Cards, A Recipe App
Your recipes on your devices
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
This will be the last major version of Cards for the foreseeable future, and will be free until such time as major updates resume. Use and enjoy!
Cards is a recipe app designed for your recipes, your family's long held traditions, all those cards sitting in box files or books. It was created for you to store, share, and modify those beloved recipes. It was designed from the ground up for ease of use and style.
There are many recipe apps out there, but most are designed for other people's recipes, or over crowded with tons of features most of us will never use, and a lack of style on the features you do use. We started with the basics of creating, managing, and sharing recipes, and worked to get those right first.
Cards is iCloud enabled, so that you always have your recipes with you. Someone love your casserole at a pot-luck? Simply send the recipe to from your iPhone to their iPad to them via AirDrop, or email it, message it, tweet it, or post it to your wall! Also compatible on iOS 8 with third party sharing services such as Tumblr and Pinterest*.
Cards has a number of recipe management features that do their best to not get in the way of you using them, or looking great, including tags and books. Scaling a recipe is done non destructively, so changing back to the original is as simple as ticking a checkbox.
*Tumblr and Pinterest belong to their respective owners, and no relationship with Dark Chocolate Software is intended or implied.
more Dark mode? YES!
Multi window support? YES!
Favorites? Finally!
Improved support throughout the app for dynamic font of all sizes.
Also: Major behind the scenes changes to how Cards syncs to iCloud. A completely rewritten sync engine, fully tested for ensuring reliable syncing.
Rewrote a number of things behind the scenes involved in updating the UI so that they are more reliable.
** Removed support for re-downloading Cards 1.x databases due to them being deprecated **
3.0 09/27/2019
Behind the scenes improvements towards the next major version.
This is the last version that will support downloading Cards 1 databases.
Updated website importers.
2.4 10/19/2018
A reminder that Cards 2.3 will require iOS 10 or newer. Cards will continue syncing to Cards 2.2 just fine for those with older devices which can’t run it.
Support for iOS 11, including Spotlight preview cards for devices with 3d touch.
Support for drag and drop on iPad: Drag in images, lists of ingredients or steps. Drag recipe text or images out.
Much improved syncing engine.
Fixed a condition that could result in the appearance of duplicate ingredients or steps if a duplicate recipe exists.
2.3 10/18/2017
Cards 2.2 is finally here.
First and foremost, a completely rewritten printing system, with a couple of new templates in addition to the existing one.
*Many* bug fixes, especially to syncing.
The next major version of Cards will no longer support iOS 8.x or iOS 9.x.
2.2 06/26/2017
Cards 2.1 focuses on improving recipe creation and editing, particularly ingredients.
No need to be in edit mode to add or edit ingredients or steps, only to reorder them.
Added a unified ingredient entry field to ingredient editing view
Keyboard comes up on a unified ingredient field when editing an ingredient automatically
Swipe left on Add Ingredient to add multiple ingredients at once. Type one ingredient entry per line, and then we split them and add them, just like pasting ingredients in.
Remove display of (US) from units when not in the US, but keep the info around just in case
Add australian tablespoon
Add a None option to the unit picker
Fixed an issue where quart would become cup. All units that got switched will remain cup unfortunately since we cant tell which was which
2.1 08/15/2016
Cards 2.0.3 brings further improvements to syncing to iCloud, in particular initial sync up and down of larger libraries.
Add a syncing indicator in preferences
Import system is now much faster
Improvements to resolving import conflicts
2.0.3 04/24/2016
Cards 2.0.2 fixes a bug with initial syncing larger libraries up to iCloud. If your recipes are on your local device, but not on your others, and the last sync date isn't changing, this fixes that.
It also adds features for recovering recipes from Cards 1.x if the migration didn't go properly the first time around.
***This version drops support for iOS 7 and OSX 10.9, and syncing to older (1.x) versions of Cards***
First and foremost, Cards 2.0 brings with it a completely rewritten syncing system, which is better prepared for the future. It still uses iCloud, but in a better way, that unfortunately required us to drop support for iOS 7 and OSX 10.9.
Additionally, we have more control over the sync process, and can now show last sync date, and if everything needs to be reset (and even in the best of times sometimes this happens), we can delete all data from iCloud.
Support for most of the new iOS 9 features
Apple Watch support (watchOS 2), with display of recently viewed recipes from your phone, and Handoff support for Mac and iOS
Spotlight support, find your recipes without even opening the app.
Multi tasking support on supported iPads
iPad Pro support, work on it's wonderful large surface
And of course, tons of bugs fixed in layout of views, and lots of crashes and annoyances.
And last but not least, an entirely new app for Apple TV, included with the iOS app. Display your recipes on your big (or little) screen
2.0.2 03/09/2016
***This version drops support for iOS 7 and OSX 10.9, and syncing to older versions of Cards***
First and foremost, Cards 2.0 brings with it a completely rewritten syncing system, which is better prepared for the future. It still uses iCloud, but in a better way, that unfortunately required us to drop support for iOS 7 and OSX 10.9.
Additionally, we have more control over the sync process, and can now show last sync date, and if everything needs to be reset (and even in the best of times sometimes this happens), we can delete all data from iCloud.
Support for most of the new iOS 9 features
Apple Watch support (watchOS 2), with display of recently viewed recipes from your phone, and Handoff support for Mac and iOS
Spotlight support, find your recipes without even opening the app.
Multi tasking support on supported iPads
iPad Pro support, work on it's wonderful large surface
And of course, tons of bugs fixed in layout of views, and lots of crashes and annoyances.
And last but not least, an entirely new app for Apple TV, included with the iOS app. Display your recipes on your big (or little) screen
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Cards 2.0.1 fixes a crash on attempting to upgrade the iCloud database.
No data was lost due to this bug, however if you upgraded while 2.0 was available, chose "Already Done" on all devices to get around the crash, and did not have a local backup of your recipes, contact us for help in retrieving your iCloud recipes, support@darkchocolatesoftware.com
2.0.1 12/12/2015
***This version drops support for iOS 7 and OSX 10.9, and syncing to older versions of Cards***
First and foremost, Cards 2.0 brings with it a completely rewritten syncing system, which is better prepared for the future. It still uses iCloud, but in a better way, that unfortunately required us to drop support for iOS 7 and OSX 10.9.
Additionally, we have more control over the sync process, and can now show last sync date, and if everything needs to be reset (and even in the best of times sometimes this happens), we can delete all data from iCloud.
Support for most of the new iOS 9 features
Apple Watch support (watchOS 2), with display of recently viewed recipes from your phone, and Handoff support for Mac and iOS
Spotlight support, find your recipes without even opening the app.
Multi tasking support on supported iPads
iPad Pro support, work on it's wonderful large surface
And of course, tons of bugs fixed in layout of views, and lots of crashes and annoyances.
And last but not least, an entirely new app for Apple TV, included with the iOS app. Display your recipes on your big (or little) screen
2.0 12/10/2015
Fixed in 1.3.1:
Crash in emailing a book with unformatted text recipes selected
Sharing text generation issue
What's in store for Cards 1.3?
Well first up, there is the usual, bug fixes and improvements, including improved iPhone 6 Plus support.
Tired of creating new recipes accidentally? Or not finding where to type the name in? Now we ask for the recipe name at creation time, letting you cancel if you mis-hit the button
Next, we worked to improve our voice over accessibility throughout the app. It may still not be 100% awesome everywhere, and if you notice something not working, let us know and we will be sure to get it fixed for the next version.
Now for the new shinyness!
We added the ability to create custom convertible units. Live someplace where cooking unit's are a bit different? You can add those. Want to be able to convert between a 12 oz Can and a 16 oz Can? You can do that. Custom units are also synced over iCloud so all your devices get them
Email improvements! You can choose how to format the recipe in the email, either not include it, unformatted text, or shiny HTML. You can also choose whether to send a PDF version and/or a Cards file.
And last, and certainly not least, a web importer! Simply hit the + button, enter the URL instead of a recipe name, and presto, we have the recipe! Additionally, we have an extension for Safari that lets you import directly from Safari. We only support certain sites right now, but we can add to and update those easily, just poke us on twitter @DarkChocSoft with the recipe site you want supported!
ps: Our display name has been updated to Cards Recipes
1.3.1 05/05/2015
What's in store for Cards 1.3?
Well first up, there is the usual, bug fixes and improvements, including improved iPhone 6 Plus support.
Tired of creating new recipes accidentally? Or not finding where to type the name in? Now we ask for the recipe name at creation time, letting you cancel if you mis-hit the button
Next, we worked to improve our voice over accessibility throughout the app. It may still not be 100% awesome everywhere, and if you notice something not working, let us know and we will be sure to get it fixed for the next version.
Now for the new shinyness!
We added the ability to create custom convertible units. Live someplace where cooking unit's are a bit different? You can add those. Want to be able to convert between a 12 oz Can and a 16 oz Can? You can do that. Custom units are also synced over iCloud so all your devices get them
Email improvements! You can choose how to format the recipe in the email, either not include it, unformatted text, or shiny HTML. You can also choose whether to send a PDF version and/or a Cards file.
And last, and certainly not least, a web importer! Simply hit the + button, enter the URL instead of a recipe name, and presto, we have the recipe! Additionally, we have an extension for Safari that lets you import directly from Safari. We only support certain sites right now, but we can add to and update those easily, just poke us on twitter @DarkChocSoft with the recipe site you want supported!
ps: Our display name has been updated to Cards Recipes
1.3 04/20/2015
iOS 8 and iPhone 6 and 6+ Support
Support for Handoff between iOS 8 and Yosemite devices
Support for third party sharing services on iOS 8 such as Tumblr and Pinterest. Have a service that should be there and isn't, shouldnt be there and is or just isn't working right? Drop us an email, and we will work on getting it fixed ASAP!
AirDrop files between Yosemite and iOS 8 on compatible devices
Have iOS read your recipe back to you using the built in Speech Synthesizer, and Control Center's playback controls
Fixes to ingredient and step editing
Numerous other bug fixes, tweaks and crash fixes
1.2 10/14/2014
Cards 1.1:
Move Preferences inside the app
Export all option
Export to iTunes file sharing activity
Import from iTunes file sharing
Direct download from cardsrecip.es via smart banners
Option to send PDF when emailing
Keep screen awake option
Edit ingredients, steps, and image only when Edit has been pressed
Paste lists of ingredients or steps from websites and have them split out into individual items (long press the add item)
Improvements to ingredient editing on iPhone/iPod Touch
Various crash and bug fixes
Fixes to print formatting
Dynamic Content Sizing based on Global Preference
Additional default unit types
1.1 06/11/2014
Dark mode? YES!
Multi window support? YES!
Favorites? Finally!
Improved support throughout the app for dynamic font of all sizes.
Also: Major behind the scenes changes to how Cards syncs to iCloud. A completely rewritten sync engine, fully tested for ensuring reliable syncing.
Rewrote a number of things behind the scenes involved in updating the UI so that they are more reliable.
** Removed support for re-downloading Cards 1.x databases due to them being deprecated **
more Version 3.0 09/27/2019
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