Pestle: Recipe Manager 17+
Save recipes from Instagram
Will Bishop
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
You can now save recipes from TikTok and Instagram straight to Pestle!
Save recipes from any source, set endless timers, organise your week with meal plans, and much more with Pestle.
IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE
Bring recipes from any online platform into Pestle, keeping just the essentials. Simply tap 'Share' and 'Save to my Cookbook'.
GUIDED COOKING
Transform recipes into step-by-step guides with Pestle's interactive cooking mode. Control Pestle hands-free, set multiple timers, and get reminders for portions with ease.
DEVICE SYNC
Locate a recipe on your iPhone, and seamlessly cook it on your iPad with instant sync. For advanced users, switch effortlessly between devices using Handoff.
HOUSEHOLDS
Set up a Pestle Household to share recipes with family members and collaboratively create Meal Plans!
DISCOVER
Pestle tracks your recipe sources and recommends their latest dishes. Follow your favourite food blogs to stay updated.
MEAL PLAN
Plan your next two weeks by assigning recipes to each day, with automatic syncing across devices.
SHOPPING LIST
Add ingredients from your recipes directly to your shopping list. Already have Olive Oil? Simply tap to remove it.
BOOKMARKS
When automatic extraction fails, Bookmarks let you revisit the original recipe source.
RECIPE SCANNING
Not all recipes are digital. Use Pestle's scanner to digitise your collection of physical recipes!
There's so much more you can explore with Pestle, and it's up to you to discover.
Pestle's use is governed by our Terms of Use, available at https://pestlechef.app/terms.
What’s New
Version 2.1.5
Saving recipes is even simpler in Pestle 2.1!
What’s New:
– Import recipes from Paprika, Crouton, Mela, and Pepperplate.
– Ingredient sections are now supported on many websites.
– Import unlimited recipes, with Pestle Pro, upload beyond the free limit.
– Deleting your account needs added confirmation.
– If a filter hides recipes, reset it quickly.
– Minicook is pre-enabled, acting as a global toggle.
– Recipe scaling improved! Tap servings to scale, see relative scales, and lock them. Units auto-convert above a threshold, like "3 tsp" to "1 tbsp".
– Access timers from the recipe viewer via the … button.
Fixes:
– Fixed crash when deleting the last category/cuisine.
– Pestle Pro warning on Discover page could appear twice.
– Moving steps between sections could misbehave.
– Some search results included incorrectly.
– Meal Plan widget reload lag fixed.
– Shopping List quick launch action restored.
– Corrected ATK recipes with wrong quantities.
– Recipe deletion issues resolved.
– PDF import from outside the app fixed.
– Pestle crash on iPad share attempt fixed.
– Restored deleted categories.
2.1.1 fixes:
– Ingredients in cups displayed properly.
2.1.2 fixes:
– Ingredient display issues corrected.
2.1.3 fixes:
– Smart Folders now appear after creation, Paprika note import fixed.
2.1.4 fixes:
– Recipe scanner strange code fix.
2.1.5 fixes:
– Fixed saved recipe device mismatch issue.
Ratings and Reviews
Incredible
I’ve been waiting for an app like this a long time. Others have added similar features for reading recipes from websites, but this works much better (80% success rate for me). The meal planner feature and integration with Reminders just lead to a great all round experience. Sure, there’s a few rough edges (scroll performance, not being able to add spaces to manually added ingredients), but the strength of the rest of the app make this very forgivable and it’s only an early version anyway. Well done, really excellent job!
A couple requests:
- If a recipe can’t be imported I’d love to be able to just add it anyway and view the website (like Pocket). This would let me store 100% of my recipes in the app.
- It’d also be great to share with my partner and view recipes she’s added in the Discover feed.
Fantastic so far - paid for future potential
Does what I wanted for recipe keeping, simple, beautiful, effective. Family sharing works do if you buy, then others can have it in your family for free but… a few niggles that I’d love to see improved.
1. Family sharing works, but no obvious way to sync recipes between family ? Maybe future update ? We can share by messages 1 to each other but really want a family recipe book
2. Love that it remembers ingredients as a key tag - would be good to just show the amount on the start cooking recipe steps rather than having to click on each ?
3. I create a lot of dairy free recipes - so often online recipes are the basis not identical. Would be nice to be able to edit information that is stored when importing an online recipe but don’t have that granularity when writing your own. Eg - editing the name of the author. Eg makes 6 biscuits… (can only put serves 6 etc)
4. Love the idea of meal planner as we do this weekly, but again need to synchronise with my wife for this to work !
Exceptional app
I am always looking for new recipes and this app is the best for saving them in one place rather than sixty tabs in a browser.
My only thought for improvement would be the ability to add cookbook pages in (by picture maybe) or the ability to plan a cookbook and page number in the calendar so I know what I said I would make last Sunday when it comes to a fridge full of ingredients and a missing sticky note.
I love this app as it is though so these thoughts aren’t going to stop me using it. So good.
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- Contact Info
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Information
- Provider
- Will Bishop
- Size
- 99.2 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.3 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 10.5 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Danish, French, German
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2025 Will Bishop
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Pestle Pro (Monthly) £2.99
- Pestle Pro (Yearly) £24.99
- Pestle Pro Yearly £24.99
- Pestle Pro (Monthly) £2.99
- Pestle Pro (Lifetime) £39.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.