One of the most frustrating parts of recipe apps is manually entering recipes.
Copying ingredients line by line, reorganizing instructions, adding timings, fixing formatting, and cleaning up links quickly turns something simple into unnecessary work.
Kurkum was designed to reduce that friction as much as possible.
The app can import recipes directly from supported websites and automatically extract core recipe information, including ingredients, steps, and other metadata when available. Instead of rebuilding recipes manually, the goal is to make saving them feel fast and natural.
This feature also shaped many of the app’s broader design decisions. I wanted recipe collection to feel lightweight, not administrative. Saving a recipe should feel closer to bookmarking or writing something down than managing a database.
Imported recipes are then organized into cookbooks and synced across Apple devices through iCloud. There are no separate accounts or online profiles required.
I think good utility software should reduce effort, not create more of it. Recipe importing is one of the clearest examples of that philosophy inside Kurkum.
Kurkum is a recipe keeper for saving, importing, and cooking recipes. Learn more about Kurkum.