# Sauce- Recipes & Meal Planner — Cook Book & Shopping List

> AI recipe importer, organizer, and guided cooking assistant with pantry and grocery list features. (iPhone/iPad app by Amari Thomas.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sauce-recipes-and-meal-planner/id6760685363 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Amari Thomas](https://appshunter.io/developer/1868315587)
- Category: Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 6 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 19 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-03-29
- Data updated: 2026-07-09
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sauce-recipes-and-meal-planner/id6760685363/reviews.md

## What is Sauce?

What is Sauce?
Sauce is an AI-powered recipe manager that lets you import, organize, and cook recipes from anywhere. Whether you find a recipe on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or a blog, Sauce extracts the full recipe — ingredients, steps, timers, and nutrition — so you can save recipes to your personal cookbook and cook hands-free.

How Sauce Works
The app is organized around five main tabs: Recipes, Pantry, Add, Groceries, and Profile.

1. Importing Recipes 
Users can add recipes in three ways:

Import from Link — Paste a URL from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or any recipe website. AI extracts the recipe title, summary, ingredients, steps, cook/prep times, servings, nutrition macros, and tags automatically. The app validates that the content is actually a recipe before generating a card.
Scan Recipe Photo — Take a photo of a recipe (from a book, magazine, or handwritten note) or choose one from the photo library. AI reads the image and extracts the full recipe.
Create Custom Recipe — Write your own recipe from scratch with a structured form for title, description, ingredients (with quantity/unit), numbered steps, timing, servings, and tags.

2. Recipe Library 
All imported and custom recipes appear in a beautiful masonry grid layout with varying card heights.
Full-text search lets you find any recipe instantly.
Tapping a recipe opens a detailed view with a hero image, source badge (TikTok, Instagram, Web, etc.), and all recipe info.

3. Recipe Detail & Serving Size Adjustment
Each recipe shows prep time, cook time, and servings at a glance, plus a full nutrition breakdown (calories, protein, fat, carbs per serving).
A built-in serving size adjustment control lets you increase or decrease servings with +/− buttons. Ingredient quantities scale automatically so you always have the right amounts.
Add to Collection to organize recipes into custom groups — your personal digital cookbook.

4. Cooking Mode
The "Let's Cook!" button launches a full-screen step-by-step cooking mode with a progress bar.

5. Grocery List 
Add grocery items manually, or import ingredients directly from any saved recipe 

6. Pantry(Premium) 
Track what's in your fridge and pantry with quantity steppers.

7. Profile & Cookbook Collections
View your saved recipes (favorites) in a horizontal scroll strip for quick access — this is your personal cookbook of go-to recipes.
Create and browse Collections 

8. Smart Notifications
Cooking timer notifications alert you when a step's timer is done, even in the background.


FEATURES

AI Link Import- Extract recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, blogs
Photo Scanning- OCR recipes from photos of cookbooks or handwriting
Custom Recipes- Full manual recipe creation form
Serving Size Adjustment- Scale ingredients up/down by changing servings
Cooking Mode- Step-by-step guided cooking with timers & notifications
Save Recipes / Favorites- Heart any recipe to save it to your cookbook
Collections (Cookbook)- Organize saved recipes into themed folders
Grocery List- Manual + recipe-based grocery list with check-off
Pantry Tracker(Premium feature)- AI photo scan or manual pantry inventory
Nutrition Info- Calories, protein, fat, carbs per serving

Sauce is designed to be the all-in-one recipe manager that replaces scattered bookmarks, screenshots, and handwritten notes with a clean, organized, AI-powered cookbook.

Sauce offers a 3-day free trial to access the app and all features, after the trial users will be charged to continue using the app. The user understands that failure to cancel the free trial before billing period begins, you will be charged and it will not be refunded. Note that if user deletes the app, the subscription will not be canceled. 

Terms Of Use: https://trysauce.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://trysauce.app/privacy

## Key features

- AI recipe import from links and photos
- Custom recipe creation
- Automatic serving size adjustment
- Step-by-step cooking mode with timers
- Pantry and grocery list management
- Organize recipes into collections

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sauce Monthly | $9.99 | per month |
| Sauce Yearly | $49.99 | per year |


## Recent user reviews (6 of 6)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sauce-recipes-and-meal-planner/id6760685363/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Helpful With Tracking Recipes

*2026-04-11*

Honestly, I say I’m going to make something all the time but I never do then I struggle to find something to eat. Having this app has helped me remember what I wanted to try cooking.  Turns out some of my favorite tiktokers have terrible taste though.

### 1/5 — Hard paywall + AI everywhere

*2026-04-06*

Download a real recipe app like Crouton or Mela

### 1/5 — AI slop all the way

*2026-04-04*

POS

### 1/5 — False Advertising & Broken

*2026-04-01*

“Trusted by 10 million+ home cooks” is a blatant lie. Long onboarding and sign in doesn’t work so can’t even try the app. Typical vibe coded app

### 1/5 — Another AI app slop 😒

*2026-04-01*

Thanks bro please make more, there isn’t enough of them already

### 1/5 — Seems like AI slop

*2026-04-01*

Hard paywall and no way 10 million trusted users used this.  Seems sketchy if he’s lying about this. Also, sign up was glitchy and seems sus..

## Frequently asked questions about Sauce

### How do I import recipes into Sauce?

Sauce allows you to import recipes by pasting a URL from websites like TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, or by scanning a photo of a recipe from a book or handwritten note. You can also create custom recipes from scratch.

### Can I adjust the serving sizes for recipes in Sauce?

Yes, Sauce features a serving size adjustment control. You can easily increase or decrease the number of servings, and the ingredient quantities will automatically scale to match.

### Does Sauce have a cooking mode?

Yes, Sauce offers a "Let's Cook!" mode that provides full-screen, step-by-step cooking instructions with a progress bar. It also includes cooking timer notifications.

### What are the subscription plans for Sauce?

Sauce offers a monthly subscription for $9.99 and a yearly subscription for $49.99, which includes a 3-day free trial. The premium features include pantry tracking.

### How does Sauce organize my recipes?

You can save your favorite recipes and organize them into custom groups called Collections, creating your personal digital cookbook. All imported and custom recipes are displayed in a masonry grid layout.

### Is Sauce available on all devices?

Sauce is currently supported on iPhone and iPad devices, as indicated by the provided data.

### What is the age rating for Sauce?

Sauce has an age rating of 12+, making it suitable for users aged 12 and above.

### How often is Sauce updated?

The latest version of Sauce was released on 2026-04-15, indicating recent activity and ongoing development for the application.

## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-04-15

- New UI for share extension
- Light and Dark mode toggle
- Bug fixes

### 1.0.1 — 2026-03-31

-New App Icon 
-Minor UI Improvements

### 1.0.0 — 2026-03-30

No release notes.

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