by her engineer son, with love ❤️
Janice turned 82 on October 22, 2026. This recipe box was her birthday present: a home for all her recipes, the old favorites and the new ones, on her iPad, her phone and her computer.
Happy birthday, Mom. Thank you for every meal, every recipe and every bit of love you've cooked for us.
Love, Myron
Every recipe in one box. Your box.
Free for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Jan's Recipe Box keeps your recipes in one place, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a Chrome extension that clips a recipe from any website in one click. Everything is saved in your own Google Drive. We never see it.
Built by Myron for his mom Jan's 82nd birthday. It's free, with no ads.
The Chrome button saves the recipe from any web page into your Recipe Box. Add it to Chrome on your computer in one click:
Add to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store
Then click the puzzle-piece icon to the right of the address bar, and click the pin next to Jan's Recipe Box so the button always shows.
If the Chrome Web Store doesn't work for you, download the Chrome button and follow these steps. It takes about two minutes.
Jan's Recipe Box is with Apple for review now. When it's approved, search the App Store for Jan's Recipe Box (iPhone, iPad and Mac). The Chrome extension adds a button to Chrome that saves the recipe on the page you're looking at.
In a folder called Recipe Box in your own Google Drive. The app also keeps a copy on your device so your recipes and photos work offline.
Some sites lay recipes out in unusual ways. Email us the page address and we'll take a look.
On the YouTube video's page, click the Recipe Box button, then open the recipe in the app. If the app asks you to check the amounts, look them over before you save.
Choose Add a Recipe, then From a Photo. Take a picture or pick one, then check the amounts before you save.
Sign in with the same Google account you use on your other devices, then tap Update My Recipes.
Install the app and sign in with the same Google account. Your recipes come back from your Drive.
Email [email protected]. A real person reads it.
Last updated: 2026-10-22 (photos, Apple Intelligence, sample recipes, My Websites and the extension's Google Doc copy added)
This policy covers the Jan's Recipe Box app for iPhone, iPad and Mac and the Jan's Recipe Box Chrome extension, both made by Peak Summit Labs.
Short version: your recipes are stored in your own Google Drive and on your own devices. Peak Summit Labs runs no server for this app and never receives, stores or sees your recipes or your personal data.
You sign in with your Google account through Google's own sign-in. We never see your password.
drive.file scope). The app can see and change only the recipe files and photos it saves to your Recipe Box folder. It cannot see any other file in your Drive.The app uses this access only to save your recipes, photos, recipe Docs and My Websites list to your Drive, and to load them back so you can view, search and cook from them on your devices. Nothing else.
Your Google data is not shared with, transferred to, or sold to anyone. It is not used for advertising, and no person at Peak Summit Labs reads it. A recipe card leaves the app only when you choose to share it, through your device's share sheet, to the person or app you pick.
Jan's Recipe Box's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
The extension reads the web page you are on only when you click its button, to pick out the recipe. It sends that recipe to your own Google Drive and nowhere else. It does not watch your browsing. On a YouTube cooking video, it also reads that video's page and captions from YouTube itself, to find the recipe. It keeps a short list of the page addresses you've saved, in Chrome's own storage on your computer, so it can tell you when you've saved a recipe before.
By default, the extension also saves a Google Doc copy of each recipe in your Recipe Box folder, so you can print or share it outside the app. You can turn this off in the extension's Settings. "Open in Jan's Recipes" passes the saved recipe's ID to the app on the same computer, and nothing else.
"From a Photo" reads the recipe in your picture on your device, using Apple's on-device text recognition. The first photo is saved to your own Google Drive (Recipe Box/Photos) as the recipe's picture. The app uses the camera only when you tap "Take a Photo Now". When you choose an existing photo, Apple's photo picker shares only the photo you pick.
On devices that have Apple Intelligence, recipe text from a photo or from a YouTube video's captions is processed by Apple's on-device model. It stays on your device. Nothing is sent to us or to any third-party AI service.
The first time you sign in with an empty box, the app adds sample recipes and their photos to your own Drive (Recipe Box/Photos). You can delete them anytime. The sample photos come from Wikimedia Commons under their licenses, and are credited in the app's About screen. Your My Websites list is saved as a file in your Recipe Box folder in your own Drive.
When you add a recipe by its web address, the app fetches that page to read the recipe, and it downloads the recipe's photos from the original website. Those websites see an ordinary request from your device, just as they would if you visited them in a browser. Nothing else is sent to them.
The app keeps a local copy of your recipes and photos on your device so they work without a connection. It writes diagnostic messages to your device's own system log; these never include your sign-in tokens and are never uploaded. There are no analytics, no tracking and no ads.
The app is not directed to children under 13.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.
Questions: [email protected] · Peak Summit Labs