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Either paste the address into Import, or open the page in your browser and send it to Siftlet from the share sheet. The app fetches the page, reads the recipe out of it, and shows you a review screen. Nothing is saved until you tap Save.

Then it is, and Siftlet will not try to get around it. If you can see the recipe in your browser because you are signed in there, take screenshots of it and import those instead. Several screenshots of one long recipe are fine: overlapping parts are merged.

Some pages are articles about food rather than recipes, and Siftlet would rather refuse than save something that is not a recipe. If you think it got that wrong, send the link to contact@grcsac.com.

Photograph the page, or use the document scanner for a flatter result. Two-column pages are read one column after the other. If a recipe runs over two pages, take both and import them together.

That is deliberate. Every amount has to be supported by the line it came from. Where a photograph is unclear, or a page writes a letter where a digit belongs, as in “l cup”, Siftlet marks it for you rather than guessing a number. Tap the line and type what it should say.

Siftlet notices and asks whether to update the one you already have or keep both.

Change it on the recipe card and every amount scales with it. The original is kept, so you can always go back.

Cook Mode shows one step at a time, can keep the screen awake, and can read the step aloud. Where a step states a time, it offers a timer for it. The timer notification needs notification permission; if you declined it, the timer still runs while the app is open.

If you leave a recipe part-way through, Siftlet remembers where you were.

You photograph a shelf, a drawer or a fridge, and Siftlet proposes the foods it thinks it can see, each marked with how sure it is. The unsure ones start switched off. You confirm, edit or remove before anything is added.

It is often right and sometimes wrong, so treat it as a first draft of a list rather than an inventory. A scan never records an amount, a date or how fresh something is: those are yours to type if you want them.

A barcode is just a number. Turning it into a product name needs a product database, which would mean the app talking to a service. Siftlet talks to no service, and that is worth more than barcode scanning.

Because they cannot, honestly. A cup of flour is not a number of grams without knowing the flour, so Siftlet says it cannot compare them rather than inventing a conversion.

It compares what the recipes need with what you have, and lists only what is missing or short. Pick several recipes and the same ingredient is added up across them. The list is grouped by aisle, and when you come home you can move what you bought into your kitchen in one step.

On your phone, in the app's own storage. There is no account and no server of ours.

Yes. Settings exports everything as a file you keep. You can also share a single recipe as text from its card.

Not yet. Today the data lives on the one phone, which is why the export exists. Sync is on the list.

Settings › erase all data, or uninstall the app. Both remove everything from the phone, and there is no copy anywhere else. See Deleting your data.

Only the page you asked Siftlet to import, fetched from the site that publishes it. Nothing you write, cook, store or buy leaves the phone. The privacy policy has the detail.