Cook: Cooklang recipe app

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About this app

Cook: Cooklang format recipe app – Lossless Recipes

Most recipe apps strip away the details that make recipes actually work. Cook preserves everything by using Cooklang recipe format based on text files.

Capture How Recipes Really Work
Real recipes have structure. A pie has a crust and a filling. Bread has preferments. Sauces get referenced across dishes. Cook handles all of it:

- Sections – Keep dough, filling, frosting, and garnish organized as distinct parts of one recipe
- Recipe references – Link to your pizza dough from your pizza recipe instead of copying it everywhere
- Shorthand preparations – Write "onion, diced" once and the app understands both the ingredient and the prep
- Notes and metadata – Oven temps, timing cues, source attribution—nothing gets lost

Shopping Lists That Match How You Shop
Group ingredients your way: by store section, by recipe component, or by store. Cooklang builds your list automatically and lets you configure the groupings to fit your routine.

Your Recipes, Your Files
Cook runs on Cooklang, an open-source plain text format. Create recipes on desktop, sync via CookCloud, or any sync app by selecting local folder. Works offline. No lock-in—your recipes stay yours forever.

- Organize in folders
- Scale by servings, multiplier, or ingredient ratio
- Share and export freely

Download and start building a recipe collection that captures how you actually cook.

Ratings and reviews

very good app, you can use it just on your phone. Save your recipes forever, combine them into shopping list, and it looks like they'll soon add a feature where you browse by grocery aisle. For long term use: Start by finding a recipe. I convert the recipe using cooklangs recipe importer on the web (🔎🌐). I put that recipe in obsidian, I recommend adding the cooklang extension to obsidian as well. Then with this app I point it at my obsidian folder on my phone and it pulls all my recipes.

I like that you don't have to have an account anywhere in order to use this app. I just have my plain text .cook files sitting in a folder and can read them step by step for cooking. Brilliant.

What’s new

Bug fixes for shopping list persistence when third-party sync is used