FAQ & Quick Training

No accounts. No clutter. Your recipes stay on your device — you stay in control.

If you already have recipes in Apple Notes (or anywhere you can copy text), use Notes Import. You can also scan handwritten recipes with OCR.

Yes. Importing is just a starting point — you can edit the title, ingredients, instructions, and notes before saving (and anytime later).

Copy your recipe in Apple Notes, then open Notes Import and paste. My Recipe Book organizes it into a clean title, ingredients, and steps.

Put the recipe title on its own line at the top, then include the link (if there is one), then paste the recipe text. Clear spacing helps the parser.

Take a photo of a handwritten recipe card or notebook page. OCR converts it into text, then you can quickly correct anything and save it like any other recipe.

Bright light, flat paper, and high contrast ink. Fill the frame, avoid glare, and keep the camera steady.

Quick overview:

Shopping Lists give you a shared place to manage groceries inside My Recipe Book. You can create a household, invite people to join, and keep one list everyone can work from instead of juggling texts, notes, and separate apps.

A household can have up to 6 members. That gives families or small groups one shared space to manage grocery shopping together.

Yes. Everyone in the household can add items to the shared shopping list, which makes it easy for family members to contribute what is needed.

Yes. Items on the shopping list show which household member added them and when, so the list stays clear and organized and you always know where something came from.

It keeps your grocery planning in one place, reduces confusion, and makes it much easier for households to stay coordinated. Instead of trying to remember who asked for what, the list stays updated and each item is tied to the person who added it and when as well as the person and time it was crossed off.

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Yes. Backup & Restore lets you save a full copy of your recipe library so you’re protected if you switch phones or reinstall.

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Open Settings → Backup & Restore, choose Restore, and select your saved backup file. You’ll be guided step-by-step.

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Chef Assist is your rescue button when a recipe is incomplete — especially after importing from a video. When ingredients or instructions are empty, Chef Assist searches the web for the best match based on the recipe title and then fills in the missing details for you.

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Chef Assist finds the best recipe match for the title and can auto-fill:

• Ingredients
• Instructions
• And a source link (so you can reference where it came from)

Open the recipe, tap the Export icon (top right), choose Publish to Recipe Exchange, and tap Publish.

To keep Recipe Exchange clean, high quality, and free of spam.