For the recipes you save, the recipes you cook, and the people you cook with. Save from a link, a card, a voice note, a video. Everything ends up in one private cookbook you fill together, year after year.
The recipes your family cooks come from everywhere — a grandparent’s handwritten card, a video you saved last week, the link you keep meaning to try, the dish someone made at dinner. Heirloom puts them in one cookbook your family fills together, year after year.
The recipes you grew up cooking don't belong in a Google Doc.
Six ways in. One private cookbook.
Speak the recipe aloud — your phone turns it into a clean recipe card. Audio never leaves your device.
Paste any recipe link. Get a clean recipe card instantly.
Handwriting and cookbooks — use your camera or a PDF, and keep the original too.
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube — saved to your private Recipe Box. Not a feed.
Describe a dish and Heirloom drafts a complete recipe.
Silent cooking videos — no narration needed.
Voice notes, handwritten cards, links, PDFs, videos, photos — or just type. AI structures it all into a clean, editable recipe card.
Voice notes, handwritten cards, web links, PDF cookbooks, cooking videos, photos — or just type it. Voice transcription happens on-device with WhisperKit; everything else gets structured by AI into a clean, editable recipe card.
Group recipes into collections. 20 designed templates plus AI-generated covers. Lineage on every recipe. Search by ingredient, cuisine, or source.
Group recipes into collections. Style them with 20 designed cookbook templates and AI-generated cover images. Lineage on every recipe — whose original, who adapted it, when. Search and filter by ingredient, cuisine, source, or prep time.
Invite family by username — no public feed, no algorithm. Build cookbooks together. Export as PDF anytime.
Invite specific family members by username — no public feed, no algorithm, no strangers. Build collaborative cookbooks together, leave notes on dishes, grow a shared collection. Export the whole thing as a PDF anytime, ready to print or send across the country.
Spark
Type any name — “Grandma’s brisket,” “the lemon chicken thing.” Heirloom fills in the rest. You review every line before saving.
A name. A craving. A half-remembered Sunday. Type whatever you’ve got — “Grandma’s brisket,” “the lemon chicken thing,” “weeknight pasta something” — and Heirloom fills in the rest. You review every line before it’s saved. The spark was always yours; we just helped you write it down.
Capture
Point your camera at a handwritten recipe card. Heirloom reads the cursive and turns a faded heirloom into a recipe your kids can scale, cook, and pass on.
Point your camera at a handwritten recipe card — Heirloom reads the cursive, pulls out the ingredients and instructions, and turns a faded heirloom into a recipe your kids can scale, cook, and pass on. Forty years of Sundays, digitized while you drink coffee.
Private
Your cookbook is a book, not a social graph. Invite specific family members. No discover tab, no trending, no strangers reading your grandmother’s notes.
Your cookbook is a book, not a social graph. You invite specific family members. You see who added what. If someone leaves the family, you pull the share. No discover tab. No trending. No strangers reading your grandmother’s notes.
Preserve
Save your mother’s version of Grandma’s Bolognese — Heirloom tracks whose original, who changed what, when. Three generations in one recipe.
When you save your mother’s version of Grandma’s Bolognese, Heirloom remembers: whose original, who changed what, when. Three generations flow through one recipe. Your kids will know exactly whose hand wrote it down — and whose kitchen made it theirs.
Own
Every recipe is private until you invite. No account needed to start. Export as PDF anytime. No lock-in, no “upgrade to export.” An heirloom you own.
Every recipe is private until you invite someone specific. No account required to start. Export your entire cookbook as a PDF any time. No lock-in, no dark patterns, no “upgrade to export.” A heirloom you own, not rent.
Your family's cookbook doesn't have to live on a screen. Export it as a beautifully laid-out PDF anytime. Ready for the family group chat, ready for the printer at the library, ready for the next generation. Every page keeps the lineage of the recipes it holds. Every cover keeps the name your family gave it.
Half-remembered dishes. The card you can’t find. The seasoning amount nobody wrote down. Recipes don’t disappear all at once — they fade. Heirloom is the place to put them before the next move, the next renovation, the next clean-out.
Some of the best dishes in your family come from a pinch of this, a handful of that — passed down by watching, not writing. Heirloom turns the way it actually gets cooked into a recipe the next generation can scale, plate, and pass on.
Birthday cards, yes. Tax records, yes. And then: a stack of recipe cards in four different hands, four generations deep. Scan them in one afternoon. Give the family the cookbook nobody got around to making.
Save links, type recipes by hand, share with family — free, forever. Premium adds the tools that turn every recipe you find into one your family can cook from: voice notes, cooking videos, handwritten cards, cookbook PDFs, AI Spark, unlimited covers, and all 20 designed templates.
Because this is the cookbook for the next thirty years. Subscriptions mean we keep adding templates, keep the voice-capture models fresh, keep the lineage tracking reliable, and keep your family’s recipes portable even when the iOS frameworks change underneath us. A one-time fee would mean an app that stops growing.
Private by default · Voice transcription happens on your phone · No account needed to start · A product of Rationale.
A note from the founder
I built Heirloom because the recipes my grandmother carried in her head are gone, and I don't want to repeat that. This is a small, opinionated tool for keeping the dishes and the people that matter. Thank you for trying it.
Matt Hanson, founder · Rationale
