Free and open-source · Android
Your recipes, scaled to fit.
Recipai keeps your recipes with timed steps, photos and tags. Change any amount and everything else follows, step times included. It works offline, has no account and no ads, and your recipes stay on your phone.
Tomato soup
- Tomatoes800 g
- Olive oil2 tbsp
- Stock2 cups
Try the scale buttons
What it does
A recipe box that does the maths
Live scaling
Change the servings, or tap ½× to 3×. Amounts turn into sensible units, and step times follow along.
Step timers
Tap the time in a step to start a countdown. Timers keep running with the screen off.
Cook mode
One step at a time in large type, with the scaled ingredients that step needs.
Paste or share a link
Paste a recipe from a message, or share a link from your browser. Recipai picks out the ingredients, steps and times.
Photos and tags
Add photos from the system picker, choose a cover, and sort recipes with tags and favourites.
Light and dark
Follows your phone's theme. Gentle haptics you can turn off. Works fully offline.
Pasted text
Tomato soup ★★★★★ 212 reviews
2 tbsp olive oil, 1 onion
Simmer 20 minutes until thick
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Import
Paste a recipe, or share a link
Copy a recipe from a message or a website, or share a link to Recipai from your browser. It reads the recipe card the site publishes, or falls back to the text on the page, and sorts out the ingredients, steps and times for you.
It runs on your phone with plain rules: no AI service, no API key, and no server of ours in between. You review and edit the result before anything is saved.
Your Drive, your files
Backup · optional
Safe in your own Google Drive
Connect your Google account and Recipai saves your recipes, photos and settings to a “Recipai backups” folder in your Drive, daily, weekly or when you tap. The six newest backups are kept, and you can restore any of them. Skip it and your recipes never leave your phone.
- Only its own files. Recipai asks for the narrowest Drive permission,
drive.file, which lets it see only files it created. It cannot read the rest of your Drive. - No server of ours. Backups go from your phone straight to Google. We never receive them, and nobody on the Recipai team can read them: they sit in your own Drive.
- Disconnect any time in the app, or at your Google account's permissions page.
Recipai's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Read the full privacy policy.
Privacy
Your recipes are yours
- No account
- No ads
- No analytics
- No developer servers
- No data sold or shared
Recipai has no sign-up and no servers. Recipes, photos and settings live in the app's private storage. The only network use is the link you ask it to import, Google Drive if you connect it, and a quiet check of the latest GitHub release when the app is opened. The privacy policy spells out each one.
Open source
Free software, all the way down
Recipai is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. Read the code, build it yourself, fix a bug, or fork it. The fonts are bundled under the SIL Open Font License, and this website's code is in the same repository.
- 1Download the APK from the latest release.
- 2Open it and allow installs from your browser if Android asks.
- 3Stay current: Recipai shows an Update card in Settings when a newer release exists. Installing it over the old one keeps your recipes.