Your family's recipes, kept properly.
MealStash is a recipe app for iPhone and iPad that behaves like a kitchen notebook rather than a website: no forty-paragraph preamble, no autoplaying video, no account to create, and nothing about you sent anywhere.
What it does
Rescues handwritten cards
Photograph a stained index card and MealStash reads it on the device, splitting it into a title, ingredients and steps. The photo never leaves your phone.
Cooks with you
Cooking Mode shows one step at a time in type you can read from across the counter, with only that step's ingredients in view. Tap a duration to start a timer; it keeps running on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island so you can put the phone down.
Plans the week and writes the list
Fill a weekly planner, then turn it into a grocery list grouped by aisle, with duplicate ingredients combined and pantry staples filtered out. Send it to Apple Reminders so it is on your watch at the shop.
Shares with the household
A Family Circle syncs recipes between nearby devices directly, over your local network. No account, no server, no subscription for the people you share with.
Prints like a cookbook
Any recipe prints as a 4×6 card, and your whole library exports as a press-ready Family Cookbook PDF. Every printed card carries a QR code that imports it straight back into the app.
Privacy is the architecture, not a promise
MealStash has no backend. There is no server to send your recipes to, which is why there is no account to create and nothing to opt out of. Sync between your own devices runs through your own iCloud account; family sync runs device to device over your local network.
No analytics. No advertising. No third-party code of any kind. Read the full privacy policy — it is short, because there is little to say.
Pricing
Free for up to 10 saved recipes, including scanning, cooking mode and timers. Pro lifts the caps and unlocks Reminders sync, sharing and printing a recipe, Family Cookbook export and the full Kitchen Help library. The planner, the grocery list and Family Circles are free.
| Monthly | $2.99 per month |
|---|---|
| Annual | $19.99 per year, with a 7-day free trial |
| Lifetime | $49.99 once — not a subscription |
Recipes you have already saved stay readable and cookable even if a subscription lapses.
Help
The support and guide page walks through every feature and the usual fixes. For anything else, email JfDevIos@gmail.com.