Crouton: Recipe Manager

Crouton: Recipe Manager

Grocery List, Meal Planner

2.8K ratings
533 reviews
#78 in top-grossing Food & Drink
🌟 Lifestyle
🍔 Food & Drink
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Organize your favorite recipes from any source, plan your weekly meals, and generate grocery lists automatically. Features step-by-step cooking guidance, integrated timers, and AI-powered recipe importing.

✓Import recipes from websites, books, and handwritten notes
✓AI and OCR recipe scanning
✓Weekly meal planning and automatic plan generation
✓Step-by-step cooking mode with hands-free navigation
✓Integrated timers and ingredient quantity display
✓Automatic grocery list creation
✓Cloud syncing across devices
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What's New in Crouton

2026.4

September 13, 2026

NEW FEATURES • Hands-free hand gestures: Move between recipe steps by pointing your thumb left or right • Ingredient substitutions: Get suggested replacements or check whether an ingredient you have will work. Apply substitutions to ingredient quantities and cooking instructions without changing your saved recipe. Requires Crouton Discover. • Weekly meal-plan widgets: See your week at a glance with new extra-large layouts, including portrait support on supported systems. • Make-ahead badges: Spot recipes that need marinating, chilling, proofing, thawing, or other advance preparation directly in your current week’s meal plan. • Expanded Siri and Shortcuts support: View interactive recipe cards, find recipes and empty meal-plan dates, add recipes to your plan, add ingredients to groceries, create recipes from schema data, and launch step-by-step cooking for today’s meal plan or a specific meal section. • Import recipes using schema.org Recipe JSON or JSON-LD. Paste structured recipe data or import individual JSON files and ZIP archives from Settings → Import Recipes. • Select and export multiple recipes at once as Crouton files, PDF, plain text, or Markdown. • Scale recipes directly from Step-by-Step mode by multiplier, serving count, or a selected ingredient. • Reorder or hide navigation tabs. • Added “sprig” as a supported ingredient measurement.
 IMPROVEMENTS • Refreshed styling, navigation controls, . • Improved Step-by-Step layouts, ingredient panels, recipe switching, and text sizing across screen sizes and orientations. • More accurate ingredient highlighting and recognition of cooking times, temperature ranges, and measurements in recipe instructions. • Improved French Smart Step matching so common words such as “au” are not incorrectly highlighted as ingredients. • A cleaner grocery list that automatically clears checked items after a short delay, plus quick access to add individual ingredients while cooking. • Redesigned Discover cards, a two-column layout on wider screens, and loading of older posts as you scroll. • Richer recipe information in Shortcuts, including recipe IDs, instructions, servings, preparation times, and nutrition, alongside additional phrases. • Search now ignores accents and diacritics, supports quoted phrases, and provides more consistent matching across recipe names, ingredients, notes, sources, folders, and tags. • Recipe tags are now included when exporting .crumb files. • Improved recipe detection. • Ingredient importing now understands formats where the quantity appears after the ingredient, such as “Olive oil, 2 tbsp.” • Improved loading and error handling during Smart Import, including more reliable dismissal and retry behaviour. • Fixed recipe scaling sometimes failing to apply when entering Step-by-Step mode. • Fixed recipe scaling affecting every recipe in a multi-recipe Step-by-Step session. Each recipe now keeps its own scale. • Fixed SharePlay step synchronization and improved shared cooking-session startup and recipe changes. • Fixed timers overlapping manual timer entry and corrected timer positioning. • Fixed camera text scanning when adding recipe ingredients or instructions. • Fixed tag import handling for tags without a colour, and improved tag layouts. • Fixed dragging meal-plan notes between different weeks. • Improved meal-plan scrolling and loading stability when additional dates are added. • Corrected navigation flashes, section-header alignment, and cooking-screen insets on smaller devices. • Fixed a crash when rotating or resizing while navigating Settings. • “Copy Local Link” has moved into the recipe Share menu.

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This app rose +9 positions in Food & Drink chart.

Last updated on October 15, 2026.

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User reviews

Better than ever other recipe app I’ve used!

What the title says! It’s so easy to use. And accurate website pastes/import FOR FREEEEE!!!

My Favorite App Hands Down

I use this to store recipes. No more scrolling life stories to get to the ingredient list. I use the Meal planner for the week, I add all the ingredients to my grocery list, cross off what is in my pantry already, and my grocery list is done! This has simplified my life and has helped me eat much healthier!
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Really Limited “free” account

Cant add more than 5 recipes without upgrading to Pro.

Must Have!

This app is beautifully built, practical, functional, and thoughtful. It is an app my wife and I use every day. It is so practical for meal planning, quickly accessing recipes, and meal prepping. The way that it is designed for all devices with iCloud sync is brilliant! This functionality makes it easy to meal prep with my wife and see recipes on multiple devices. Lastly, the AI quick add recipe features make it SO easy to add new recipes to our library and share them with friends/family (the subscription is worth it!). Couldn’t recommend this app enough!
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Annoying

Incredibly annoying to put recipes in from links. Even if I choose the weight measurements in the site, it always reverts to cups and the automatic conversion is not even close to being correct. Even if recipe says cups and grams, it takes the grams out. Such a pain to use unless cooking with cups.

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Reported Bugs

3 issues

Grocery list not remembering checked items

Bug

Syncing issues between devices

Bug

Inability to add more than 5 recipes in free version

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Requested Features

6 requests

Recipe rating system

Feature

Nutrition information

Feature

Ability to add recipe notes and descriptions

Feature

Improved grocery list organization

Feature

Web/Windows app version

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Ability to export recipes in bulk

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FAQ

What does Crouton do?

Crouton is a feature-packed recipe organizer and meal planner. It allows you to store recipes from various sources, plan your meals for the week, and automatically generate grocery lists. It also offers step-by-step cooking guidance and integrated timers.

How can I import recipes into Crouton?

You can import recipes automatically from websites, scan them from cookbooks using AI and OCR, or manually enter them. The app also supports importing from plain text and images, with AI capable of importing a recipe from a single photo.

Is Crouton free to use?

The application offers a free version with in-app purchases. This means you can download and use the basic features for free, with optional purchases available for additional functionality or content.

What devices is Crouton compatible with?

Crouton utilizes iCloud for syncing, suggesting it is available on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads. Specific operating system version requirements are not detailed in the provided description.

Can Crouton help with cooking and shopping?

Yes, Crouton offers a unique step-by-step cooking mode that focuses on one instruction at a time, with the ability to tap ingredients for quantities and use hands-free navigation. It also automatically generates grocery lists directly from your recipes, making shopping more convenient.