Basil Recipe Manager. Organize and Cook Your Recipes!
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | $4.99 | Kyle Baxter | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
WHAT OTHERS SAY
"Basil has reinvigorated my love for cooking."
- Mike Vardy, Productivityist.com
"It is clear that Kyle designed every single detail of this app for practical simplicity."
- Patrick Rhone, Minimal Mac
Favorite features:
ALL YOUR DEVICES
◆ Basil is designed for your iPhone and iPad to make cooking easier, and keeps your recipes and grocery list in sync with iCloud!
DISCOVER
◆ Search the web's best recipe sites all at once and save recipes from them with just one tap!
◆ Add your own personal recipes, too, so your favorite recipes are all in one place!
◆ Add recipes from any app with a website or URL using Basil’s recipe save extension
◆ Recipes are stored on your iPad offline
SHOP
◆ Basil makes shopping for the next meal a cinch. Add recipes to your grocery list, and Basil sorts them by aisle. Even better, Basil suggests healthier substitutes for certain ingredients!
COOK
◆ Beautiful interface made for cooking. Big, readable text so you can read at a glance in the kitchen
◆ Smart ingredient scaling: Scale your recipes, and Basil will handle it all for you
◆ Time-based directions magically become instant cooking timers
◆ Auto unit conversion. Choose your preferred units (American or metric) and Basil will convert recipes for you. If you're in the UK and save American recipes, Basil will convert all those pesky cups and teaspoons to metric units for you!
◆ Cross off ingredients as you cook, and Basil will turn them gray so your eyes are drawn to the ingredients still left to use.
◆ Take notes! Add your own adjustments and notes to each recipe so you know exactly what to do each time you cook.
ORGANIZE
◆ Organizes your recipes for you! Recipes are automatically tagged by ingredients and setting the meal and cuisine type is quick too, so you can do things like see all of your breakfast recipes with bacon, or see your Chinese recipes. No need to spend time making folders!
◆ Filter your recipes by favorites, meal and cuisine types, tags and sources
◆ Browse your recipes by big, beautiful photos! It'll get you inspired to cook (and hungry!).
Basil makes it easy to find new recipes with its special quick-search feature, and organizes them for you. Each new recipe is tagged with its main ingredients, and adding cuisine and meal type is a snap. You can find just the recipe you're looking for by sorting according to favorites, cuisine type, meal type, or main ingredients. Or you can just search them, using full-text search.
Basil even makes cooking easier. Directions and ingredients are easy to read at a glance, and any time-based directions ("sauté for 5 minutes") are turned into buttons which start a timer, so you don't have to fumble with a separate timer. You can cross off ingredients as you cook, and Basil even converts units for you automatically.
Supported Sites For Instant Save:
marthastewart.com
food.com
gourmet.com
loveandoliveoil.com
bbc.co.uk/food
bbcgoodfood.com
taste.com.au
lifestylefood.com.au
bestrecipes.com.au
allrecipes.com
myrecipes.com
epicurious.com
seriouseats.com
bonappetit.com
tastykitchen.com
foodnetwork.com
foodandwine.com
chow.com
thepioneerwoman.com
eatingwell.com
cookinglight.com
inspiredtaste.net
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Reviews
Great app abandoned
emc32
Note to developer: consider a subscription service. I have a lot invested in this app, and almost all sites seem to have put in ways to keep your program from importing. App is now pretty useless except as a repository of recipes long since added. I would gladly pay a small monthly fee to have the developer continue to the battle, if only to remove search from the sites that block downloading. Why generate traffic for them anyway?
Want my money back
Skinnier38653
Update — Changing from five stars to one since the app showed it had backed up six years of data and recipes to iCloud, but it did not so I LOST SIX years of recipes when Apple rep helped me wipe my iPad clean. All other apps that were supposed to back up to iCloud did and I got my data back from all other apps when iPad was restored. Customer support is non existent. I emailed them and email came back as undeliverable. I’ll never use Basil again.
Can’t share with my phone
bowbunny
Says my cloud account has changed. Not! Won’t send recipes to phone
Great app. Wish it zoomed in on pics
shinesforyou
I love this app… I just wish it would zoom in on pictures… For instance, when I take a picture of a recipe card it stays small… I wish I could use it like a picture and zoom it out to be able to see it better.
Needs update
PFjellman
The status messages at the top of the screen are hidden by the notch on iPhone X and XS. Also the add recipe feature no longer works. It imports the picture and name, but the ingredients and directions lists are blank. Very annoying. I’m trying recipes from allrecipes.com and it’s not working. Hoping for a fix soon. Otherwise a great app.
Useless and misleading
Sorntncksmd
I paid for the app because it’s supposed to allow importing of existing recipes. The import function doesn’t work and asking Basil Support gets no answers. The app is nothing more than links leading back to saved recipes on specific websites. I’m better off printing and going old school.
One tap save??
SeattleGecko
I have been using this app for years, but recently i have noticed that the one tap save from websites is not working consistently. Specifically from Allrecipes.com. It will build a shell for the recipe but does not pull over ingredients or directions. Very frustrating.
Go elsewhere. This app has been abandoned.
Mb5001
Crashes when you try to export. Developer unresponsive. I’m looking for an alternative. Don’t bother with this one.
