Ambre: Recipe Organizer

Name: Ambre: Recipe Organizer
Rating: 4.5 (60 reviews)
Author: Ambi Studio AB

Import, Plan & Cook Meals

Free · In‑App Purchases

60 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Food & Drink
Developer

Ambi Studio AB
Language

EN
+ 11 More
Size

114
MB

Ambre, a recipe organizer, prioritizes privacy, accessibility, and user-friendliness. Import recipes from anywhere. Save as many recipes as you want and effortlessly sync them across your devices using iCloud. You can manually create recipes or import them from various sources, such as the Web, Photos, Apps, and even Audio. UNLIMITED RECIPES Enjoy the freedom to create and save as many recipes as you like, all for free. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE Collect recipes from any website or app and conveniently organize them in one place. Ambre’s on-device intelligence allows you to import recipes using the Share Sheet from other apps. You can also create recipes by photographing a cookbook or making an audio recording. MEAL PLANNING Plan your meals using Meal Plans. Invite friends and family to collaborate on meal planning, ensuring that all your recipes are easily accessible. DEVICE SYNC When connected to the internet, your recipes are backed up to iCloud and synced across all your supported Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. OFFLINE ACCESS Your recipes are stored on your device, so you can access them even when you’re offline. Perfect for those who want to stay disconnected. UNIT CONVERSION Convert any recipe ingredients to Metric or Imperial units, whichever is more convenient. SCALE INGREDIENTS Whether you’re hosting a large event or a dinner for two, scaling your recipes helps minimize food waste. It’s a win-win for your wallet and the planet! WIDGETS Follow recipes seamlessly from start to finish without opening Ambre and enjoy a full-screen experience in Stand By mode. Create your own flow using the new Control Center widgets. Stay informed about what’s for dinner with our Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. INSTRUCTION SPECIFIC TIMERS Timers are automatically detected, and a simple button lets you set them. Timers are available in the app, dynamic island, live activity, and widgets. This feature uses on-device intelligence and works even offline. Timers are recognized in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, German, Italian, and Portuguese. HEADS UP DISPLAY Get hands-free step-by-step guidance using Siri. Ideal for large and small kitchens, sticky fingers, and when you want to focus on one step at a time. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and HomePod. ACCESSIBLE We’ve made our recipes more accessible by adding checkboxes for added ingredients and completed instruction steps. We also support dynamic font sizes, landscape mode, and dark mode to accommodate different needs. Shortcut Actions are available for almost all in-app actions. COLLABORATIVE Invite friends and family to edit a recipe or share a meal plan together. It’s ideal for planning get-togethers and events! PAPRIKA IMPORT There’s no need to wait to switch to Ambre. With the Paprika Import feature, you can easily add all your old recipes to Ambre in no time. … and much more. Try Ambre today! Privacy policy: https://ambi.se/privacy Terms of use: https://ambi.se/terms

Ratings & Reviews

4.5

out of 5

60 Ratings

95% there…!
12/05/2022

SiriusBlackCat
So happy I found this app! This is THE most user friendly recipe app I have seen to date. So many ways to make the way you collect and categorize your recipes so simply sculpted. URL downloads, meal planning, and even entering your own scratch recipes is wonderful. Scaling recipes is a great addition to an app, because the number of people we love to cook our favorites for does change occasionally, and this truly makes cooking for two so much easier. The only things keeping me from giving this 5-stars are the following:*The ability to print recipes. People frequently ask for recipes and I like to print them out. *For the app to work on my iPad. I updated my iPad and it is apparently still not supported? Hmmmm*A one-time payment option rather than having to pay monthly (this may actually cause me to, albeit very sadly, give up the app as I have a difficult time paying monthly for more than my utilities. I will keep checking back on this app for updates, because I am just so pleased with it, and I hope I can edit this at some point and make the rating a full 5 stars.

Developer Response
Hi and thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us!  We’ll add printing recipes on our list of requests. While we look into that I hope you consider having the recipe printed from the web. To do that click the Share button on a recipe and then pretend you’re going to have it sent via Messages. Without actually sending the message, copy the URL that gets created and then have it pasted in your web browser. Below the recipe image, among the social media buttons, you’ll find a print button.  Regarding using Kookin on your iPad, make sure you have it updated to iPadOS 16 as we unfortunately can support only the latest OS. Please let me know if this issue continues to persist.   I understand your economical situation, especially giving the global situation currently. We hope we have enough features in the free version for you to consider to continue using it. With each update we try our best to keep all users in the Kookin Community happy :)  All the best and Happy Holidays, Sofia
95% there…!
12/05/2022

SiriusBlackCat

So happy I found this app! This is THE most user friendly recipe app I have seen to date. So many ways to make the way you collect and categorize your recipes so simply sculpted. URL downloads, meal planning, and even entering your own scratch recipes is wonderful. Scaling recipes is a great addition to an app, because the number of people we love to cook our favorites for does change occasionally, and this truly makes cooking for two so much easier. The only things keeping me from giving this 5-stars are the following:*The ability to print recipes. People frequently ask for recipes and I like to print them out. *For the app to work on my iPad. I updated my iPad and it is apparently still not supported? Hmmmm*A one-time payment option rather than having to pay monthly (this may actually cause me to, albeit very sadly, give up the app as I have a difficult time paying monthly for more than my utilities. I will keep checking back on this app for updates, because I am just so pleased with it, and I hope I can edit this at some point and make the rating a full 5 stars.
Developer Response 12/07/2022
Hi and thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us!  We’ll add printing recipes on our list of requests. While we look into that I hope you consider having the recipe printed from the web. To do that click the Share button on a recipe and then pretend you’re going to have it sent via Messages. Without actually sending the message, copy the URL that gets created and then have it pasted in your web browser. Below the recipe image, among the social media buttons, you’ll find a print button.  Regarding using Kookin on your iPad, make sure you have it updated to iPadOS 16 as we unfortunately can support only the latest OS. Please let me know if this issue continues to persist.   I understand your economical situation, especially giving the global situation currently. We hope we have enough features in the free version for you to consider to continue using it. With each update we try our best to keep all users in the Kookin Community happy :)  All the best and Happy Holidays, Sofia
5 stars for potential
01/09/2023

twhsnsn
…but Siri is not working. And instructions widget doesn’t quite make sense if you have to go back into app to switch to next step. And a couple other glitches but overall very good! Also adding a grocery shopping list would make it top tier .

Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for your rating and your feedback. You can update both the Live Activity Widget and the Home Screen Widget using Siri by activating “Kookin It” in the recipe you want to make. To see the next instruction say “Hey Siri, Kookin next instruction”. If this doesn’t work for you, please send me an e-mail on sofia@ambi.se and we’ll get to the bottom of this. We’ll add grocery shopping to our list of requests :)Happy Kookin! / Sofia
5 stars for potential
01/09/2023

twhsnsn

…but Siri is not working. And instructions widget doesn’t quite make sense if you have to go back into app to switch to next step. And a couple other glitches but overall very good! Also adding a grocery shopping list would make it top tier .
Developer Response 01/10/2023
Hi! Thank you for your rating and your feedback. You can update both the Live Activity Widget and the Home Screen Widget using Siri by activating “Kookin It” in the recipe you want to make. To see the next instruction say “Hey Siri, Kookin next instruction”. If this doesn’t work for you, please send me an e-mail on sofia@ambi.se and we’ll get to the bottom of this. We’ll add grocery shopping to our list of requests :)Happy Kookin! / Sofia
Messy- Unorganized
Apr 1

Knollhoff
I just downloaded this but will be canceling before my 3 day trial ends. - There are no categories, only tags. Every cookbook ever has categories. Example: main dish, side, dessert, etc- Importing from Pinterest is sloppy. It pulled in some of the ingredients but not all. The ones it did pull in, they didn’t have quantities/amounts. It also added ingredients that weren’t even in the recipe. - Both recipes I added, one from Pinterest and one picture of a recipe card; neither filled in the servings or total cook time. Does not have separate prep/ total time. - There is a description box to put tags in but no notes. Need a place to put your own adjustments or substitutions separate from the directions.

Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback!We wanted to provide a fully flexible organizing system, which is why you can create your own tags based on your personal needs. They serve a similar—if not identical—function to predefined categories.Thank you for bringing to our attention that recipes aren’t being properly imported from Pinterest. We’ll definitely make sure to improve those. Could you please share the link(s) that didn’t import properly so we can figure it out? Please send us an email at hello@ambre.appWe’ll look over how to improve the import to include servings better, and if we can add support for showing more specific times like you mention.To keep the recipes as clean as possible from clutter we let the description section allow for any free text, and can be expanded and tucked away as needed. However, we’ll make a note of your request of having a separate section for notes, but we can’t make any promises. / Sincerely, Sofia
Messy- Unorganized
Apr 1

Knollhoff

I just downloaded this but will be canceling before my 3 day trial ends. - There are no categories, only tags. Every cookbook ever has categories. Example: main dish, side, dessert, etc- Importing from Pinterest is sloppy. It pulled in some of the ingredients but not all. The ones it did pull in, they didn’t have quantities/amounts. It also added ingredients that weren’t even in the recipe. - Both recipes I added, one from Pinterest and one picture of a recipe card; neither filled in the servings or total cook time. Does not have separate prep/ total time. - There is a description box to put tags in but no notes. Need a place to put your own adjustments or substitutions separate from the directions.
Developer Response Apr 3
Thank you for your feedback!We wanted to provide a fully flexible organizing system, which is why you can create your own tags based on your personal needs. They serve a similar—if not identical—function to predefined categories.Thank you for bringing to our attention that recipes aren’t being properly imported from Pinterest. We’ll definitely make sure to improve those. Could you please share the link(s) that didn’t import properly so we can figure it out? Please send us an email at hello@ambre.appWe’ll look over how to improve the import to include servings better, and if we can add support for showing more specific times like you mention.To keep the recipes as clean as possible from clutter we let the description section allow for any free text, and can be expanded and tucked away as needed. However, we’ll make a note of your request of having a separate section for notes, but we can’t make any promises. / Sincerely, Sofia
Great app but missing just ONE feature!
Feb 18

Fix it up please....
I have been using 3 different apps to find the best one out there and so far this one is coming out on top. It’s incredibly feature rich overall. The one main feature missing is a grocery list or the ability to make some form of list of ingredients. It helps consolidate recipes and makes trips to the store more manageable. Otherwise great app and intuitive UI.

Developer Response
We love hearing that Ambre is standing out among the apps you’ve tried, thank you for sharing your experience!Having a way to manage ingredients for a grocery list would make shopping trips easier, we completely agree. While we’re currently exploring potential solutions, we can’t make any promises just yet. That said, we appreciate your feedback!  If you have any other thoughts or questions, please let us know. / Sincerely, Sofia
Great app but missing just ONE feature!
Feb 18

Fix it up please....

I have been using 3 different apps to find the best one out there and so far this one is coming out on top. It’s incredibly feature rich overall. The one main feature missing is a grocery list or the ability to make some form of list of ingredients. It helps consolidate recipes and makes trips to the store more manageable. Otherwise great app and intuitive UI.
Developer Response Feb 20
We love hearing that Ambre is standing out among the apps you’ve tried, thank you for sharing your experience!Having a way to manage ingredients for a grocery list would make shopping trips easier, we completely agree. While we’re currently exploring potential solutions, we can’t make any promises just yet. That said, we appreciate your feedback!  If you have any other thoughts or questions, please let us know. / Sincerely, Sofia

Ambre has a new, easier to use, interface. You use the Search bar to find what you're looking for. If you’re looking for a recipe that’s not in your library, we’ll provide sources from all over the internet. Import any of them with a single tap. Save it and have it instantly available on all your Apple devices.

Version 4.0.6

Oct 14

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Supported Features
- VoiceOver
- Voice Control
- Larger Text
- Dark Interface
- Differentiate Without Color Alone
- Sufficient Contrast
- Reduced Motion