Keep Old Writing
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Preserving generations

Their handwriting,
kept forever.

Every card holds more than a recipe. It holds their hand on the page. We read those cards in any language and set them into a digital cookbook your family will actually open or print.

Start with your photos

Free preview
a few lines of your first recipe

A faded handwritten recipe card with coffee stains and looping cursive

The original…

Their cardYour page← drag to compare →

Drag the handle to watch the handwriting become a printed page.

A stack of old handwritten recipe cards beside a tin recipe box in lamplight

The recipes we don't want to lose

Ink fades. Cards slip behind a drawer. One day nobody can read the one that mattered most. This isn't a file conversion. It's their voice, still legible, still in the kitchen, a hundred years from now.

How it works

Four honest steps, no typing required.

01

Photograph the cards

Upload your photos straight from your phone. Handwritten or printed, any language, however faded.

02

The reading

Every loop and crossed-out line is carefully read, fragments are cleaned up, and your recipe can be translated too.

03

See it work

A short preview of your first recipe shows you the quality. Full review and correction of every recipe unlocks after purchase.

04

Your digital cookbook

One flat price: $9.90 for up to 15 recipes, $16.90 for up to 40, $24.90 for up to 80. Your recipes are reviewed and beautifully typeset into one PDF. You also get a private, page-turning online version to share with family.

See it before you pay

Judge the magic on your own recipe.

A free preview of your first recipe shows you exactly how well the reading worked: its title and first ingredients. If we couldn't read your grandmother's hand, you'll know before spending a cent. After purchase, your book also lives online as a flippable version you can send to family.

A handwritten apple crisp recipe card beside the same recipe typeset in a printed cookbook

The complete collection

Pay once, priced by the size of your book

Small Collection

$9.90

Up to 15 recipes

Most popular

Family Collection

$16.90

Up to 40 recipes

Full Collection

$24.90

Up to 80 recipes

Delivered instantly as a digital PDF, print a copy anytime you'd like one in hand.

  • Handwriting read in any language
  • You review and correct every word
  • Optional translation, bilingual pages
  • Designed cover, contents and recipe pages
  • Choose from A4, Square, or Landscape page sizes and three style themes
  • A digital PDF, ready to print whenever you'd like a physical cookbook
  • Private, page-turning online cookbook to share with family
Start your cookbook

One payment, one book. No subscription, ever.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you might wonder before entrusting us with your family's handwritten recipes.

How it works & receiving your book

Photos & uploading

Pricing & payment

The private online version

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