Your recipes,
beautifully organized.
Import from any URL. Plan your week, shop the list, cook hands-free, and keep notes for next time.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
From paste to plate. Ladle handles the rest.
Smart Recipe Import
Paste a URL, snap a photo of a cookbook, or type it in. Most recipe sites parse cleanly; AI handles the messy ones.
Meal Planning
Add recipes to a 2-week calendar. Or let Ladle plan it: Standard, Discover New, or Favourites.
Cooking Notes
Add your tweaks straight to the recipe. 'Use less salt.' 'Needs 5 more minutes.' They stick around for next time.
Smart Shopping List
As you add meals, your shopping list builds itself. Same ingredient across recipes? Quantities merge.
Cook history & ratings
Tap a thumbs up after dinner. See when you last cooked it, how often, and what you thought.
Tags & smart filters
Tag recipes by cuisine, occasion, or anything else. Filter and sort your library by what you actually want to cook tonight.
Cooking ModePRO
Full-screen and hands-free, with a timer built into each step. Countdowns also show on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
Live Activity timersPRO
Cooking Mode timers run on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Glance at the time without unlocking.
Image to RecipePRO
Snap a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten card. AI does the rest.
Unit Conversion
Tap once to flip between metric and US. The original values stick around if you want them back.
On-device AI meal planning
On iOS 18+, Apple Intelligence plans your week without sending a single recipe to the cloud.
Share & Discover
Anyone with the link can preview the recipe in their browser. Tap 'Open in Ladle' to import.
Sync Everywhere
End-to-end encrypted via iCloud. Your recipes stay yours.
See it in action
Real screens from the real app.
All your recipes, in one place
Ingredients, steps, the lot
Step-by-step cooking
Plan your week
From URL to table in minutes
Three steps to never lose a recipe again.
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1. Import
Paste any recipe URL, or snap a photo of a cookbook. Ladle pulls out the ingredients, steps, and photo.
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2. Plan
Add recipes to your weekly meal plan. The shopping list builds itself.
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3. Cook
Open Cooking Mode. Step-by-step instructions, timers built in, and no flour on the screen.
Simple, transparent pricing
Free to start. Upgrade if you want the extras.
Free
Everything you need to start cooking
- Recipe imports from any URL (with monthly free AI fallback credits)
- Manual recipe entry
- Meal planning with AI suggestions
- Smart shopping lists
- Tags, filters, and sorting
- Cook history & ratings
- Cooking Notes
- Recipe sharing as web links
- Unit conversion
- iCloud sync (end-to-end encrypted)
Premium
PROFor serious home cooks
or $12.99 once best value
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Cooking Mode — hands-free, full-screen, with Lock Screen & Dynamic Island timers
- Image to Recipe — snap a photo of a cookbook or handwritten card
- Batch import — paste many URLs at once
- Family sharing — invite family members to share your library, meal plan, and shopping list
- More AI extraction credits each month
Today's Meal Plan, on your Home Screen
Glance at today's lunch and dinner without opening the app. Small and Medium widgets, straight from your meal plan.