grandma’s cards, every pin, all in one box

The family recipe box, kept forever.

Scan handwritten cards, save any recipe link or Pinterest pin before it disappears, plan the week, and shop from one list together. No ads, ever.

$4.99 on iPhone and iPad and Android · Founding Families: 60 days of Family free with the app, 92 spots left One-time purchase. Family adds sharing, sync, the web and AI recipe reading, with your first month free.

Now on iPhone, iPad and Android

Same app, same recipe box. Family shares across all of them.

founding families

Buy the app, and the first 100 families get 60 days of Family free

The app is a one-time $4.99 purchase. As a thank-you for joining early, the first 100 households also get 60 days of Family on top of it. No code needed: it’s added to your household automatically.

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How to claim a spot

Buy Keep the Sauce ($4.99) on iPhone or iPad or Android.
Sign in, then choose Start a household and name your family box.
Family unlocks right away for 60 days: sharing, sync, the web box and AI recipe reading.

One spot per household. Family members you invite share it. When the 60 days end, the app keeps working and nothing is deleted; you can keep Family by subscribing, and the free first month is still yours. The 60 days never turn into a charge on their own.

why we built it

A recipe keeper app for the recipes you can’t replace

Raichelle had years of family favorites saved on Pinterest. Then the pins started breaking: blogs moved, pages vanished, and the recipes went with them. Keep the Sauce is the recipe box we built so that never happens again.

Save recipes from Instagram reels, TikTok and any website

Paste a reel, a video or a recipe link, or share it straight from the app you’re in. Keep the Sauce reads the ingredients and steps and keeps a clean copy with the photo, no life story or pop-ups attached.

Digitize handwritten recipe cards

Snap Grandma’s card or a cookbook page and it becomes a real recipe you can search, scale and cook from, with the original photo kept alongside.

A Pinterest recipe alternative that keeps a copy

Bring your pins and boards over. Each recipe is saved in full, so a dead link never costs you dinner.

Plan the week and shop as a family

Drop recipes on a weekly menu, scale them for the crowd, and get one shopping list sorted by store aisle that the whole household checks off together.

what’s in the box

Everything a family kitchen actually needs

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Scan the cards

Point your camera at a printed or handwritten card, cookbook page, PDF or screenshot. It becomes a real, editable recipe.

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Save any link, keep it forever

Share from Safari, Pinterest, ChatGPT or Gemini. We keep a clean copy with the photo, so dead links never cost you a recipe.

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Cook mode

Big type, screen stays awake, one step at a time. Scale servings with a tap.

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The week ahead

Pick your grocery day, plan the week’s suppers, and see it as a menu with photos.

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A list that thinks like a shopper

Merged, sorted by your store’s aisles, in real store units. Mark “we have it” and staples stay off the list.

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Share with the family

One shared box. Ratings, notes from Mom, the live list that updates as someone shops. That’s Family.

new: everyone at the table

Protein targets, allergy warnings and your whole household

Add the people you cook for, even if they don’t use the app. Give each person a protein target per meal and flag their allergies. Keep the Sauce does the math and watches the ingredients while you cook. Included with the app for every user, no subscription needed.

The Family screen in Keep the Sauce listing household members with their protein per meal and allergies — Household profiles
Everyone at the table in one list, with their protein targets and allergies at a glance.

Editing a household member in Keep the Sauce: protein per meal in ounces for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and allergy switches — Protein per meal
Set a cooked-weight target for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Recipes turn it into how much raw protein to buy.

Cook mode in Keep the Sauce showing an allergy heads-up for dairy and convection oven and air fryer hints for the step — Allergy and appliance hints
An allergy heads-up on the recipe and on every step in cook mode, plus convection oven and air fryer tips.

Real screens from the app on Android. New in version 1.0.5 on iPhone and iPad; the Android update is rolling out on Google Play. How it works

a peek inside

Rich, warm, and easy to use

Keep the Sauce recipe box with saved family recipes — your recipe box

Weekly menu planner with photos of each dinner — the week ahead

Shared shopping list sorted by store aisle — one shared list

The Family screen with household members, protein targets and allergies — everyone at the table

Cook mode showing one step at a time in large type — cook mode

Sunday Pancakes✓ tried · ★★★★

Grandma's Pizza♥ favorite · ★★★★★

June's Cookies✓ tried · Pinterest

Pesto Farfalle◌ want to try · allrecipes.com

A shared Keep the Sauce recipe page in a desktop web browser

Share any recipe as a beautiful page, and open your whole box on the web with Family.

simple, honest pricing

Buy it once. Add Family when the whole table wants in.

The app is fully yours for $4.99: scanning, importing, cook mode, the menu and the shopping list all work without a subscription. But everything stays on that one device. Family is what turns it into the family recipe box.

The app

$4.99 one time

Everything in the kitchen, on one device.

Scan cards, PDFs and screenshots
Import any link, pin or AI chat
Cook mode and scaling
Weekly menu and shopping list
Recipes and photos live on this device only
No sharing or family sync
No web access
No backup if your phone is lost

1 month freeFamily

$4.99 / month

or $39.99 / year (save 33%). Only the person who shares pays; everyone in the household gets it.

Share your box with your household
Sync across every phone, iPad and the web
Shared menu and live shopping list, checked off as you shop
AI recipe reading: snap any cookbook page or handwritten card
Web recipe box at keepthesauce.com
Cloud photo storage for every recipe photo
Automatic backups, so a lost phone never loses a recipe
Ratings and notes from the whole family

Start your free month

Starts in the app after purchase. Renews automatically after the free month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before. Cancel anytime in your Apple or Google Play settings.

What the app includes compared with Family
Feature	The app	Family
Scan, import, cook mode, scaling	✓ Included	✓ Included
Weekly menu and shopping list	✓ Included	✓ Included
Recipes on more than one device	— Not included	✓ Included
Share with your household	— Not included	✓ Included
Live shared shopping list	— Not included	✓ Included
AI recipe reading for photos and cookbook pages	— Not included	✓ Included
Web recipe box	— Not included	✓ Included
Cloud photo storage	— Not included	✓ Included
Backups	— Not included	✓ Included

Questions

Are there ads?

No. Not now, not ever.

Can I save recipes from Instagram reels and TikTok?

Yes. Share or paste the reel or video link and Keep the Sauce pulls out the recipe, the ingredients and the steps, and keeps a clean copy with the photo in your box.

Is this a good Pinterest recipe alternative?

Pins break when a blog moves or disappears. Paste your pins or boards and Keep the Sauce saves a full copy of each recipe, so a dead link never costs you a recipe again. We built it after losing years of saved Pinterest recipes.

Can it digitize handwritten recipe cards?

Yes. Snap a photo of a printed or handwritten card, a cookbook page, a PDF or a screenshot and it becomes a real, editable recipe you can scale, cook from and share.

What happens if I don’t subscribe?

The app keeps working forever. Your recipes and photos stay on that one device, without sharing, sync, web access or backups.

Who pays for Family?

Just one person, the one who shares the box. Everyone they invite gets Family features at no cost.

What if I cancel Family?

Nothing is deleted. Your recipes stay on your device; sharing, sync and the web box pause until you resubscribe.

Can it track protein and allergies for my family?

Yes. Add everyone you cook for as a household member with a protein target per meal and their allergies. Keep the Sauce turns cooked-weight targets into how much raw protein to buy, and flags allergens on recipes and in cook mode.

Is there an Android app?

Yes. Keep the Sauce is $4.99 on Google Play for Android, just like on the App Store, and one Family box works across iPhone, iPad and Android.

Can I get my recipes out?

Yes, export anytime. Your recipes are yours.

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“Finally, Grandma’s chili card and every pin in one place.”
— the Wallace kitchen