This article covers 4 free recipe card maker websites. A recipe card is a beautifully designed card with all the instructions about a recipe which can be printed or can even be shared as an image with friends. Recipe cards can be used to share your favorite recipes with friends and family. They can also be stored on your device for referring to later. You can make a folder where you can store all your recipe cards.
We also covered a list of free websites for free printable recipe pages or recipe cards. You can check that out here as well if you just need printable cards.
The websites covered in this article let you make beautiful recipe cards. You can choose a design, a background, add a photo, add instructions, etc. All the websites also let you save the recipe card to your device in JPG or PNG file format.
Let’s look at these recipe card maker websites below.
Add My Recipes
Add My Recipes is a free website which offers free recipe card maker tools. When you open the given link you will land on the recipe card creations page. On this page you will get many recipe card template options. Choose one by browsing through them. You will be able to change background, add an image, add a frame, adjust brightness, etc. These options can be seen at the bottom of the recipe card maker.
On top of the recipe card maker are options like add text, and add clipart. The text option will let you add all the necessary details like ingredients, directions, etc. Once you are done creating the recipe card, you can click the generate recipe card button given at the top of the page. The generated recipe card can be printed or saved in JPG file format.
Canva
Canva is great way to go for making a recipe card. You will be required to sign in to Canva, before you can start making a recipe card. Once you sign in, you will be shown a interface like the one shown in the screenshot above. You will get recipe card templates on the left side of your window and right side is where your selected recipe card will appear. You can make changes to the recipe card according to what you need. Add all the text that you need like instructions, recipe name, preparation time, etc. Once you are done, you can download the recipe card to your device. The recipe card will be downloaded in PNG format. You can take a print out of the card if you want or share the image file with your friends.
Homes n Gardens
Homes n Gardens has a recipe card maker available on their website. You can create a recipe card in different sizes. The one I chose is 5 x 7 size. For creating a recipe card you have to first choose a background for the card. Then you have to choose from several given radio button which will add a border to your recipe card. The third step requires you to choose a text color, and text background color. The fourth step asks you to add a title, recipe name and ingredients for the card. The fifth step requires you to put in directions of cooking the recipe. Then step 6 gives you 2 button, either preview the card or start over. The preview window will give you the option to send this recipe to a friend or take a print out of it.
Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark lets you create free recipe cards from scratch. That means that you can choose a layout, a background image, add text to it in the format you like. But all this has to be done by you, the website does not offer you any ready made templates. So if you are good at designing and want to do the extra effort, then you can go with this website. The free plan on the website does not include any photography plans, so everything has to be done by you. The interface of the website will look like the above screenshot. You can design your own recipe card by choosing a background, layout, then add text to it like recipe name, instructions, ingredients, etc. When you are done you can download the card in PNG or JPG format. Then you can use it any way you wish to.
Conclusion:
These are the 4 free recipe card maker websites that I found. Using these websites you can easily store your recipes either in your device or in a printed format. All the websites let you save your recipe card to your device in JPG or PNG format. These are easily shareable formats, which you can also print easily. So you can either make a folder with all your favorite recipe cards in it or you can print them out to create a recipe book for yourself. Either way these websites are quite helpful in creating beautiful recipe cards.
