A private digital cookbook your whole family shares. Save heirloom recipes, scan handwritten cards with AI, plan meals together, and cook hands-free with voice guidance — all from your phone's home screen.
Works on any phone or tablet · Installs like a native app from the browser
One shared account, individual profiles, and a beautiful experience for everyone.
Save family recipes with photos, stages, stories, and heritage notes.
Every recipe gets its own page with cover photos, an ingredient list, multi-stage cooking steps, and an optional heritage story. Tag by cuisine, difficulty, and prep time. Add co-authors so everyone gets credit.
Snap a photo of any recipe — AI extracts everything instantly.
Take a photo of any handwritten or printed recipe. Our AI (powered by Google Gemini) extracts the title, ingredients with quantities, cooking steps, prep time, and difficulty. Works in any language and auto-translates to English.
Each family member plans their own week. See the full family's meals at a glance.
Drag recipes onto any day of the week. Every profile has their own planner so nobody steps on toes. View the full family's week and add all ingredients to your shopping list with one tap.
Add all ingredients with one tap. Quantities merge automatically.
Ingredients are auto-categorised (dairy, produce, meat, etc.) for easy aisle-by-aisle shopping. If two recipes both need eggs, the quantities merge. Tick items off as you shop.
Voice reads each step aloud while you cook. Timers run in parallel.
Enter cooking mode and the app reads each step out loud. Set multiple timers for different stages. Your screen stays on with a large, easy-to-read display you can see from across the kitchen.
Paste a recipe link — we pull title, ingredients, and steps automatically.
Found a recipe on a blog? Just paste the URL and we extract everything. No more copying from recipe websites filled with ads and life stories. Works with Instagram posts too.
Print a beautifully formatted PDF cookbook. The perfect family gift.
Export a single recipe or your entire collection as a professionally formatted PDF with cover page, recipe photos, ingredients, and steps. Print it, bind it, and give it as a gift.
Set allergies per profile. Warnings appear automatically on recipes.
Each profile can set their own allergies (nuts, dairy, gluten, etc.). When viewing a recipe that contains an allergen, a clear warning badge appears. Never cook something unsafe again.
Track what you have at home. Get alerts before things expire.
Add items to your digital pantry with expiry dates. The app shows which recipes you can make with what you already have, and reminds you when something is about to expire.
Snap cooking photos and share them on each recipe.
Every time someone cooks a recipe, they can add a photo to the gallery. See how different family members plate the same dish. Leave comments and build a visual cooking history.
Leave cooking tips, suggest substitutions, and share notes.
Each recipe has a comment section where family members can share tips, suggest ingredient swaps, or just say how much they loved it. Private notes let you keep personal reminders too.
Get notified when someone adds a recipe or comments on yours.
Real-time push notifications let you know when a family member adds a new recipe, comments on your dish, or plans a meal. Stay connected through cooking.
Whether it's grandma's handwritten card or a recipe you found online.
Type them in, scan a photo with AI, paste a URL, or import from Instagram. However your recipes exist, we'll get them in.
Create profiles for everyone. Each person gets their own avatar, meal planner, allergies, and personal preferences.
Plan meals, build shopping lists, cook with voice guidance, share photos, and keep your family's food legacy alive.
Got a drawer full of grandma's handwritten recipe cards? A cookbook with dog-eared pages? Just snap a photo and our AI does the rest.
Turn your entire recipe collection into a beautifully formatted PDF cookbook. Print it as a gift for grandparents, or share it digitally with family abroad.
Start free and upgrade when you're ready. No credit card required.
Prices in South African Rand (ZAR). Annual and lifetime plans coming soon.
Scan with your phone's camera — no app store, no download. Just open and install.
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