About Amiezenplas

Amiezenplas is a playful Americanized version of the French culinary term "mise en place" (everything in its place - toutes mes excuses aux Français).

Amiezenplas is focused on recipe and ingredient management with all the data staying in your hands. Make, collect, or share recipes, scan ingredients to get the OpenFoodFacts details, auto-convert recipes to your preferred units and amounts. Designed to work entirely offline, keeping your data on your device, with optional peer-to-peer sync for sharing recipes and ingredients with friends and family through encrypted groups.

Key features

Recipe management

Create, edit, and organize recipes with titles, categories, tags, images, timing fields, and Markdown-formatted instructions. Per-step checkboxes let you track progress, and automatic countdown timers detect durations mentioned in steps (ex: "simmer 20 minutes") with adjustable time, completion sound, and volume control.

Import recipes from plain text, RTF, ODT, DOCX, PDF, JSON, and QR codes with detailed non-AI section detection and metadata extraction. Export recipes as backup ZIP, portable JSON, or ODT documents. Toggle between original recipe measurements and your preferred unit system.

Ingredient management

Track full ingredient records including name, unit, category, brand, manufacturer, country, store, package size, barcode, source URL, image, and notes. Stock tracking with quantity on hand and quick adjustment buttons helps you know what you have before you shop.

Ingredients are auto-categorized into grocery categories (Produce, Dairy, Meat, Pantry, etc.), and photos can be fetched automatically from OpenFoodFacts or Wikimedia Commons.

Shopping lists

Create multiple named shopping lists and generate them from selected recipes, factoring in stock on hand. Items are auto-grouped by grocery category with subcategories, and lists persist checked items, quantity overrides, and manually added items across sessions.

Search & organization

Powerful multi-word search. Sort recipes by name, category, tags, or missing ingredients. Collapsible category headings and long-press multi-select with drag and auto-scroll keep large collections manageable.

QR codes & barcode scanning

Share recipes and ingredients as QR codes, or scan product barcodes to look up ingredients locally or via OpenFoodFacts. Live camera scanning supports QR codes and 1D barcodes (UPC, EAN, Code 39, and more) with tap-to-focus and auto-refocus.

Shared groups & sync

Create shared groups with auto-generated encryption keys and invite members via QR code or manual key entry. Share selected recipes and ingredients to groups — each device maintains its own copy and shares changes with the group.

Optional network transports include Reticulum LAN (peer-to-peer over local network), Freenet, and Hyphanet. Reticulum is supported without needing any other downloads. Configurable host, port, and auto-sync intervals per transport.

Localization

Fully translated UI in English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. Language is detected automatically from device settings with manual override in Settings.

Settings & accessibility

Light or dark theme, adjustable text scale from 50% to 200%, and independent unit preferences for temperature, length, weight, liquid volume, and volume. Custom unit conversion rules, timer sound selection, and contextual help buttons throughout the app.

Privacy & Data Use

Amiezenplas is offline-first — all data is stored locally on your device with no cloud dependency. No account is required, and shared groups use local encryption keys rather than user accounts.

• Shared with third parties: No personal data. OpenFoodFacts and Wikimedia receive ingredient name and barcode queries only - no user identifier is sent.
• Shared with other users: Recipes and ingredients you explicitly share to a group are sent. Group details are based on device ID and optional nickname (via encrypted group sync).
• Encrypted in transit: Yes - everything synced to a group is encrypted.
• Deletion: Yes - leaving a group removes the member record; deleting the app wipes all local data.
• Required for basic functionality: No - no network access is required at all. Sync, image search, and OpenFoodFacts are all opt-in.

Optional network transports (Reticulum, Freenet, Hyphanet) are disabled by default and only activated if you choose to enable them. For full details, see the Privacy Policy on the main site.

Availability

Amiezenplas builds for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and Web. As a small, independent company, availability and features may change over time as development continues.

Export Restrictions

Because Amiezenplas includes encryption and Sparks Starlight Solutions is headquartered in the United States, US export regulations prevent us from making Amiezenplas available in the following countries:

• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Central African Republic
• Comoros
• Eritrea
• Nicaragua
• Pakistan
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Vietnam

Contact & feedback

For questions, bug reports, or suggestions about Amiezenplas, you can reach the team by turning "dev at sparks starlight solutions dot com" into an email address (remove spaces and replace "at" with "@").

You can also use the contact information listed on the main Sparks Starlight Solutions page.