Nombook: Recipe Keeper & Diary
A cozy cookbook & meal planner
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Keep recipes, changes, and cooking results. Import links or photos, plan meals, shop, cook with timers, and share as images or links. No account, ads, or subscription.
The useful part of a recipe is often what happens after you save it: the change you made, the photo from last time, the note that says ten more minutes in the oven. Nombook keeps the recipe and that history together.
Add a recipe in your own words or import it from a link, photo, cookbook page, recipe card, or handwritten note. Plan when to make it, send the ingredients you need to a grocery list, and use the recipe at the stove without wrestling with your phone.
ADD RECIPES YOUR WAY
• Write the title, ingredients, steps, and any notes you want to remember
• Paste a link or save a page from the built-in browser
• Scan one photo or a whole set of cookbook pages and notes
• Review and edit every import before it joins your cookbook
• Use your own cover photo, remove its background with one tap, or choose from 110+ hand-drawn dishes and drinks
• Pick from 200+ hand-drawn ingredient icons
MADE FOR THE MIDDLE OF COOKING
• Full-screen cook mode shows one clear step at a time and keeps the screen awake
• Check the ingredients before you begin
• Start a timer right from a step; it keeps running when you move on and alerts you when time is up
PLAN, THEN SHOP
• Put recipes on a calendar and see the week at a glance
• Add every ingredient—or only the ones you're missing—to the grocery list
• Items are grouped by aisle, and matching ingredients from different recipes are added together
• Look back through a month or a year of home cooking
KEEP NOTES FOR NEXT TIME
• Add photos, a note, and a half-star rating each time you cook a recipe
• See exactly when you made it, what worked, and what you changed
• Search by recipe or ingredient, combine cuisine and dish filters, or browse collections you made yourself
• Choose what's in the fridge to find recipes you can make with it
SHARE A RECIPE
• Send a complete recipe as a link, including its ingredients, steps, photos, and notes
• Anyone who opens it in Nombook saves an independent, editable copy, so their changes never affect yours
• Prefer a picture? Share the recipe poster as an image instead
ON EVERY DEVICE OF YOURS, AND NOBODY ELSE'S
Your cookbook syncs through your own iCloud account, so one Apple ID opens the same recipes on every device you sign into. It goes to Apple's iCloud and never to us: there is no Nombook account and no Nombook server. Without iCloud everything still works, kept on the device. There are no ads, trackers, analytics, newsletters, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. Every feature is included.
AVAILABLE IN
English · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · 日本語 · 한국어 · Español · Français
Ratings & Reviews
Share a complete recipe with a link.
When someone opens your link in Nombook, the recipe is saved to their Kitchen with its ingredients, steps, photos, and notes. They get their own editable copy, so their changes never affect yours.
The developer, Yinuo Zhou, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Yinuo Zhou
- Size
- 100.9 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2026 Yinuo Zhou
