Braise: Recipe Scaler & Saver

Braise is a recipe saver and recipe scaler. Paste or share a recipe URL and it keeps the ingredients, steps and servings. Change the servings and every quantity rescales; the grocery list is sorted by aisle, and anything already in your pantry is subtracted from the list when the units are compatible, or flagged as in stock when they are not.

Keeping a recipe page open on the counter has never worked. The ads move, the story before the recipe runs long, and the ingredients sit somewhere below the fold. Wet fingers do not scroll well.

Saving a recipe from a web page
Paste the URL, or share the page from your browser. Braise reads the ingredients, the steps, how many the recipe serves, and the prep and cook times, and keeps them. Then you can close the page. Reading happens in four passes: structured data (JSON-LD), then microdata, then RDFa, then a look at the visible markup if none of those gives a usable recipe. A later pass never overwrites what an earlier one found. Times that cannot be read are shown as a dash, not guessed. A source that gives no yield is saved as 2 servings, and when an import fails you are told what actually went wrong.

Recipe scaler
Servings go from 1 to 64. Change the number and every quantity follows. The recipe's original yield stays on screen, so you can move back and forth and land where you started. The stored recipe is not rewritten.

Units
A conversion table of 47 units is built in: cups, tablespoons, teaspoons and fluid ounces in both US and Imperial sizes, plus ounces and pounds, alongside metric and the Japanese go, shaku and monme. Pro adds a switch for the measuring system used to display amounts: metric, US or Imperial. The free version uses the system your region implies. Units from different dimensions refuse to combine: 100 g of flour and 100 ml of milk will not quietly become 200 of anything.

Grocery list by aisle
The shopping list is grouped into 14 sections in the order you walk a store: produce, seafood, meat, dairy and eggs, bakery, frozen, canned goods, and so on. No doubling back. Lines added from a recipe carry that recipe's name, so you can see what each item is for. Ticking something off does not delete the line: it gets a strikethrough and moves to the bottom of its section, so a mistake can be undone.

Pantry tracker
Braise doubles as a simple pantry app. What you already have goes in the pantry; a name is enough; write "eggs 6" and the quantity is picked up too, and an expiry date is optional. Pantry items are checked against the shopping list automatically, which is how you stop buying a third bottle of soy sauce. With the pantry inventory filled in, "cook now" shows what tonight could be. Without Pro it lists only the recipes where nothing is missing.

Search covers more than titles: the summary, the source site, ingredient names and the exact wording the page used, and the text of every step. Times and temperatures inside the steps are pulled out during import and shown as chips, with °C and °F side by side, so nobody is doing arithmetic in front of an oven.

Free
Unlimited recipes and imports, so the recipe saver never fills up. Shopping list, pantry, search, recipe scaling, times and temperatures pulled out of the steps, cook logs and ratings. No ads anywhere.

What Pro adds
Two things. "Cook now" will tolerate up to 2 missing ingredients instead of requiring a complete set. And a measuring-system switch: choose metric, US or Imperial for how amounts are shown. Weekly, monthly and yearly subscriptions, plus a one-time purchase that never renews. The app is meant to be complete without Pro; buy it only if those two things matter to you.

Recent changes:
Fixed the Close and Restore buttons on the upgrade screen sitting under the clock and battery on Android 15 and later, which made them impossible to tap. The Back button now closes the upgrade, licenses, import and recipe screens instead of leaving the app.