Recipe box for organizing recipes from links, photos and cookbooks
Stage
Established
Startup
Founded
Not given
2026
Based in
US
EE
Pricing model
Freemium
Freemium
Pricing
Not given
Free plan with 15 recipe imports to start, then 3 in any 30 days, and 6 recipe chat changes. Scappi Pro: €5.99 per month or €39.99 per year (US$5.99 and US$39.99 in the US) with 2-week free trial; raises imports to 100 in any 30 days, includes recipe chat and collection sharing for up to five family
Key features
Full-text search across filenames, folders, metadata, and document text
Search unplugged external drives after they are ejected
Duplicate detection by content fingerprinting
Audio waveforms and spectrograms with playback
Video thumbnails and in-interface playback
Browse by file type, year, folder, camera, or location
Runs entirely on your computer without internet
Save recipes from links, screenshots, cookbooks and handwritten cards
Automatic recipe extraction without ads or life stories
Step diagram showing parallel cooking tasks
Recipe scaling with ingredient amounts adjustment
Integrated timers in recipe steps
Offline cooking access
Multi-recipe combined view for one meal
Recipe adaptation via AI chat
Support for 8 languages with automatic translation
Recipe collections and sharing with family or friends
What makes it different
All indexing and AI run locally on your own computer
Search remains available for unplugged external drives after they are ejected
Visual search powered by AI model bundled in the application
One-time $49 purchase with no subscription or account required
One clear recipe from any source—links, cookbooks, photos and handwritten cards all become the same format
Step diagram view shows what cooks in parallel instead of only a numbered list
Free plan with unlimited cooking, timers and saved recipes—no paywall to cook
No ads and user data not sold
Automatic translation and unit conversion between languages and measurement systems
ArchiveMind
Scappi