My Family Recipes

Overview

• TwinCurrent built My Family Recipes, a family recipe app for iOS and Android, live on the App Store and Google Play. It turns scattered recipe cards, cookbook pages, and screenshots into a shared family collection: grandparents add the recipes they have cooked for decades; grandchildren cook from them on their phones.

• Backed by a Rust/Axum API, with AI-powered scanning and offline access as the headline features.

The Challenge

• Family recipes live on paper cards, in old cookbooks, and in screenshots that get lost

• Typing recipes in by hand is tedious enough that most never get digitised

• Families want to share a collection privately, not post it to a public site

• Cooks need their recipes in the kitchen even with no internet connection

• Scaling a recipe up or down by hand is error-prone

System Architecture

• A single React Native codebase ships native apps to both stores, talking to a Rust/Axum API over PostgreSQL. Recipes sync down to the device so the full collection is available in the kitchen with or without a connection.

• AI vision handles digitisation: point the camera at a handwritten card, a cookbook page, or a URL, and the app extracts ingredients, steps, and metadata automatically, removing the manual typing that stops most people from preserving family recipes.

The Solution

• AI recipe scanning

  Point your phone at a handwritten card, a cookbook page, or a URL. The AI extracts ingredients, instructions, and metadata automatically.

• Family sharing groups

  Create private family groups where members contribute, browse, and cook from a shared collection.

• Offline access

  Recipes sync to your device. No internet in the kitchen is no problem, full access with or without a connection.

• Ingredient scaling

  Cooking for 2 instead of 8? Scale any recipe up or down and the app recalculates every ingredient amount.

• Recipe organisation

  Tag, categorise, and search your collection by cuisine, meal type, dietary needs, or who contributed it.

• iOS & Android

  Native app experience on both platforms, available on the App Store and Google Play.

Integration Highlights

• AI vision scanning

  Extracts structured recipes from photos and URLs.

• Rust/Axum sync

  Keeps family collections in sync across devices.

• App Store & Google Play

  Shipped natively to both mobile platforms.

Tech Stack

• React Native

  Cross-platform mobile framework

• Rust / Axum

  Backend API server

• PostgreSQL

  Primary database

• AI (Vision)

  Recipe scanning and digitisation

Outcomes

• Native apps live on both the Apple App Store and Google Play

• AI scanning removes the manual typing that blocks recipe preservation

• Offline access means the full collection works in the kitchen, connection or not

• A Rust/Axum backend keeps family collections in sync across devices

Building a mobile product?

My Family Recipes shipped native on both stores with a Rust backend. If you have a mobile app in mind, let's talk.

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