Photograph any recipe.
Save it forever.

What you can scan

• Cookbook pages — including dog-eared, sticky-noted, splattered with last week’s sauce.
• Handwritten recipe cards — the kind passed down through families. Pantree handles most legible handwriting.
• Magazine and newspaper clippings — including the ones stuck to your fridge from 2014.
• Printed-out emails or PDFs — if it’s easier to scan than to retype, scan it.
• A photo of someone else’s phone screen — if a friend showed you a recipe and you snapped a quick pic, that works too.

Why this is the killer feature for old recipes

Most recipe apps assume your recipes start digital — a URL, a social post, a typed entry. They have nothing for the boxes of index cards in your kitchen drawer, the cookbooks on your shelf, or the printout of your mother-in-law’s casserole that you’d quietly mourn losing.

Photo import is how you bring that whole archive into the same library as everything you save from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. One place, one search, every recipe — old and new.

Then cook from what you have

Once your scanned recipes are in Pantree, they’re connected to your pantry tracker. Pantree tells you which scanned recipes you can cook tonight with what’s already in your kitchen. See our guide on what to cook with what you have for the framework behind that.