That handwritten recipe card in a kitchen drawer deserves more than a photograph you might never find again. So do the recipes tucked into old cookbooks, magazine clippings, and family notebooks.
Mangerate lets you scan handwritten and printed recipes with your iPhone or iPad and turn them into digital recipes with ingredients and preparation steps—not just pictures of pages.
Download on the App Store Visit Mangerate.comA photo preserves what a recipe looks like. But when you're ready to cook, you still have to zoom in, decipher the handwriting, and find the right page.
Mangerate uses AI-assisted recipe extraction to recognize the recipe in your photo and organize it into a recipe entry. You can review the result, make corrections when needed, and save it to your collection.
You don't need to retype an entire recipe just because it wasn't published on a website. Mangerate can work with photos of different kinds of recipe sources:
Recognition depends on the clarity and completeness of the source. Older handwriting, faded ink, and missing instructions may need a closer look, so it's worth checking the extracted recipe before saving it.
Some recipes are more than instructions. They're a parent's familiar handwriting, a grandparent's holiday tradition, or the dish everyone asks for at family gatherings.
Digitizing those recipes makes them easier to find, cook, and share without putting the original paper through years of kitchen spills and wear. You can keep the memories and make the recipes useful again.
Once you've saved a scanned recipe, it becomes part of your Mangerate library. You can:
Mangerate is free to download. You can try up to ten successful AI recipe extractions, including photo scanning and supported social-media recipe imports, before deciding whether you need more.
If you have a whole box of recipe cards to digitize, a one-time Plus purchase unlocks unlimited AI imports. There is no recurring subscription.
A recipe handwritten decades ago can sit alongside recipes you've saved from websites or Instagram. Instead of searching through paper, screenshots, and bookmarks, you can keep everything in one organized recipe collection.
If you've been looking for an iPhone or iPad app to scan handwritten recipes, digitize family recipe cards, or import printed cookbook recipes, Mangerate is available on the App Store.