Cauldron: Recipes Meals Macros

cauldron For iPhone, iPad and Mac. Alpha, through TestFlight.

Keep recipes, plan meals, track what you eat.

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Cauldron on a Mac: the recipe list beside Shakshuka with feta, its tags, servings and ingredients. Cauldron on an iPhone: Shakshuka with feta, with its times, servings and a Start brewing button.

One recipe box, every screen

Cauldron is one native app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. A sidebar on the Mac, tabs on the phone, and the same recipes on both through your iCloud.

Read the source What it does
A pan of shakshuka on a café table, eggs set in tomato sauce, with bread and salad behind.

Shakshuka with feta

Every recipe in Cauldron is kept in parts: amount, unit, item and note. That’s what lets it scale, convert and add up a shopping list. Try the servings below.

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 red bell pepper, sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • ¼ tsp chili flakes (optional)
  • 1 can crushed tomatoes (28-ounce)
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • 6 large eggs
  • ½ cup crumbled feta
  • 2 tbsp chopped parsley, for serving

Serves 4

1,240 kcal in the pan · 310 a serving

One recipe, through the week

Distill a recipe: a link field, a box to paste a recipe, and buttons to scan pages or choose photos. The week on a Mac: planned meals by day and slot, with calories and macros planned against the weekly target. The gather list: 42 ingredients for the week, sorted under Produce, each with its amount and the recipe it is for. Brewing the shakshuka: step one of five in large type, its ingredients, and a timer at 7:59. The tracker: a day's calories and protein, carbs and fat against targets, with the meals logged.

  1. Distill it

    Paste a link, a recipe from a notes app, or a photo of a cookbook page. Cauldron reads it into a card like the one above.

    From a link, text or photoabout a minute

  2. Stir it into the week

    Put it on Wednesday’s dinner. The week adds up what you’ve planned against your calorie and macro targets.

    Four servings, Wednesday1,240 kcal

  3. Gather the list

    Every planned meal’s ingredients, added together and sorted by aisle. Mark what’s already in the pantry and it steps aside.

    The whole week42 items

  4. Brew it

    One step at a time, in type you can read from the stove, with each step’s timer ready to start. The screen stays on.

    Five steps35 min

  5. Log it

    Log what you ate and its macros land in the day, against targets that adjust as your weight trend comes in.

    One serving310 kcal

A gas burner lit blue, seen low across the hob.

Kept in your kitchen

Account
None. Open it and start.
Server
None. Recipes live on your devices and sync through your private iCloud.
AI
Your own Gemini, OpenAI or Claude key, called straight from the device. Without it, recipes are read on-device.

Hear when the first batch opens

Tester places aren’t open yet. Watch the repository on GitHub and you’ll see the first TestFlight call. Needs iOS 27 or macOS 27.