# Recipe Box - Plan and Shop — Your retro recipe rolodex

> Your retro recipe rolodex (iPhone/iPad app by Nicholas Freeman.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recipe-box-plan-and-shop/id6806369107 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Nicholas Freeman](https://appshunter.io/developer/1884630344)
- Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-07
- Data updated: 2026-11-09

## What is Recipe Box?

Recipe Box is a cheerful, retro home for every recipe you love, filed on index cards in a rolodex you flip with your thumb.

Save recipes any way you like:
• Paste a link from a recipe site and Recipe Box pulls out just the recipe: ingredients, steps, time and photo.
• Snap a photo of a handwritten card or a cookbook page. Recipe Box reads it on your device and keeps the original photo with the card.
• Or type it in. Amounts first on each line, and Recipe Box sorts out the rest.

Find it fast:
• Flip through the rolodex or jump straight to a letter with the A–Z index.
• Search by name or ingredient, or filter by category and favorites.
• Make your own categories, rename them, or tidy up the ones you don't use.
• Every card gets a hand-drawn illustration picked to match the dish, or use your own photo.

Cook step by step:
• Step-by-step cook mode in big, easy-to-read type.
• Recipe Box reads each step aloud. Say "next step", "go back", "repeat" or "start timer" and keep your hands in the dough.
• Timers are picked up from the steps, and the screen stays on while you cook.

Plan the week, shop in one trip:
• Drag recipes onto the days of a diner-style menu board.
• Change servings for any meal and the amounts scale with it.
• Your grocery list builds itself: amounts are added up across recipes, sorted by aisle, and pantry staples you already have are left off.
• Tick items off in the store, send the list as text, or print a notepad-style list with boxes to check by pen.

On your Apple Watch:
• Tick off your grocery list from your wrist, even in a store with no signal.
• See tonight's meal, read the ingredients and step through the recipe.
• Step timers tap your wrist when they're done.

Share and print:
• Send a recipe as a recipe-card picture, a PDF, plain text, or a Recipe Box file friends can add in one tap.
• Make a printable cookbook with a retro cover, contents page and chapters.

Made for every screen:
• iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
• Made for iPhone Duo: the menu moves beside the clock when it's closed, and the recipes spread out when it's open.
• Larger Text, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion are supported throughout.

Synced and safe:
• Your recipes, plans and grocery lists stay in step across your iPhone and iPad with iCloud.
• Automatic daily backups to iCloud Drive, and backup files you can save anywhere and restore at any time.
• No account to create, no ads, no tracking.

Recipe Box Pro:
Some features are part of Recipe Box Pro: unlimited link, photo and PDF imports, the Apple Watch app, planning weeks ahead, printable cookbooks and voice commands in cook mode. Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://orioninterstellar.com/recipebox/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipe Box Pro (Monthly) | $6.99 | per month |
| Recipe Box Pro (Annual) | $34.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipe Box Pro (Lifetime) | $99.99 | one-time |


## Is Recipe Box safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Recipe Box.

## Is Recipe Box legit?

Recipe Box - Plan and Shop has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Recipe Box is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-07

No release notes.

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All apps by Nicholas Freeman: https://appshunter.io/developer/1884630344

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