Prep Slate — a recipe app for home cooks
Your cookbook, ready when the stove is on.
Save recipes, plan the week, cook without scrolling or squinting.
The whole loop, not just the kitchen
The problem
You have been
here before.
Step 3, hands wet, the screen goes dark.
→The screen stays lit start to finish. You never touch it with raw-chicken hands.
You check the ingredients, come back, and your place is gone.
→Progress is saved as you go. Switch tabs, reload, lock the phone, and you are still on step 4.
Double the recipe and the app asks for 0.66 of an egg.
→Scaling rounds to what a kitchen actually uses: 3 eggs, ¾ cup, not a decimal.
Two hundred recipes saved, and the one you want is somewhere in folder seven.
→Search every ingredient and note, not just titles. Type "chicken," cook in ten seconds.
Cook mode
Everything you need, right where you need it.
One step at a time. No scrolling up and down for ingredients. The screen stays awake.
Background timers
Per-step. Keep counting when you switch tabs.
Tap to cross off
Big targets, built for wet hands.
Quick Shopping List Add
Run out of an ingredient mid-cook? Add it to your shopping list on the fly
A note from
the maker
I am a home cook, not a chef. I cook most nights, I save recipes from all over, and for years I used the same apps everyone else does. They were good apps. I just had opinions.
I wanted the screen to stay lit at step three, with chicken on my hands. I wanted to check the ingredients without losing my place. I wanted to double a recipe without being handed two-thirds of an egg. None of that is a knock on anyone else's cook mode. I just knew exactly how I wanted mine to work, and I wanted it to be beautiful.
So I built the tool I wanted on the counter: one that stays out of the way while you cook. The screen stays lit. Your place is saved. The math is the math a cook would actually do. And your recipes are yours to take with you, always, even if you leave.
That is the whole idea. If it earns a place next to your stove, it has done its job.
Mark
Home cook, maker of Prep Slate
A library that scales
Past 50 saves, every folder app turns into a graveyard.
Smart tags apply themselves on import. Search reaches ingredients, tags, and notes, not just titles.
Plan
The plan knows when to start.
Tell it when you want to eat. It walks the timeline back: pre-prep at 4:45, prep everything else at 5:05, on the stove at 5:15.
Shop
The shopping list adds itself up.
Push a recipe to the list and every ingredient merges in, totaled and deduplicated. Two onions become one line, sorted into the aisle where you will find it. Each line remembers which recipes it came from. Check off as you walk the store.
At the desk, too
The Prep Slate promise
Your recipes are yours.
Exportable any time, even after you cancel.
JSON export
Download your whole library any time. Yours to keep.
Printable HTML
Every recipe prints clean. Counter-ready, no app chrome.
No lock-in
Cancel and your library stays readable. The data is yours.
No ads inside a recipe. No social feed. No upsells mid-sear.