Zettelkueche AI
Snap recipes with AI
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Thermomix workflow by AI. Substitute, scale, estimate nutrients. Allergen warnings in your library. Zettelküche AI — for cooking, not just collecting.
Your cookbook isn't waiting for you.
You take the photo. The AI does the rest.
Zettelküche AI turns any recipe source — cookbook, handwritten card, HelloFresh, food blog, PDF — into a searchable, structured recipe. Instantly. In your language. With the original image alongside. Always.
No other recipe app does this.
— THERMOMIX WORKFLOW BY AI (Premium)
One recipe. One tap. A complete Thermomix guide — speeds, temperatures, TM vocabulary, timings. No cross-referencing, no typing.
— AI COOKING ASSISTANT
Out of cream? Long-press the ingredient — five substitutes instantly. Scale a recipe from 4 to 8 — all quantities recalculated. Estimate calories and macros — without leaving the app.
— ALLERGEN PROTECTION
Gluten, nuts, dairy. Set it once — Zettelküche AI warns automatically under every ingredient list. 14 EU allergens. Checked locally on device. No data sent.
— ANY LANGUAGE
Italian cookbook, German recipe. The AI reads and translates simultaneously — into your app language. German, English, Ukrainian, Portuguese.
— MEAL KIT CARDS, UNDERSTOOD
HelloFresh cards with "2P / 3P / 4P" columns? Zettelküche AI assigns the correct quantities for your serving size. Automatically. No math.
— ORIGINAL STAYS
Handwriting, book page, scanned PDF — everything stays in the Original tab alongside the structured recipe. Both views at a glance.
— MULTI-PAGE SCANS IN ONE PASS
Apple's Document Scanner. Any number of pages at once. The AI understands the full recipe across every page.
— NO ACCOUNT. NO DETOUR.
All recipes in your private iCloud database. Synced across iPhone and iPad. Nobody sees them but you.
PREMIUM: Unlimited AI extractions, Thermomix workflow, scale, estimate nutrients, allergen profile, ChatGPT refinement (13 use cases), backup with images. 7 days free.
Privacy: https://zettelkueche.app/privacy
Terms: https://zettelkueche.app/terms
more v2.4 brings AI to the kitchen.
NEW — Thermomix-compatible workflow
One recipe, one tap — Zettelküche AI converts it into a full Thermomix-ready workflow with temperatures, speeds, times, and correct TM vocabulary. Premium feature, toggle it on in Settings.
NEW — AI cooking assistant
Long-press any ingredient to get three to five substitutes instantly. Use "Scale recipe" in the menu to recalculate all quantities for any serving size. "Estimate nutrients" gives you a per-serving calorie and macro estimate powered by AI.
NEW — Allergen profile
Set your allergens once in Settings — Zettelküche AI flags them directly under the ingredient list whenever a recipe contains a known allergen.
NEW — iPad and Mac with native sidebar
The app now uses NavigationSplitView on iPad and Mac Catalyst: Library, Add, and Settings in a persistent sidebar, recipe details on the right. The way large screens are supposed to work.
Improved
- Recipe notes: AI now picks up tips, variations, and notes from the original recipe and writes them to the notes field
- Non-recipe images saved: shopping lists and general texts are no longer lost — they land as a note in your library
- Full multi-page backup: multi-page recipes now back up all pages, not just the first
- Diet tags automatic: AI actively checks ingredients for vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and dairy-free
Thanks for your feedback — we read every message. support@torecon.de
2.4 May 28
v2.3.1 polishes Reminders export, ChatGPT handoff, and the English language version.
Improved
- Reminders export: recipe ingredients reliably appear as a new list in Apple Reminders — the permission prompt shows right away
- AI refinement: ChatGPT handoff now works with the ChatGPT app installed — the prompt lands in the clipboard, just paste
- English UI complete: over 110 missing translations added, no more German strings on the English app
- Quick recipe threshold in Settings: + and – now respond immediately
Thanks for your feedback — we read every note. support@torecon.de
2.3.1 May 20
v2.3 makes Zettelküche AI more conscientious — about time input, sharing, and cleanup.
NEW — Step duration like Apple's Timer
No more tapping + 270 times for 4 h 30 min. Tap the duration pill on a step and a bottom sheet opens: presets for 3 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 30 min and 1 / 2 / 4 h on top — usually a single tap. Two wheels below with swipe inertia for everything in between. Same pattern now also for prep and cook time on the recipe itself.
NEW — Privacy dialog before sharing
Before each recipe export as a recipe file, a dialog now appears with two toggles: "Include cover photo?" (default on) and "Include original document?" (default off). The off-default for originals protects personality rights — handwriting, notes, image sources stay with you until you actively agree.
NEW — Cooking streak
When you mark a recipe as cooked, we count the streak — consecutive days you've cooked. Current and longest streak in the background. Unlockable milestones at 7 and 30 days — friendly, not pushy. No push nagging, no streak-loss drama. Just a quiet "keep going".
NEW — AI refinement via ChatGPT (Premium)
The new "AI refinement" action in the recipe menu opens a picker with 13 use cases: suggest alternative ingredients, make a recipe vegetarian or vegan, cut calories, check plausibility, wine or side pairing, adapt for kids, meal-prep variant. Before each handoff, a preview dialog shows the exact text that will go to your ChatGPT app — you tap "Open in ChatGPT" or cancel. No background data transfer, your own ChatGPT account.
NEW — Manage tags in Settings
Settings → Library → "Manage tags" lists all your tags by frequency, unused first. Swipe-to-delete with a clear confirmation — "Remove tag X from 7 recipes?" when the tag is still in use. Axis tags are visually marked. Spring cleaning for your tag list, without accidental data loss.
NEW — GDPR data subject access
Settings → Data → "GDPR data report" exports your recipes and categories as a JSON file — no images, no encryption, freely accessible. Fulfils the GDPR right of access in a single tap. The premium backup with all images remains available in parallel.
Improved
- Step list in edit mode: steps can now be deleted individually via swipe, with Apple-HIG-compliant confirmation
- Step timer is also reachable from the full-screen reading mode — same tap, same notification flow as in the detail view
- iPad library: tile heights are now uniform, no more ragged rows when titles vary in length
- iPad paywall opens as a half-sheet instead of full screen — you stay in the context of your library
- iPhone landscape: the filter bar can be collapsed, the recipe list is fully usable again on smaller iPhones in landscape
- Step stepper in edit mode starts visibly at a sensible default, no more "random number"
- Recipe language: the picker now shows all four app languages (Deutsch, English, Українська, Português Brasil) instead of only DE+EN
- The reminders permission prompt now appears in your device language instead of English only
- Over 100 additional UI translations added for English, Українська and Português Brasil — no more German strings on the English or Portuguese app
- PDF import now shows more files from third-party cloud storage
- Smart tag threshold in Settings labelled more clearly: "Quick recipe up to [N] min"
Tell us how it feels — we read every email.
2.3 May 18
v2.2 is the cooking-workflow update.
NEW — Whole cookbook pages in a single scan
Multi-page recipe in a cookbook? Apple's Document Scanner with automatic edge detection now captures any number of pages in one go. One session — all pages — one coherent recipe. No more "first one page, then the next." The AI sees everything at once and understands the whole picture.
NEW — Timer per cooking step
A step with a duration? Tap the timer icon next to the duration label and the timer runs. A native Apple notification fires when it's done — even with the app in the background or the display off. No more second timer on the phone, no app switching while cooking.
NEW — Ingredients to Apple Reminders
"Send ingredients to Reminders" in the recipe menu creates a new list "Shopping: recipe name" in your Apple Reminders app — with every ingredient as a separate entry. Syncs across all your devices, fits straight into your existing shopping routine.
NEW — Recipe from any URL
Found a food blog, copied the recipe URL, pasted it into "Import from URL" — done. We read schema.org Recipe markup directly when present (most professional food blogs use it). When it's missing, the AI extracts the recipe from the article text.
NEW — Bulk-edit your library
Enter selection mode, mark multiple recipes at once and assign tags with a single tap, flag them as favorites, mark them as "cooked today" or delete them in one go. Apple Photos/Notes pattern, instantly familiar. Cleaning up a grown library now takes minutes instead of hours.
NEW — Search finds your tags
Search for "christmas" and you'll find every recipe with the occasion tag "Christmas" — even when the word isn't anywhere else in the recipe. Plus: localized tag names are searchable. Type "italian" on the English app and search will find the German region seed "italienisch".
NEW — Tags sorted by usage
The tags you use most often appear at the top. The rest follows. Pinned tags stay at the very top. No more scanning an alphabetical list.
Improved
- Manual recipe entry opens the editor right away for ingredients, steps and durations
- "Cancel" in the editor now does what it promises — Apple HIG-compliant
- Tag picker in bulk mode shows only the tags of the chosen axis, not all mixed together
- Library is called "Bibliothek" again on German, not "Library"
- Sidebar tag picker on iPhone has its title and Done button back
- Reminder export is also available from the full-screen reading mode
We'd love to hear what you think — drop us a line anytime.
2.2 May 9
With v2.1, Zettelküche AI gets quieter and faster in daily use.
NEW — Full-screen reading mode
Tap the reader-mode button in any recipe and it fills the whole display. No sidebar, no toolbar — just ingredients and steps at a calm reading width. X at the top right closes back to the library. Perfect on the iPad next to the stove.
NEW — Multiple cuisines in parallel
You cook German AND Brazilian AND Italian? In Settings you can now keep multiple region sets active at once — each one contributes its own default tags for meal, cuisine, diet and occasion. Existing recipes stay unchanged.
NEW — Tags in your app language
Switch the app language from German to English and filters like „Frühstück" become "Breakfast", „italienisch" becomes "Italian". Live, without an app restart. Your recipes are not renamed — only the filter display adapts.
NEW — Cover photo from clipboard
Found an image on the web, copied it, pasted it in Zettelküche AI — done. Every cover-photo change now shows the new image in a large preview first and asks "save or cancel". No more accidental taps.
NEW — All filters in the sidebar, freely reorderable
Quick selection, meal, Smart Collections, tags, region, diet, occasion — all seven filter sections now live in the sidebar and can be reordered in Settings.
NEW — Apple-HIG multi-select
Tag picker and filter lists now follow the Apple standard strictly: Cancel left, Done right. An accidental selection rolls back to the original state via Cancel.
Improved
- Filter reset now asks: "only these filters or everything including persistent diet/occasion?"
- Sidebar search also finds localized tag names (e.g., "Breakfast" finds the German „Frühstück")
- The picker offers creating new tags directly from the search query
We'd love to hear what you think — drop us a line anytime.
2.1 May 7
What's new in v2.0.2
Four stability and UX fixes from live feedback:
Language switch is now instant
Toggle the language in Settings and the app speaks it right away — no restart.
Create tags and regions from the sidebar
In the "More…" picker you can now type a new tag or region name and add it directly — the search prompt has been promising it; now it delivers.
See all active filters at once
When you have several filters running, the app shows them all side by side instead of cutting off — smaller type, more room for your choices.
Region switch temporarily locked
Until the clean multi-region flow lands in the next update, region is set only during onboarding. This avoids mixing old and new region tags.
Plus: recipes captured in v2.0 now sync reliably with iCloud.
Thanks for the fast bug reports! support@torecon.de
2.0.2 May 4
What's new in v2.0.1
Stability hotfix:
When importing multi-page recipe PDFs with complex table layouts (e.g. HelloFresh cards) the app could give up too early while AI structuring was still running. The patience window is now significantly longer — multi-page documents go through reliably.
Thanks for the quick feedback! support@torecon.de
2.01 May 4
What's new in v2.0
The biggest update since v1.0 — we rebuilt the heart of the app so you stay on top of hundreds of recipes.
New four-axis filter system
Combine Meal, Cuisine, Diet and Occasion freely: pick "Breakfast" and "Vegan", or "Italian" and "Quick" — the app shows the matches instantly. Diet and Occasion stay set across sessions.
Smart Collections
Quick (under 30 min), Cooked often, 5-star favourites, Recently cooked, and Needs a check — all auto-grouped, no curation needed.
New sidebar with pinning
Top-10 tags per section plus a "More…" picker. Long-press to pin the tags you always want at the top. Section order (Region · Tags · Smart) is configurable in Settings.
Tag promotion
Long-press promotes a free tag to an axis tag — your taxonomy grows with you.
Curated default sets per region
During onboarding pick Germany, USA, UK or Brazil — the app starts with a matching tag set. Changeable in Settings.
Now in Brazilian Portuguese and British English
Full translations of every screen, App Store listing in four languages.
Mac app via Catalyst
Zettelküche AI is now also a Mac app — same iCloud library, more room to breathe.
Thousands of polish, performance and stability fixes under the hood.
Thanks for the feedback and your patience on this big release! support@torecon.de
2.0 May 3
What's new in v1.2
- Multi-page capture: Pick up to three photos at once — the AI reads them as one connected recipe. Perfect for double-page spreads and longer instructions.
- Share as image: Send any recipe as a beautiful card to friends — even those without Zettelküche AI. A privacy preview shows which fields will appear in the image before sharing.
- Multi-dimensional tags: A recipe is dinner, festive and vegan? The AI now automatically assigns tags from a curated pool — from "classic" through "gluten-free" to "family recipe". Tags appear on iPad as their own section in the sidebar.
- Sharper capture entry: Take Photo is the prominent action in the Add tab. Other sources (Library, Document, Paste Text, Manual) remain one tap away.
- AI hint in recipe: When the AI couldn't confidently recognize every field, a subtle hint in the recipe detail points it out — tap to jump straight to editing.
- Fresh empty state with quick guide: Add your first recipe right from the start, no menu hunting required.
- Receiving from AirDrop, Mail, Messages and Files app even more reliable.
- Hero images in list view: The list view now shows the title photo next to each recipe.
- QR code in "Recommend the app": Scannable directly in settings.
- Backup files with readable date format: "2026-05-02_14-30_Zettelkueche-AI", localized with AM/PM in English locales.
- Translations further refined, robustness further hardened.
Thanks for your feedback! support@torecon.de
1.2 May 2
What's new in v1.1
- Add, replace, or remove images on existing recipes — the original photo stays as a reference
- Native iPad layout: 3-column sidebar with filters and categories, larger detail view
- Backup as a Premium feature: save recipes and images as a file, restore on another device
- Paste text from Mail or Notes — AI structures it automatically
- Original PDF stays available in the "Original" tab when importing documents
- Cleaner and more reliable Premium display in Settings
- Faster filtering: sidebar with favorites, to-review, and categories
- General stability hardening and Apple iPadOS compliance
Thanks for your feedback! support@torecon.de
1.1 May 1
v2.4 brings AI to the kitchen.
NEW — Thermomix-compatible workflow
One recipe, one tap — Zettelküche AI converts it into a full Thermomix-ready workflow with temperatures, speeds, times, and correct TM vocabulary. Premium feature, toggle it on in Settings.
NEW — AI cooking assistant
Long-press any ingredient to get three to five substitutes instantly. Use "Scale recipe" in the menu to recalculate all quantities for any serving size. "Estimate nutrients" gives you a per-serving calorie and macro estimate powered by AI.
NEW — Allergen profile
Set your allergens once in Settings — Zettelküche AI flags them directly under the ingredient list whenever a recipe contains a known allergen.
NEW — iPad and Mac with native sidebar
The app now uses NavigationSplitView on iPad and Mac Catalyst: Library, Add, and Settings in a persistent sidebar, recipe details on the right. The way large screens are supposed to work.
Improved
- Recipe notes: AI now picks up tips, variations, and notes from the original recipe and writes them to the notes field
- Non-recipe images saved: shopping lists and general texts are no longer lost — they land as a note in your library
- Full multi-page backup: multi-page recipes now back up all pages, not just the first
- Diet tags automatic: AI actively checks ingredients for vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and dairy-free
Thanks for your feedback — we read every message. support@torecon.de
more Version 2.4 May 28
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.