Family recipes, saved in their own handwriting
The recipe cards in the drawer, the notebook with the stained pages: photograph them once, and your family has them for good, searchable, shareable and with the handwriting attached.
Why handwritten family recipes get lost
Most families have them: a box of index cards, a notebook with a broken spine, a few loose pages with notes in the margin. They exist once, in one kitchen. When that kitchen is cleared out, the recipes are split between siblings, end up in a cellar or are simply gone. And with them goes the handwriting, which for many people is the part that matters most.
Photograph once, keep for good
With Kladde you photograph a page with your phone. Kladde reads the handwriting and lays it out as a proper recipe: title, ingredients with quantities, and the steps. You check it, correct anything it got wrong, and the recipe is in your digital cookbook.
- The handwriting stays. Every recipe keeps its photographed page. One tap shows grandma’s original, zoomable.
- No invented quantities. When a number is hard to read, Kladde marks it and asks instead of guessing. “Was this 500 g or 300 g?” is a question for you, not for the computer.
- Crossed-out words and notes in the margin are read as written, including abbreviations like tbsp, tsp or “a pinch”.
- Several pages, one recipe. A recipe that runs over the back of the card is photographed as two pages and becomes one recipe.
A cookbook the whole family can use
The recipes are searchable by any word: title, ingredient or a note. You can scale portions (grandma cooked for twelve), cook step by step with the screen staying on, and share a single recipe as a link with a cousin, with or without the handwritten page.
With Kladde Pro up to 3 people share one cookbook, so everyone can add the recipes from their own drawer. And a recipe written in German can be translated for the part of the family that reads English or Croatian, while the original stays untouched.
From the drawer to a printed book
When the collection is together, Kladde makes a cookbook out of it: choose the recipes, put them in chapters, add a cover photo and a foreword, and decide whether the handwritten pages go in too. You get a PDF in A4 that any print shop can bind. Our guide how to make a family cookbook walks through it step by step.
Your recipes stay yours
The app runs on Swiss servers, photos are kept privately in EU data centres, and the AI providers that read the pages don’t train on them. You can download all recipes and every original photo at any time. Not sure how to start? Read how to digitize handwritten recipes.
