Recipeculator
Jan Roldan Hernandez Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Recipeculator is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Jan Roldan Hernandez. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated August 26, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 7 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 26
- 2026 · v1.6.0
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About Recipeculator
Recipeculator turns your supplier prices into the numbers that actually run a food business: what each recipe costs, what each product costs to sell, and what a whole menu costs before you shop for it. COST EVERY RECIPE PROPERLY • Enter what you buy and what you pay — Recipeculator works out the cost of every recipe from it • Unit prices that make sense: per kg, per litre, per plate, per piece • Weight, volume and count units convert automatically, including cross-conversions by density • Sub-recipes: use a stock, sauce or dough as an ingredient in another recipe • Batch scaling for large orders COUNT THE COSTS THAT AREN'T INGREDIENTS • Electricity, gas, labour and packaging, charged at rates you set once • Change a rate and every recipe using it reprices at a stroke • Say whether a cost multiplies with batch size — an oven two batches share doesn't, labour does • Anything billed by the hour can follow the recipe's prep time automatically • Add your own: water, delivery, equipment time PRICE WHAT YOU SELL, NOT JUST WHAT YOU COOK • A recipe is a method; a product is a portion of it, in its packaging, at a price • Build a small pot and a large tub from the same recipe and price them separately • Packaging is costed per product, so the big one isn't simply four times the small one • Group products by channel — market, catering, pop-up — and keep the price lists apart • Food cost percentage and profit on every product PLAN AND COST A WHOLE MENU • Build menus from any recipes — no selling price required • Scale each one: 2× the terrine, 3× the tart • See the cost price of the entire service as you build it A SHOPPING LIST THAT ADDS ITSELF UP • One consolidated list for the whole menu, already scaled • Ingredients used in several recipes are added together • Quantities in the units you actually buy in • Tick items off as you shop, with the current price beside each one • Photograph the receipt and the total, date and shop are read for you, then compared with your estimate COST WHAT YOU ACTUALLY USE • Set a waste percentage on any ingredient — 1 kg of tomatoes yielding 900 g usable costs what it really costs • Shopping lists gross quantities back up, so you buy enough • Ingredients whose price hasn't been updated in months are flagged, so nothing is costed on last year's invoice SHARE WITH YOUR KITCHEN • Send recipes, ingredients, menus or products as one file • Works between different Apple IDs — no shared account needed • Recipes carry their ingredients, sub-recipes and utility rates, so costs arrive intact • On import you decide what happens to anything you already have KNOW YOUR MARGINS • Food cost percentage and profit per portion • A target food cost you set yourself • Price history, so you can see when a supplier crept up • Professional PDF cost reports with the shopping list attached WORKS THE WAY A KITCHEN DOES • Everything syncs across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud • Your data stays yours — private iCloud, no account, no server of ours • Works offline; changes merge when you reconnect • Organise with your own categories, not just ours • CSV import and export for your whole library • 15 currencies Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://recipeculator.tokshernandez.cc/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.6.0 · Updated August 26, 2026
The costing sheet, finished. • PRICE WHAT YOU SELL — New Products tab. A recipe is a method; a product is a portion of it, in its packaging, at a price. Build a 150 g market pot and a 600 g catering tub from the same hummus and price them separately — the big one isn't four times the small one, because packaging doesn't scale with the food. Group products by channel so a market list and a catering list stay apart. • THE COSTS THAT AREN'T INGREDIENTS — Electricity, gas, labour, packaging. Set your rates once and every recipe using them reprices at a stroke. Say how much a recipe uses, and choose whether it multiplies when a menu asks for more batches — an oven two batches share doesn't, labour does. Add your own: water, delivery, equipment time. • CHARGE YOUR TIME AUTOMATICALLY — For anything billed by the hour, link the amount to the recipe's prep time. Change the recipe from 15 minutes to 40 and the gas and labour follow, without retyping. • ONE CATEGORY LIST — Your own categories now appear in the same picker as the built-in ones, and the lists actually group by them. Hide the built-ins you don't use, so "Dairy" and your own "Dairy & Eggs" stop sitting side by side. • STALE PRICE WARNING — Ingredients whose price hasn't moved in months are flagged in red, with a count at the top of the list. Set the window yourself, from three months to two years. • PHOTOGRAPH A DISH — Take a photo straight from the recipe instead of only picking one from your library. FIXED • Recipe ingredients are editable again. Change a quantity, switch the unit, remove a line — no more deleting the whole recipe to correct one number. • Tapping a recipe, ingredient or menu with a long name now opens it. Previously only the blank space to the right of the name responded. • "Change Photo" now works. It had been doing nothing at all. • Custom categories are saved. Choosing one used to be quietly discarded. • Sharing carries everything: products, utility rates, custom categories, price history and receipts. Older library files still import.
App privacy
The developer, Jan Roldan Hernandez, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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