Crouton: Recipe Manager

Crouton: Recipe Manager

Grocery List, Meal Planner

2.8K ratings
528 reviews
#92 in top-grossing Food & Drink
🌟 Lifestyle
🍔 Food & Drink
Free
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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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Food & Drink

This app dropped -9 positions in Food & Drink chart.

Last updated on September 18, 2026.

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User reviews

Misleading

BE AWARE that if you purchase the Pro you cannot upload a picture of a recipe to keep unless you also purchase the monthly subscription. This is not made clear in the information describing the paid version.

Recipe import non-functional

I was so excited to purchase the plus version of this app and collect recipes that have been sitting around in hard copy. But I’m disappointed to see that the import function is completely non-functional now. Importing from camera just directs me to a page prompting me to purchase plus (which I already have) or the pricier plan, and there’s no way to actually do the import. I’ll be trying to get my money back.
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Falta el idioma Español

Al igual que otras app como FoodNoms que me parecen muy pulidas y buenas, le falta la traducción al español. Debería de añadir una opción que permita colaborar con la traducción, yo mismo ayudaría a traducir la aplicación al Español. Una pena que no se le dé prioridad a esto cuando es esencial para llegar a más usuarios… Por último, la opción de poder compartir recetas debería de incluirse en la versión de pago único y no en la suscripción, no tiene sentido y a mí me quita las ganas de comprarla…
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Better than others

Been using crouton for a while now and I can say this is better than the ones out there which is all hype just because its all over social media doesnt mean its good

Only 5 recipes

For an app marketed as free on the App Store this app only allows you to add 5 recipes before telling you, you have to pay $20-30 dollars to be allowed to add more along with unlocking the rest of the features. While I understand unlocking extra features only allowing 5 recipes for the base is a little ridiculous I would understand 30-50 recipes seeing as they are our recipes we are adding but only 5 seems a stretch. Not to mention they don’t tell you the limit until you’ve reached it so I just spent over an hour entering in 4 recipes before realizing I have to pay to unlock the ability to add more. The app is great but the execution of level locking and transparency is poor.
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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

Bug

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

Feature

Ability to export recipes in bulk

Feature

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.