What is CookBook? 🍳

Quick answer: CookBook is your AI-powered recipe organiser and meal-planning sidekick. Import recipes from socials or any website, snap cookbook photos, whip up dishes with AI, plan meals, build smart shopping lists, track macros, and keep everything in sync on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Tried, trusted & loved by thousands of home cooks worldwide.

🎁 Try CookBook free

Start with a 14-day free trial or store up to 20 recipes and use 20 smart imports before choosing a plan.

🚀 Import & create

• 📥 One-tap imports from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, blogs and any URL
• 📸 AI Recipe Scanner turns screenshots, cookbook pages or handwritten family recipes into editable, digital recipes
• 🤖 AI Chef dreams up new dishes, ingredient swaps & realistic dish images.
• 🖼️ Leftovers inspiration – snap what’s in the fridge, get a recipe
• 🍽️ Dish detector – photo a meal, CookBook rebuilds the recipe
• 🧭 Safari share sheet + Chrome extension for instant grabs while you browse
• 📑 Import PDFs or CookBook files, clone existing recipes, or start from scratch

🗂️ Organise & customise

• 🌟 Rate, track, pin to dash, and select your favourite ❤️ recipes
• 🏷️ Bulk-edit tags, add tag images & link related dishes
• 🔗 Auto-links ingredient amounts inside instructions
• 🖱️ Drag-and-drop to reorder ingredients or steps, with step highlighter
• 💬 Rich-text instructions & last-edited date stamp
• 🔍 Turbo search by name, ingredient, nutrition, time, vegan, keto, gluten-free & more
• 👯 Duplicate checker, pairings field, last-cooked date, cook count
• 🎨 Custom themes & accessibility font sizes

🗓️ Meal planning & shopping

• 📅 From daily dinners to monthly meal prep, planning is a breeze with intuitive tools
• 🛒 Smart shopping list sorts by aisle, strike as you shop and links back to recipes
• 🚚 Instacart integration (US & Canada) – groceries in one tap
• 💰 Plan ahead to slash food waste & stay on budget

🍎 Nutrition & goals

• 🥑 Calculate any recipes nutritional information
• ⚖️ Macro calculator with custom targets & daily totals inside the planner

👩‍🍳 Cook with confidence

• 🗣️ Voice guidance, built-in timers & screen wake lock while you cook
• 🔄 Scale servings & smart ingredient rounding
• ⚖️ Convert measurements between US, Metric, Imperial, Australian
• 🌡️ Instant unit & °C / °F conversion
• ✅ Strike-off progress tracker & Step highlighter while you cook
• 🥘 Surprise-me random recipe picker

🌐 Anytime, anywhere

• 🔄 Cloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Android & the CookBook Web App
• ✈️ Offline access keeps every recipe handy without a connection
• 🔐 Sign in with Email, Apple or Google – link or unlink anytime

✨ Extra tools

• 📷 Multiple photos per step, video links, open URLs inside instructions
• 🧪 Volume-to-weight conversion tool & QR code sharing
• 📤 Share, export & backup your recipes anytime to CB files or PDF

Want to get in touch ❓

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Updated on: 14/06/2026