Focara Kitchen

Focara Kitchen

Recipes, meal plans & timers

1 ratings
1 review
Free
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  • Released
  • Updated
  • July 28, 2026
  • September 1, 2026

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Organize all your favorite recipes from any source, whether it's a website link, text, or a photo of a handwritten card. Cook hands-free with a dedicated mode, manage ingredients for shopping, and plan meals with integrated timelines.

Save recipes from links, text, or photos
Hands-free cooking mode with large text
Integrated timers for cooking steps
Meal planning with cooking timelines
Automatic shopping list generation
Recipe versioning and notes
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What's New in Focara Kitchen

1.4.0

September 1, 2026

New: Reorder ingredients — touch and hold a row in the editor and drag it into the order you cook by. New: The cuisine list is yours. Rename or hide the built-ins (Mexican can simply become Colombian), add your own like Hmong, and reset to the defaults anytime — all in Settings → Cuisines. New: Nutrition, your way. Add per-serving figures — calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar, sodium — right from the recipe page, and they show neatly as tiles. Fill in what you know, skip what you don't. And if the ingredients change later, a small dot quietly suggests your figures might need a fresh look. New: Recipe cards are cleaner than ever — just the photo, the name, and your favorite heart. The cuisine and dietary labels now sit together right under a recipe’s title, and tapping a dietary label shows a friendly reminder of how the labels work. Fixed: Imported amounts now read like a cook wrote them — ⅓ cup stays ⅓ cup instead of a long decimal, fractions scale cleanly (⅓ halved is ⅙), and recipes you've already imported tidy themselves up automatically. Also in this update: editing a note now has full photo controls (change, remove, or use as the recipe photo), Previous Photos moved in beside Reposition where it's easier to find, the save dialog now makes the everyday choice obvious, a timer tapped mid-edit asks before leaving your changes, and Easy Read highlighting got a little sharper.

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Subscription plans

Focara Pro Monthly

Removes all ads from Focara Kitchen.

$0.991 Month
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User reviews

Floored

I’m absolutely floored by how useful this app is. Focara is still very new, apparently only been released a few weeks- but the usability is off the charts. I say this as someone who has tried nearly every cooking or recipe app out there. I’ve spent a decade hopping from one system to another, including several years now with one of the more popular apps. I genuinely like Focara better.

Strengths: recipe importing is fantastic. I can finally get recipes from my physical cookbooks to my phone, and importing from websites has been working beautifully too. Recipe organization is elegant. You get all the usual categories: breakfast, lunch, snacks… etc, plus 15 customizable categories. That’s more than enough for me. I also really like being able to filter by cuisine type, although I’d love to see those become customizable as well. I have plenty of Japanese, Thai, Hmong, and Vietnamese which I hesitate to lump together under “Asian”. And my mother in law will kill me if I put her traditional Colombian recipes under “Mexican”, so for now I’m hiding this app from her.

Cooking view is useful, and the ability to save different “versions” of a recipe is one of my favorite features. I can never remember what I subbed last time so this is going to be handy for me. And having timers integrated within the app is a nice touch, as well as the ability to export your recipes to save a backup.

I haven’t put the meal planning or shopping list through its paces, but guaranteed they’re going into my toolbox.

Weaknesses: there’s still signs that this is a young app. I’d love to be able to reorder ingredients. And I really miss having nutrition facts attached to recipes. For now I’m putting the basics in manually in the notes section.

But these are polish issues, not dealbreakers. The foundation of the app is unusually good. It already feels more useful to me than recipe apps that have been around for years, and I’m genuinely excited to see where the developers take it.
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FAQ

How do I add recipes to Focara Kitchen?

You can add recipes by pasting a link from a website, pasting raw recipe text, snapping photos of cookbooks or handwritten notes for smart scanning, or by typing them directly into the structured editor.

Does Focara Kitchen have ads?

Yes, Focara Kitchen contains advertisements in its free version. You can remove all ads by subscribing to Focara Kitchen Pro.

What are the subscription options for Focara Kitchen Pro?

Focara Kitchen Pro offers two subscription plans: a monthly plan for $0.99 and a yearly plan for $5.99. These prices are based on US pricing and may vary in your local currency.

Can I use Focara Kitchen offline?

The app's description states that your recipe box lives on your device, suggesting that core functionality, including accessing saved recipes, should be available offline. However, features like importing recipes from websites would require an internet connection.

How does Focara Kitchen help with meal planning?

Focara Kitchen allows you to plan a meal and it will automatically build a cooking timeline backwards from your desired serve time. Each dish gets its own start alarm to ensure everything is ready simultaneously.

What devices is Focara Kitchen available on?

Focara Kitchen is available on iPhone and iPad devices. It is fully localized in 34 languages, with recipe scanning also functional in most of these languages.

How often is Focara Kitchen updated?

The latest version of Focara Kitchen is 1.4.0, which was last updated on September 1, 2026. This indicates a relatively recent update cycle.

Can I share recipes from Focara Kitchen?

Yes, you can share any recipe from Focara Kitchen as a beautiful, ad-free web page. The recipient does not need the app to view the recipe's photo, ingredients, and steps.