Crouton: Recipe Manager 4+
Grocery List, Meal Planner
Devin Davies
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Crouton is feature packed recipe organizer & meal planner. The best place to store your favorite recipes from where ever you find them, websites, cookbooks or a handwritten note from your Grandma.
IMPORT ANYWHERE
Crouton supports importing recipes from almost everywhere! Pull recipes automatically out of websites and just save the bits you need. You can also scan recipes straight out of your recipe book using OCR
PLAN YOUR WEEK
With your favourite recipes on hand, Crouton makes it very easy to plan your meals for the week (or even long into the future). If you’re stuck for recipe ideas let Crouton automatically generate the meal plan from your organized dinner recipes.
STEP BY STEP MODE
Crouton offers a unique step by step mode. Focus on one recipe step at time as you cook, you can tap on ingredients within a step to get the quantity (saves you jumping back and forth between the steps and ingredients). With hands free mode you can move between steps without touching your device! Perfect for when you have messy hands.
TIMERS
Start timers with a tap. Crouton detects times within recipes and lets you start timers straight from the steps. A convenient heads up display keeps the times front of mind while you continue to use the app.
GROCERY LISTS
Create shopping lists directly from your recipes, easily copy just the ingredients you need to your list. Integrates with Reminders for convenient access. Your groceries have never been easier!
CLOUD SYNCING
All of your recipes are conveniently synced between all of your devices using iCloud.
RECIPE FEEDS
Save your favourite recipe RSS feeds into Crouton to see new recipes as they’re published from your favourite blogs.
AI IMPORTING
Quickly import recipes using AI. Import a recipe from a single photo with no manual entry required. Also supports plain text and images.
FAMILY SHARING
Share your recipes with friends and family using iCloud, so everyone knows what’s for dinner.
GUIDED WEIGHING
Pair to supported Bluetooth scales and have Crouton guide you through weighing your ingredients, avoid the mental juggling of recipe steps and amounts
COMBUSTION PROBE SUPPORT
Crouton pairs with Combustion's temperature prove to provide live updates on your cook
Crouton also offers a range of customization including custom icons and app colors.
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What’s New
Version 2024.7
• Added support for linked recipes, now you can add recipes as ingredients for other recipes and conveniently jump between them
• Improved support flow in settings, added additional content around common questions
• Added snack as a meal plan section option
• Fixes for inline timer support
• A few little tweaks here and there and everywhere.
Ratings and Reviews
Packed with Useful Features and a Beautiful UI
Crouton is by far the best recipe organizer app on the App Store. I’ve tried other options and they’re either missing an important feature or the interface is cumbersome to use. Crouton has a simple UI that is simple and intuitive. There’s more advanced features within the app but it gives the user the choice to use them. Most importantly, it’s satisfying to use and I can’t say the same for the other options. There’s small details that show there was a lot of thought put into the user experience. The grocery list syncing with the Reminders app feature is a very nice implementation that I’ve never seen before and found very useful. The same applies for the scaling feature, which sounds very simple but can be a huge time saver. The hands-free mode is another very useful feature that I have yet to see anywhere else. It allows you to swipe through the directions in a recipe using blinking expressions and opening your mouth. However, I did notice it was inconsistent at times. While it could use some work, I still found it very impressive, especially in pinch when your hands are covered in food. Overall, I’m very happy with Crouton and I’m excited to see any further improvements. That being said, I’m very satisfied with the current release and am glad to support it.
Why I would miss my phone…
If I lost my phone, I could find other ways to call or email people, but this app is indispensable! I use this app every single day. I love how I can copy recipes I find online and easily paste them in this app. Also, I just scanned a recipe from a magazine into this app! Who would think it could be possible? I figured out that you have to scan ingredients and steps separately, but the learning curve was low. Also, you have to proofread, because as miraculous as this feature is, it still needs the user to help it out a little. I think there are features on this app I don’t even know how to use, and some day I’ll get around to trying them, but in the meantime I’m going to scan the recipes I use out of my cookbooks and then get rid of them! But a note to the developer: please don’t leave users high and dry like the developer of my other recipe app: I can’t access my recipes on that app any more because they won’t update the app for use in updated iOS. Such a bummer because inputting them was way more work than for Crouton!
Wonderful independent recipe-organizing app!
Our family LOVES this recipe organizer app. We were looking for a platform that lets us easily share all our recipes with multiple family members, and add new ones easily by importing directly from a website-- Crouton can even scan in a recipe from a printed cookbook page (although it does have difficulty with handwritten recipes). Other great features let us organize recipes into folders, print or email them as PDFs, add photos and notes, and search keywords (including ingredients, not just recipe titles). We don't use our "recipe box" for grocery shopping, so I can't say how well that component functions. But Crouton is PERFECT for our needs, works great and we love using it. I also appreciate that it's developed by an independent programmer who over time continues to tinker with adding new features and improvements. I've recommended Crouton to several other people who also tell me they are glad to have found it! It's absolutel one of most-used apps, I probably open it every day......Thanks Crouton!
App Privacy
The developer, Devin Davies, 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:
- Purchases
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Creative Interactions Limited
- Size
- 34.3 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.1 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Creative Interactions Limited
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Discover Yearly $14.99
- Discover Monthly $1.99
- Crouton Plus $24.99
- Crouton+ Early Bird $17.99
- Outrageous Tip $7.99
- Great Tip $1.99
- Amazing Tip $3.99
- Kind Tip $0.99
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.