Your private AI visual cookbook

Turn any meal into a beautiful visual recipe.

Snap a dish, scan a paper recipe, or share a video from YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, or Pinterest. Plate writes the full recipe, estimates ingredient-level nutrition, and renders a cinematic teardown of every dish, all in one private cookbook.

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The cinematic teardown: every ingredient floating above the dish.

Built for cooking, not calorie counting.

Private by design

Your cookbook is yours. Recipes, photos, and preferences stay tied to your account.

No ad tracking

No advertising SDKs, no data sold, no cross-app tracking. Ever.

AI-powered

On-device-fast capture with secure AI analysis for recipes and visuals.

20 languages

Plate supports English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

How it works

Three ways in. One beautiful recipe out.

However a recipe reaches you, whether it is a plate in front of you, a video in your feed, or a handwritten card in a drawer, Plate turns it into something you can cook from.

Snap a photo

Point your camera at any dish. Plate identifies the ingredients and writes a structured recipe with quantities and steps.

Share a video or link

Share a video or post from YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, or Pinterest, or a page from any recipe site. Plate reads it and turns it into a clean visual recipe.

Scan a paper recipe

Photograph a printed page or a handwritten family card. Plate reads it, organizes the ingredients, estimates nutrition, and creates the visuals.

See it in action

Watch a dish become a recipe.

A real capture, recorded live in Plate, from the ingredient checklist and hands-free Cook Mode to the finished recipe with its cinematic teardown.

Recorded live in Plate on iPhone. No edits.

Inside the app

Built like a cookbook. Smart like a chef.

Capture anything

Snap it, share it, or scan it.

A fresh photo, a video from YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, or Pinterest, or a printed page from a family cookbook. However a recipe reaches you, Plate turns it into a clean, structured recipe you can cook from.

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Your cookbook

Covers that explode every dish.

Every recipe you save gets a cinematic cover with its ingredients floating mid-air. Search your collection, favorite the keepers, and browse a cookbook that looks like it was art-directed.

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Pantry

Cook with what's already home.

Tell Plate what's in your kitchen, with 368 beautifully illustrated ingredients to pick from, and it matches recipes to your pantry. The more you add, the better the matches get.

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Badges

Every plate counts for something.

Save, cook, and collect to earn hand-drawn badges that turn full colour the moment you unlock them. Your cooking milestones, beautifully kept.

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Features

Everything you need to understand a dish.

Plate is a premium, editorial cooking companion: calm, tactile, and cinematic. Not a fitness app, not a social feed.

Photo to recipe

Snap any dish. Plate identifies the ingredients and writes the recipe, with quantities, steps, and timing included.

Cinematic teardown

See every ingredient in a stunning exploded-view plate, rendered as premium editorial food photography.

Ingredient-level nutrition

Calories and macros estimated for every ingredient, per serving. Adjust amounts to refine the numbers.

Cook Mode

A hands-free, step-by-step cooking view with timers and an ingredient checklist for when you're at the stove.

Premium styles

Apply editorial image styles to your recipe visuals, from warm cookbook to dark cinematic.

Export & cloud sync

Export watermark-free hi-res images and PDF cookbooks. Your recipes sync privately across your devices.

A closer look

Designed to feel like a premium cookbook.

From meal photo to full recipe, before and after.

Four ways in: camera, gallery, link, or a scanned page.

A pantry of 368 illustrated ingredients.

Your cookbook, with covers that explode every dish.

Snap a photo, paste a link, scan a cookbook.

Badges that turn full colour as you cook.

Nutrition

Calories and macros, per ingredient.

Every recipe shows estimated calories and macros broken down by ingredient and per serving. Edit an amount and the numbers recalculate instantly.

Total recipe calories and calories per serving
Per-ingredient calorie contribution
Optional protein, carbs, fat, and fiber estimates
Allergen warnings and dietary tags
Serving-size and amount adjustments that recalculate nutrition

Nutrition is estimated from ingredients by AI and may vary by brand and preparation. Plate is a cookbook, not a calorie tracker, diet app, or medical tool.

languages, fully localized

illustrated pantry ingredients

ways to capture any recipe

ads, trackers, or data sold

Plate Pro

Start free. Go Pro when you're ready.

Plate is subscription-based, with no credit packs and no hidden purchases. Try it free, then unlock the full visual cookbook with Plate Pro.

Free

Explore the cookbook

Save a limited set of recipes
A taste of AI recipe creation
Standard-resolution exports
Core nutrition details

Plate Pro

Notes from the Plate kitchen.

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Plate is a private, AI-powered visual cookbook for iOS. It turns food photos, paper recipes, and videos or links from YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, Pinterest, and recipe sites into structured recipes with ingredient-level nutrition and cinematic teardown images you can save, cook from, and export.

Yes. Share a video or post from YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, or Pinterest to Plate, or paste its link, and Plate writes the recipe with ingredients, steps, and nutrition. You can also scan a printed or handwritten paper recipe, or snap a photo of a dish.

No. Plate shows ingredient-level nutrition inside recipes so you understand what you're cooking, but it is not a calorie tracker, diet app, or fitness tool. There are no daily budgets, weight goals, or guilt-based scoring.

Plate uses AI to analyze dishes, build recipes, and generate visuals through secure backend services. There is no advertising tracking, no data is sold, and AI providers never receive your identity, only the recipe content needed to do the work.

You can explore Plate and create recipes on the free tier with some limits. Plate Pro unlocks unlimited AI recipe creation, paper recipe scanning, all visual types, full nutrition, premium styles, watermark-free hi-res and PDF export, and private cloud sync.

Plate is fully localized in 20 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Plate is available now on the App Store for iPhone. Tap any “Download on the App Store” button on this page to open the listing, or search for Plate Recipe Keeper in the App Store.

Contact

Say hello.

Questions, feedback, or a recipe Plate got hilariously wrong? Write to us. We read everything.

Email support

support@platerecipes.app

Follow Plate

Cooking inspiration, cinematic teardowns, and build notes from the team.

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Your next recipe starts with a photo.

Turn any meal into a beautiful visual recipe. Be among the first to cook with Plate.

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