# Kept: Recipe Organizer — Yours forever, in your iCloud

> Yours forever, in your iCloud (iPhone/iPad app by Jesse Bergslien.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kept-recipe-organizer/id6769973371 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jesse Bergslien](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896704922)
- Category: Food & Drink, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.4 · 12 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-02
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kept-recipe-organizer/id6769973371/reviews.md

## What is Kept?

Kept is the recipe organizer for people who collect recipes everywhere: websites, cookbooks, family cards, screenshots, and ideas of their own. Bring them all into one beautiful, private library that syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own iCloud.

SAVE FROM ANYWHERE
• Import from any recipe website: use the share sheet to save directly from your browser, or paste a link to extract the title, ingredients, steps, and photo.
• Scan paper recipes: point the camera at a cookbook page or a handwritten card and Kept turns it into a structured recipe.
• Paste from notes or messages: plain text becomes a clean, organized recipe.

COOK WITH CONFIDENCE
• A clean cook-along view with a tappable ingredient checklist. Strike through items as you add them.
• Numbered steps with ingredients, cookware, and timers highlighted inline.
• Tap any timer to start it, then follow it from the Dynamic Island or Lock Screen.
• Attach a photo of your finished dish to remember how it should look.

ORGANIZED, AUTOMATICALLY
• Recipes are classified into categories with matching icons as you add them.
• Search, filter by category or tag, and sort your whole collection instantly.
• Group your library by category, or browse most recent and most cooked.

YOURS, FOREVER
• Recipes are stored as portable, human-readable Cooklang files in your own iCloud Drive. Open them in the Files app anytime.
• Save up to 10 recipes free. A one-time purchase unlocks unlimited.
• No account, no subscription, no lock-in. Move, copy, or back up your recipes like any other file.
• Private by design: no analytics, no tracking, no servers. Your recipes never leave your control and stay only in your own iCloud.

Kept supports iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Recipe import works best on devices with Apple Intelligence enabled.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlimited Recipes | $4.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-07-28

IMPORTING
• Opening a .cook file now uses the title written inside the recipe instead of the filename.
• When an import fails, the sheet explains what went wrong and offers Retry.
• Dropping files onto your library reports how many recipes were actually added, and tells you when a file was skipped.

EDITING AND PHOTOS
• Fixed a crash in the ingredient checklist when a recipe's ingredients changed while you were editing it.
• Saving an edit is now all-or-nothing, so an interrupted save can't leave a recipe half-written.
• Photo, cover, and delete failures now explain themselves instead of quietly doing nothing.

IPAD
• Import and Recently Deleted moved into the File menu for hardware keyboards, and ⌘I now reports picker failures instead of silently dropping them.
• Fixed a doubled navigation bar and an incorrect recipe count on the Import screen.

ACCESSIBILITY
• VoiceOver now announces whether a recipe is selected while multi-selecting.
• Help no longer shows iPhone instructions on iPad.

### 1.0 — 2026-07-02

No release notes.

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