From Instagram
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1 cup butter, browned
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 12 oz chocolate chips
New Scan a cookbook’s barcode to add it to your shelf
Every recipe you’ve saved, finally in one book.
The link in your notes app. The photo of your grandmother’s card. The export from the app you’re leaving. Recipe Spellbook turns all of it into real recipes you can scale, plan, shop from and cook with, on every device you own.
Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, macOS, Linux and web. Free to use; Premium is $6.99 once.
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“BROWN BUTTER CHOC CHIP 🍪 recipe in comments!! makes 24, bake 11 min at 375”
Reads recipes from
- Any recipe website
- TikTok
- YouTube
- Photos & screenshots
- Cookbook pages
- PDFs
- Paprika
- Mela
- Recipe Keeper
- Crouton
- Cookmate
- MasterCook
- Plan to Eat
- Mealie
- Tandoor
- CopyMeThat
- Samsung Food
- Living Cookbook
- Cooklang
- Meal-Master
- Plain text
See it work
The whole app, in five short clips.
New in 1.7 Cookbook scanner
The cookbooks on your shelf, searchable at last.
Scan the barcode on the back cover and the book joins your library with its title, author and cover already filled in. Then photograph the pages you actually cook from, and each recipe files itself into that book.
- 1 Scan the ISBN barcode
Or type the number printed above it. Details come from Open Library and Google Books.
- 2 Check the details
Title, author and cover are filled in. Fix anything, then add it to your cookbooks.
- 3 Snap the pages
Photograph a recipe page and it becomes a searchable, scalable recipe inside that book.
- Join with a link or a code
If an invite link doesn’t open the app, paste it (or just its code) into Join. Works for shared lists and cookbooks.
- Redesigned desktop apps
Windows, macOS and Linux get a proper sidebar, keyboard shortcuts and a command palette.
- Sync you can stop thinking about
More reliable syncing between your devices and your family’s.
01 In the kitchen
The part that happens after you save it.
Saving a recipe is the easy half. Recipe Spellbook is built for the Tuesday where you plan the week, buy the right things once, and cook without wiping the screen with your wrist.
Cook mode that listens
One step at a time, screen awake, timers pulled out of the step text. Say “next”, “back” or “set timer for 5 minutes” and keep your hands in the dough.
Shopping, sorted by aisle
Pick recipes or a whole week of meals. Get one list, grouped the way the store is laid out.
Plan by month, week or day
Drop recipes onto a time, not just a day. Then send the whole week to your shopping list in one tap.
Nutrition per serving
Calculated from the ingredients. Scan a product’s barcode to read its label.
Scaling that survives fractions
Double 1 ½ tablespoons and get 3, not 2.99999. Metric and imperial convert both ways.
02 Every device
One book on every screen you cook near.
Phone at the stove, laptop for Sunday planning, a browser at work. Recipe Spellbook runs natively on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, macOS and Linux, and in any modern browser. Everything lives on the device first, so it works offline; Premium keeps every device in sync.
- AndroidPhones and tablets · Google Play
- iPhone & iPadApp Store
- WindowsDesktop app
- macOSDesktop app
- LinuxDesktop app
- WebAny modern browser, no install
- Get it for your device
03 Family
Someone’s at the store. You’re home, remembering eggs.
Share a shopping list live and every addition and tick shows up on everyone’s phone. Choose what each person can do: edit items, check off only, or just view. Live shared lists are free.
Premium adds family sharing for up to five people: shared cookbooks, a shared meal plan, and sync across all of your devices. Invite with a link or a code.
Moving your library
Switching from Paprika?
Bring the whole library with you. Recipe Spellbook reads Paprika’s .paprikarecipes export,
photos included, and shows you everything before it saves.
- 1 Export from Paprika
Use Paprika’s export and choose the Paprika format. You get one
.paprikarecipesfile with every recipe. - 2 Open it in Recipe Spellbook
Tap +, choose File, and pick the export. Large libraries import in the background.
- 3 Review, then import
Untick anything you don’t want. Photos, categories (as tags), ratings, notes, source links, times and servings come along.
Also reads exports from
- Mela
- Recipe Keeper
- Crouton
- Cookmate
- MasterCook
- Plan to Eat
- Mealie
- Tandoor
- CopyMeThat
- Samsung Food
- Living Cookbook
- Cooklang
- Meal-Master
04 Choosing an app
Comparing recipe apps? Ask these.
Most lists of recipe managers read the same. These are the questions that decide whether an app still works for you in a year, with our answers.
- Does it run on everything you own?
- Android, iPhone and iPad, Windows, macOS, Linux, and any modern browser. The same book on all of them.
- Is the free version actually usable?
- Yes. Unlimited recipes, every import method, the meal planner, shopping lists, cook mode and nutrition. There is no trial clock.
- What does paying cost, and for how long?
- Premium is $6.99, once. No subscription. It adds cloud sync, automatic backups and family sharing.
- Can the whole household share one list?
- Live shared shopping lists are free for everyone. Premium adds shared cookbooks and meal plans for up to five people.
- Can I bring the recipes I already have?
- From Paprika and 13 other recipe apps, plus any recipe website, photos, PDFs and plain text.
- What about the cookbooks on my shelf?
- Scan the barcode to add the book, then photograph the pages you cook from.
- Can I leave later?
- Export the whole library as JSON whenever you like. The same format imports back in.
05 Community cookbooks
Publish a cookbook. Or take someone else’s whole shelf.
Bundle recipes into a cookbook and publish it. Anyone can download the lot in one tap, and what lands in their book is a copy that’s theirs to edit and keep.
Browse community cookbooks30-Minute Meals29 recipes
Breakfast14 recipes
Beverages15 recipes
Sauces25 recipes
06 Pricing
Pay once. The recipes were always yours.
The free version is the whole cooking experience, not a countdown. Premium adds sync, backups and family sharing, permanently.
No subscription, ever. Upgrade inside the app on Android or iOS and it unlocks everywhere you sign in.
Free
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The whole kitchen, on each device
- Unlimited recipes
- Import from links, photos, PDFs, files and AI
- Cookbook barcode scanning
- Meal planner and aisle-sorted shopping lists
- Live shared shopping lists
- Cook mode with voice control
- Nutrition and step-by-step photos
Premium
One-time purchase$6.99once
Everything, on every device, for the whole family
- Everything in Free
- Cloud sync across all your devices
- Family sharing for up to 5 people
- Shared cookbooks and meal plans
- Automatic backups
- 2 GB of cloud photo storage
Start with the recipe you keep losing.
Free on every platform. Install the app, or open it in your browser right now.