Any recipe, one table, at a glance.
Ingredients down the side, method across the top, cells merged where things combine. The whole dish on one screen.
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The same recipe, two shapes.
A numbered list gives you one step at a time. A table shows you which steps are happening at once.
As a list
- Heat the oven to 175°C and line a loaf tin.
- Cream 115 g softened butter with 150 g sugar until pale.
- Beat in 2 eggs, one at a time.
- Mash 3 very ripe bananas and beat them into the wet mixture.
- In a separate bowl, whisk 250 g flour with 1 tsp baking soda and a pinch of salt.
- Fold the dry mix into the wet and pour into the tin.
- Bake for 60 minutes at 175°C.
As a table
Each column takes everything touching its left edge.
Banana bread, Serves 8. Heat the oven to 175°C / 350°F and line a loaf tin. Cream together: 115 g Butter, softened; 150 g Sugar. Mash: 3 Bananas, very ripe. Whisk together: 250 g Flour; 1 tsp Baking soda; a pinch Salt. Beat into wet base: Cream together; 2 Eggs; Mash. Fold, pour into loaf tin: Beat into wet base; Whisk together. Bake 60 min at 175°C / 350°F: Fold, pour into loaf tin.
Step five and the traced cell are the same instruction. In the table it sits there from the start. In the list you don’t hear about it until you are four steps in, with butter already creamed and eggs already beaten.
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Quantities follow the scale you pick, in cups, in grams, or both at once. Numbers are set in monospaced digits, so a column of them stays in line and nothing shimmers as it changes.
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Recipes live in your own iCloud account, so one you save on your phone is already there on your iPad. It is your account, not ours, and we never see what is in it.
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- No serverSyncing runs through your iCloud, never ours
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Privacy
Last updated 27 August 2026
The short version
Simply Chef doesn’t collect anything about you. There’s no account, no sign-in, no analytics, and no advertising. Your recipes are kept on your device and in your own iCloud account, which is what keeps them in step across the devices you use. They are never sent to us: we don’t operate a server that could receive them.
The rest of this page explains that in detail, including the network requests the app makes on your behalf.
What the app stores, and where
When you convert a recipe, the result is saved on your device — the ingredients, the steps, the table, the address of the page it came from, and the date you saved it. Your preferences (units, whether you’ve seen the introduction) are stored the same way.
On the device, all of it sits in the app’s own storage and in the container it shares with its Safari share extension, so that a recipe you save from Safari appears in the app. Nothing in that storage is transmitted to us.
If you are signed in to iCloud, your recipes are also stored in your own iCloud account. That is how the recipe you saved on your phone is already there on your iPad. The storage belongs to your Apple Account rather than to us, we have no access to it, and Apple’s own terms and privacy policy govern it.
If you have iCloud Backup or encrypted device backups turned on, your device backs the app’s storage up along with everything else on it. That backup is between you and Apple; we have no access to it either. Deleting the app removes its storage from that device, and anything already in your iCloud account stays available to your other devices.
When the app connects to the internet
There are two cases. The first is when you give the app a link to a recipe: it fetches that page so it can read the recipe from it.
That request goes directly from your device to the website you asked for. It does not pass through us. As with any request your browser makes, the website you’re fetching from can see that a request came from your network address, and its own logging and privacy practices apply to it — not ours. If you’d rather not make that request at all, paste the recipe text instead of a link, which needs no network access.
Reading and building the table then happens entirely on your device. Once a recipe is saved, opening it needs no connection.
The second is iCloud. If you are signed in, your device syncs the app’s recipes with your iCloud account so they reach the other devices you use. That traffic runs between your device and Apple. It does not pass through us and we cannot see it.
Beyond those two, the app makes no network requests. It doesn’t check in, doesn’t report usage, and doesn’t download anything else in the background.
What the app does not do
- No account, sign-in, or email address is ever asked for.
- No analytics, usage measurement, crash reporting, or telemetry of any kind.
- No advertising, and no advertising or tracking SDKs. Nothing in the app tracks you across other apps or websites.
- No selling or sharing of personal information — we hold none to sell or share.
- No public library, feed, or shared collection. Recipes you save are visible only to you, on your own devices.
Apple’s role
iCloud is Apple’s service, provided to you under your own Apple Account. What the app keeps there is covered by Apple’s terms and privacy policy, and we have no way to reach it.
If you buy the app, Apple handles the purchase. We receive sales and aggregate reporting from Apple, which does not identify you.
If you have chosen in iOS Settings to share crash and usage data with developers, Apple may send us anonymised crash reports for the app. That’s an Apple system feature you control in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, and the reports do not contain your recipes or anything identifying you.
Children
The app is suitable for all ages and does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Your rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, or delete personal information a company holds about you. We hold none: there is nothing for us to look up, export, or erase, because nothing about you reaches us. Your recipes are yours: they sit on your devices and in your own iCloud account, both of which you control and neither of which we can reach.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app changes how it handles data, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the “Last updated” date above will change. Material changes will also be described in the app’s release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@simplychef.app