Curated list of apps, CLIs, libraries, and integrations for Cooklang — a plain-text markup language for recipes.

Cooklang lets you write recipes as .cook files that any tool can read: scale them, generate shopping lists, build cookbooks, sync between devices. This list points to the best tooling, official and community-built.

For curated recipe collections written in Cooklang, see awesome-cooklang-recipes.

• For Cooks
  • Mobile Apps
  • Desktop & Editors
  • Web Apps
  • Recipe Discovery
• For Developers
  • Official Libraries
  • Parsers by Language
  • CLI Tools
  • Build & Site Plugins
  • Format Converters
  • AI & Agent Tooling
  • Companion Tools
• For Tinkerers
  • Editor Integrations
  • Smart Home & Hardware
  • Self-Hosting
• Resources
  • Specification & Tests
  • Talks
  • Articles
  • Community
• Contributing

• Cook for iOS — Native iOS app. Syncs .cook files via iCloud Drive, Sync Agent, or any external service pointed at a selected local folder.
• Cook for Android — Native Android app. Syncs .cook files via Sync Agent or any external service pointed at a selected local folder.

• Cook Editor — Free desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Syntax highlighting, recipe preview, multi-day meal plans, optional Cookbot AI sidebar.

• cook.md — AI-powered recipe converter. Paste a URL, image, or text and get back Cooklang.
• Cooklang Playground — In-browser editor with raw parser output, powered by cooklang-rs compiled to WebAssembly.
• Cooklang Toolbox — Browser-based viewer and editor with cooking mode, shopping lists, batch upload/download, and AI-powered URL imports. Freemium.

• Cooklang Federation — Federated search across community recipe repositories via RSS / Atom feeds and a crawler.
• awesome-cooklang-recipes — Curated list of public cookbooks written in Cooklang.

• cooklang-rs — Canonical parser. Optional extensions, unit conversion, recipe scaling, rich error reporting. Rust.
• cooklang-bindings — UniFFI bindings exposing cooklang-rs to Kotlin, Swift, Ruby, and Python.
• cooklang-import — Import recipes from URLs into Cooklang via LLM. Rust.
• cooklang-reports — Generate reports from recipes using Jinja2-style templates with scaling, metadata, and YAML datastore. Rust.
• cooklang-find — Filesystem search and tree-building for recipe collections. Rust.
• cooklang-sync — File-sync library optimised for plain-text recipes. Rust.

One canonical pick per language. See parsers.md for alternative implementations and historical projects.

• C — cook-in-c
• Clojure — cooklang-clj
• Dart — cooklang-dart (pub.dev)
• Elixir — cooklang-ex (hex.pm) — official bindings.
• Go — cooklang-go
• Haskell — cooklang-hs (Hackage)
• JavaScript / TypeScript — @cooklang/cooklang — official WASM build of cooklang-rs.
• Lua — cooklang-lua
• .NET / C# — cooklangnet (NuGet)
• Perl — CookLang on CPAN.
• Python — cooklang-py (PyPI)
• Ruby — cooklang_rb (RubyGems)
• Rust — cooklang-rs — see Official Libraries above.
• Swift — CookInSwift — used by the iOS app.

• CookCLI — Official CLI. Parse, validate, scale, generate shopping lists, run a web server, import recipes from the web, manage a pantry, expose an LSP. Available via Homebrew and AUR. Rust.
• cooklang-chef — Alternative CLI with a built-in web UI for scaling and conversion. Rust.

For generating recipe websites from .cook files.

• eleventy-plugin-cooklang — Eleventy.
• jekyll-cooklang-converter — Jekyll.
• astro-cooklang — Astro.
• vite-plugin-cooklang — Vite.
• vitepress-plugin-cooklang — VitePress.
• markdown-it-cooklang — markdown-it.
• n8n-nodes-cooklang — Custom nodes for n8n workflows.
• cookhub — Pull and parse recipes from GitHub repositories.

• cooklang-to-md — Cooklang → Markdown. Rust.
• cooklang-epub — Cooklang → EPUB. Go.
• cookbook-creator — Render a folder of .cook files into a PDF cookbook via CookCLI's LaTeX output.
• cooklang-sankey — Build Sankey diagram data from a recipe.

• cooklang-skills — Skills for Claude and Codex agents: create, import, validate, scale, meal-plan, manage a pantry, and export Cooklang recipes from inside an agent session.

Separate specifications and tools designed to compose with Cooklang.

• nutrition-rs — Plaintext nutrition-tracking spec and CLI; ingests Cooklang shopping lists via --from-cook. Rust.

• VS Code extension — Syntax highlighting, validation, autocomplete.
• Endless Bounty — Farmers-market-inspired VS Code colour theme tuned for .cook files.
• Cooklang for Obsidian — Recipe preview, interactive timers, shopping checklists inside Obsidian.
• tree-sitter-cooklang — Tree-sitter grammar. Wire it into Neovim, Helix, Zed, or Emacs.
• cooklang-language-server — LSP server. Works in any LSP-aware editor.

• homeassistant-cookcli — Home Assistant custom component. Meal-plan calendar, shopping list as a Todo entity, pantry sensors, recipe stats. HACS-compatible.
• Raspberry Pi kitchen display guide — Build a touchscreen kitchen display backed by CookCLI.
• Sync Agent — Lightweight desktop sync service that keeps a recipe folder in sync with the iOS and Android apps.

• Federation — Run your own federated recipe search node.
• CookCLI server — Self-host a private recipe web UI with cook server ./recipes.
• cooklang-shopper — Self-hosted Nuxt app to manage recipes, build shopping lists, and send matching products to an online store cart. Alpha.

• Cooklang Specification — Reference grammar and conventions.
• EBNF definition — Formal grammar.
• Canonical test suite — Conformance tests every parser should pass.

• Cooklang at FOSDEM
• Cooklang at OggCamp

• Designing a Recipe Markup Language — How and why Cooklang exists.
• Cooking for Programmers — Why developers like plain-text recipes.
• Why Plain Text Recipes — Long-form rationale.
• Building a Recipe API with Cooklang — End-to-end developer walkthrough.
• Parser Integration Guide — Embedding a Cooklang parser in your app.
• Editor Setup — Configuring VS Code, Obsidian, Vim, and others.

• Discord — Community chat.
• Cooklang on GitHub — Official organisation.

Submissions welcome — please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

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