About
Crouton is a recipe organizer and meal planner that lets you store recipes from websites, cookbooks, and handwritten notes. Import recipes automatically from websites or scan them from cookbooks using AI and OCR, then organize them for easy access. Plan meals for the week or further ahead, or let Crouton auto-generate meal plans from your recipes. While cooking, use step-by-step mode to focus on one instruction at a time with hands-free navigation, tap ingredients to see quantities, and start timers that Crouton detects automatically from recipe text. Create shopping lists directly from recipes and sync them to Reminders. All recipes sync across devices via iCloud, and you can share recipes with family and friends. Crouton also supports Bluetooth scales like Acaia coffee scales for guided ingredient weighing and pairs with Combustion temperature probes for live cook updates.
Highlights
- Import recipes from websites, cookbooks, or photos using AI and OCR with no manual entry required
- Step-by-step cooking mode with hands-free navigation and ingredient quantity lookup per step
- Automatic timer detection and launch directly from recipe steps with heads-up display
- Generate meal plans for the week or longer, or auto-generate from your organized recipes
- Create shopping lists from recipes and sync to Reminders app
- Bluetooth scale pairing (Acaia) for guided ingredient weighing and Combustion temperature probe support
Best for
Home cooks who collect recipes from multiple sources and want a streamlined way to organize, plan meals, and cook hands-free. Also useful for people who use kitchen gadgets like Bluetooth scales or temperature probes and want them integrated into their cooking workflow.
At a glance
Crouton: Recipe Manager is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 281 ratings and is available on iOS — all free to download.
It is developed by Devin Davies.