While this tip isn't related to an app, I take screenshots of recipes that I find on the web while on my iPad. This eliminates the need to send myself an email link or having a thousand bookmarked pages. You can do this the same way you do it on the iPhone where you simultaneously push the home button and the on/off button until you hear the camera shutter noise. The screenshot will save the image in your photos. I can't wait for the new iOS so that I can organize my recipe screenshots into folders!
Check out Paprika for the IPad. You can search websites (Epicurious, Saveur, etc.) and it will automatically download recipes for you. Or you can cut and paste. Or you can add your own. We travel a lot and I love having all of my recipes with me. It has a ton of features, too.
Thanks for the recommendations. When my iPad arrives, I will download Evernote, and play around with Bento. I'm just a home cook, so I don't need anything too sophisticated, but a small database would be convenient.
I really like Evernote for the iPhone, and I imagine it would be great for the iPad as well. The new version is really nice, and I've started making a second notebook for recipes I'm going to make that week, along with a note for the shopping list, which is shared with my husband - very handy. Nothing automatic, but sometimes I find the automatic shopping lists more trouble than its worth.
I like Evernote for clipping recipes to make later - either from the web, or taking a photo of a page in one of my books and adding it in.
I've found Bento pretty good, and easy to use, but it's functionality on the iPhone is limited. Not sure about the iPad. Because it's a general database, you can define whichever fields you want for recipes. I've got a database for cookbooks and one for recipes, and the two are linked together.
I recently switched to Mac, and I'm trying out MacGourmet, on my desktop & iPhone. I'm fooling around with Bento, because want to cost recipes. I also use Evernote, great for simple recording, especially for putting web clippings, photos of handwritten recipes & mag pages all in one searchable & mobile place. But it won't do tricks like scale recipes & link to other recipes. I've used Living Cookbook on my PC for 8 years, because it helps me cost recipes easily, for work, and I have hundreds in there. All these have free trial versions, and they're fun to play with. I'd like to know what you end up using on your iPad; I'm thinking of gettin one next fall...
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I've found Bento pretty good, and easy to use, but it's functionality on the iPhone is limited. Not sure about the iPad. Because it's a general database, you can define whichever fields you want for recipes. I've got a database for cookbooks and one for recipes, and the two are linked together.