The short version
Thyme takes a recipe from wherever you found it, a cooking website, Instagram, TikTok, a Facebook post, your own notes, or a recipe sent by a friend, and turns it into a clean recipe. Ingredients become a checklist, directions become steps, and there's no six-paragraph story about the vacation in Nantucket that inspired the pasta.
Recipes can be sent to friends as cards that drop straight into their cookbook, categories and all. Have a box of family recipes? Make a category called "Johnson Family Recipes" and pass them around. The family cookbook builds itself, one text at a time.
What makes Thyme different is mostly what it doesn't do.
It doesn't ask you to subscribe before you've decided whether you like it. It doesn't ask you to build a pantry, plan every meal, count macros, or turn dinner into another system to manage.
Thyme is for home cooks who don't need help cooking. They just want their recipes.
There's no account and no sign-up. Every way of bringing a recipe into Thyme is available from the start. Save up to 100 recipes for free. If your cookbook grows beyond that, Thyme asks if you'd like to unlock unlimited recipes for $20 a year, or $45 once, forever.
That's it. No trial countdown. No locked imports. No cookbook held hostage.
At a glance
Thyme
by Tyler Endicott, California · Version 1.6
Ingredients
- No account, no sign-up. Recipes live on your phone and your private iCloud.
- Imports from anywhere. Websites, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Reels and groups, Pinterest, Apple Notes, photos, Markdown, CSV, and other recipe apps' exports.
- Recipe cards. Send any recipe to a friend; one tap adds it to their cookbook, categories included.
- Recipe Translate. Recipes in other languages translate on the phone, original one tap away.
- Scan. Recipe cards, cookbook pages, and handwriting, two-column cards included.
- Cook Mode. Big type, step timers, a screen that stays awake, scaling that understands "2 to 3 teaspoons."
- Export everything, any time. The whole cookbook as a file, free or Pro.
- Made with SwiftUI, SwiftData, CloudKit, and on-device Apple Translation, Vision, and Foundation Models.
- Developer Thyme Mobile, LLC. Contact [email protected]
See it move
Silent loops, 720 px, H.264. The kit includes all four.
Screenshots
App Store set, 1242 x 2688. Click for full size.
Icon: 1024 px PNG. Sprig mark: PNG. Hero photo, the starter recipe, shot by Tyler: 1800 px.
What people say
"It allows me to upload a link to a recipe I saved in Pinterest and only includes the recipe details and not all the fluff."App Store review, August 2026
"IG is so annoying to capture recipes. Thyme makes it easy. In all languages."App Store review, August 2026, the review that asked for Recipe Translate
About
Thyme is designed and built in California by Tyler Endicott, a mobile game creative production director and designer of twenty years who wanted the recipe app he couldn't find.
It began several years ago with a simple frustration: recipes were scattered everywhere: Notes, Messages, email, saved posts across social media. That frustration turned into wireframes in Figma and loose feature notes in Trello, all circling the same idea: a quiet, beautifully designed place to keep recipes, without everything that had accumulated around recipe apps. Eventually, Tyler decided to build it himself.
Promo codes for review are available on request. [email protected]