Kitchen guides
How to get more out of the recipes you already love, from saving them in the first place to cooking them without losing your place.
These guides are written for people who cook from a mix of food blogs, family cards, cookbooks and messages from friends, and want all of it in one place. Each one walks through a real kitchen job step by step: getting a recipe off a cluttered web page, turning a week of meals into one grocery list, cooking for a different number of people, and following a recipe when your hands are covered in flour. They describe how Plate & Page does each job on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and say plainly which parts are free and which need Premium, the one-time purchase. If you are still choosing a recipe app, the pages further down explain how Plate & Page is priced, how it works on the Mac, and how it compares with other apps you may be considering.
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How-to guides
How to save recipes from any website
Save a recipe from a website, the share sheet, pasted text or a photo of a cookbook page, and review it before it joins your cookbook.
How to plan a week of meals and build your grocery list
Plan the week from your own recipes, then turn it into one combined grocery list grouped by aisle.
How to scale a recipe and switch units
Scale any recipe up or down and switch between US and metric units, with the original amounts always one glance away.
How to turn on Cook Mode on iPhone and keep the screen awake
Follow a recipe one step at a time, move on by voice, keep the screen on and resume after an interruption.
Choosing a recipe app
A recipe app with no subscription
What’s free, what the one-time US$9.99 Premium unlocks, and how one purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
A recipe app for Mac, made for the Mac
A native sidebar and three-column layout, keyboard shortcuts, saving from Safari, Paprika, Mela and Crouton imports, and one purchase across Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Compare
A Paprika alternative for iPhone, iPad and Mac
How Plate & Page compares with Paprika, using Paprika’s own website, how to import your Paprika recipes, and when Paprika is the better pick.
An AnyList alternative for recipe-first planners
How Plate & Page compares with AnyList, using AnyList’s own website, and when AnyList is the better pick.
Switching apps
Mealime has shut down: how to rebuild your recipes
Mealime has shut down. What you can still recover, and how to bring favorite recipes into Plate & Page one at a time.
Try Plate & Page
A private recipe keeper and meal planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free to start with three sample recipes, five recipes of your own and three reviewed imports; Premium is one purchase with Family Sharing, never a subscription.
Free to start · five recipes and three reviewed imports free · Premium is a one-time US$9.99, with Family Sharing