# Grandma's Old Cookbook — For all the memories > For all the memories (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Corbin.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grandmas-old-cookbook/id6762025943 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Robert Corbin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992) - Category: Food & Drink, Productivity - Price: $2.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-04-16 - Data updated: 2026-08-31 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grandmas-old-cookbook/id6762025943/reviews.md ## What is Grandma's Old Cookbook? Grandma's Cookbook is a local-first family recipe keeper for iPhone and iPad. Scan old recipe pages, preserve the original handwriting or clipping, turn each page into a structured recipe card, and cook from it with practical kitchen tools. It is built for church binders, handwritten cards, flour-dusted notebooks, newspaper clippings, and family margin notes that deserve more than a photo album. What you can do: - Scan recipe pages into a named family cookbook volume, or import photos you already took - Turn a scanned page into a structured recipe with ingredients and steps while keeping the original image beside it - Use the Prep Plan to see a readiness score, active time, passive time, make-ahead notes, timed steps, shopping needs, and watch points before cooking - Scale servings up or down and convert cups, tablespoons, grams, ounces, oven temperatures, and common kitchen measures offline - Start Cook Mode for a big-text step-by-step cooking view with timers parsed from the directions - Browse a global Recipe Index organized by category - Build an aisle-grouped shopping list from one recipe or multiple recipes at once - Mark shopping items as already on hand so your buy list stays clean - Log every cooking attempt in the Cook Journal with date, rating, and notes - Export a typeset Keepsake Book PDF with a cover, table of contents, and recipe pages - Correct recognized text when handwriting, smudges, or faded ink need a human pass - Add tags, family notes, and memories to every page - Search across recipe names, ingredients, corrected text, OCR text, and notes On-device text recognition reads printed and clear handwriting. You can edit anything it misses, and the original photo is always preserved. Starter recipes are bundled so you can try scanning workflows, scaling, Cook Mode, shopping lists, Prep Plan, and the keepsake book right away. Grandma's Cookbook keeps everything on the device. There is no account, no analytics, no ads, and no vendor cloud recipe locker. HEIRLOOM BACKUP (NEW IN 2.6) Your shelf is a family treasure - now you can pass it around. Export every volume, family story, hometown, and scanned page into one Heirloom file, send it by AirDrop or email, and anyone in the family can import it into their own copy of the app. Grandma's handwriting, everyone's phone. ## Chart rankings - #53 in Top Paid · Food & Drink (US App Store) ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.6 — 2026-08-16 HEIRLOOM BACKUP (NEW) - Export your whole shelf - every volume, story, hometown, and scanned page - into a single Heirloom file you can AirDrop or email to family. - Import a relative's Heirloom file and their volumes join your shelf, pages re-read by on-device text recognition. - Your family's recipes now outlive any one phone. Plus small polish across the shelf and reader. ### 2.4 — 2026-06-28 **Prep Plan** Every structured recipe now gets a practical kitchen readiness report before you start cooking. The app checks ingredients, steps, active time, passive time, make-ahead wording, timed directions, shopping needs, and vague watch points such as "until done" or "to taste." **Readiness Score** Recipe screens now show a clear score and next-best actions so you know whether the card is ready for Cook Mode, needs shopping, or needs a quick human check. **Make-Ahead and Timer Detection** The planner highlights overnight chilling, resting, rising, marinating, baking, simmering, and other timing-sensitive steps so old family recipes are easier to cook from today. **Store Metadata Refresh** Screenshots, support pages, privacy page, and App Store copy now reflect the current interface and 2.4 feature set. ### 2.3 — 2026-06-15 What's New in Version 2.1 Cook Journal Every recipe now has a cook journal. Tap "Cook Journal" on any recipe to log when you made it, give it a 1-5 star rating, and jot notes about what worked and what to change. Over time you build a real family record - "Mom made this every Thanksgiving, 5 stars, always double the brown sugar." The journal shows your cook count, average rating, and last date cooked right on the recipe screen. Multi-Recipe Shopping List Open the Recipe Index, tap the cart icon in the top-right, and select as many recipes as you want. Tap "Build list" and all the ingredients merge into one aisle-grouped shopping list. Perfect for batch cooking or weekly meal prep. Pantry Skip on Shopping Lists Any shopping list now has a "house" icon next to each item. Tap it to mark something as "already have" - it moves to an "Already Have" section at the bottom so your buy list stays clean. Tap again to restore it. The shared list text shows both sections. ### 2.2 — 2026-06-13 Version 2.2 turns your kitchen notes into real recipes. New — a one-tap Make-it-a-recipe parser (ingredients, steps, servings, time), a serving scaler (half/1/2/3x), a keep-awake Cook Mode with step timers, a Kitchen Reference (unit converter, oven-temp table, 61 substitutions, 45 ingredient densities), an aisle-grouped Shopping List, and a printable keepsake PDF cookbook (cover + table of contents). Plus 12 bundled classic starter recipes so you are never staring at a blank book. Still fully offline — no account, no ads, no tracking, no subscription. ### 2.1 — 2026-05-28 Updated app icon and refreshed the App Store build. ## More apps by Robert Corbin - [Daily Word Journey](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-word-journey/id6761548266) - [Hush Secret Text](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hush-secret-text/id6761658175) - [Renew Guard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/renew-guard/id6761755447) - [Receipt to PDF](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/receipt-to-pdf/id6761782025) - [Route Your Pay](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/route-your-pay/id6761783719) - [Tip Arbiter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tip-arbiter/id6761786879) All apps by Robert Corbin: https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*