Mise

Every recipe, in its place.

Mise draws a recipe as a table rather than a list. Ingredients run down the left; every other cell is a step, and it brackets exactly the things that go into it.

Read left to right and you follow the cooking. Read a cell up and down and you see everything it takes. Two steps side by side with nothing joining them do not depend on each other — so they can be done in either order, or at the same time, or by two people. A numbered list flattens that and then hides it from you.

The format is Michael Chu's, from cookingforengineers.com. Mise is a place to keep your own recipes in it.

What it does

• Adds recipes from a web page, a PDF, or a photograph of a cookbook page — read on your device, not on a server.
• Says what it was unsure about, instead of guessing quietly.
• Scales exactly. Half of two-thirds of a cup is a third, not 0.33.
• Cook mode: one step per screen, in type you can read at arm's length.
• Shopping lists that refuse to add up amounts they cannot honestly combine.

Where your recipes live

In one file, on your device. There is no account, no subscription and no sync service, because there is nothing in the middle to run. You can copy that file off whenever you like and open it on a Mac.

Mise collects nothing about you. Nothing at all — see the privacy policy, which is short because there is nothing else true to say.