Short answers, from the people who built it.

Sign up, open your book, and choose Add a recipe. Upload a photo of a card, paste text, or (on Keeper and Heirloom) upload a voice memo. Kitchenlore reads it and shows you the finished page with the original beside it. Check it, then save.

Yes. The rescue demo on the homepage reads a card without signing up. Pick one of our sample cards or upload your own photo. Nothing is saved until you create an account.

Five recipes and one family book, with card photos and pasted text, library illustrations, and Markdown and reading PDF export. No card required, no time limit.

You can edit any part of the structured recipe: amounts, steps, title, chapter. The original source never changes, and In her words quotes can be removed but not rewritten, because they must match the source.

Lay it flat on a plain, darker surface, near a window in daylight. Hold the phone directly above it so the card is square in the frame and fills most of it. Turn off the flash, which bleaches faint pencil. Take the back too if there is writing there.

JPEG, PNG and WebP photos straight from your phone or a scanner. iPhones usually convert HEIC photos to JPEG when you upload from the browser. If a photo is refused, save it as a JPEG first and try again.

Because Kitchenlore could not read those spots with confidence and will not guess. A sharper photo sometimes helps. Otherwise, you or anyone with the contribute role can fill each spot from memory, and the fill is signed with your name.

Usually, yes. Cursive, pencil, typewritten cards with handwritten corrections and cards mixing languages are all read line by line. The card stays in its own language unless you ask for a translation.

Keeper and Heirloom. The memo is transcribed word for word, then structured into a recipe, and the full transcript stays with it.

The common ones from phones and messaging apps: M4A, MP3, WAV, WebM and OGG. You can forward a memo out of a chat app by saving it first, then uploading it.

Yes. The transcript keeps what she said, in the languages she said it. Nothing is translated unless you ask.

Words that cannot be heard clearly are marked [hard to read] rather than guessed. For new recordings, put the phone close to the person, away from the fan and the running tap.

Open the book, choose Invite family, enter their email, and pick what they can do: read, or read and add (add recipes and fill gaps). They get an email invitation. Sharing is on Keeper and Heirloom.

No. Only the book owner needs a paid plan. Invited family can read or contribute for free.

Open the book, choose Invite family, and remove them or change what they can do. It takes effect immediately. Recipes they added stay in the book.

Everyone with access to the book. Every fill is signed with the name of the person who made it.

On Heirloom, export the print-ready edition: a 6 by 9 inch interior PDF with bleed. Upload it to any print-on-demand service and order as many copies as you like. You pay the printer directly.

You can export a reading PDF and print it at home. The print-ready edition, laid out for a bound book, is part of Heirloom.

Yes, unless the family has filled them. The book shows what the card said. Fills print with the name of the person who made them.

In Settings, go to Plan and billing. You can switch plans or cancel at any time. If you cancel, you keep your book on the free plan.

Settings, then Your data. You get a JSON file of the whole account, Markdown for each book, and a reading PDF. Originals can be downloaded from each recipe.

Settings, then Delete the account. It is a real delete: your books, recipes, photos, memos and transcripts are removed immediately, and backups age out within 30 days. Export first if you want a copy.

Use Forgot password on the sign-in page. We will email you a single-use link that expires.