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The kitchen notebook that writes your shopping list.

HobPad keeps recipes, notes and todo lists in one place. Photograph a recipe and HobPad files it for you. When you are ready to cook, one tap turns your recipe into an ingredient shopping list.

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How it works

  1. 01Photograph a recipe from a book or magazine, or import a PDF. HobPad stores it and gives it a sensible name.
    A photographed recipe stored in HobPad, with a Create ingredient list button underneath
  2. 02Tap Create ingredient list. HobPad reads every page, merges repeated ingredients, converts into your preferred units where necessary, and can scale the quantities to how many you are cooking for.
    The conversion dialog, with a quantities stepper and the credit cost shown before converting
  3. 03The list arrives in your todos, ready to tick off at the shop.
    The finished ingredient shopping list in the todos tab, each item with a checkbox

Pricing

Notes, todo lists, recipe storage and recipe photography are free, without limits. HobPad names each new recipe automatically unless you type a name, up to 30 recipes per day. Past that you simply type the name yourself, and there is no daily limit while you have purchased credits. Reading a recipe page uses one credit the first time: HobPad names the recipe, puts its ingredients on a shopping list and copies the recipe into its notes. HobPad remembers what it read, so making the shopping list again, at any quantity, is free. Every new install includes five free credits, and further credits are sold in packs inside the app. Credits never expire.

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