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Recipe scanner

The recipe scanner app that reads handwritten recipe cards

Point your phone at a stained index card or a page torn from a church cookbook. Tradish reads the handwriting, sorts the ingredients from the steps, and saves it as a clean recipe you can actually cook from.
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Works on printed cards, handwritten notes, and cookbook pages.
Tradish add-recipe screen scanning a handwritten recipe card

Your family recipes are trapped on paper

The best recipes rarely live in books. They live on the back of an envelope, a card in your grandmother's handwriting, a page so splattered you can barely read the flour measurement. Every one of those cards is one spill or one move away from being gone.
Typing them out by hand takes forever, so most people never do it. The cards sit in a drawer, and the recipes fade with them.
A recipe scanner fixes the tedious part. You take a photo, and the recipe becomes something you can search, share, and cook from on your phone.

Scan handwritten recipes in three steps

01

Snap a photo

Open Tradish and photograph the card, page, or note. Faded ink, cursive, and cramped margins are fine. You can scan a single card or work through a whole recipe box in one sitting.
02

Tradish reads it

The app that reads handwritten recipes does the sorting for you. Tradish pulls out the title, separates the ingredients from the instructions, and catches the amounts, so you get a structured recipe instead of a wall of text.
03

Review and save

Check the result, fix anything the handwriting made tricky, and save. Your recipe is now searchable, scalable, and ready to cook from, with the original photo kept alongside it.
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More than just a handwritten recipe scanner

Tradish handles the messy reality of where recipes actually live:
Handwritten recipe cards
Index cards, notecards, and loose scraps, including cursive and faded ink.
Printed cards and clippings
Recipes cut from magazines, newspapers, and the backs of packages.
Cookbook and binder pages
Full pages from church cookbooks, community fundraisers, and family binders.
Your own notes
The shorthand versions you scribbled while cooking and never wrote up properly.
Whatever the source, the result is the same: a clean digital recipe with the amounts, steps, and title in the right place.

Built to preserve recipes, not just read them

Most scanning tools stop at turning a photo into text. Tradish is a cookbook first, so once a recipe is in, it becomes something you use.
It keeps the original.
Every scanned recipe holds onto the photo of the card, so the handwriting and the coffee stain stay with it.
It stays organized.
Recipes sort into categories and stay searchable, so you can find Grandma's pie crust in seconds instead of digging through a drawer.
It scales and cooks.
Double the batch, and the amounts adjust. Cook from your phone without losing your place.
It is meant to be shared.
Send a recipe to a sibling or build a shared family cookbook so the whole family cooks from the same source.
Questions

Good to know

Is there an app that reads handwritten recipes?

Yes. Tradish is a recipe scanner app built to read handwritten recipe cards. You photograph the card and it converts the handwriting into a structured recipe with the title, ingredients, and steps separated out, even from cursive or faded ink.

How do I scan a handwritten recipe card?

Open Tradish, take a photo of the card, and let the app read it. It sorts the ingredients from the instructions and saves a clean, editable recipe. You can review and fix anything before saving, and the original photo stays attached.

Can it read old or faded handwriting?

Tradish is designed for real recipe cards, including faded ink, cursive, and cramped handwriting. When a line is genuinely hard to read, you can edit it in a few taps, and the original photo is always kept so nothing is lost.

Does it work on printed recipes and cookbook pages too?

Yes. The scanner reads printed cards, magazine clippings, and full cookbook or binder pages, not just handwriting.

What happens to the original recipe card?

Nothing changes about the card itself. Tradish keeps a photo of the original alongside the digital version, so you preserve both the recipe and the handwriting it came in.

Is the recipe scanner free?

You can scan your first recipes free to see how it reads your cards before committing.
Keep reading
How to digitize a whole recipe box
A step-by-step walkthrough for turning a full box of cards into digital recipes.
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How to preserve family recipes
Keep the dishes your family cooks from slipping away over the years.
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What to do with old recipe cards
Practical ways to save the cards you have inherited before they fade.
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Build a shared family cookbook
Gather the whole family into one cookbook everyone can cook from.
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Get your recipe box off the shelf and into your pocket

Start with one card. Scan it, see it turn into a real recipe, and keep going from there. The recipes your family actually cooks deserve to outlast the paper they are written on.
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Every recipe. One place.
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