Independent product · Founder
Heirloom
The best recipes are never written down. They live in a grandparent’s hands — a pinch of this, a card stained from forty years of Sunday sauces. One cleaned-out drawer, and they’re gone.
Your grandmother’s Bolognese is not a Google Doc.
· What it is
A native iOS recipe box
Photograph a handwritten card, paste a link, scan a cookbook page, save a cooking video, or just describe the dish — Heirloom reads it, structures it, and files it. You review every line before it saves.
Every recipe carries its lineage. The card Mom wrote in 1985 stays the card Mom wrote in 1985 — your changes sit beside hers, with the story of who changed what, and when.
· The specimen box
Bright screens mounted as specimens — the box, the import, the lineage, the shared cookbook — one system, front to back.
· Capture · five formats
Five ways in
Family recipes don’t arrive in one tidy format, so Heirloom takes them all. AI does the transcribing, not the deciding.
- Handwritten cards. Point the camera at a card — Heirloom reads the cursive, smudges and all, and writes it down straight.
- Web links. Paste any recipe URL. It keeps the recipe and drops the life-story preamble.
- Cookbook pages. Scan a printed book; each spread becomes its own structured card.
- Cooking videos. Save a TikTok, Reel, or YouTube — audio and on-screen steps both feed the card.
- Spoken or described. Read one aloud with floury hands, or type “Grandma’s brisket.” Heirloom drafts the rest.
· Share · real-time sync
A cookbook, not a social graph
Make a cookbook and invite specific family. No public feed, no follower count, no strangers reading your grandmother’s notes. Add a recipe on one phone and it appears on every other in real time; a push tells the family when a new dish lands.
If someone leaves the family, you pull the share. The argument over how much salt is in the soup finally gets settled in writing.