Chef Notebook
Casey Smith Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Chef Notebook is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Casey Smith. Requires iOS 18.5. Updated June 14, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 32 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Jun 14
- 2026 · v1.0.1
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About Chef Notebook
Chef Notebook is a recipe keeper and cooking app for saving, importing, editing, scaling, and cooking the recipes you actually make. FREE ACCESS Browse saved recipes and export your full recipe library at any time as portable JSON-LD. Your recipes stay yours, even if you do not subscribe. CHEF NOTEBOOK PRO Unlock recipe import, editing, version history, smart scaling, Cook Mode, iCloud sync, printing, and formatted recipe sharing with Chef Notebook Pro. SAVE RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE Snap a photo of a magazine page, paste a recipe link, or start from scratch. Chef Notebook turns your source into a clean, structured recipe with ingredients, steps, notes, and photos. BUILD YOUR PERSONAL COOKBOOK Edit ingredients, rewrite steps, add notes, save variations, and keep a version history of what worked. Roll back to an earlier version any time. SCALE RECIPES PRACTICALLY Scale a recipe for two, six, or a crowd. Chef Notebook adjusts ingredients and timing with practical cooking logic for salt, leavening, eggs, and pan sizes. COOK WITH LESS FRICTION Cook Mode keeps your screen awake and walks you through one step at a time. Built-in timers are ready when you need them, and Siri can advance to the next step hands-free. ORGANIZE YOUR KITCHEN Group recipes into collections, add tags, search your whole library, and archive recipes you do not make often. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Recipes sync with your private iCloud and follow you across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. One subscription unlocks every device. PRINT AND SHARE Print recipes on standard paper or 4x6 index cards. Share a recipe as a formatted image when you want to send it to someone else. PRICING Try Chef Notebook free for 7 days with the yearly plan. Monthly and yearly subscriptions are available. See the app for current pricing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your Apple account settings. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://chefnotebook.com/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.0.1 · Updated June 14, 2026
This minor update improves recipe importing and editing on iPad and iPhone.
App privacy
The developer, Casey Smith, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
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:
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
- User Content: Other User Content
Used for: App Functionality, Other Purposes
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