Platecraft

Recipes, meal plans & lists

Plan your week, build recipes, and auto-generate a tidy shopping list, all synced privately across your devices through your own iCloud. No account, no servers.

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$1.99 · One-time purchase · No subscriptions

Platecraft is a private, no-account recipe manager, meal planner, and shopping list built for iPhone and iPad.

New here? The complete guide walks through setup and every feature in plain English, including the parts people get stuck on: the optional AI features, iCloud sync, sharing with a partner, and backups.

Plan your week

Drag recipes onto a weekly meal-planning calendar.
Export your meal plan to your calendar app (iCal).

Build your recipe collection

Create recipes with structured ingredients and steps.
Import recipes from a web link, a photo, or a backup file.
Organize with tags and reprocess imported recipes anytime.

Shop smarter

Auto-generate a shopping list from your planned meals.
Items are grouped by store section so you shop aisle by aisle.

Sync privately, with no account and no server

Your data lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud Drive.
There is no Platecraft account and no Platecraft server, so we never see your data.
Sync across your devices, with an optional shared folder to share with a partner's Apple ID.
Smart 3-way merge with clear conflict resolution when the same recipe changes on two devices.

Optional AI features (bring your own key)

Photo import: snap a cookbook page or a handwritten card and get a structured recipe.
Paste Text import: turn text from a note, an email, or a blog post into a recipe.
Link import falls back to AI on sites that don't publish machine-readable recipe data.
Tidier shopping lists: scallions and green onions land on one line, with quantities reconciled.
Reprocess an imported recipe later to fill in what's missing or clean up formatting.
These features use your own Anthropic (Claude) API key, entered in Settings. Typical cost is a couple of cents per photo import.
Without a key, you can still import from links and backups and add recipes manually.
An optional USDA FoodData Central key (free) can be added for nutrition lookups.

The guide has step-by-step setup for the AI key.

Made for people who want their recipes and meal plans to stay theirs. Read the complete guide or the Platecraft privacy policy.