Snap a photo and AI turns your handwritten cards into clean, editable digital recipes — no retyping.
Digitize Your Recipes FreeThe best recipes are often the ones written by hand — the ones passed down on splattered index cards and tucked into the back of a drawer. But paper fades, ink smudges, and cards get lost. Retyping a whole box of them into a notes app is the kind of chore that never actually happens.
Pinch of This fixes that in seconds. Its AI recipe card scanner uses optical character recognition (OCR) built for handwriting, so you can photograph a card and get back a clean, searchable, editable recipe — ready to cook from on any device.
Point your camera at a handwritten card, index card, or cookbook page and take the picture right inside the app.
Our OCR reads the handwriting, separates ingredients from steps, and formats everything into a tidy recipe card.
Fix a word if you like, then save. It lands in your collection, searchable and synced across every device.
Yes. It uses AI-powered OCR to read handwritten recipe cards, index cards, and printed cookbook pages. Take a photo and the app digitizes the text into a clean, editable recipe card — no retyping.
The AI handles most handwriting, including faded and older cards. Anything it reads is fully editable, so you can quickly fix a word or measurement before saving.
Yes. Photograph a printed cookbook page and Pinch of This extracts the ingredients and steps into a digital recipe you can keep, edit, and search.
Your first 20 recipes are free forever with the full app and no credit card required. Upgrade any time for unlimited storage.
Explore more: save recipes from any website · your digital recipe box
Scan your first cards free — no credit card, no download. Or get the app on Google Play.