch scopes, so under Friends the same “egg” finds Sam's egg sandwich by its name. On a computer, the Recipes screen lays your recipes out in columns, with a side menu for the rest of the app.

Track your cook history

A recipe's page shows when you last cooked it and how many times, counted from the posts you made about it. It shows the photos your friends posted when they made it, each labelled with who cooked. And it shows their ratings by name, so “four stars” means Priya gave it four stars, not a crowd of strangers.

Private recipe storage

Each recipe is either private, visible to you alone, or shared with friends, visible to the friends you have accepted. Nobody who is signed out can see any of it, and there are no public recipe pages. Set a recipe back to private and it leaves your friends' feeds and favourites the same moment.

How friends-only works covers who can see what.

From box to kitchen

Open any recipe in cook mode for one step at a time in big type, with the screen kept awake. Fill the box faster by scanning a recipe card instead of typing it out.

To bring in a recipe from a website, paste its address into the scan panel. Importing from a link covers how.

Questions

Is there a limit on how many recipes I can keep?

No plan limits it. Writing and saving recipes is part of the free core of Forktales. The app shows how many recipes you hold, with no cap beside the number.

Can I import recipes from another app or a website?

From a website, yes: paste the page's address and the recipe fills in for you to check. From another app, not as a file yet. You can paste a recipe's text, or photograph a card or a cookbook page, and the scan fills in the form. Importing recipes, in the help pages, has the details.

Can I say which cookbook a recipe came from?

Yes. Every recipe has an optional Source line for a cookbook, a magazine or a person, and the recipe page shows it under the title.

What happens to a saved recipe if we stop being friends?

Saving keeps a link to their recipe, so it goes when the friendship does. Forking makes a copy that is yours: it stays in your box, credited to them, however the friendship goes.

Can I keep a recipe to myself?

Yes. Every recipe is private or shared with friends, and you can switch it either way from the recipe page. A private recipe is visible to you alone.

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