Focara Kitchen vs My Recipe Notes

Focara Kitchen is a warm, personal recipe box for the dishes your family actually cooks — the card from Grandma's tin, the screenshot you saved last week, the blog recipe buried under ads. SAVE EVERY RECIPE, EVERY WAY • Paste a link and import from most recipe websites • Paste recipe text from Notes, a message, or an email — put the ingredients and directions in their own boxes, and Focara turns them into clean rows • Snap photos of cookbooks, cards, and handwritten notes — smart scanning reads them into clean ingredients and steps, and strips the clutter • Or just type it in with a fast, structured editor COOK HANDS-FREE • Cook Mode keeps the screen awake with big, readable steps • Easy Read highlights the ingredients inside each step, so a glance is enough with your hands full • Tap any step's timer to start it — timers keep running if you leave the recipe, and survive closing the app • Run multiple recipes at once and switch between them without losing your place MAKE EVERY RECIPE YOUR OWN • Scale servings and watch the amounts adjust • Save your changes as versions — keep the original, and the way YOU make it • Jot notes after each cook: what worked, what to change, how it turned out • Show amounts in US or metric, per recipe or app-wide DINNER, READY TOGETHER • Plan a meal and Focara builds the cooking timeline backwards from serve time • Each dish gets its own start alarm, so everything lands hot at once • Start cooking right from the timeline and move dish to dish A SHOPPING LIST THAT SORTS ITSELF • Add a recipe's ingredients in one tap — duplicates merge automatically • Switch to By Item to sort the list by store section: produce, dairy and eggs, meat and seafood, pantry, and more • Plain water never clutters your list (it's assumed on hand — tap to restore) SHARE ANY RECIPE • With a free Focara account, send anyone a clean web page of your recipe — no app required • The page shows the ingredients and steps, ready to cook from MADE FOR REAL KITCHENS • Fully localized in 33 languages — and recipe scanning works in most of them too, every script your phone's text recognition can read • Your recipe box lives on your device — export everything, anytime • Free to use with ads; Focara Kitchen Pro removes all ads for less than a dollar a month "Focara" comes from an old word for hearth — the warm center of the home where food and family meet. That's what this app wants to be for your recipes. FOCARA KITCHEN PRO (OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION) Pro removes every ad. Nothing else is locked behind it — the whole recipe box is free. • Focara Kitchen Pro Monthly — $0.99 per month • Focara Kitchen Pro Yearly — $5.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings › your name › Subscriptions. Prices shown are US pricing; your local price appears in the app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

That pasta you saw on YouTube — where did you save it? The link went to a chat with yourself. The photo is somewhere in your camera roll. Mum's recipe is a screenshot. And when you finally start cooking, you can't find any of them. Paste the link. We'll turn it into one clean recipe, ingredients and steps included. ◆ One screen for the whole 30 minutes · Two timers, right under the recipe — boil the pasta and reduce the sauce without switching apps · Pro gives you up to four. Rice, soup and a braise at once · The screen stays awake while you cook · Ingredients and steps together, so you stop scrolling back and forth ◆ Everything you saved, in one notebook · Paste a YouTube, Instagram or TikTok link and it becomes a recipe · Photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten card; upload a chat screenshot · AI pulls out the ingredients and steps, and you can edit anything before saving · Leave your own note on any step — "lower the heat next time" ◆ Pro — when a recipe becomes a business · Scaling: turn a 2-serving recipe into 4, with quantities recalculated · Costing: enter unit prices once and see total and per-serving cost · Margin: set a selling price and read your margin and food cost % · Prices are saved and apply to your next recipe automatically · Four timers, no ads · Not a subscription. Buy once, keep it ◆ Honest about the price · Writing recipes yourself, timers, notes and search are free. They stay free · Only AI import spends a "note". Your first three are on us · If the result isn't usable, we don't charge a note. Failures are returned · Servers and AI genuinely cost us money, so we ask for the minimum ◆ No account, on your device · No sign-up, no login. Open the app and start · Your recipes stay on your iPhone · You only sign in with Apple when you buy, so your purchase is protected · No tracking. Ads are non-personalised banners, and Pro removes them The warmth of a paper recipe book, for the half hour you spend cooking.