Getting started
Create an account, log in, put Savour on your phone as an app and find your way around the screens.
- Getting started with SavourWhat Savour is, who it is for and the first steps to your own digital recipe book.
- Creating an accountFree, no payment details, and done within a minute.
- Logging in and passwordsLogging in on your own phone, on a shared tablet at the pass or on a new computer.
- Trying the demoLook around Savour with sample recipes, without an account and without saving anything.
- Installing Savour as an appAdd it to your home screen once and Savour opens like a regular app, even without internet.
- The menu and screensWhat is in the menu and where to find what, on a computer and on your phone.
- Your first week with SavourA practical plan to go from loose files to one recipe book in a week.
Importing recipes
Bring your recipes into Savour: from Word, PDF, photos, text, websites, notes apps and more than fifteen other recipe apps.
- Overview: importing recipesYour whole recipe folder into Savour at once, whatever the source. Here you find how it works for each source.
- Reviewing and saving an importBefore anything is saved, you see exactly what Savour has read.
- Word files (.doc, .docx)One Word document with your whole recipe book, or a hundred separate files: Savour splits them up itself.
- PDF filesA digital recipe book, an export from another program or a scan of a note.
- Photos, notes and the cameraThe note at the pass, your culinary school notebook or a page from a cookbook: one photo and it’s in.
- Typing or pasting textA recipe a colleague texted you, or a whole list from your notes: paste and done.
- Text, Markdown, RTF, ODT and HTMLFiles from Notepad, TextEdit, LibreOffice, Obsidian or a saved web page.
- A whole folder or zipYour whole recipe folder from the computer into Savour at once, even when everything is mixed together.
- Recipe from a websitePaste the link of a recipe page and Savour pulls out the recipe, without ads and life stories.
- Excel, Google Sheets and CSVKeep your recipes in a spreadsheet? With the right column names they are in Savour in one go.
- JSON, schema.org and backupsRecipes that are already neatly in fields: from another program, a website or your own backup.
- Notes apps: Notes, OneNote, NotionRecipes scattered across notes on your phone? This is how you get them into Savour.
- The Savour reader and AIWhat the Savour reader does, when AI steps in and why nothing is ever made up.
- The import serviceNo time to do it yourself? The chefs behind Savour move your recipe folder over for you.
- Problems when importingThe most common messages when importing, and what to do about them.
Moving to Savour
Whichever app you come from: make an export, pick the file and your recipes are in Savour.
- Moving to SavourWhichever app you come from: make an export, pick the file and your recipes are in Savour.
- Moving from PaprikaFrom Paprika to Savour in a few minutes, photos included.
- Moving from MelaYour Mela recipes with photos and headings into Savour.
- Moving from MealieFrom your own Mealie server to Savour.
- Moving from TandoorFrom Tandoor Recipes to Savour.
- Moving from Recipe KeeperFrom Recipe Keeper to Savour, with all your recipes in one zip.
- Moving from Copy Me ThatFrom Copy Me That to Savour.
- Moving from CroutonFrom Crouton on iPhone, iPad or Mac to Savour.
- Moving from MasterCookFrom MasterCook to Savour, old cookbooks included.
- Moving from CookmateFrom Cookmate to Savour, with your recipe photos.
- Moving from Living CookbookFrom Living Cookbook to Savour.
- Moving from EvernoteRecipes you kept in Evernote for years, into Savour in one go.
- Moving from Google KeepYour recipe notes from Google Keep into Savour.
- Moving from FlavorishFrom Flavorish to Savour, with your photos.
- Moving from CookBookManagerFrom CookBookManager.com to Savour.
- Moving from Plan to EatFrom Plan to Eat to Savour.
- Moving from PepperplatePepperplate has no export Savour can read. This is how you still get your recipes across.
Creating and editing recipes
Enter a recipe so that scaling, printing and sharing work well: ingredients, method, parts, yield, photos, notes and base recipes.
- Creating and editing a recipeEntering a new recipe or changing an existing one, step by step.
- Ingredients and quantitiesHow to write ingredients so Savour recognises them, puts them in bold and scales them correctly.
- Writing the methodA method everyone in your kitchen carries out the same way.
- A recipe in partsA composed dish in one recipe, with each component’s own ingredients and method.
- Yield and portionsWith a yield you can later scale to exactly what you need.
- Photos and the original noteA photo of the dish, and for an imported note the original next to it.
- Notes on a recipeA lasting remark next to the recipe, for everything that is not an ingredient or step.
- Linking to a base recipeFrom the jus to the stock with one tap, and back again.
- Opening and using a recipeEverything you can do from a recipe, at a glance.
- Deleting recipesTidying up without losing anything by accident.
Organising and finding
Find your recipes among hundreds of others: search, categories with keywords, folders, favourites and cleaning up.
- Overview: organising and searchingFind your beurre blanc in three seconds, even among hundreds of recipes.
- Search and All recipesFind the recipe, or the recipe that uses that one sauce.
- CategoriesA category says what a recipe is: a sauce, a garnish, a dessert.
- Keywords and suggested categoriesLet Savour do the sorting, and confirm what changes yourself.
- Recipe foldersOrganise your recipes the way your kitchen works: by section, menu or season.
- FavouritesThe recipes you need every service, always one tap away.
- Clean up: numbers and duplicatesEverything tidy after a big import, without losing anything.
In the kitchen
Scaling to any yield, cook mode with large text and your recipes without internet.
- Scaling with the quick buttonsFrom 8 covers to 120 with one tap, without calculation errors.
- More scaling: factor, yield, I haveThree ways to land on exactly what you need.
- Units and roundingScaled quantities you can actually weigh out in the kitchen.
- Cook modeOnly the recipe, large and readable, even with wet hands.
- Working without internetNo wifi in the basement kitchen? Your recipes still open.
Printing and downloading
A single recipe, a whole recipe folder for the pass or all your recipes, with your restaurant’s logo. And downloading your recipes as Word or a backup.
- Printing a recipeA single recipe for the wall or the binder at the pass.
- Printing several recipes or a folderYour complete recipe folder for the binder at the pass, in one go.
- Printing with your restaurant’s logoYour own recipe book, with your own name and logo on it.
- Downloading recipes: Word and backupYour recipes are yours. Download them whenever you like.
Sharing and kitchen teams
Send one recipe quickly, or keep one recipe book for your whole brigade with roles, folders and invitations.
- Overview: sharing and kitchen teamsSend one recipe quickly, or keep one recipe book for your whole brigade.
- Sharing a recipe with a linkA recipe for a colleague, a supplier or an intern, even without an account.
- Creating a kitchen teamOne recipe book for your whole kitchen in five minutes.
- Roles: owner, editor and viewerYou manage, your sous-chef edits, the rest follow along.
- Inviting your teamYour whole brigade on board with one message in the group chat.
- Recipes and folders in the teamYour kitchen’s recipe book, organised the way your brigade works.
- Copying a colleague’s recipeYour own version of a colleague’s recipe, without changing the original.
- Leaving, deleting and Savour ProWhat happens to the recipes when someone leaves or stops.
- Invite a colleague: 14 days of ProShare Savour with a colleague and get Pro in return.
Account and subscription
Your profile, appearance and language, what is free and what Savour Pro adds, organisations, cancelling and deleting your account.
- Free and Savour ProWhat is free, what Savour Pro adds and how the trial week works.
- Organisations: Pro for your whole kitchenSavour Pro for everyone in your kitchen, with one subscription.
- Managing your subscriptionEverything about your subscription in one place: My account → Savour Pro.
- Stopping Savour ProYou always keep everything. This is what changes.
- My account: profile and passwordYour profile and account settings in one place.
- Dark or light theme and languageMake Savour read best in your kitchen.
- Deleting your accountGone is gone. Download what you want to keep first.
- Your recipes, privacy and securityYour recipes are yours. This is how Savour treats them.
Tips for good recipes
Practical kitchen tips for recipes that turn out the same in every service.
- A recipe everyone makes the same wayA good kitchen recipe leaves no room for interpretation.
- Scaling without mistakesSavour does the maths. Tasting is still your craft.
- From scribbled note to recipe cardTurn a note into a fixed recipe while you still remember what you meant.
- Using categories and folders wellWhat a recipe is, and how you work with it: two different things.
- Working from one sourceA kitchen works best with one source for every recipe.
- Allergens and fixed agreementsKnow exactly what is in a dish when a guest asks.
Help
Solving problems, reporting a problem and the words Savour uses. If your question is not here, see the FAQ.
- Problems logging inThe most common messages when logging in, and what to do about them.
- Report a problem and contactSomething not working? Let us know and the chefs behind Savour will look into it.
- GlossaryThe words you come across in Savour, briefly explained.
Release notes
What’s new in each version of Savour. The latest version is at the top. Read more