Crouton
Save recipes from anywhere and plan your week of meals
The verdict
Save a recipe from a website or scan a cookbook page, and Crouton keeps the ingredients and steps, synced over iCloud to your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Cooking mode shows 1 step at a time, reveals the amount when you tap an ingredient and starts timers from the step text. All of that is free, unlike Paprika's $29.99 Mac app, and only AI photo import and ingredient swaps need the $14.99-a-year Discover plan.
Get it if
You cook from food blogs and cookbooks and want every recipe in 1 place without the ads and life stories.
Skip it if
You cook the same handful of dishes from memory and never look anything up.
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What it helps you do
- Save a recipe from any website without the clutter
- Scan a recipe straight out of a cookbook
- Plan a week of dinners in minutes
- Turn recipes into a grocery list
What it really costs
Pay once or subscribe? Drag to see the total after each year.
Pay-once totals leave out paid upgrades to future major versions.
Plans and prices
Free
Recipe imports from websites and scans, meal planner, step-by-step cooking mode with timers, grocery lists and iCloud sync
Discover
$1.99$1.99 a month or $14.99 a year, adds the Discover feed of recipe sites, AI import from a photo or text, and ingredient substitutions
Crouton Plus
$24.99$24.99 in-app purchase
What changed
Version 2026.5.1
Minor UI improvements
Added to The Useful Apps
Pick something else if
PaprikaPick it if you plan meals for the week and want the grocery list built for you.$4.99 once
MelaPick it if you mainly save recipes from blogs and want a clean iCloud cookbook, with Mela+ at $6.99 once.Free to start
PlateDiaryPick it if you eat out a lot and want to remember what you ordered, where, and who was at the table.Free to start
Crouton head to head
The details
- Runs on
- Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
- Requires
- iOS 16.1 or later
- Version
- 2026.5.1
- Size
- 361 MB
- Made by
- Crouton LLC
- Rating
- 4.8 from 2.9K ratings on the App Store
- iCloud sync
- Syncs across your devices
- Widgets
- Home and lock screen
- Shortcuts
- Works with the Shortcuts app
- Family Sharing
- 1 purchase for the family
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