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The kitchen notebook that writes your shopping list for you.

HobPad keeps recipes, notes and todo lists in one place. Photograph a recipe and HobPad files it for you. When you are ready to cook, one tap turns your recipe into an ingredient shopping list.

Download on the App StoreComing soon to Google Play

How it works

  1. 01Tap Add recipe and attach a photo of a recipe from a book or magazine, or a PDF.
    The Add Recipe screen with a photo of a recipe attached and the name left blank
  2. 02When you save the photo or PDF, HobPad offers to read it, for one credit a page. While reading it, HobPad names the recipe, copies it into the recipe's notes, and writes the ingredients to a shopping list, with repeated ingredients merged and quantities converted into your preferred units.
    The Read this recipe? prompt after saving a new recipe, with Just save and Read recipe buttons
  3. 03The shopping list arrives in your todos, ready to tick off at the shop. Cooking for more people next time? Open the recipe and tap Create ingredient list to scale the quantities.
    The recipe's shopping list in the Todos tab, each ingredient with a checkbox

Pricing

Notes, todo lists, recipe storage and recipe photography are free, without limits. HobPad names each new recipe automatically, up to 30 recipes per day. Past that you simply type the name yourself, and there is no daily limit while you have purchased credits. Reading a recipe uses one credit per page. Making a recipe's shopping list again, at any quantity, is free. Every new install includes five free credits, and further credits are sold in packs inside the app. Credits never expire.

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