From anywhere to your kitchen.
Siftlet turns a recipe from a website, a screenshot, a photograph or a printed page into a clean card you can actually cook from, then tells you what you are missing before you go to the shop.
iPhone, iOS 27 or later. An Android edition is planned.
In development · not yet on the App Store
Three ways a recipe gets in
Whatever shape it arrives in, it comes out the same way: a card with a title, an ingredient list, numbered steps, servings and times.
From a website
Paste it, or send the page to Siftlet from the share sheet. The app reads the recipe the site publishes, falls back to reading the page itself, and tells you plainly when a sign-in wall or a paywall is in the way.
From a screenshot
Pick several at once. Overlapping screenshots of one long recipe are merged, and wrapped lines are joined back together.
From a cookbook
Photograph the page or use the document scanner. Two columns are read in the right order, and anything unclear is flagged rather than guessed.
Then it earns its place in your kitchen
What can I cook?
Tell Siftlet what is in your kitchen and it sorts your recipes into Ready, Almost There and Need to Shop, ingredient by ingredient.
A list of only what is missing
Build a shopping list from one recipe or several. Amounts across recipes are added together, the list is grouped by aisle, and what you already have is left off it.
Cook Mode
One step at a time, the screen kept awake, timers taken from the step's own stated time, and the step read aloud if you would rather not touch the phone with floury hands.
Yours to change
Edit anything. Scale the servings and every amount scales with them. Favourites, collections, tags and search across titles and ingredients.
It will not make anything up
Nothing reaches a saved recipe that the source did not contain. Every amount is read from the source line by ordinary code, never invented, and every line is checked back against the page or the photograph it came from. An amount the source does not support is removed and flagged for you.
Where a letter stands in for a digit, as in “l cup”, Siftlet flags it for you instead of turning it into a number. An amount it cannot read is reported as unknown. No screen ever says you have “enough” of something it has not verified.
Every import ends on a review screen, and nothing is saved until you tap Save.
Nothing leaves your phone
There is no account, no server of ours and no subscription to anything.
- Your recipes, your kitchen inventory and your shopping lists are stored on the phone and nowhere else.
- Reading text from your photographs happens on the device, and so does the intelligence that sorts a recipe into its parts.
- The only network request the app ever makes is fetching the page you asked it to import, and the picture on it.
- No analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party code that reports anywhere.
The privacy policy says exactly what is kept and how to delete it.
What it does not do
Said here rather than discovered later.
No nutrition or allergen advice
Siftlet makes no nutrition, allergen or food-safety claims anywhere. It handles your recipes; it does not advise you on them.
No barcodes
Turning a barcode into a product name needs a product database, which would mean a service to talk to. The app has none by design.
No cups-to-grams conversion
A cup of flour is not turned into grams. Where two amounts cannot honestly be compared, Siftlet says so.
Kitchen photos are suggestions
Photographing a shelf proposes items for you to confirm. It is often right and sometimes wrong, so every scan ends in a review list and nothing is added until you say so.
Not released yet
Siftlet is built and in testing. This page will carry the App Store link when it is there. Questions in the meantime go to contact@grcsac.com.