Know what goes where.
Ingredients flow into steps, and steps into the finished dish, so the whole recipe makes sense before you start.
Recipes, laid out as you cook.
Karoto turns your recipes into a clear, step-by-step tree. Every ingredient sits next to the step that uses it, so there’s nothing to hunt for halfway through.
Available on iOS, iPadOS & macOS
Recipe tree
Less reading, more cooking.
A recipe you can understand at a glance, and follow without scrolling back.
Big recipes, in small pieces.
Dough and icing, cake and frosting, each with its own ingredients and steps, so a long recipe stays easy to follow.
A home for recipes you invent.
Karoto is ideal for anyone who loves creating recipes. Family favorites, experiments and your Sunday staple get the same clear tree as any imported recipe, ready to cook, scale and share.
Add recipes
Your recipes, brought in.
A link, pasted text, a screenshot or a recipe of your own, and Karoto turns it into one you can follow.
A recipe from wherever it lives.
Add recipes from a website link, pasted text or a screenshot of a post or page, or write your own. Each one opens ready to check before it’s saved, and sharing from Safari brings a recipe in with one tap.
Sorted into steps for you.
On supported devices, Apple Intelligence works out which ingredients belong to which step, so a flat list becomes a tree. Without it, Karoto matches each ingredient to the step that names it.
Cooking mode
One step at a time.
Hands-free if you like.
Just what to do now, and only the ingredients it needs.
Only what this step needs.
One step at a time, with just the ingredients it uses, and a screen that stays on while you cook.
Messy hands? No problem.
Use a hand or your eyes to move between steps, so flour, butter and sticky fingers stay off your phone.
Live Activities.
The current step and its timer stay on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can leave the app and still know what’s next.
Meal plan
Plan the week.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner each keep their own time, and Karoto sends a reminder when it’s time to start cooking, so the meal is ready when you planned.
A week that adjusts to you.
Drop recipes into sections, move them around as plans change, leave notes, and mark meals as cooked so you can see what you made.
Room for the real week.
Plan a bowl of cereal, leftovers or a night out, and keep the recipes for the meals that need them.
Home Screen widget.
Today’s meals kept on your Home Screen. It updates as you cook, and a finished meal steps aside for the next one.
And more
The small things that help.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner, each with its own time. A notification when it’s time to start cooking, and a grocery list that fills itself.
Search by ingredients
Name a few ingredients, say eggs and milk, and Karoto lists the recipes that use both, or the closest matches when none does.
Groceries
Ingredients from your recipes and meal plan are added up, grouped by aisle in one Reminders list, and ready on all your Apple devices.
Conversions
Switch between metric and US units, choose from the different cup sizes, and look up common weights in the built-in tables.
Household
Up to 5 people can share recipes, folders and meal plan, and each of them can add and edit, so dinner gets planned together.
Drafts
Unfinished recipes are kept safe in Drafts, ready when you are, and they stay out of your meal plan and grocery list until they’re done.
Sharing and Export
A single recipe is easy to pass on as text or a link, and the whole cookbook comes with you as a .zip, whenever you want it.
Wherever you cook
One cookbook, every device.
Cook from your iPhone, edit recipes on your iPad, and plan your week on your Mac. Every device does it all, and everything stays in step through iCloud.
An app with no strings
Free, private, and yours.
Free, completely.
No purchases, no subscriptions and nothing locked. Every feature is there from the first launch.
Private by design.
No account, no ads and no tracking. Karoto has no servers, your data lives on your device, and screenshots are read there too.
Synced with your iCloud.
With iCloud sync on, recipes, photos and meal plans stay in step across your devices, stored in your iCloud and nowhere else.
Recipes are sorted into steps with Apple Intelligence on supported devices, either on your device or through Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. Learn more...
FAQ
Questions and answers.
Do I need an account?
No. Karoto works without an account. Everything is stored on your device, and sync across your devices is optional, through your own iCloud.
Is Karoto free to use?
Yes, completely. There are no purchases, no subscriptions and nothing locked. Every feature is there from the first launch.
Does Karoto work offline?
Yes. Your recipes, Meal Plan and Cook Mode all work without a connection. Adding a recipe from a link needs the internet, and iCloud sync catches up when you’re back online.
Where are my recipes stored?
On your device. With iCloud sync on, they’re also kept in your own iCloud, so they stay in step across your devices. Karoto has no servers of its own.
Which devices and languages are supported?
iPhone, iPad and Mac, with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26 and later. Karoto speaks English and Russian.
Free download
Cook with Karoto
A cookbook, meal planner and grocery list in one app. Forever free with no payments and subscriptions, ever.
Available on iOS, iPadOS & macOS