Recipe saving apps. Which do you use and why.

[dragnlaw]

Recently on another Thread, which was more about tracking your foods for health reasons, several apps were mentioned for saving recipes. Thought I would start a new thread asking which apps do you use, why and also, is it free to use! LOL.

I'll start:
I use an app called Copy Me That, commonly known here as CMT. I use it as it was the first one I'd heard of that you can just click on an icon and poof: You have a nicely laid out recipe in a consistent manner from recipe to recipe no matter the source. Even from Discuss Cooking.
Here's one for an example: Mock Armadillo with many thanks from me to taxlady - who not only introduced me to this app but for a yummy recipe as well.
The app also puts in place a link directly under the title going back to the original post. Which I think is very nice and I use it if I want to reread, see or watch a video that the original post or blog may have had.
You can edit, add, make notes.
Luckily for me, it will tell you if you've already copied a recipe that you had forgotten about from a while ago.

Next?

 

[Badjak]

CMT,
Pocket. (Just saves any page, not just recipes)
And pepperplate, but when they stopped support, I moved to recipe sage and imported all recipes there + new ones

 

[dragnlaw]

Badjak, does 'recipe sage' also have a search where you can type in for example - mushrooms, shrimp, etc. and any recipe with those ingredients pops up?

 

[medtran49]

I don't use an app, other than notepad. Recipes are stored in a searchable cloud drive. Any recipe with a searched term in it will pop up. Like "chicken" will give me hundreds of recipes. But, I can add other words and narrow the results.

 

[Badjak]

Badjak, does 'recipe sage' also have a search where you can type in for example - mushrooms, shrimp, etc. and any recipe with those ingredients pops up?

Yes, definitely if you labelled (tagged) it as such, but I am now going to put in an arbitrary ingredient and check.

Watch this space

Yes you can
I searched for "fish", trying to see if recipes using "fish sauce" came up and they did.

It is not a sophisticated programm, but it does work for me

 

[Kathleen]

I'm also a CMT patron thanks to TL. I struggle to make it friendly to friends that I wish to direct to a recipe that I have altered. It seems to want to give ingredients and nothing else.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I use an old envelope filled with scraps of paper.

A couple of times each year I go through it looking for something and do a purge of all the OMG what was I thinking recipes.

 

[dragnlaw]

I'm also a CMT patron thanks to TL. I struggle to make it friendly to friends that I wish to direct to a recipe that I have altered. It seems to want to give ingredients and nothing else.

I believe recipes copied from web-sites or blogs do not "forward" the instructions. They will show the ingredients but even as we do here, you cannot just copy and paste someone else's instructions as those are protected, hence the link to the original site.
IMHO

 

[larry_stewart]

CMT. I saw it mentioned so many times, that I finally decided to give in. So far, so good.

 

[taxlady]

I'm also a CMT patron thanks to TL. I struggle to make it friendly to friends that I wish to direct to a recipe that I have altered. It seems to want to give ingredients and nothing else.

That is by design. Since an ingredient list isn't subject to copyright, it's fine for CMT to show the ingredient list. But, the wording of the instructions, that is subject to copyright. So, they don't show it to other people from your copy, but it does put a link for them to go see the instructions.

BTW, have you tried emailing the recipe? You have to click the curved share arrow to get this drop down menu. Go ahead and send one to yourself, so you can see what your friend would get.

 

[Jade Emperor]

I use Recipe Keeper - it’s pretty good, does everything I need simply.

 

[Silversage]

I use Paprika. It works across all my devices (windows PC, Android tablet, Apple cell and watch), so I can look up any recipe anywhere.

 

[msmofet]

CMT

 

[Andy M.]

I use CMT to capture online recipes. However, If I make a recipe and like it, I transfer the recipe to a MS Word document for my personal cookbook as that's a more compact format that matches (typeface, format, measurement formats, etc.) all the other recipes in my cookbook.

 

[Steve Kroll]

I use to use Pepperplate and had a fairly nice collection. But when they started charging a fee I stopped using them and lost all my recipes. So I don't use any online recipe managers anymore. These days if I find a recipe I like online, I just bookmark it and save the link in organized browser folders.

For recipes that aren't online, I photograph the recipe and save the image to OneDrive.

 

[Badjak]

I use to use Pepperplate and had a fairly nice collection. But when they started charging a fee I stopped using them and lost all my recipes. So I don't use any online recipe managers anymore. These days if I find a recipe I like online, I just bookmark it and save the link in organized browser folders.

For recipes that aren't online, I photograph the recipe and save the image to OneDrive.

Thats the same as me, but I could still get my recipes out by exporting them.
(And then later I found the program I talked about earlier)

 

[GaryHyslop]

I use Paprika for saving recipes. It lets you easily import recipes from websites, organize them and even create shopping lists. I love the meal planner feature, too. It’s a paid app, but it’s totally worth it for all the useful features!

 

[Andy M.]

. . . These days if I find a recipe I like online, I just bookmark it and save the link in organized browser folders.

For recipes that aren't online, I photograph the recipe and save the image to OneDrive.

The danger with this is that the recipe could be taken down, the website closed, etc. I've had this happen.

 

[msmofet]

The danger with this is that the recipe could be taken down, the website closed, etc. I've had this happen.

I was going to say the same thing. It's happened to me also many times. I use the export feature of CMT. It's sent in text form.

I also like putting recipes in MS OneNote. When you copy something into OneNote, it provides a track back link.

 

[dragnlaw]

Whenever I make a recipe I've almost always printed it. then it goes into a binder under whichever category applies. Just checked, I have 1386 recipes on CMT and I have 18 three ring binders. Some bursting at their rings, some thin.