Questions about Saucepan, answered.

Saucepan is an iPhone recipe app.

Saucepan launches on November 13, 2026.

Install Saucepan from the App Store, open it, and save one recipe.

Tap Share in the app where you found the recipe, then choose Saucepan.

No. Saucepan works without an account, and your recipes stay on your device.

It saves recipes, plans your week, builds one grocery list, and cooks hands-free.

Yes, and it has no ads. Saving recipes, Cook Mode, timers, meal plans, groceries, sharing and diet and allergy flags are free.

Saucepan is built for iPhone and also runs on iPad.

Saucepan is in 21 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew with full right-to-left support.

Saucepan is made by Aaron Gold, doing business as Gold Tech Solutions, in the United States.

A bookmark saves a link. Saucepan saves the recipe: ingredients, steps and timers, in your own saved copy.

com, and a real person replies, within 2 business days.

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook and any recipe website, from the Share button.

Open the post or Reel, tap Share, and choose Saucepan.

Open the video, tap Share, and choose Saucepan.

Open the video, tap Share, and choose Saucepan.

Yes. Open the pin, tap Share, and choose Saucepan.

Yes. Open the post or Reel, tap Share, and choose Saucepan.

In Safari or any browser, tap Share and choose Saucepan on the recipe page.

Yes. Copy the link and paste it into Saucepan.

You may need to turn it on once.

It reads both. For a video, Saucepan reads the caption, the text on screen and the narration.

Saucepan can only save what the post says or shows.

In Saucepan, choose Import, then scan, and photograph the page.

Yes, but check the result. Printed text reads best, and handwriting varies.

Yes. Open Saucepan, choose the screenshot from your photos, and it reads the text into a recipe.

The Inbox is where a shared recipe waits before you save it.

Yes, if you are signed in. Set it up in Settings, then Account and Sync, then Send to Your Inbox.

Saucepan is built to bring in recipe libraries from other apps such as Paprika, Mela and Crouton.

Yes. Imports arrive as a draft you can edit, and scans open as a recipe you can edit.

Yes. Each recipe keeps credit to its creator.

Saving from any app, site or cookbook is free.

Use collections. A collection can be Sunday dinners, things to try, or a cookbook you are working through, and one recipe can live in more than one.

You scan your grocery receipt after you shop, and Saucepan adds the food to your Pantry.

Tap Scan receipt in Pantry, next to your grocery list.

No. The text is read on your device.

Tap the row to remove it before you save.

No. Non-food lines, such as paper towels, are left out.

Yes. A screenshot of a grocery order, such as Instacart or Amazon Fresh, reads the same way as a receipt.

Yes. It reads any printed labels in the photo.

No. You can type or say what you have, and What Can I Make?

Your Pantry is the list of food you have at home.

It uses freshness guesses based on each item's shelf life and when you added it.

Yes, if you are in a Cook Together household.

Receipt scan is part of the Pantry.

It shows which of your saved recipes you can cook tonight, and what each one is missing.

Free includes 3 a week. Saucepan+ is unlimited.

Use your Pantry, a list you type, or your voice.

Each result shows what you have and what is missing, so a near miss becomes a short grocery list.

It uses your saved recipes. Most dinner apps invent a generic recipe.

Saucepan's Privacy Policy says What Can I Make?

Yes. Say "What can I make in Saucepan" and it opens What Can I Make?

Yes. The website has a free tool where you type what is in your kitchen and see recipes that need few or no extra ingredients.

Yes, once you connect Saucepan to ChatGPT or Claude.

Cook Mode shows one step at a time in large type you can read across the counter.

Open a recipe and tap Cook. Prop the phone where you can see it.

Yes. Tap the mic, then say next, back, repeat, or set a timer.

No. Audio is not recorded or sent to us.

Times in the recipe text become tap-to-start timers.

1 and later. Saucepan timers use the system alarm, so they ring like the Clock app, even on silent and with the phone locked.

1, timers alert by notification.

Yes. Tap each time in the recipe to start a timer for it.

Yes. A Live Activity shows the countdown and the step you are on, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

Yes. Allow notifications for Saucepan when asked, so a timer can ring while the app is in the background.

Cook Mode shows a finish screen when you are done, so you can log the cook.

Open the recipe, change the servings, and the amounts update.

The Plan tab lays out dinners for the week from your own saved recipes.

Fill My Week suggests a week of dinners from your saved recipes.

Yes. It plans from recipes you already saved.

Yes. Mark any night as Leftovers or Eating Out, so the plan matches the week you will have.

Add each recipe to Groceries, or plan the week and the list builds itself.

Yes. Duplicate ingredients are combined and the list is sorted by aisle, so you walk the store once.

Yes. Share it with your household and it updates for everyone.

Yes. Items you put in the cart stay marked until you are done.

Yes.

Yes. Saucepan can add your grocery list to Reminders.

Not today. Saucepan does not send lists to Instacart or other delivery services yet.

Yes. Two free tools work in the browser: the meal plan generator and the grocery list maker.

You choose for each recipe: Public, Friends, or Link only.

No. Only recipes you publish are visible, and only to the audience you pick.

Cook Together lets a household share collections, the meal plan and the grocery list.

Open Settings and start a household, or share a collection.

Open the invite link someone sent you.

Yes. The person who sent an invite can turn it off or reset it.

A household can have up to 6 people, according to the Privacy Policy.

Cook Together is free: it shares collections, the plan and the grocery list.

It depends on their role. People you invite to a shared collection are viewers or editors.

Yes. Choose Share Link on a recipe.

Yes. The owner of a collection can turn on a view-only link.

Yes. Follow cooks you like, and post an I Made This when you cook someone else's recipe.

Yes, at any time. What you added to a household list stays with the household.

Tap the three dots on the recipe, post, comment or profile, then tap Report and choose a reason.

Vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, kosher, halal, gluten-free, dairy-free, no pork and no alcohol.

Common allergens, including peanuts, tree nuts and eggs.

Use them as a guide, not a guarantee.

It checks each ingredient against a fixed ingredient-to-allergen table.

Set them in your kitchen profile.

Yes. You set diets and allergies for each person you cook for, and Saucepan checks a recipe against everyone in your household.

Fits Me is a filter in Search that narrows results to recipes that fit your diets and allergies.

Yes. When an ingredient does not fit, the recipe page suggests a swap.

Yes. Saucepan checks the recipes you save as well as the ones you find, and shows which ingredient breaks the diet.

No. For an allergy, celiac disease or any medical condition, ask your doctor.

Not unless you turn on Sync Taste Profile.

On your device. Without an account, your recipes, photos, lists, plans and taste profile stay on your iPhone.

Your library syncs to our servers, so it is on all your devices and backed up.

No. We do not sell your personal information, and the app has no ads.

No. Saucepan has no ads.

The Privacy Policy covers this.

Mostly recipe text, and only when needed.

Yes. Choose On this iPhone only in Settings, then Privacy, then AI.

No. You share a post to Saucepan with the Share button, and Saucepan reads only what you shared.

Only you. People in your household can also see the shared grocery list, meal plan and Pantry, and who added or checked each item.

In Saucepan, open Settings and tap Delete Account.

Your account is removed from our live database right away, and from our hosting provider's backups within 30 days.

Saucepan keeps simple usage stats on its own servers, such as which screens and features get used.

Yes, for analytics. This website uses Google Analytics to count visits, with Google's advertising features turned off.

No. Apple Health is write-only.

Not unless you tap Find Friends and allow access.

Our servers run on Supabase, hosted on Amazon Web Services in the United States (Oregon region).

99 a year. There is a 7-day free trial.

Yes. Saucepan+ has a 7-day free trial.

Saving recipes, Cook Mode, timers and voice, Meal Plan, Groceries, sharing and Cook Together, and diet and allergy flags.

, unlimited Make It Mine, unlimited cloud reading, and unlimited saves by WhatsApp and Instagram.

Saucepan reads recipes with Apple Intelligence on your iPhone first, and that is always free.

Free accounts get a limited number of questions in Ask, and Saucepan+ removes the limit.

Open the Settings app, tap your name, then Subscriptions, then Saucepan+, then Cancel Subscription.

Your recipes stay. Cancelling only turns off the paid features, and you keep Saucepan+ until the end of the period you paid for.

Apple handles all refunds. com.

Yes. With Family Sharing on, Saucepan+ can be shared with up to five other members of your Apple family group.

Open Saucepan, go to the Saucepan+ screen, and tap Restore Purchases.

Yes. If the price goes up, Apple will tell you in advance and, where required, ask you to agree before your next renewal.

Saucepan+ is sold as a monthly or yearly subscription.

Android is coming soon, and we will announce its pricing then.

No. Saucepan works without one.

With Apple, with an email code, or with Google.

No. With email, we send you a 6-digit code and a sign-in link to prove the address is yours.

Yes. With Sign in with Apple you can share a private Apple relay address instead of your real email.

If the methods share the same verified email address, such as Apple and Google, they link to the same Saucepan account automatically.

Sign in with the same account on the new phone, and your library syncs.

Sync across your devices, a backup of your library, Cook Together, publishing and following, and cloud features such as nutrition and swaps.

Yes. You can change both anytime.

At least 13, or the minimum age in your country if it is higher.

In the app, open Settings and tap Delete Account.

Yes. Saucepan runs on iPhone and iPad.

Android is coming soon. com/app in any browser.

Yes. com/app with the same account you use in the app to see your library, collections and groceries in a browser.

There is no Watch app. The cooking Live Activity shows in the Apple Watch Smart Stack, so the countdown and the step you are on go where you go.

Partly. There is no CarPlay app.

Yes. HomeView shows your iPhone's widgets and Live Activities, so Saucepan's Tonight, Timers, Quick Cook and Make It Again widgets and the Cook Mode timer appear there.

Tonight, Timers, Kitchen, Groceries, Quick Cook and Make It Again, on the Home Screen, Lock Screen and in StandBy.

Yes. " Every action is also in Shortcuts.

Yes. Every Saucepan action is in the Shortcuts app: save a recipe from a link, add a recipe to Groceries, start a timer, open a recipe.

They show your current step and every running timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

With Visual Intelligence, you point your iPhone camera at a dish or ingredients and see matching recipes from your own Saucepan collection.

Yes. Search with Spotlight and open a saved recipe directly.

No, but it helps. Saucepan reads recipes with Apple Intelligence on your iPhone when it can.

Yes. The 21 languages cover the app, widgets, Live Activity, Siri phrases and the share extension.

Saucepan uses AI to read recipes, estimate nutrition, suggest swaps, answer questions in Ask, and polish a dish photo you choose.

Yes. On supported iPhones, Apple's on-device models read the recipe text, and the text stays on your device.

Only when Apple Intelligence cannot read it: on phones without Apple Intelligence, in languages it does not read yet, or when it finds no recipe.

Check the recipe before you save it, and fix anything that looks off.

Ask answers a cooking question you type, using your recipes and recipes other people have published.

They are estimates from an AI model, not medical advice, and they can be wrong.

Saucepan can write a lighter version of a saved recipe, with before and after numbers.

It fixes the light and color of a dish photo you added.

Make It Mine saves your own version of a recipe.

Our server passes text to OpenRouter, which routes it to an AI model run by independent hosts or Google.

Yes. Saucepan has a connector for ChatGPT, Claude and Claude Code, so you can ask in plain words.

A connected assistant works as you, with limits.

It depends on what you need. Saucepan is built for saving from social video, filling a Pantry by scanning a receipt, and cooking with timers that ring.

We did not find receipt scan on any other recipe app's own pages in our check.

Pick Paprika if you want to pay once, use an Apple Watch or Windows, or already keep your library there.

Pick Mela if you want a quiet Apple-only library on iCloud with a one-time price and a Mac app.

Pick Crouton if you use a Mac or an Apple Watch in the kitchen, or want SharePlay cooking.

Pick Pestle if you want a design-led manager with an Apple Watch app and a Chrome extension, and you will pay for Pro.

Pick Plan to Eat if you plan the whole week on a calendar from your own recipe box, and want the web and Android.

Pick ReciMe if you want the most widely used social-video saver and you are on Android too.

Both run on Android, and both share a household.

Pick AnyList if the grocery list is what you need and you share it with a partner.

Pick Samsung Food if you want free meal planning with shared lists on Android and the web.

Several have lower prices or a one-time price.

Many do, and Saucepan does not yet.

Paprika, Crouton, Pestle, CookNest, AnyList and BigOven list one.

Mealime closed on October 21, 2026.

You can, and they are good choices for a few recipes.

An assistant on its own can make up recipes and forget them.

Scroll to the end of the app row, tap More, and turn on Saucepan.

Probably not. If the creator left out amounts, Saucepan can only save what is shown.

Copy the recipe text and paste it in.

Share it from your own phone, as you see it.

Check three things. Allow notifications for Saucepan in Settings, then Notifications.

Check that Saucepan has Microphone and Speech Recognition access in iOS Settings, then Saucepan.

Tap Open in Saucepan, or install the app first and open the link again.

Open the Saucepan+ screen and tap Restore Purchases.

Codes work once and expire within an hour.

Tap the row to remove it, then tap Done.

Sign in with the same account on both devices.

If you were signed in, no. Sign in again and your library syncs back.

Free accounts get a monthly allowance of cloud reads, for recipes your iPhone cannot read on its own.

Flags can miss ingredients with unusual names, ingredients missing from the recipe, hidden ingredients in packaged foods, and cross-contact.

In Saucepan, go to Settings, then Send Feedback, or tap Report on a recipe.