Pestle: Recipe Manager
Will Bishop Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Pestle: Recipe Manager is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Will Bishop. Rated 4.7/5 from 1,811 ratings. Requires iOS 17.6.
- Rating
- 4.7
- 1.8K ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 97 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Sep 14
- 2026 · v4.0
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About Pestle: Recipe Manager
Save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and more with Pestle. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE Import recipes from anywhere on the internet to Pestle, and keep just the ingredients and steps. Just tap 'Share', and 'Save to my Cookbook'. GUIDED COOKING Turn any recipe into a step-by-step process with Pestle's guided cooking experience. Control Pestle hands-free for those messy recipes, set as many timers as you want & get reminders for quantities with just a tap. DEVICE SYNC Find a recipe on your iPhone, and cook it for dinner on your iPad with seamless, instant sync. For the power users, you can even switch between your iPad & iPhone with Handoff. HOUSEHOLDS Create a Pestle Household and share all of your recipes with your family, and create Meal Plans together, too! DISCOVER Pestle learns where you save recipes from and suggests to you their latest creations. Add your favorite foodie blogs and always stay up to date. MEAL PLAN Pestle can help you plan out your next 14-days by allowing you to assign recipes to each day. And, of course, syncs everywhere. SHOPPING LIST Take every ingredient from your recipe and add it to your shopping list! Already got Olive Oil? No worries, just tap it to remove it from your list. BOOKMARKS When Pestle isn't able to intelligently extract recipe details, Bookmarks are saved to take you straight back to the source. RECIPE SCANNING We get it, not all recipes are online. If you have a big collection of physical recipes, worry not, Pestle has a recipe scanner to digitize them! There's a lot more you can do with Pestle, but we'll let you discover it! The use of Pestle is outlined in our Terms of Use, which can be found at https://pestlechef.app/terms.
Ratings & reviews
4.7
1.8K ratings
What’s new
Version 4.0 · Updated September 14, 2026
Pestle is getting a lot smarter in 4.0 Hey everyone, Pestle’s iOS 27 release is here and it is absolutely packed with new features to make cooking easier, Pestle faster, and a lot more. What’s New: - Head Up: See long instructions before they catch you out, things like long marinade times, overnight proofs and more are surfaced earlier, so you’re never caught out. - Ask Siri what to make for dinner, or much flour you need for one of your saved recipes. - Scale multiple quantities in a single ingredient. - Add an instruction for each step in a recipe. - Up to 8.5x faster launch speed. - Instantaneous search across names, authors, ingredients, categories and more. - New units such as “cans”, “sheets”, “cloves” and more. - Faster recipe processing. - Markdown import - You can now duplicate recipes. - Adjust text size in guided cooking. There’s also lots of squashed bugs, too many to list here! I hope you love Pestle 4.0, if you find any oddities don’t hesitate to reach out to Pestle support.
App privacy
The developer, Will Bishop, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Contact Info: Name
- User Content: Photos or Videos
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pestle: Recipe Manager | 4.7 / 5 (1,811 ratings) | Free | September 14, 2026 |
| Mela - Recipe Manager | 4.6 / 5 (871) | Free | Jun 8, 2025 |
| Crouton: Recipe Manager | 4.8 / 5 (2,849) | Free | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Recipe Keeper: CookBook | 4.8 / 5 (2,644) | Free | Sep 24, 2026 |
| Recipe Keeper Box - OrganizEat | 4.8 / 5 (8,344) | Free | Sep 17, 2026 |
| Umami - Recipe Manager | 4.8 / 5 (470) | Free | Jan 27, 2026 |
| Seeds: Plant-based meals | 4.1 / 5 (46) | Free | Sep 25, 2026 |