Add every recipe you've saved: websites, cookbook photos, screenshots, notes to one private library that syncs through your own iCloud. No account, no subscription.
Kept is the recipe organizer for people who collect recipes everywhere: websites, cookbooks, family cards, screenshots, and ideas of their own. Bring them all into one beautiful, private library that syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own iCloud.
SAVE FROM ANYWHERE
• Import from any recipe website: use the share sheet to save directly from your browser, or paste a link to extract the title, ingredients, steps, and photo.
• Scan paper recipes: point the camera at a cookbook page or a handwritten card and Kept turns it into a structured recipe.
• Paste from notes or messages: plain text becomes a clean, organized recipe.
COOK WITH CONFIDENCE
• A clean cook-along view with a tappable ingredient checklist. Strike through items as you add them.
• Numbered steps with ingredients, cookware, and timers highlighted inline.
• Tap any timer to start it, then follow it from the Dynamic Island or Lock Screen.
• Attach a photo of your finished dish to remember how it should look.
ORGANIZED, AUTOMATICALLY
• Recipes are classified into categories with matching icons as you add them.
• Search, filter by category or tag, and sort your whole collection instantly.
• Group your library by category, or browse most recent and most cooked.
YOURS, FOREVER
• Recipes are stored as portable, human-readable Cooklang files in your own iCloud Drive. Open them in the Files app anytime.
• Save up to 10 recipes free. A one-time purchase unlocks unlimited.
• No account, no subscription, no lock-in. Move, copy, or back up your recipes like any other file.
• Private by design: no analytics, no tracking, no servers. Your recipes never leave your control and stay only in your own iCloud.
Kept supports iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Recipe import works best on devices with Apple Intelligence enabled.
First of all, thank you SO much for building this! This app is great. It works on desktop and mobile and imported recipes are available on the other platform immediately. It imports most recipes from URL beautifully, including NYT recipes (I have a subscription, but not all apps deal with the paywalls properly). Imported recipes display well and you can check off each step as you move through the process. Some recipes were categorized in weird ways, but you can switch into the source code for each and recategorize them. I do wish there was a public list of categories to choose from - if you type something that doesn’t exist in the category list, it reverts back to its original decision. Things that still need some work: [ ] Pasting in a recipe is VERY slow. [ ] I’d love to see a secondary category - so I can see all of my Vegan recipes in one place for instance. [ ] Filtering is good, but the list goes on forever. Also needs a “clear filters” function so I don’t need to hunt through the list to find the checkmarks…[ ] Tags disappear as soon as you close the record.
This update gets your recipe library ready for Kept 1.3.
Kept 1.3 will let you create your own categories and organize your tags. With this update, categories and tags set on another device stay exactly as you set them when your recipes sync to this one.
Please install this update on every iPhone, iPad and Mac that shares your recipe library. Kept 1.3 will require iOS 27, iPadOS 27 or macOS 27. Devices that stay on iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26 can keep using this version alongside Kept 1.3.
Also fixes titles with quotation marks gaining extra backslashes, and tags containing commas being split apart.
Version 1.2.1
The developer, Jesse Bergslien, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Accessibility
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