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How it works · The Field GuideFive stages, start to finish

From a recipe you spotted to dinner on the table.

Recipendium follows the real arc of home cooking — capture, organize, plan, shop, and cook. Here's each stage end to end, and exactly which plan unlocks each tool.

Stage 01 / Capture
Get recipes in — your way

Five ways in, one clean result

However a recipe reached you, Recipendium turns it into a structured card with ingredients, steps, and servings you can edit. No more retyping from a screenshot or scrubbing a video for the quantities.

  • Write it by hand. A clean editor for the recipes already in your head. All plans
  • Import from a URL. Pull a recipe off the web — method and ingredients, minus the life story. Pro
  • Recipe from Image. Photograph a cookbook page or screenshot; OCR reads it into fields. Premium
  • Recipe from Video. Drop a YouTube or TikTok link and get a written recipe back. Premium
  • Bulk PDF import. Bring a whole cookbook in at once. Premium
Stage 02 / Organize
A library you can actually navigate

Tag it, search it, find it

Your collection only helps if you can find things in it. Recipendium gives every recipe your own tags and a fast search across titles, ingredients, and notes — so “that garlic thing from last winter” is two keystrokes away.

  • Your tags, your system. Label by occasion, diet, cuisine, effort — whatever matches how you think. All plans
  • Full search. Find by title, ingredient, or tag, instantly, across your whole library. All plans
  • Browse without a feed. A calm, paginated shelf — no algorithm deciding what you see. All plans
Stage 03 / Plan
The week, on one calm grid

Plan meals like laying out a page

Drag recipes onto a paper-style weekly calendar and watch the week take shape. Adjust as life happens, scale a dinner up for guests, and keep nutrition in view if it matters to you.

  • Weekly meal grid. Assign recipes to days and rearrange freely. All plans
  • Serving Adjuster. Scale any recipe up or down; quantities recalculate. Pro
  • Nutrition tracking. See macros and calories across a recipe or the whole week. Pro
Stage 04 / Shop
The list writes itself

One trip, one tidy list

Turn your weekly plan into a shopping list with a tap. Recipendium gathers every ingredient across the week and — on Pro — merges the duplicates so three recipes calling for garlic become a single line.

  • Auto-generated lists. Build a shopping list straight from your plan. All plans
  • Smart consolidation. AI merges duplicate ingredients into one accurate quantity. Pro
  • Check off as you go. A clean, tappable list for the aisle — light or dark. All plans
Stage 05 / Cook & Prep
From plan to plate

Cook clean — and batch when it counts

When it's time to actually cook, the recipe is right there, legible at arm's length. And for the big Sunday sessions, Meal Prep Mode lays out a batch-cook timeline and helps you portion it out for the week ahead.

  • Cook from clear steps. Full, readable instructions designed for a propped-up phone. All plans
  • Meal Prep Mode. Batch-cook timelines that sequence multiple recipes together. Premium
  • Portioning. Split a big cook into the week's servings without the mental math. Premium
The whole loop

Capture once. Plan in minutes. Shop in one list. Cook without the chaos.

Ready when you are

Try the whole flow, free.

Start on the Free plan and run a full cycle — capture a recipe, plan a few dinners, and generate your first list. Add Pro or Premium only if the extra tools earn it.