I Built the Recipe App I Actually Wanted

#cooking #recipes #ios #flutter

I cook at home most days. Rice, chicken, sometimes a pasta night when I feel like a restaurant. For a long time my recipes lived everywhere: screenshots, notes, open browser tabs, a few just in my head.

Every recipe app I tried wanted something first. An account. A subscription. My recipes on their server. I just wanted my recipes on my phone, in one place, without any of that. So I built it. It's called Kerfuffle, and it's on the App Store now.

Here's what it does:

Everything lives on your phone. No account, no subscription, no server, no analytics, no ads. Your recipes are yours.
Save a recipe from the web in one tap. Share a recipe page to Kerfuffle and it arrives as a draft you review before saving. You can also import a Paprika collection, or add your own recipes with photos.
Cook mode shows one step at a time in big type. If a step says simmer for 20 minutes, one tap starts a timer that keeps running even when you put the phone down.
Scale the servings and the ingredients follow. Each recipe shows a rough calorie estimate too.
Plan the week by dropping recipes onto days, then send the whole week to a shopping list. Ingredients from different recipes merge into one list, grouped the way a shop is laid out.
It comes with 132 starter recipes, and the whole app speaks six languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, and Russian.