Before the recipe cards are gone.
Point your camera at a handwritten card — Heirloom turns her handwriting into a recipe you and your kids can cook from.
Why handwritten recipes get lost
Handwritten recipes live in specific places. A recipe box on a kitchen shelf. A file folder in a drawer. The back of a birthday card. When someone moves, downsizes, or passes away, those places get cleaned out. The recipes go with them.
The cards that survive are often illegible to someone who didn’t grow up cooking from them. “A little butter.” “Bake until right.” “Granny’s method.” The cards make sense to the person who wrote them. They need translation before they can be cooked by the next generation.
How Heirloom reads cursive
Heirloom uses on-device handwriting recognition to turn a photographed recipe card into structured ingredients and instructions. You review, tap to edit a word if the OCR missed something, and save. No re-typing. No dictation into a separate note app. The original image stays attached to the recipe forever, so the handwriting itself is preserved even after you have the typed version.
A stack of fifty cards can be captured in an afternoon.
A cookbook that keeps her name on every recipe
When you save a handwritten card into your Heirloom cookbook, her name goes on the recipe. When you adapt it — more garlic, less salt, a Dutch oven instead of a stockpot — the lineage stays: her original, your version, clearly distinguished. Your kids will cook from it one day. Her name will still be there.
This is what a heritage cookbook is supposed to be: a record of who fed whom, handed down in legible form, so the recipes can keep being cooked.
Your family’s recipes are their story.
Keep the story.
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