Recipe capture
Bring in a recipe from a photo, voice or pasted text. Review the details, save the recipe, and choose when to put it on your menu.
Save the recipe before it disappears — then let it become something you can choose, shop for and cook, not another image to hunt through later.
Bring in what you already have — a supported photo, voice, or pasted text — then review the structured draft. You can also type the recipe in yourself. The point is a recipe you can correct and keep, not another image lost in a camera roll.
Photograph a card or page in supported light. Use the result as a starting draft, then check what came through.
Dictate a recipe you know by heart. Structure helps you review ingredients and steps without retyping everything later.
Paste notes from a message or document. Correct names, amounts and steps before you cook from them.
Manual entry stays a first-class path. AI-assisted capture is optional help — Carte does not require AI to keep a recipe.
From source to recipe
The emotional idea is simple: save the recipe before it disappears. The practical payoff is that it becomes something you can choose, shop for and cook — not just another photograph to search through when dinner is already late.
Capture example
One sample dish throughout this page. The structured panel is an illustrative result derived from the same text — not a fresh scan or a measured OCR score.
Source recipe
Tomato and butter bean stew Serves 4 2 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, sliced 1 tsp smoked paprika 400g tin chopped tomatoes 400g tin butter beans, drained and rinsed 200ml vegetable stock A handful of parsley, chopped Salt and black pepper Warm the oil in a wide pan. Soften the onion for about 8 minutes. Add the garlic and smoked paprika; cook for 1 minute. Tip in the tomatoes, butter beans and stock. Simmer gently for about 20 minutes until thick. Season, finish with parsley, and serve with bread or greens.
Structured recipe
Show how the same recipe looks as ingredients and steps you can review.
Check the details
Capture starts a draft. Glance at quantities, units, ingredient names and cooking steps against the source you brought in. Kitchen light is uneven. Handwriting is imperfect. A neat-looking result is not proof the amounts are right.
Correct what needs correcting, then save. Optional AI can help structure text or a supported photo; it is not required, and this page does not claim every AI-started path pauses for approval before saving.
From saved recipe to dinner
Once the recipe is saved, it can join your standing menu, take a portion count, feed one shopping list from that order, and open as cooking instructions when the kitchen is stocked. Saving alone does not pour every ingredient onto the list — the list follows the dishes and portions you choose.
Finding and organising what you kept lives on the Recipe organizer. How the order becomes one list lives on the Smart shopping list.
Save → Menu → Portions → Shopping → Cooking
Questions
Yes. Carte can capture a recipe from a supported photo of a card or page. Review the structured draft before you rely on it — capture is not a promise of perfect recognition.
You can photograph a handwritten card or page and start from that. Handwriting varies, and kitchen light is uneven, so check names, amounts and steps. Typing the recipe yourself remains a first-class alternative.
Yes. You can bring a recipe in from voice or pasted text, then review the structured result. Manual entry is always available if you prefer to type it in.
Glance at the recipe name, portion count, ingredient names, amounts and units, and the cooking steps. Correct anything that does not match the source before you cook from it.
Carte does not currently support importing recipes directly from an external recipe URL. Use a supported photo, voice, pasted text, or enter the recipe yourself.
A saved recipe can go on your standing menu, take a portion count, feed a shopping list from that order, and open as cooking instructions. Saving alone does not add every ingredient to the list — the list follows the dishes and portions you choose.
Bring the card, the note, or the dish you know by heart into Carte — then put it on the menu when you want it for dinner.
