Ovenbird: Recipes & Meal Plans

Ovenbird is a recipe box for the recipes your family actually cooks: the stained card in Grandma's handwriting, the page from a cookbook, the link someone texted you, the video you meant to cook from. It keeps them in their own nest, on your devices and in your own iCloud. No account, no ads, nothing to sign up for.

BRING THEM IN
• Scan a recipe card or a cookbook page. Ovenbird reads it on your iPhone or iPad and flags what it couldn't make out, instead of guessing.
• Save a recipe from almost any site, or from an Instagram, TikTok or YouTube post: share it to Ovenbird or paste the link. The recipe comes from the caption or the creator's own site, with the post's cover as the photo.
• Already have it? Ovenbird says so before you save it twice.
• Moving from Paprika or Mela? Import your whole library, with photos, categories, ratings, favorites and notes. A spreadsheet works too.
• Discover starts with dishes picked for what you cook, each saying which of your recipes it's like, and has hundreds more by category and cuisine.

COOK FROM THEM
• Cook mode starts with what to do first (marinate, soften the butter, heat the oven) and a prep list, then goes one step at a time with the ingredients each step uses.
• Hands-free: say "next" or "step 3", and have steps read aloud. Your voice is recognized on your device.
• Tap a time in a step for a named timer, like "Simmer sauce", that counts down on the Lock Screen and rings like an alarm.
• Scale any recipe and switch between US and metric.
• Cook with what you have: list what's in the fridge and see which of your recipes use it best.

PLAN THE WEEK
• Put recipes on days, or just type "Tacos" or "Leftovers". Move meals around when the week changes.
• Fill the week suggests dinners from your usual week and from what you ask for, like "more chicken, no fish".

GROCERIES
• Fill the list from a recipe or the whole week. Amounts are added up and grouped by section, and the basics you keep at home stay off it.
• Or send the list to Reminders.

MADE FOR IPHONE DUO
Open it out and Ovenbird reads like a recipe book: your recipes on one page and the open recipe on the other, cook mode's ingredients beside the step, and the week's plan and the grocery list across both pages.

ON YOUR WRIST
The Apple Watch app follows cook mode step by step, shows today's meals, and lets you tick off groceries in the store.

SHARE A RECIPE, OR THE WHOLE KITCHEN
• Send any recipe by Mail or Messages as a card with its photo, or print it. Friends with Ovenbird add it in a tap.
• With Ovenbird Pro, share your recipes, Meal Plan and Groceries with up to five others in your household. Everyone sees the same list in the store. The people you invite don't pay.

AND
Search by where a recipe is from, copy one as plain text, widgets and Live Activities, Siri and Shortcuts ("What's for dinner in Ovenbird?"), Spotlight and Handoff, a duplicate finder, Dark Mode, and export to a Paprika-format file or a spreadsheet any time.

FREE, OR PRO ONCE
Ovenbird is free for up to 50 recipes, with every feature except household sharing, and your recipes sync between your own iPhone and iPad: save them on your phone, cook from the iPad. Ovenbird Pro is one purchase, not a subscription: unlimited recipes and household sharing. Family Sharing included.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Recipes are read and stored on your devices. No account, no analytics, no ads, and nothing sent to us. Sync and sharing go through your own iCloud.

Apple Intelligence features (sorting scanned pages and post captions into ingredients and steps, saying why a dish is recommended, writing a recipe from what you have, reading meal requests, naming timers) need a supported iPhone or iPad. Everything else works on every device Ovenbird runs on.