Your handwriting. Your cookbook.
Handwritten recipes, digital. Without typing a word.
Take a photo of the page. Kladde reads the title, ingredients and steps, asks when a quantity is unclear and keeps the original page with the recipe.
- No credit card
- Sign up with Apple or Google
- The 20 pages never expire
Can Kladde read my handwriting?
On average it reads 98.8% of a recipe correctly. And it doesn’t guess: unclear quantities and words are marked, and you check them against the photo before the recipe is saved.
Do my recipes stay mine?
Stored in Switzerland and the EU, no AI training on your pages, no ads. You can export everything at any time, every original photo included.
What does it cost?
Your first 20 pages are free and never expire. When your cookbook grows: Pro for CHF 39 a year, or pages as you need them.
From notebook page to recipe in under 30 seconds.
Photograph
Take a picture of the page, or several pages of one recipe. No typing, no forms first.
2 kg beef topside
1 kg potatoes
Check
Kladde lays out title, ingredients and steps. Anything it could not read clearly is marked for you.
Cook
Big type, one step at a time, the screen stays on, and every ingredient can be ticked off.
Start free. Go Pro when your cookbook grows.
Kladde works with credits: reading one handwritten page costs one credit, allergens and nutrition 1, an AI dish photo 3. If something doesn’t work, it costs nothing.
Free
20 credits to start, they never expireUp to 5 recipes with AI photo, or 20 handwritten pages
- Extra credits any time, from CHF 14 / 100
- For one person, 500 MB for photos
- Recipes you’ve opened, offline on your phone
- Search, scaling, cooking mode, export
- Allergens and AI dish photos with your credits
- One cookbook as a PDF for 50 credits
Kladde Pro
For families500 credits for the yearUp to 125 recipes with AI photo, or 500 handwritten pages
- Up to 3 people, 10 GB for photos
- Extra credits any time, from CHF 9 / 100
- Your whole cookbook as a PDF
- Use your own AI key at no credit cost
- Everything in Free
You can switch to Pro later in Kladde, when your cookbook grows.
For restaurants and kitchen teams: Kladde Team for CHF 249 a year →
Prices in Swiss francs incl. VAT. Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Cancel any time.
Good to know.
What if the handwriting is hard to read?
Kladde doesn’t guess. Every amount or word it can’t read with certainty is marked, and when a number could be read two ways, you see both. You check those spots against the photographed page before the recipe is saved. If a page can’t be read at all, it costs nothing and you simply take the photo again.
What exactly is a credit?
One credit reads one photographed page, so a recipe on two pages costs two credits. Translating a recipe costs 1, allergens and nutrition 1, an AI dish photo 3. Anything that fails is free.
What happens to my photos?
They stay private in your cookbook, together with the recipe, and are never deleted unless you delete them. To read a page, it is sent to an AI provider that doesn’t use it for training.
What else does Kladde do besides reading recipes?
Everything a cookbook needs day to day: search all your recipes, scale portions, a cook mode with large text that keeps the screen on, and opened recipes offline on your phone. You can share recipes as a link, print them as a PDF or turn them into a whole cookbook, get an estimate of allergens and nutrition, create an AI photo of the dish and translate recipes for your team. The app speaks English, German, French, Italian and Croatian.
Can I cancel Pro?
Yes, at any time in the app. Pro stays active until the end of the year you paid for. Credits you bought extra never expire.
Can several people use one kitchen?
Yes: up to 3 people on Pro and Connect, up to 10 on Team. An admin invites the team by email; everyone sees and edits the same recipes. The free plan is for one person.
I have my own AI key. Can I use it?
Yes, with the Connect plan for CHF 24 a year. Your own Gemini, OpenAI or Claude key reads the recipes, you pay the provider directly and Kladde takes no credits for it. Everything else works as in Pro. Use a paid account with your provider, because free AI plans may train on your data. You choose Connect in the app under “Plan & credits”.
Can I get my recipes out again?
Always. Export all recipes as a file and download every original photo as a ZIP, directly in the app.
Which AI reads my recipes?
The paid API of Google (Gemini), with OpenAI and Anthropic as backups. They don’t train on what you send, and only the page being read goes to them. Your recipes stay on our servers in Switzerland, photos in EU data centres. On Connect your own key is used and your provider’s terms apply, so use a paid account: free AI plans may train on your data.
What happens if I stop using Kladde?
Free accounts that nobody signs in to for 12 months are deleted. We email you 7 days and 1 day before, and signing in once is enough to keep everything. Paid kitchens are never deleted for inactivity.
Get your recipe notebook out.
A page is read in about 11 seconds. Your first 20 handwritten pages are free.