Saffron - Recipe & Meal Plan
Generate, scan, plan, shop
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Saffron is a recipe and meal planning app.
NEW — Recipe Generator. Describe what sounds good ("easy weeknight chicken with whatever's in the fridge") and dial in diet (omnivore, vegetarian, vegan), allergens to avoid, macro lean, cuisine, time budget, and servings. Saffron writes a complete recipe — title, ingredients with real quantities, step-by-step instructions — that you can save straight to your library. Free tier includes 20 generations a month.
Scan a recipe with your camera. Snap a photo of a cookbook page, recipe card, or handwritten note. Saffron reads the page and pulls out the title, ingredients, and instructions. Free tier includes 3 scans a month.
Multi-plan meal plans. Create as many named meal plans as you want — a "Light Week," a "Holiday Dinner Party," a "Marathon Training Block." Switch between them, duplicate one to a new week, send any meal to your calendar.
Running grocery list. A single grocery list that lives across sessions. Add items as they come up; generate a list from any meal plan and choose whether to append (merge with what's already there, quantities sum) or replace. Send the list to Apple Reminders with one tap (Pro).
Pantry tracking. Tell Saffron what you already have. Generate-from-plan skips items in your pantry automatically.
Macros & nutrition. Server-side macro estimation for every recipe in your library (Pro). Daily calorie + macro targets with a plan rollup.
Reliability: Generator, Scan, Macros features all run through Saffron's own backend, not the iOS binary. No API keys on your device. When the features are temporarily unavailable you don't get charged a unit and a clear "try again" message tells you what happened.
Pro unlocks: unlimited generations, unlimited scans, server-side macro estimation, send-to-Reminders, send-to-Calendar.
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Privacy Policy: https://blackautomations.com/privacy-policy
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Saffron Pro is here. Unlock unlimited recipe generation, unlimited Recipe Scan, macro estimation for your whole library, and send-to-Reminders and send-to-Calendar. Monthly or annual, with Family Sharing on both.
Also in this update:
Plans now show photo meal cards and a week strip, and the plans overview gives every week a cover collage so you can find the one you want at a glance.
Export your whole recipe library to a file you keep, and restore it on a new device or after a reinstall.
Fixed: deleting a recipe that was used in a saved meal plan could crash the plan view. Plans now heal themselves on launch, so existing plans are repaired automatically.
Smarter ingredients under the hood — Saffron now recognizes the same ingredient written different ways, which makes grocery lists and pantry matching noticeably tidier.
The developer, Black Automations, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Black Automations LLC
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Saffron Pro Annual $24.99
- Saffron Pro Monthly $3.99
- Medium Tip $2.99
- Large Tip $4.99
- Small Tip $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Black Automations

