Useful Units Recipe Converter
Metric to US, US to Metric
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2.10.0for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Useful Units Recipe Converter
SCAN RECIPE. INSTANT UNIT CONVERSION. BOOM!
The Useful Units Recipe Converter scans digital or printed recipes, automatically recognizes the text and converts the amounts of the ingredients into your preferred units, including volume to weight conversions.
"Finally: The app I always wanted and never found." Susanne Tobler, Founder & Owner of TASTELAB
_________________________
Confused by cups, ounces, pints and pinches?
Don't own a scale and want to do everything by volume?
Here comes the solution to all your cooking unit conversion issues!
Simply take a picture from a cookbook or a screenshot from a digital source - and the app does all the work for you: it automatically reads the recipe and instantly converts it into your preferred units.
Unlike many other recipe unit converters, Useful Units is smart and also knows about the specific weight of many ingredients. This way, you can convert between volumes and weights seamlessly!
KEY FEATURES:
RECIPE SCANNER & AUTOMATIC TEXT RECOGNITION
A recipe in cookbook or on your favourite blog? Useful Units isn’t picky: Take a picture of the recipe or just load a screenshot of it. Text recognition is automatic! Adjusting or adding ingredients manually is super easy, too.
USEFUL UNITS - TAILORED TO YOU
We all have our favourite units.
Grams, milliliters or liters? Sure.
Cups, pints and pounds? Yes.
Pinches, dashes and drops? Yep, that as well.
Choose the units you like best - and switch between them super easily!
FOREVER FREE
Useful Units is for free and always will be. Of course: You can tip us - as much or as little as you like.
ALL THE UNITS
Currently, the Useful Units Recipe Converter recognizes the following units with most of their common abbreviations:
* Units of Volume: Liters (as well as deciliters, centiliters and milliliters), tablespoons, teaspoons; drops, pinches and dashes as well as sticks (for all things buttery). Furthermore US and Imperial fluid ounces, gills, cups, pints, quarts and gallons.
* Units of Weight: Kilograms (as well as grams and milligrams), pounds, slugs and ounces.
If you think that’s not enough: Let us know!
If you think that’s too many: Never mind! Just don’t select them in the menu and they won't be displayed!
INGREDIENTS DATABASE
Is a cup of salt heavier than a cup of flour? Certainly so!
The Useful Units Recipe Converter knows the density (yay, science!) of more than 300 of the most common baking and cooking ingredients, so you don’t have to worry about these things when converting.
What about all the other ingredients? No problem: Just tell the app what category it belongs to and the app will do the rest for you.
SCALING YOUR RECIPE
Double or quadruple the recipe’s amounts? Sure, just a click.
Throwing a giant party with food for everyone? Great! Just enter your custom scaling factor and that’s it!
LANGUAGES
The Useful Units app is written completely in English.
Yet, it does recognize English and German recipes, units and ingredients.
Would you like to help teaching the app further languages? Get in touch!
We hope this neat little app brings you as much joy while cooking and baking as it does to us!
We are very interested in your feedback. If you have any inputs, questions or concerns, please contact us at app@tastelab.ch.
Cook and bake away! Sue & Remo
The Useful Units Recipe Converter scans digital or printed recipes, automatically recognizes the text and converts the amounts of the ingredients into your preferred units, including volume to weight conversions.
"Finally: The app I always wanted and never found." Susanne Tobler, Founder & Owner of TASTELAB
_________________________
Confused by cups, ounces, pints and pinches?
Don't own a scale and want to do everything by volume?
Here comes the solution to all your cooking unit conversion issues!
Simply take a picture from a cookbook or a screenshot from a digital source - and the app does all the work for you: it automatically reads the recipe and instantly converts it into your preferred units.
Unlike many other recipe unit converters, Useful Units is smart and also knows about the specific weight of many ingredients. This way, you can convert between volumes and weights seamlessly!
KEY FEATURES:
RECIPE SCANNER & AUTOMATIC TEXT RECOGNITION
A recipe in cookbook or on your favourite blog? Useful Units isn’t picky: Take a picture of the recipe or just load a screenshot of it. Text recognition is automatic! Adjusting or adding ingredients manually is super easy, too.
USEFUL UNITS - TAILORED TO YOU
We all have our favourite units.
Grams, milliliters or liters? Sure.
Cups, pints and pounds? Yes.
Pinches, dashes and drops? Yep, that as well.
Choose the units you like best - and switch between them super easily!
FOREVER FREE
Useful Units is for free and always will be. Of course: You can tip us - as much or as little as you like.
ALL THE UNITS
Currently, the Useful Units Recipe Converter recognizes the following units with most of their common abbreviations:
* Units of Volume: Liters (as well as deciliters, centiliters and milliliters), tablespoons, teaspoons; drops, pinches and dashes as well as sticks (for all things buttery). Furthermore US and Imperial fluid ounces, gills, cups, pints, quarts and gallons.
* Units of Weight: Kilograms (as well as grams and milligrams), pounds, slugs and ounces.
If you think that’s not enough: Let us know!
If you think that’s too many: Never mind! Just don’t select them in the menu and they won't be displayed!
INGREDIENTS DATABASE
Is a cup of salt heavier than a cup of flour? Certainly so!
The Useful Units Recipe Converter knows the density (yay, science!) of more than 300 of the most common baking and cooking ingredients, so you don’t have to worry about these things when converting.
What about all the other ingredients? No problem: Just tell the app what category it belongs to and the app will do the rest for you.
SCALING YOUR RECIPE
Double or quadruple the recipe’s amounts? Sure, just a click.
Throwing a giant party with food for everyone? Great! Just enter your custom scaling factor and that’s it!
LANGUAGES
The Useful Units app is written completely in English.
Yet, it does recognize English and German recipes, units and ingredients.
Would you like to help teaching the app further languages? Get in touch!
We hope this neat little app brings you as much joy while cooking and baking as it does to us!
We are very interested in your feedback. If you have any inputs, questions or concerns, please contact us at app@tastelab.ch.
Cook and bake away! Sue & Remo
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.10.0
Last updated on Dec 25, 2022
Old Versions
The tipping dialogue is less annoying now - please tip us anyways! :-)
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Version History
2.10.0
Dec 25, 2022
The tipping dialogue is less annoying now - please tip us anyways! :-)
2.9.1
Sep 27, 2022
Logo fixed
2.9.0
Sep 22, 2022
Up-to-date text recognition and better app performance on all devices.
2.8.0
Dec 16, 2021
Fixed a serious usability issue that made it impossible to change useful units. Sorry for the hassle, and happy converting with the new version!
2.7.2
Nov 1, 2021
This update fixes a bug that made the app crash after taking a foto. Happy recipe converting!
2.7.0
Oct 6, 2021
This minor update brings improved rendering performance on all devices. Convert your recipes even faster!
Also, we've removed the two annoying empty lines on top of new recipes.
Enjoy!
Also, we've removed the two annoying empty lines on top of new recipes.
Enjoy!
2.6.0
Jun 23, 2021
Version 2.6.0 fixes text recognition on some devices.
2.5.1
May 19, 2021
This version fixes a small but inconvenient bug in the scaling window.
2.4.0
Feb 4, 2021
This version brings you a convenient new feature: You can now paste the whole recipe text in one go. Simply click the "Plus" sign and choose "Paste recipe text".
Try it out today!
Try it out today!
2.3.0
Oct 13, 2020
This version improves text recognition performance on all devices.
Also, fonts on iOS 14 should now be rendered correctly again.
If you like using this app, please consider giving us a tip or leaving a great review in the App Store! Thank you!
Also, fonts on iOS 14 should now be rendered correctly again.
If you like using this app, please consider giving us a tip or leaving a great review in the App Store! Thank you!
2.1.1
Sep 23, 2020
For some of you, the last version of Useful Units didn't recognize images anymore.
We corrected this now - sorry for the inconvenience.
This update makes Useful Units useful again.
We corrected this now - sorry for the inconvenience.
This update makes Useful Units useful again.
2.1.0
Aug 27, 2020
With version 2.1, we've improved the text recognition engine to it's latest version.
2.0.1
Aug 11, 2020
This minor update includes performance improvements as well as a listing of other apps made by us. Go check them out in the "Discover more" section of the app settings!
2.0.0
Jul 8, 2020
NEW & IMPROVED:
This update brings a huge improvement of the user interface and user convenience:
* Recipes are now automatically saved as soon as you give them a title!
* Simply swipe the recipes upwards to delete them!
* Selecting your useful units has a much nicer dialog.
* Switching between US and Imperial units now triggers a recomputation of your recipes, so that everything is always up to date.
* The title field is more comfortable to use and type into.
* And finally: A new app Logo to make this app more recognizable!
Enjoy this update, and tell your friends about it!
This update brings a huge improvement of the user interface and user convenience:
* Recipes are now automatically saved as soon as you give them a title!
* Simply swipe the recipes upwards to delete them!
* Selecting your useful units has a much nicer dialog.
* Switching between US and Imperial units now triggers a recomputation of your recipes, so that everything is always up to date.
* The title field is more comfortable to use and type into.
* And finally: A new app Logo to make this app more recognizable!
Enjoy this update, and tell your friends about it!
1.1.0
Jun 23, 2020
Some bugfixes and improvements - and the useful units logo is now on top
1.0.0
May 28, 2020
NEW & IMPROVED:
* NEW: You can now pin a recipe if you wish to keep it
* Give your recipes a title (optional)
* Also, tipping is now much more fun than before!
* NEW: You can now pin a recipe if you wish to keep it
* Give your recipes a title (optional)
* Also, tipping is now much more fun than before!
0.9.7-preview
May 14, 2020
NEW & IMPROVED:
* NEW: green questionmarks when ingredient is partially matched
* More German and English ingredients to match
* Tutorial improved
FIXED:
* Better recipe line layout for more space
* Smoother tap recognition for editing of recipe lines
* Removed some bugs with target unit selection
* Removed bug in density selection dialog
Thanks to everybody who provided feedback in this early stage!
* NEW: green questionmarks when ingredient is partially matched
* More German and English ingredients to match
* Tutorial improved
FIXED:
* Better recipe line layout for more space
* Smoother tap recognition for editing of recipe lines
* Removed some bugs with target unit selection
* Removed bug in density selection dialog
Thanks to everybody who provided feedback in this early stage!
0.9.5-preview
May 12, 2020
Useful Units Recipe Converter FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Useful Units Recipe Converter.
iPhone
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
Useful Units Recipe Converter supports English
Useful Units Recipe Converter contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
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$2.99
Humongous Tip
$11.99
Generous Tip
$5.99
Small Tip
$0.99
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