# Simply Chef: Save any recipe — Your cookbook, one clear table

> Your cookbook, one clear table (iPhone/iPad app by Componentry.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simply-chef-save-any-recipe/id6799294016 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Componentry](https://appshunter.io/developer/1873106271)
- Category: Food & Drink, Productivity
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-26
- Data updated: 2026-09-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simply-chef-save-any-recipe/id6799294016/reviews.md

## What is Simply Chef?

A recipe becomes one table you can take in at a glance.

Every recipe online is the same shape: a thousand words of story, an ingredient list somewhere in the middle, then numbered steps that never say which ingredients they need or what should already be done.

Ingredients run down the left. Every column to the right is one operation — melt, whisk, fold, bake. Cells merge where things come together, so the shape of the whole dish sits on a single screen. You can see that the butter and sugar are creamed before the eggs go in, and that the dry mix was waiting the whole time.

GETTING A RECIPE IN
Share a link from Safari and it converts right there in the share sheet, then saves to your collection. Or open the app and paste a link, or paste the recipe text itself. Nothing to sign up for.

KEEPING WHAT YOU SAVE
Everything you convert goes into your collection and stays there. Star the ones you cook often, search by name to get one back, and open any of them with no connection at all. Save a recipe on your phone and it is already on your iPad, because your collection follows your Apple Account.

MADE FOR A PROPPED-UP PHONE
Type sized to be read from arm's length with your hands full. Tap a step to check it off, tap an ingredient once you have it ready. Hold a step to light up everything that feeds into it. One button switches between fitting the whole table on screen and giving every column room to breathe.

SCALING AND UNITS
Halve, double or triple a recipe and the quantities follow. Show cups, grams, or both at once.

NOTHING INVENTED
Every conversion is checked before you see it: each ingredient has to be used, and each step has to trace back to real ingredients or to earlier steps. When a recipe cannot be drawn as a clean table, you get a plain list instead of a broken grid. When the source lists something it never uses, the app tells you rather than quietly dropping it.

NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER
Recipes live on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud. No public library, no analytics, nothing to opt out of. Nothing is sent to us, because there is no server of ours that could receive it.

IPHONE AND IPAD
The table is designed at tablet width rather than stretched up from the phone. On an iPad, most recipes fit on one screen with nothing to scroll.

Three sample recipes come with the app, so you can see how the format handles a simple chain, two mixtures folded together, and a component made ahead — before you convert anything of your own.

One purchase. No subscription.

Table format invented by Michael Chu at cookingforengineers.com.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.4 — 2026-09-08

Fixed a rare crash where the app could be interrupted by iOS if you backgrounded it mid-sync, while it still held a lock the share extension needed. The app now finishes that work under a background task before it suspends.

Everything else is unchanged: recipes still sync through your own iCloud, with no account and no server of ours involved.

### 1.3 — 2026-08-29

Your collection now follows your Apple Account. Save a recipe on your phone and it's on your iPad, with no account to make and no server of ours in between — it goes to your own iCloud.

Everything works the same with iCloud switched off; your recipes just stay on the device you saved them on.

### 1.2 — 2026-08-26

No release notes.

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