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Your family cookbook

Elevate your
cooking experience.

A private digital cookbook your whole family shares — right from your phone's home screen.

20+ features built in

Unlock powerful
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AI scanner, meal planner, voice cooking, shopping lists, and more — included in family packages.

Your family's recipes, beautifully organised.

30sto add a recipe with AI
4+family profiles per account
20+features built in

Free to start · No app store needed · Works on any phone or tablet

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Features

Packed with everything you need

All of these are included on every plan — even the free one.

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Unlimited recipes

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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.

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Meal planner

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Each family member plans their own week. See everyone'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.

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Smart shopping list

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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.

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Import from URL

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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.

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Family profiles

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Each member gets their own profile with avatar and preferences.

Create individual profiles with custom emoji avatars, personal allergies, font size preferences, and their own meal planner. Everyone shares the same recipes but has their own space.

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Allergy warnings

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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.

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Upgrade your cookbook experience

Everything above, plus these powerful extras when you choose a family plan.

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AI recipe scanner

Small Family+

Snap a photo of any handwritten or printed recipe. AI extracts title, ingredients, steps, and more. Works in any language.

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PDF cookbook export

Small Family+

Export a single recipe or your entire collection as a beautifully formatted PDF. Print it, bind it, gift it.

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Up to 10 profiles

Family Plus

Room for grandparents, cousins, and the whole extended family. Each with their own avatar and preferences.

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Shared photo gallery

Small Family+

Snap cooking photos and share them on each recipe. See how different family members plate the same dish.

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Comments & tips

Small Family+

Leave cooking tips, suggest substitutions, and share notes. Private notes let you keep personal reminders too.

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Priority support

Family Plus

Get faster responses and direct help when you need it. Your questions jump to the front of the queue.

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Push notifications

Small Family+

Get notified when someone adds a recipe, comments on your dish, or plans a meal.

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Recipe collections

Small Family+

Organise recipes into themed groups like "Sunday Dinners", "Holiday Baking", or "Weeknight Favourites".

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Early access

Family Plus

Be the first to try new features before they roll out. Your feedback helps shape the product.

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Cooking history

Small Family+

See when each recipe was last cooked and by whom. Discover your most popular dishes.

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Activity feed

Small Family+

A live feed of everything happening in your family cookbook — new recipes, comments, photos, and plans.

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Beta features

Family Plus

Access experimental tools like fridge scanning, AI substitutions, and online recipe search as they're built.

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From photo to plate in three steps

Whether it's grandma's handwritten card or a recipe you found online.

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Add your recipes

Type them in, scan a photo with AI, paste a URL, or import from Instagram. However your recipes exist, we'll get them in.

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Invite your family

Create profiles for everyone. Each person gets their own avatar, meal planner, allergies, and personal preferences.

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Cook together

Plan meals, build shopping lists, cook with voice guidance, share photos, and keep your family's food legacy alive.

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AI Recipe Scanner

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.

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Extracted recipe:
  • Title: Nonna's Lasagna
  • Prep: 30 min · Cook: 45 min
  • 12 lasagna sheets
  • 500g beef mince
  • 400g tinned tomatoes
  • 250g ricotta cheese
  • 200g mozzarella
  • + 5 more ingredients...
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Export your family
cookbook.

Turn your recipe collection into a beautifully formatted PDF. Print it, bind it, gift it — a cookbook filled with your family's love.

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A peek at what's next

We're always cooking up something new. Here's a taste of what's on the roadmap.

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Fridge Scanner

Snap a photo of what's in your fridge. AI identifies ingredients and suggests recipes you can make right now.

In development
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Online Recipe Search

Search thousands of recipes from around the web, right inside the app. Save any result to your family cookbook instantly.

In development
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Ingredient Substitutions

Missing an ingredient? AI suggests smart swaps so you never have to skip a recipe. Dietary-aware and context-sensitive.

Planned
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Voice Cooking Mode v2

A complete redesign of hands-free cooking. Smarter step navigation, better voice controls, and parallel timers that actually work.

In development
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Community

Discover & share recipes with other families

A growing library of family-tested recipes. Browse for free, share your best, and save favourites to your cookbook.

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Browse

Discover recipes shared by other families. Filter by cuisine, dietary needs, or prep time.

All plans
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Share

Publish your best recipes to the community. Get credit every time someone saves your dish.

All plans
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Save

Found something delicious? Save community recipes straight to your family cookbook with one tap.

Paid plans
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Grow Together

More families means more recipes. The community gets better every day as new dishes are added.

Everyone benefits
How Our Cookbook works

Built to be 100% self-service

No sales calls. No installs. No app store. Sign up, use it, upgrade when you're ready — all from your phone, tablet, or computer.

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1. Sign up here

Pick your plan on this page and create your cookbook in under a minute. No credit card to start.

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2. Open the web app

It's a web app — no Android or iOS download. Works on any phone, tablet, or PC. Add to home screen and it behaves like a native app.

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3. Upgrade in-app, anytime

Need more profiles or features later? Upgrade your plan from inside the app whenever you're ready. No phone calls, no waiting.

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4. Questions? Open a ticket

No sales team, no human support line. Use the in-app Support menu or contact us through this site — every message comes through our ticket system and we reply there.

Our Cookbook is a small, family-run project. We keep it self-service so we can keep prices low and ship features fast — not so we can grow a sales team.

Pricing

A plan for every family

Start free and upgrade when you're ready. No credit card required.

Free
For trying it out
Freeforever
person 1 profile
  • 20 recipes
  • 1 photo per recipe
  • Basic timer
  • Browse & publish to community
  • Share recipes with branding
  • 1 AI scan trial
  • Multi-photo carousel
  • Meal planner
  • Shopping list & pantry
  • PDF cookbook export
Create free account
Family Plus
The full experience
R89/ month
groups Up to 10 profiles
  • Everything in Small Family
  • Up to 10 profiles
  • Fridge scanner
  • Family activity feed
  • Guest access (view-only invites)
  • Recipe version history
  • Custom categories & tags
  • Priority support
  • Early access to new features
Join waitlist

Prices in South African Rand (ZAR). Once-off = lifetime access, no renewals ever.

Get the app on your phone

Scan with your phone's camera — no app store, no download. Just open and install.

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Open your phone's camera and point it at the QR code
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Tap the link that appears to open the app
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Tap "Add to Home Screen" to install it like a native app
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★★★★★

"We finally got all of grandma's recipes in one place. The AI scanner even read her cursive handwriting!"

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MarianneCape Town, SA
★★★★★

"Planning weekly meals and even meal prepping has become so much easier. I love having everything organised in one app."

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JessicaJohannesburg, SA
★★★★★

"I love that I can keep all my recipes in one place — whether they're family classics or great finds from the internet."

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AnaLisbon, PT
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Got a question? Get in touch

We’re a small team. Drop us a message below and we’ll reply by email — every message goes into our ticket system, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Already have an account? You can also use the Support menu inside the app — same ticket system, faster to reach you.