Support & Help

Creating an account

Sign up with Google, Apple, or your email address and a password. Then you can save recipes, ask the chef and keep a cooking journal.

Adding recipes

Use "Add a recipe" on Home, or in the chef-hat button on Recipes. You can bring one in from a web link, a photo of a cookbook page (a photo of each page, if it runs over two) or pasted text, or write it yourself. Once it's in, a quick check shows its name, course and cuisine: tap "Looks right", or fix what's off first.

Asking the chef

The chef hat in the middle of the bar at the bottom opens a short menu. "Ask any question" works anywhere, and the chef knows what you're looking at; "Add a recipe" is there on every screen too. On a recipe, "Ask or customise this recipe", just above the ingredients, answers right there on the page: a swap, a question, or a change such as "make it vegetarian".

How does the chef work?

The chef is an AI (Anthropic's Claude). It sees the recipe or page you're on, your cooking level, dietary preferences and allergies from Settings, and what it remembers about you. It can be wrong, so check anything that matters, such as allergens.

Can I import recipes from websites?

Yes. Paste a recipe's link and it's saved to your recipes straight away, then a quick check shows the name, course and cuisine it picked, so you can fix a wrong guess with a tap. You can change anything else afterwards with Edit, in the recipe's ⋯ menu. If a site blocks the import, paste the recipe's text instead.

Who can see my recipes?

Anyone signed in to CookBook who has the link to one of your recipes or cookbooks can open it, but nobody can browse your recipes. To share a cookbook, open it and tap Share to send its link. To let someone change its recipes with you, tap Edit and add them as a collaborator. See the Privacy Policy for more.

Recipes start public. Switch on "Keep it private" (in the quick check after an import, or in Edit) and a recipe is left out of other people's lists and search: a cookbook shows it only to you and the cooks you've shared that cookbook with. Anyone who has the recipe's own link can still open it.

Can I delete my account?

Yes, in Settings, at the bottom. It deletes your account and everything in it straight away, and it can't be undone.

Is my data secure?

Everything travels over encrypted connections, and passwords are stored hashed, never as you typed them. The Privacy Policy says what we keep and who we share it with.

Can I get a copy of my recipes?

Yes. Email us (below) and we'll send you your data within 30 days.

A recipe link won't import

• Make sure the link goes straight to the recipe, not a list of them
• Some websites block apps from reading them
• Paste the recipe's text instead

A photo won't import

• Use a clear, well-lit photo with the whole recipe in it
• A recipe over two pages: add a photo of each page, up to four, in order, then tap "Read the recipe"
• iPhone photos work as they are
• A very large photo can fail: try a screenshot of it, or a smaller one

The chef is slow to answer

Most answers take a few seconds; writing a whole new recipe takes longer. If nothing comes, check your connection and ask again.