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My Cookbase

A smart tool for the home chef

Bring in a recipe from anywhere. Cook it one clear step at a time.

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The My Cookbase home screen: Add a Recipe, My Recipes, My Collections, My Feats and Options under a night sky beside a tree.

Before and after

Somewhere in here is dinner.

A life story, three ads and a wall of text.

My Cookbase keeps the cooking.

Give it a recipe and everything else falls away.

Each ingredient, right where you need it.

Listed under the step that uses it, so you never scroll back up mid-stir.

Import

Bring recipes in from anywhere.

Paste a recipe link, or the recipe itself, into Add a Recipe. Links from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube work too, and Import a video writes the recipe from a cooking video.

Add a Recipe with a recipe link pasted in, ready to tap Get Cooking, and a From a Cookbook option below it.

A page from a cookbook.

Take a photo of the page and say which book it’s from. My Cookbase reads it and credits the book.

From a Cookbook: a photo of a printed recipe page, with the cookbook name and author filled in.

Or straight from Safari.

On any recipe page, tap Share and choose My Cookbase. The recipe is waiting when the app opens.

Safari on a recipe page with the share sheet open and My Cookbase in the row of apps.

Ready in seconds.

Every import becomes clear, numbered steps, and saves itself to your recipes. Tick off each step as you go.

A chicken stir-fry in the Steps view: photo, servings and time, then Step 1 with its ingredients above the instruction.

Decoder

See how it all comes together.

Decoder draws a recipe as a diagram. Ingredients sit on the left, and each step reaches across the ones it uses.

When parts are made side by side, like a ragù and a béchamel, you see both, and the moment they meet.

  • Ragù
  • Béchamel
  • Where they meet
Lasagna in Decoder A diagram of a lasagna. The ragù chain softens onion, browns beef and simmers for an hour. The béchamel chain makes a roux, whisks in milk and adds nutmeg. Both chains meet when the lasagna is layered, then it is topped with mozzarella and baked for 40 minutes. Ragù Béchamel 2 Tbs olive oil 1 onion, diced 3 cloves garlic 1 lb beef mince 28 oz tomatoes 4 Tbs butter ¼ cup flour 3 cups milk pinch of nutmeg 12 lasagna sheets 2 cups mozzarella soften onion make roux brown beef whisk in milk simmer 1 hr add nutmeg layer it all up top & bake 40 min
A lasagna, drawn the way Decoder draws it.
Decoder on iPad for chocolate chip cookies: each ingredient row on the left, and each step as a column reaching across the ingredients it uses.
The real thing, full screen on iPad.

Shop

A shopping list that knows the store.

Make a list from one recipe or a whole week of them. The same ingredient is merged into one line, and everything is sorted by aisle.

Share it to Notes, Reminders or Messages.

A shopping list for three recipes, sorted into Produce, Meat and Seafood, and Dairy and Eggs.

Cook

Made for the moment you’re cooking.

When a step names a time, tap it to start a timer. It counts down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can leave the app.

A step timer counting down in the expanded Dynamic Island while the iPhone shows its home screen.

Cook for two, or for twelve.

Change the servings and every amount follows. Switch to metric, or cups to grams, in one tap. The screen stays awake while you cook.

Cinnamon rolls scaled to 8 servings, with Metric units and Convert cups to weight both switched on, so the flour reads 180 g.

Keep

A cookbook that’s all yours.

Everything you import is saved for you. Rate it in forks, jot a note, and find it again by name, ingredient or cookbook.

My Recipes: seven recipes with photos, sources and fork ratings, under a search field.

Sorted your way.

Make collections of your own, like Sunday dinners. Others fill themselves: by cooking tool, from wok to stand mixer, or by rating.

Collections: a shared collection, Weeknight dinners, then Blender, Stand Mixer, Wok and Sheet Pan, which fill themselves, and Sunday dinners with three recipes.

What’s good right now.

Recipes you’ve saved that use produce in season where you live are marked with a leaf, and gathered in an In Season Now list that changes every month.

In the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand. Worked out on your device, from your own recipes; change the region in Options.

In Season Now: a chicken and pepper stir-fry marked in season for sweet peppers, and a roasted tomato soup marked in season for tomatoes, for October.

Cook it together.

Share a collection with up to four people through iCloud. Anyone in it can add a recipe, it shows up on everyone’s phone, and each one says who added it.

A shared collection, Weeknight dinners, with four recipes, each marked Added by Maya or Added by Sam.

On every device, day or night.

Your recipes sync through iCloud to your iPhone and iPad, and the app follows your light or dark setting.

The My Cookbase home screen in its other appearance.

iPhone Duo

Open it up, and the recipe opens with it.

Unfold iPhone Duo and the steps sit on one page, with Decoder or your shopping list on the other.

A weeknight lasagna open across iPhone Duo: the photo, servings and steps on the left page, and the Decoder diagram on the right.
Steps on one page, Decoder on the other.

Stand it up on the counter.

Half-fold it and Counter mode takes over: the step you’re on fills the top half, big enough to read from the stove, with its ingredients to tick and its timer on the half below.

On iPad, Counter mode is one tap away in any recipe.

Counter mode on iPhone Duo: step 1 of the lasagna in large type, olive oil and onion ticked off, and a six-minute timer counting down.
iPhone Duo, half-folded
Counter mode on iPad, held sideways: the same step in large type across the top half, with ingredients to tick, the timer running, and Previous and Next buttons below.
iPad, held sideways

And a few more things.

  • Allergen flags

    List what you avoid. Any ingredient that matches is flagged in the recipe, and your list never leaves your phone.

  • Print it

    Print a recipe with its Decoder diagram and a full ingredient list, sorted by aisle.

  • My Feats

    Small milestones, like your first collection. Each one drops a leaf on your home screen.

  • Shopping essentials

    Keep a standing list of the things you buy every time, and add it to any list with one tap.

Pricing

Free to start.

Everything in the app is free. Pro raises how many recipes you can import.

  • Free

    $0

    10 imports in total

    Every feature included

  • Pro Monthly

    $4.99 / month

    100 imports a month

    Every feature included

  • Founding price

    Pro Yearly

    $19.99 / year $29.99

    100 imports a month

    Join by January 31, 2027 and you pay $19.99 a year for as long as you stay subscribed.

Cancel anytime, your recipes stay yours.

The founding price is for new Pro Yearly subscribers who join by January 31, 2027; after that, Pro Yearly is $29.99 a year. Every saved recipe stays fully usable if you cancel. An import is one recipe from a link, text, a video or a cookbook photo. Subscriptions are in the app and renew until cancelled.

Start your cookbook.

My Cookbase is for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad.

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Coming to the App Store