Learn more about the Recipe Holder App

How is Recipe Holder different?

You won't find an app like apps4myhome Recipe Holder anywhere else on the Internet. 

1. This app does not require you to only use recipes that we publish - it's "recipe search agnostic" - and will work with most** Internet recipe search engines.
2. and it enables you to mix your Internet-based recipes with the recipes you have elsewhere - in books, magazines, electronic or hand-written documents
3. When you find a recipe on the Internet, Recipe Holder enables you to take a copy of that recipe (in the industry standard PDF format), and store that in your own personal 'cloud' database.  So if the website author moves or deletes the recipe on his web-site, you still have a copy in your database.

** the app will take copies of almost all publicly available recipes - but if the recipe is stored in a secure site that requires you to log-in to access it, the app will not be able to take the PDF copy.

Overcoming the problems of Internet recipes

Most of us have encountered the problems:

1. We use an Internet recipe, or see one we'd like to use in the future, storing the link (URL) to the recipe in our favourites/bookmarks - only to find that when we return to get the recipe later it's no longer there – the web site has disappeared, or the recipe has been deleted or moved
2. Our folder of recipe favourites/bookmarks becomes so large as to become unmanageable, and we can't remember which recipe was which – if only we could easily search for the recipe we want.
3. We're on holiday, at work, perhaps out shopping, or away from our home PC where we stored the favourite/bookmark to the recipe - we need to access the recipe – possibly to shop for ingredients – but can't remember that long Internet URL link.
4. We use a recipe from the Internet but it's wrong, or we change it ourselves for the better – but later when we go to use the recipe again we've forgotten the changes we made (and/or lost the piece of paper on which we wrote down the changes).

Recipe Holder enables you to overcome all these problems:

1. Recipe Holder allows you to capture a copy of the Internet recipes and store it in your own personal recipe database. If at any time in the future the Internet page disappears or moves, Recipe Holder enables you to view the captured page instead.
2. All recipes held in Recipe Holder can be fully indexed and are searchable against a wide variety of search terms and filters
3. All your Recipe Holder data is held on our servers (in the 'cloud') - not on any of your computers or mobile devices. You can log into the app and access your personal data from anywhere in the world that has an Internet connection, even using just a mobile phone.
4. No matter where your recipe comes from, Recipe Holder enables you to store your own comments and/or improvements against them so that the next time you access any recipe you can see those comments.

Folder of printed recipes, pages torn from magazines, photocopies from friends?

Over the years perhaps you've accumulated a loose-leaf folder of printed recipes, pages torn from magazines and.or your own recipes in printed format.  But now it's difficult to find a recipe amongst those many pages, and perhaps when you do, the copy has been torn or damaged.....

Recipe Holder allows you to move scanned* copies of those recipes into your recipe database easily, optionally adding further comments (e.g. on ingredients and methods), whilst also indexing the key ingredients and adding any relevant attributes (e.g. gluten free or party food, etc ..).

Every search on Recipe Holder will include a search of all recipes, wherever they came from - giving equal weight to your scanned recipes, Internet recipes and all other recipes in your own personal 'cloud'.

Then all those recipes are available to you, both for searches for specific recipes, and viewing those recipes, anywhere in the world, on a PC or via a mobile device.

What about your handwritten recipes?

These can be scanned (i.e. as above), or Recipe Holder enables you to type those recipes into your recipe database, again also optionally indexing the key ingredients and adding any relevant attributes (e.g. gluten free or party food, etc ..). 

Every search on Recipe Holder will include a search of all recipes, wherever they came from - giving equal weight to your typed up recipes, Internet recipes and all other recipes in your own personal 'cloud'.

Out and about and you see a recipe you like?

Why not use your mobile phone or digital camera to take a digital photograph* of the recipe. If your mobile phone has a compatible browser that allows file uploads and an Internet connection it can be loaded straight into Recipe Holder. If not, once you're at a computer that will run Recipe Holder, load the image into your recipe database then add your own comments and/or search parameters and filters as before.

Forget which book that recipe was in?

Just add the recipe title, together with the book title and page number into Recipe Holder. You can also add your own comments (e.g. on ingredients and methods), whilst also indexing the key ingredients and adding any relevant attributes (e.g. gluten free or party food, etc ..), to make the recipe fully search-able in Recipe Holder alongside your Internet-based and other recipes.

Every search on Recipe Holder will include a search of all recipes, wherever they came from - giving equal weight to your recipes from books & magazines, Internet recipes and all other recipes in your own personal 'cloud'.

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 * If using scans or digital photographs of printed recipes please ensure that you have permission and are not breaking any copyright rules (normally you are allowed to take a copy provided it is purely for your own, personal use). Note that Recipe Holder maintains a recipe database personal to you, and neither promotes nor condones the sharing of protected items in that personal database with others.