One-time purchase · iOS 26 optimised · No subscription

Your people's recipes.
Beautiful, organised,
ready to cook.

Follow friends and family whose cooking you know — their whole collection is one tap away. Import anything else from the web and Apple Intelligence takes care of the rest, on your device.

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Roux recipe list showing My Kitchen with Roast Chicken and other recipes
Apple Intelligence
No Subscription
Follow Friends
iOS 26 optimised
Recipe Keeper Import
USDA Nutrition Data
Private by Design
US ↔ Metric Conversion
Roux social profile showing a friend's collection with followers, following and recipe grid
New in 1.2 — Social

The recipes your
friends actually cook.

Not a feed of strangers and sponsored posts. Follow the people whose cooking you know — friends, family, that colleague who always brings the best dish to the office. Browse their actual collections, cook what they already love.

Browse your friends' real, tried-and-made recipe collections
No algorithm, no ads — just people you follow
Follow requests — you decide who sees your library
Sign in with Apple to get started — optional, free.
Roux recipe detail showing Old-Fashioned Marble Cake with AI-assigned tags and dietary flags
Apple Intelligence

Imported.
Understood.

Paste any recipe URL and Roux fetches it, parses it, and runs it through Apple Intelligence on your device — assigning categories, detecting dietary flags, and cleaning up ingredients, all before you see the result.

Meal type, cuisine & difficulty auto-assigned
Dietary flags: Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free
Malformed ingredients detected and corrected
Zero data leaves your iPhone
Unit Conversion

Cups, grams,
your choice.

Set your preferred system globally, or tap any ingredient to toggle between volume and weight on the spot. Over 60 common ingredients have built-in density data — so "1 cup flour" becomes "125 g" accurately, not approximately.

Tap any ingredient to toggle volume ↔ weight
Density data for 60+ ingredients — flour, butter, sugar, and more
tsp and tbsp intentionally never converted — they're universal
Global US / Metric preference applied across every recipe
Live demo — tap to toggle
All-purpose flour
3 cups
Unsalted butter
1 cup
Granulated sugar
1 tsp
Roux recipe scaling sheet showing 2× scale factor with updated quantities

Everything else you'll love.

The features that make every cook better, quietly, in the background.

Cook Mode

Screen stays on. Step through your recipe hands-free with temperatures and timers highlighted automatically.

Import anything.

Paste any recipe URL, or batch-import your entire Recipe Keeper or Paprika library as a ZIP in one step.

Nutrition, automatic.

USDA-sourced calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium — per serving, scaled to your exact quantities.

Filter by anything.

AI assigns meal type, cuisine, difficulty, and dietary flags on import. Add your own tags on top. One tap to filter.

Scale any recipe.

Double the batch or halve it. Non-linear ingredients like baking soda and yeast get a warning so you don't over-leaven.

$3.99, once.

No subscription. No in-app purchases. Buy once, own it forever.

Your kitchen,
smarter.

Import any recipe. Cook with confidence. Buy once, own forever.

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One-time purchase · iOS 26 optimised · iPhone

Frequently asked

Everything you need to know before downloading.

How much does Roux cost?
Roux is a one-time purchase on the App Store — no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. Buy once, own it forever.
Does Roux require an account?
No account is required for the core app. Recipe import, AI enrichment, Cook Mode, unit conversion, and nutrition all work fully offline with no sign-in. The optional Social tab uses Sign in with Apple to let you share your collection and follow friends — but it's entirely opt-in.
How does the Social tab work?
Sign in with Apple to join. Your recipe library is published to a secure feed that only your approved followers can see. Follow requests require your approval — you're always in control of who sees your recipes. You can delete your account and all associated data at any time from your profile.
Can I import recipes from any website?
Yes. Roux supports any site with standard Schema.org recipe markup (JSON-LD), covering most popular sites — Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, BBC Good Food, and hundreds more. A regex fallback handles sites without structured data. You can also batch-import from Recipe Keeper ZIP exports.
Can I convert cups to grams?
Yes. Tap any ingredient to toggle between volume (cups, tbsp, tsp) and weight (grams, oz, lb). Over 60 common ingredients have built-in density data for accurate conversion. tsp and tbsp are intentionally never converted — they're universal kitchen units.
Does Roux work offline?
Yes. AI enrichment, Cook Mode, unit conversion, and recipe browsing all work fully offline. The USDA FDC API is only used as a fallback for unknown ingredients.
What iPhone do I need?
Roux requires iOS 26 or later. AI enrichment features require Apple Intelligence, available on iPhone 15 Pro and newer with Apple Intelligence enabled in Settings.

Made by a home cook, for home cooks.

Roux is an indie iOS app built and maintained by Pharis. After years of jumping between recipe apps that required subscriptions, pushed recipes to the cloud, or lost fidelity on import — Roux was built to be the opposite: one fair price, everything on your device, nothing left behind.

Questions or feedback? Leave a note on the App Store ↗