# Bento: Personal Library — Everything in its box

> Everything in its box (iPhone/iPad app by Don Kallail.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bento-personal-library/id6770398950 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Don Kallail](https://appshunter.io/developer/1794854443)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 119 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-01
- Data updated: 2026-07-20
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bento-personal-library/id6770398950/reviews.md

## What is Bento?

Bento is a local-first box for the things worth keeping: recipes, links, screenshots, voice notes, PDFs, and places. Stored on your device, fully searchable, no account required.

Capture from one simple app. Bento automatically types each save and organizes your library around boxes and the context that matters to you.

Use Bento to:
• Capture recipes, documents, voice memos, photos, and places
• Drop in links, URLs, and copied text quickly
• Organize into boxes, then sort and filter by type
• Search across everything, including text inside screenshots
• Keep private items locked behind Face ID or hidden entirely
• Add your own notes without losing the original source

Bento is built for personal knowledge, not feeds, followers, or noise. Keep what matters without turning your saved content into another inbox.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Bento Terms: https://usebento.io/terms.html
Privacy Policy: https://usebento.io/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bento Pro | $4.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bento Pro Lifetime | $19.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5 — 2026-07-08

Bento 1.5 makes boxes more useful for real life.
• New and improved Recipe Boxes for saving recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists
• Better Travel Boxes with places, reservations, lodging, maps, and trip details working together more cleanly
• Smarter handling for screenshots, links, PDFs, and shared content
• Faster, smoother box browsing and search
• Lots of polish across item details, capture, sharing, and app navigation
• Bug fixes and reliability improvements throughout the app

### 1.4 — 2026-06-13

Bento 1.4 adds richer Trip and Destination Boxes for planning around places, with better map/location saves and travel-focused organization.

This update also improves recipe, long form social imports, and map-share imports, polishes navigation and setup details, and hardens iCloud sync with better recovery and diagnostics when iCloud needs attention.

### 1.3 — 2026-06-12

Version 1.3 makes boxes more powerful and Bento easier to keep organized.

• Pin important saves inside a box so the things you need stay at the top.
• New box layouts: Standard, Structured, Trip, and Recipe Collection.
• Trip boxes now support destinations, travel dates, countdowns, maps, and travel-friendly sections.
• Cleaner item details, including inline reminders and easier recipe cover updates.
• More room on the free plan: up to 200 saves and 20 private boxes.
• Bento Pro now includes a lifetime unlock option.
• Improved iCloud sync diagnostics and reliability fixes.

### 1.2 — 2026-06-05

Bento 1.2 adds reminders for time-sensitive saves.

- Add reminders to saved screenshots from Item Detail
- Bento can suggest reminders when OCR finds a date or time
- Home now shows subtle reminder chips and a Reminders filter when something needs attention
- Recipe saves are easier to read, with improved parsing for ingredients, steps, and useful details
- Free iCloud sync now has clearer status details, retry controls, and safer recovery options
- Includes smaller polish across startup, Home, capture, and navigation

### 1.1 — 2026-06-02

Bento 1.1 includes a broad round of polish, stability improvements, and library upgrades.

• New and improved add menu for faster captures
• Improved Home loading and scrolling behavior
• Cleaner smart filters for browsing saved content
• Better recipe parsing, including more ingredient formats
• Smoother search and navigation performance
• Fixes for export, item detail, image preview, and accessibility edge cases
• General reliability improvements across the app and share extension

## More apps by Don Kallail

- [WordSprout: Spelling Practice](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wordsprout-spelling-practice/id6741597283)

All apps by Don Kallail: https://appshunter.io/developer/1794854443

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