Simmer Down — LH Vantage

Why You'll Like It

Just the recipe.

Modern recipe pages are 80% noise. Simmer Down pulls out the part that matters and puts it on a clean, readable page that's easy to follow while you cook.

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URL import

Paste any recipe URL. We pull the title, ingredients, and steps and drop the rest — pop-ups, life story, ads, all of it.

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Smart screenshot & photo import

Got a Facebook screenshot or a photo of a cookbook page? Apple Intelligence reads the image on-device and turns it into a clean recipe.

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Built-in shopping list

Send any recipe's ingredients to your shopping list in one tap. Check things off as you shop. It syncs to everyone in the family.

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Share to anywhere

Send a recipe via Messages, Mail, Notes, AirDrop — anywhere iOS shares. Title, link, ingredients, and steps all formatted to paste cleanly.

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Family sync

Share recipes and your shopping list with everyone in the household. Anonymous accounts — no email, no profile required.

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Cooking Mode

Keeps the screen on while you're following a recipe. Your phone won't auto-lock mid-stir.

How It Works

From clutter to clean in three taps.

STEP 1

Bring in the recipe

Paste a URL, drop in a screenshot, pick a photo from your library, or scan a cookbook page with the camera. Whatever's easiest.

STEP 2

Tap Import

Simmer Down extracts the recipe — on-device, no servers — and saves a clean version in your library. No login, no signup.

STEP 3

Cook

Open the recipe to a clean ingredients-and-steps view. Send the ingredients to your shopping list with one tap, or share the recipe with a friend.

A Glance

Designed to get out of your way.

Three places you'll spend most of your time: browsing your recipe library, following a recipe while you cook, and checking the shared shopping list at the store.

Your library

Alphabetical, searchable, with favorites pinned to the top.

The recipe

Just ingredients and steps, in clean serif type. No clutter.

Shared shopping list

Send ingredients here in one tap. Check things off as you shop.

Features

Everything that ships in v1.

Recipe URL import: Pulls ingredients and steps from JSON-LD recipe markup (used by most modern recipe sites) and from WPRM-style recipe blocks. No screen scraping of unrelated content.
Smart screenshot import: Paste or pick a screenshot of a recipe — Apple Intelligence and Vision OCR read it on-device and extract a structured recipe. Great for Facebook posts you can't otherwise grab.
Choose photo from library: Import a recipe from any photo on your device — cookbook page, recipe card, handwritten note. Same on-device extraction pipeline.
Scan with camera: Point the camera at a recipe and pull it in. Works on cookbooks, magazine clippings, recipe cards, and the kitchen-table whiteboard.
Paste text from clipboard: Copy a recipe from Notes, an email, a Reddit comment — anything text-shaped. Apple Intelligence pulls out the structured recipe.
Clean recipe view: Title, ingredients, steps. That's it. Serif typography that's easy to read at arm's length on the counter.
Share to anywhere: Native iOS share sheet with the full formatted recipe ready to paste into Messages, Mail, Notes, AirDrop, or any other app you've installed.
Favorites pinned to top: Star recipes you cook often. They float to the top of the list and can be filtered with one tap.
Shopping list: Standalone or generated from a recipe's ingredients. Check off items as you shop, reorder by dragging, clear the "done" pile in one tap.
Family sharing: Create a family with a 6-character code. Anyone you share the code with can join and sync recipes + shopping list.
Member roster: See every device in your family in Settings. Rename your device, remove a member's access with one tap.
Rotate the invite code: If a code has been shared too widely, generate a new one. Old code stops working immediately; existing members keep their access.
Cooking Mode: Keeps the screen awake on recipe pages so your phone doesn't lock with floured hands. Toggle in Settings.
iPad split view: On iPad and Mac, the recipe list sits in a sidebar with the detail in the main pane.
Mac app: Same app, full-window experience. Family syncs across phone, tablet, and desktop.
On-device AI, no servers: All the smart-extraction work runs entirely on your device using Apple's Foundation Models and Vision frameworks. Nothing about your recipes is sent to LH Vantage or any third party for AI processing.

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Privacy

Anonymous by design. No name, email, ads, or tracking. Family data stays inside your family.

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Support & FAQ

Importing a recipe, setting up family sync, or fixing a snag? The FAQ has answers.

Support & FAQ