Security & Privacy

How Ladle protects your recipes, in plain language.

Your recipes never leave your iCloud

All your recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists sync via CloudKit, which is end-to-end encrypted by Apple. Only your devices can read the contents. Not Apple, not us, not anyone else.

AI meal planning runs on your device

On iOS 18+, Ladle uses Apple Intelligence (Apple's FoundationModels framework) to suggest meal plans. The model runs locally on your iPhone or iPad. No cloud round-trip, no recipe data sent anywhere.

Cloud AI extraction is request-only

When you import a tricky URL or use Image to Recipe, we send the URL or image to a Cloudflare Worker that talks to Anthropic's Claude. Claude extracts the recipe and we send it back to your app. We don't keep anything afterwards.

Every API call is verified by your device

Ladle uses Apple's App Attest framework to cryptographically prove every request to our extraction service comes from a real, untampered copy of Ladle on your device. That's what stops anyone from abusing our AI service. You don't have to do anything for it to work.

No tracking, no ads

Ladle has no analytics SDK, no third-party trackers, no ad networks. The only data we collect is anonymized failure logs from URL imports (domain only, never the full URL) so we can keep extraction working on more sites.

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