Your week of dinners,
planned and shopped.
Import the recipes you already love, let AI plan the week, and cook from your phone — shopping list included. No meal-kit box. No lock-in.
Carbonara
Write and cook.
Where you’ll spend the most time — the editor and the apps.
Cook Editor
Author, scale, and refine recipes. Syntax highlighting, live preview, shopping lists, and an AI assistant — all in a native desktop app.
- ✓ Plain-text
.cookfiles - ✓ Shopping list & pantry
- ✓ AI chat with CookBot
Mobile apps
Take your recipes to the kitchen. Cooking mode, timers, shopping lists grouped by aisle, and quick notes after you eat.
- ✓ iOS (App Store)
- ✓ Android (Play Store)
- ✓ Offline-first with sync
Everything around it.
Import recipes, sync across devices, and keep your collection with you.
Cookify — import any recipe
Paste a URL, upload a photo, or drop plain text — get clean Cooklang back, free.
Sync Agent — Local folder sync
Tiny system-tray agent that keeps a local recipe folder in sync with Cook Cloud.
Download agent →Plain text.
Yours forever.
Your recipes are just text files — one .cook file each. Open them in any editor, back them up anywhere, read them in fifty years. No database, no proprietary format, no company that can lock them away or shut them down. It’s the quietly smart way to keep the food you love — and once your collection is genuinely yours, renting it back from an app feels a little absurd.
Pick your starting point.
Pick the one that fits where you are today.
Guides & comparisons.
Plan a week of dinners with AI
CookBot plans from your own collection — not random suggestions.
Read →Paprika vs Cook
A polished recipe box vs plain-text recipes you own, plus AI. Honestly compared.
Read →Recipe sync without the lock-in
Keep recipes in sync across devices while they stay plain-text files you own.
Read →Write your first recipe in 5 minutes
A quick, hands-on intro to writing recipes in Cooklang.
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