What cooking and meal planning features does RecipeSage offer?

RecipeSage is a free, open-source recipe keeper, meal planner, and shopping list manager available on Web, Desktop, iOS, and Android. If you collect recipes from blogs, screenshots, PDFs, or handwritten cards and want them organized in one searchable place, its cooking and meal planning features are built around that workflow: a distraction-free Cook Mode, drag-and-drop meal planning, smart shopping lists, and a set of built-in kitchen tools.

Cook Mode: a full-screen view for actually cooking

Cook Mode is designed for the moment you're standing at the stove, not browsing. It shows ingredients and steps side by side in a full-screen, distraction-free layout.

• Check off each ingredient and step as you go
• Scale servings on the fly without leaving the view
• The screen stays awake, and the font is large and adjustable — useful on a kitchen tablet

Meal planning with drag and drop

Meals are scheduled on a calendar you can rearrange by dragging items. You can repeat items daily, weekly, or monthly, print the plan, and share it with family. This suits a household that wants a visible weekly plan rather than a list buried in notes.

Smart shopping lists

Add recipes directly to a shopping list and the list builds itself:

• Items are auto-categorized by grocery aisle
• Similar items are combined intelligently, so duplicates from multiple recipes merge instead of piling up

Because lists sync across devices and work offline, you can load them even with a weak connection at the back of the grocery store.

Built-in kitchen tools

RecipeSage includes several tools that normally live in separate apps:

Recipe scaling and nutrition tracking

Recipes can be scaled by a multiplier, to a target yield, or by a single ingredient's amount, with unit conversion between metric and imperial. Nutrition tracking covers calories, macros, vitamins, and minerals per serving; you can auto-fill by pasting a nutrition label and filter recipes by any nutrition field.

Importing and syncing your collection

Recipes import automatically from a web URL, a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten recipe card, or any document. Everything — recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists — syncs across web, desktop, iOS, and Android, and stays searchable offline.

Who this fits

RecipeSage works well if you want one searchable home for recipes gathered from many sources and you cook from a screen or tablet. If you mainly need a simple printed recipe box or don't want an account-based synced app, the feature set here is broader than that use case requires.