Photograph the index pages of the cookbooks you own, and search every one of them at once. Nothing leaves your phone.
23 matches across 7 cookbooks
Point your phone at an index page. A quick check catches blur and shadow before anything is read, so a retake costs seconds, not a wasted scan.
Columns, headings and page numbers are worked out on the phone itself. If it gets a line wrong, fix it with a tap.
One search across every book, forgiving of typos, with the page number right there. Make a PDF for the night you're cooking somewhere else.
Other services sell you an index of the bestsellers they've licensed. Kitchen Concordance reads the books you actually own: the stained paperback, the spiral-bound church cookbook, the hand-me-down with the cracked spine. If it has a printed index, it can be searched.
Writing "p.112, the good brownies" inside the cover is the oldest way there is to index your own books. This is the same habit, done for every page of every book at once.
Set a bowl on a kitchen scale and press tare. The scale reads zero for the bowl and weighs only what you put in it. That's how Kitchen Concordance treats your data: your photos, your library and your searches stay on your phone, and the part we hold counts for nothing.
Our server knows your email address, a scrambled check that lets you sign in, and daily counts like "3 photos read". Never which books, never what you searched.
During the invite-only test, testers agree to share the photos they scan, so we can find and fix mistakes. That is the deal for testing, and it ends when the test does.
For centuries, scholars compiled concordances by hand: an alphabetical list of every word in a great book, with every place it appears. It took them years. Your phone does it for your cookbook shelf in a few seconds a page.
We're testing with a small group now. Everyone we invite during this phase gets full access to everything Kitchen Concordance becomes, free, for life.
Any printed book with an index or a table of contents, from any decade: one column or four, dot leaders or commas, headings and sub-entries. Handwritten recipe cards and binders aren't supported yet.
Any recent iPhone or Android phone, in the browser. Add it to your home screen and it works like an app, offline too.
Nothing during testing, and founding testers keep full access free for life. Pricing for everyone else comes later, and we'll say so well before it does.
Your email address, a scrambled check of your password (never the password itself), and daily counts of what you did, not what it was. Your cookbooks, photos and searches stay on your phone. During the test, the scans testers share are kept so we can fix mistakes.
Write to hello@kitchenconcordance.com. A person reads every message.
Yes, any time: as a file you can load on another device, as a spreadsheet, or as a searchable PDF.