Keep the Sauce FAQ

Keep the Sauce is a family recipe box app for iPhone, iPad and Android, made by MiRa Ventures, Inc. It saves recipes from websites, Pinterest pins, Instagram reels, TikTok videos and photos of handwritten cards, then helps you cook, plan the week and shop from one list together. There are no ads.

The app is a one-time purchase of $4.99 on the App Store and Google Play. The optional Family plan is $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year and starts with a 1-month free trial.

Everything in the kitchen on one device: scanning, importing, cook mode, scaling, household member profiles with protein targets and allergies, the weekly menu and the shopping list. Recipes and photos stay on that device, without sharing, sync, web access or backups. The app keeps working forever.

No. Keep the Sauce has no ads and no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs, and we don't sell your data.

Family shares one recipe box with your household and syncs it across every phone, iPad and the web. It adds a live shared shopping list and menu, AI recipe reading for photos and cookbook pages, the web recipe box at keepthesauce.com, cloud photo storage and automatic backups.

Family starts with a 1-month free trial in the app. It renews at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, in your Apple ID or Google Play subscription settings.

The first 100 households that buy the app and start a household get 60 days of Family free, added automatically with no code. When the 60 days end nothing is deleted and nothing is charged unless you choose to subscribe.

Only the person who shares the box pays. Inviting household members requires an active Family plan; everyone invited gets Family features at no extra cost.

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

Every user can add the people they cook for, even if those people don't use the app. Each profile has a protein target per meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and allergy flags.

You set each person's protein per meal in cooked weight. When you cook a recipe, Keep the Sauce adds up who is eating and converts the cooked amount into how much raw meat or protein to buy, on the recipe page, in cook mode and on the shopping list.

Mark allergies such as peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, fish, dairy, eggs, gluten/wheat, soy and sesame, or add your own. Recipes that contain a flagged ingredient show an allergy heads-up naming the person and the ingredients, on the recipe and on every step in cook mode. Always double-check labels: warnings are based on the recipe text.

Tell Keep the Sauce what is in your kitchen, such as a convection oven or an air fryer, and cook mode shows simple rule-of-thumb adjustments for oven steps, like lowering the temperature and checking early.

Yes. Keep the Sauce is $4.99 on Google Play, the same as on the App Store, and one Family recipe box works across iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.

The app is purchased separately on each store. With Family, your household's recipe box syncs across every device that signs in to it.

Any recipe website link, Pinterest pins and boards, Instagram reels, TikTok and other recipe videos, recipes from ChatGPT or Gemini, photos of printed or handwritten cards, cookbook pages, PDFs and screenshots. Share to Keep the Sauce from another app or paste a link.

Links break when blogs move or close. We built Keep the Sauce after losing years of saved Pinterest recipes that way, so it keeps a full copy of every recipe and its photo.

Edit it in the app, and send us the link through the contact form on the support page so we can fix the importer.

Recipes you keep without signing in stay on your device. When you sign in for Family, your recipes, photos and household are stored on our servers to sync them. Apple or Google handles payments; we never see your card. Read the privacy policy.

Yes. Export from the app in Settings, or from your account at keepthesauce.com as a ZIP with a printable PDF cookbook, a Paprika file and a standard schema.org recipe file.

In the app, open Family and tap Delete account, or sign in at keepthesauce.com and choose Delete my account. Deletion is immediate for your profile and sign-ins. Full steps are on the delete account page. How to delete your account.