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Ladle

Paste a URL. Keep it forever.

The recipe keeper that does one thing perfectly.
Import, scale, convert, organize, export.

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The Problem

You found the recipe three years ago. The one with the tahini dressing that made your roasted cauliflower unforgettable. You bookmarked it. You're pretty sure you bookmarked it.

Now you're standing in your kitchen, ready to make it again. You scroll through 847 bookmarks. You try the search bar. Nothing. You Google the site name plus "cauliflower tahini" and find... a 404 page.

The site redesigned. The recipe is gone. Or maybe it's still there — buried under a new navigation system, wrapped in autoplay video ads, hidden behind a subscription wall that didn't exist when you first found it.

This is how recipes disappear. Not all at once, but gradually — link rot, site redesigns, paywalls, SEO churn. The internet forgets.

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Be Honest

Where do your recipes actually live?

The Bookmark Graveyard
You have a "Recipes" folder in Safari with 200+ links. Half of them are broken. The other half you can't remember why you saved.
The Screenshot Chaos
You screenshot recipes from Instagram. They live in your camera roll between selfies and parking garage photos. You can't search them. You can't scale them.
The Tab Hoarder
You keep recipes open in browser tabs. Twelve tabs. Twenty tabs. Forty tabs. Your phone is hot. Your battery is dying.
The Notes App Dump
You copy-paste recipes into Apple Notes. No formatting. No images. Just a wall of text where ingredients blur into instructions.

None of these are systems. They're coping mechanisms.

The Solution

One app. One job.

Paste a URL. Ladle fetches the page, extracts the recipe, strips away everything else — the ads, the life story, the newsletter popups — and presents you with the recipe. Clean. Beautiful. Yours.

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Import from Any URL
Paste a link from any major recipe site. Ladle parses the structured data and extracts everything: title, ingredients, steps, times, hero image.
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Smart Scaling
Tap 2× and watch every ingredient double. Proper fractions — 1½ cups, not 1.5 cups — because that's how cooks measure.
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Imperial ↔ Metric
Switch between systems instantly. Context-aware conversions. Temperature shows both scales inline.
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Two-Level Folders
Organize the way you think: Italian → Pasta, Weeknight → Quick. Simple hierarchy. Drag and drop.
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Beautiful PDF Export
Export as a gorgeously typeset PDF. Print it. Share it. Looks like a proper cookbook page.
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iCloud Sync
Your library syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Import on your laptop, cook from your phone.

A Sunday with Ladle

10:15 AM — You're scrolling through a food blog your friend sent. The recipe looks incredible — slow-roasted lamb shoulder with pomegranate molasses. You tap Share → Ladle. Three seconds later, the recipe appears: title, hero image, ingredients, method. You file it under Entertaining → Dinner Party.

10:20 AM — You're cooking for six, not four. You tap "1.5×" on the scale bar. Every ingredient updates. 3 lb lamb becomes 4.5 lb. Two tablespoons honey becomes three.

10:25 AM — You want to send the recipe to your partner who's going to the store. You tap Export → PDF. A beautiful single-page recipe card appears. You AirDrop it.

6:30 PM — You're cooking. Step 4: "Roast uncovered at 325°F / 165°C for 2.5 hours." You didn't have to convert anything. It's right there.

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That blog could disappear tomorrow. The link could break. The site could go behind a paywall. You'll never notice. You have the recipe.

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The Difference

What Ladle is — and isn't.

Ladle is deliberately focused. It does less so it can do it better.

Ladle Is Not
Ladle Is
A recipe development tool
A recipe keeper — import and read
A meal planner
A library — organize, don't schedule
A social network
Private — your recipes are yours
A cooking education app
A reference — the recipe, nothing more
A manual entry app
URL-first — paste a link, get a recipe

Be Honest

Every recipe you've ever bookmarked could be permanent.

Not broken links. Not buried screenshots. Not forty open tabs draining your battery.

Ladle is the tool that was missing.

For recipe development — iterating, versioning, tasting notes — use Mise. For cooking education — technique, the "why" — use Fond. For keeping recipes you love — use Ladle.

Keep what matters.

Ladle is coming to iOS, iPadOS, and Mac.

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