Cook up a storm. Or just dinner.
A home for your recipes. Coming soon to iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Siri
Shortcuts
iCloud Drive
Apple Intelligence
Ingredients, kind of.
Some of the elements that make Recipes just great.
Cook hands-free with Siri.
Help when you need it most.
Scale your servings, feed your friends.
Adjust ingredient amounts with a tap (or click).
Turn your screenshots into recipes.
Use Shortcuts to grow your library.
Apple Intelligence for your apples.*
Format your recipes quicker than you can peel a potato.**
*Requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence.
**Probably.
Markdown, glorious Markdown.
Edit, view and organize with no lock-in.
Your recipes, forever yours.
Plain text files, saved in iCloud.
Frequently Asked Questions.
I'm not here to lie to you, no one has asked these (yet), I'm just trying to be helpful.
To me, cooking is one of the most tangible acts of love we can give to each other. It’s my favourite way to explore people and cultures. It’s the way I feel most connected to my culture and the way that I express my love to people close to me.
I spend arguably too long researching recipes and iterating on them, so it makes sense that I’m up-tight and overly opinionated about how I save them. That’s why I built Recipes. It’s my perfect app for writing, organizing and viewing my recipes.
You didn’t ask, but there’s a recent Will Poulter interview that I felt beautifully captures how powerful food can be in connecting people.
There are some great options out there, however nothing did precisely what I wanted. Recipes is designed to be minimal. The differentiating factor is that Recipes is essentially a viewer/front end for your recipe files—it doesn’t own them, it just gives you tools to view and manage them.
I didn’t want lock-in to a particular platform, I wanted plain text recipes that were easy to use and that could be opened anywhere. That’s where Recipes excels. It’s a viewer for your Recipes, built with the brief ‘How might Apple build this?’.
Lastly, I wanted to focus on how you get recipes in. I have countless screenshots of recipes that get immediately lost in my Photos library, so the Shortcuts support was an attempt to address that.
Roadmap, lol. There's nothing concrete lined up, but there's plenty that I'd like to bring to Recipes. Don't expect a regular release cadence, but I'm hoping to ship some new features in the not-too-distant future.
Nope. The point of Recipes is to make your files more accessible. While paywalling the app wouldn't stop you from owning them, it's not inline with the philosophy.
This is also an evenings and weekends passion project for me, I want to make sure it remains sustainable. The pressure of a subscription wouldn't help that.
I know that I’ve struggled with a bloating monthly spend, so I’m happy to make this a one-time payment and hopefully have it more accessible to more people.
Absolutely not. One payment for access on all platforms. If it feels like theft because you got such a great deal, donate to GiveDirectly then pat yourself on the back.
I spent a while back-and-forthing on how to do this well. Practically, given that Recipes is built around the idea of displaying your files, there wasn't a graceful way to do this that didn't feel like it would be either confusing or a middle finger of an experience.
I think that the value proposition speaks for itself. Recipes in Markdown, saved where you like, in a native-feeling interface that supports plenty of powerful platform features.
Noooooooo, sorry.
How lovely. You can follow along on what I’m sure will be sparsely updated Bluesky and Instagram accounts, or sign up for what I’m sure will be a glacially rare newsletter.
This website uses cookieless, privacy-friendly analytics to count visits in aggregate, so I can see how people discover Recipes and where else I should localize. No cookies, no personal profiles, and no tracking in the app.
I used AI to code Recipes, build this site and write the documentation. I want to be clear that it wasn't a one-shot prompt. I spent about 15 minutes putting together the first version of the app, then approximately 5 months ironing out every tiny bug I could find, adhering to platform best practices and really sweating the details to make this into something I'm truly proud of. The copywriting on this site is all by me.
I'm a designer by trade and have wanted to launch something like this for years. It's been a joy to focus on the bits that I'm great at and not get slowed down by the bits that I'm not.
That's not a question (I think you're great, too).
Aw, thanks! It's a subtle homage to Anthony Bourdain and his "Cook Free or Die" sketch. When I say subtle, I mean that I based the knife on the one from his sketch…
There's a 'k' in 'garlicky'. I'd never thought about it before, but I guess it makes sense.
Kinda hostile, but whatever. Go make a proper Greek salad (horiatiki). It's unreasonably good.
My apologies, friend.
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Stop presenting statements as questions, it's uncouth. If you really want to drag this (quite frankly, one-sided) relationship out, email recipesappdev@gmail.com and I'll recommend you a song.