Every recipe you love,
in one place.
Save recipes from websites, Instagram, TikTok, or a photo of a cookbook page. Plan your week, build shopping lists, and share a family cookbook — all on your iPhone.
Free to use · No ads · Works offline
Thousands of recipe sites
Instagram · TikTok · YouTube
Cookbook or handwritten
iPhone and iPad, offline
Rescue recipes from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Share a reel or video to Hauptgang and we transcribe the audio, read on-screen text, and turn it into a structured recipe you can actually cook from — no more scrubbing through videos while your hands are covered in flour.
- Instagram reels and posts
- TikTok videos
- YouTube Shorts and full videos
- Pinterest pins
Save from any website
Paste a link from any recipe site and Hauptgang pulls in the ingredients, steps, and photo automatically. Works on thousands of cooking sites, food blogs, and newspapers.
- Ingredients and steps extracted cleanly
- Keeps the original photo
- Edit anything after importing
Snap a photo of a cookbook page
Point your camera at grandma's handwritten card or an open cookbook. Hauptgang uses on-device OCR to turn the photo into an editable recipe in seconds.
- Printed cookbooks and magazines
- Handwritten recipe cards
- Multi-page recipes stitched together
Plan the whole week at a glance
Drop recipes onto any day of the week and see your meals laid out in a clean calendar. Rearrange, repeat, or swap dishes in seconds — no more last-minute "what's for dinner?".
- Weekly and monthly calendar
- Drag-and-drop any saved recipe
- See servings and prep time per day
One shopping list, grouped by aisle
Hauptgang turns your meal plan into a single, consolidated shopping list — quantities combined, items grouped by aisle — so you buy exactly what you need in one trip.
- Auto-generated from your meal plan
- Quantities merged across recipes
- Check items off as you shop
Three steps to a tidier kitchen
- 1
Download Hauptgang
Install from the App Store. Sign in with Apple — no credit card, no spam.
- 2
Add the recipes you already cook
Share any URL, social post, or photo to Hauptgang. It becomes a clean, editable recipe in seconds.
- 3
Cook, plan, and share
Plan the week, generate a shopping list, and invite your household to the same cookbook.
Questions, answered
Is Hauptgang free? +
Yes. The core features — saving recipes from URLs, social media, and photos, plus meal planning and shopping lists — are free to use.
Which platforms does Hauptgang support? +
Hauptgang is a native iOS app for iPhone and iPad. It syncs across all your Apple devices using iCloud.
Does it work offline? +
Yes. Once a recipe is saved, it lives on your device. You can cook from it without any internet connection.
Which recipe websites are supported? +
Hauptgang reads structured recipe data, so it works on virtually any site that publishes recipes — major food blogs, newspapers, and thousands of long-tail cooking sites.
How does social media import work? +
Share an Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Pinterest link to Hauptgang. The app transcribes the video audio, reads on-screen captions, and assembles a structured recipe with ingredients and steps.
Can my family see my recipes? +
Only if you invite them. You can create a shared cookbook for your household, and anyone you invite can read, add, and edit recipes together.
Ready to stop losing recipes?
Hauptgang keeps every recipe you've ever loved — from the web, from social, from paper — on your iPhone, forever.
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