Card CatalogEvery recipe, filed.

A family recipe app

Every recipe, filed.

The recipes you love live on index cards, in cookbooks, in a shoebox of clippings, in a text from your sister. Card Catalog gathers them into one drawer you can search in seconds, share with family, and read from across the kitchen.

Text COOK to (205) 401-5379 See how it works

Free while we're in family beta. No ads. No nonsense. Just the recipes.

A home for the recipes that bring us together.

Grandma's apple pie on a stained 4×6 card. The lasagna from page 212. The cookie recipe someone texted you in 2019. All of them filed, in one place, kept for good.

How it works

  1. Text us a photo.

    Snap a recipe card, a clipping, or a whole cookbook page and text it to (205) 401-5379. Or scan it in the app — page after page, as fast as you can turn them.

  2. It comes back filed.

    The recipe is typed up cleanly: title, ingredients, steps, servings, and where it came from. Anything we weren't sure about is marked in red pencil for you to check.

  3. Find it. Cook it. Share it.

    Search by name, ingredient, or "gluten-free desserts." Scale it for twelve. Make a shopping list. Read it in big type on the counter. Send it to your daughter's phone.

What's in the drawer

  • Scan anything

    Index cards, cookbooks, clippings, PDFs, photos, handwriting. Whole books, one quick pass.

  • Your own words

    We file the recipe, not the book. Photos and stories stay yours; copyrighted text is never copied.

  • Shopping lists

    Pick the recipes for the week and get one combined list, ready to text to whoever's at the store.

  • Make it for twelve

    Scale servings up or down. Bakers at altitude get the right adjustments, automatically.

  • Cook Mode

    Big, clear type that reads from across the counter. Built to WCAG 2.2 AA from the start.

  • Share by phone number

    Send a card or a whole drawer to family. No accounts to explain; a phone number is enough.

  • Every card has a number

    Grandma's cards are KF-1, KF-2, and so on. Text a number back and the recipe comes to you.

  • Print the family cookbook

    Choose the cards, add an introduction, and we'll print a real book. Coming after launch.

Made for the family cook

Card Catalog is for the person everyone texts for the stuffing recipe. It's quiet, orderly, and easy to read. No feeds, no streaks, no confetti, and nothing that needs explaining.

It's available on iPhone and Android, on the web, and by text message, so the whole family can use it however they already use their phones.

"Text us a photo. It comes back filed."

Start with one recipe.

Text COOK to (205) 401-5379 and we'll send you the link for your phone. Or text us a photo of a recipe right now and see it come back filed.

Text COOK to (205) 401-5379

iPhone and Android apps are in family beta. Store links arrive by text as soon as they're live.