Your own version

Your own Paprika-style recipe box on your iPhone

Paprika saves recipes from the web, plans meals by the month and turns them into a grocery list sorted by aisle. If your kitchen runs on a few family recipes and one weekly shop, describe that to Borel. It writes a native recipe box in Swift, with a shopping list that follows the way your own shop is laid out.

Updated . Borel isn’t connected to Paprika.

A prompt to start from
“A recipe box. I add recipes with ingredients, steps, servings and a photo, by typing, dictating or scanning a printed page with the camera. Cook mode shows one step at a time in large text and keeps the screen awake. I pick recipes for the week, and a shopping list adds up the ingredients and groups them by my shop's aisles, which I can reorder.”

About Paprika

What people like about Paprika

In our words, from what Paprika says about itself.

  • Saving a recipe from a website with its built-in browser.
  • Weekly or monthly meal plans and menus you can use again.
  • Grocery lists sorted by aisle that combine similar items.

Paprika says each version, for each platform, is sold separately, and its site doesn't show the prices.

Made for you

What your own recipe box can do

What the prompt above builds, and what you can change by asking Borel in plain words.

  • Recipes typed or dictated

    Add family recipes in your own words, by voice when your hands are covered in flour.

  • A cookbook page, scanned

    Point the camera at a printed recipe and VisionKit reads its text into the app.

  • A list in walking order

    Aisles in the order you pass them, with the same ingredient from several recipes added up.

  • Cook mode

    Large text, one step at a time, and a screen that stays awake while you cook.

Said plainly

How it's different

  • It doesn't pull recipes from websites by itself; you type, dictate or scan them.
  • There's no desktop version; your recipes live in the app on your iPhone.
  • Pantry tracking isn't in this prompt; ask for it if you want one.
  • Your app isn't Paprika and won't look or work like it: it has only what you ask Borel to build, and none of Paprika's own content.
  • Your data stays in your own app: on your iPhone by default, or in your app's own database in Borel's cloud if you add accounts.

How to get yours

From the prompt to your home screen

  • 1

    Start from the prompt

    Change anything in it first: names, rules, screens. Borel asks what it needs to know, then writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI.

  • 2

    Use it in your browser

    It opens in a live iPhone simulator streamed from Borel's Mac, at no cost. Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month.

  • 3

    Keep it on your iPhone

    With Pro, from $20 a month, Borel Companion installs it with a free Apple ID, up to 3 apps at a time, and renews each one every 7 days while it runs.

How to make a meal planner appThe screens it needs, what it keeps, the iPhone features it can use and what to ask for next.See the guide

Frequently asked questions

Yes. VisionKit reads printed text from the camera, so a cookbook page becomes editable text; check the quantities afterwards.

Yes. Ask for a servings stepper, and Borel multiplies each quantity and rounds it sensibly.

Not in this version, where the list lives on one iPhone. A list for a household needs accounts in your app's cloud database, which is a bigger build.

Yes. Borel can stop the screen dimming while cook mode is open, and only then.

Make your own recipe box

Start from the prompt on this page and change it until it's yours. Borel builds it while you watch.