CookBook - Recipe Manager

Name: CookBook - Recipe Manager
Rating: 4.7 (703 reviews)
Author: CookBook Co. Pty Ltd

AI Import, Planner & Shopping

Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad

703 Ratings
Age Rating

16+
Years
Category

Food & Drink
Developer

CookBook Co. Pty Ltd
Language

EN
English
Size

159.3
MB

#1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & more! CookBook is the #1 AI recipe organiser and meal planner loved by thousands of home cooks. Keep every recipe, grocery list and meal prep plan in one place. Import recipes from Instagram, TikTok or any website, track macros and order groceries in a tap. Start free with a 14-day trial. IMPORT & CREATE • Import recipes from websites, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest and more • Scan photos of cookbooks or handwritten cards with the AI Recipe Scanner • AI Chef creates new recipes, variations, ingredient swaps, and generates dish images • Import directly from Safari as you browse websites • Safeguard treasured family favourites in your personal CookBook ORGANIZE AND CUSTOMIZE • Ingredients in your instructions auto‑link to exact amounts for quick checks • Bulk-edit tags, add tag images and link related dishes • Powerful search by name, ingredients, nutrition, cook time or dietary tags (vegan, keto, gluten‑free) • Pick from custom colour themes and accessibility font sizes MEAL PLANNING AND SHOPPING • Plan your meals for a day, week or month with the built-in grocery planner • Smart shopping list app sorts items by aisle and syncs across devices • Instacart integration lets US and Canadian users order groceries in one tap • Plan ahead to cut food waste and stay on budget NUTRITION AND GOALS • Macro calculator with custom targets and daily totals in the planner COOK WITH CONFIDENCE • Voice guidance with built-in timers and screen wake lock • Effortlessly scale servings and convert units (US, Metric, Imperial, Australian) and temperatures automatically ANYTIME, ANYWHERE • Sync recipes on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the CookBook Web App • Offline access keeps every recipe available without a connection • Sign in with Apple and secure cloud backup EXTRA TOOLS • Duplicate checker, last-cooked date, cook count • Multiple photos per step and video links • Volume-to-weight converter and QR code sharing QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? Email team@cookbookmanager.com - we’d love to help! PRICING & TERMS CookBook is free to download. After 20 stored recipes & 20 smart imports you’ll need an active monthly or yearly subscription (yearly includes one 14-day free trial if you have not previously redeemed a trial offer). Payment is charged to your App Store account at confirmation and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in App Store account settings. Unused portions of a free trial or subscription period are non‑refundable. Terms: https://www.cookbook.company/policies/terms Privacy: https://www.cookbook.company/policies/privacy

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

703 Ratings

Crazy for this app. ❤️ Cookbook
16/12/2021
Kazzamcan
I went looking for an app that would streamline my recipe filing and enable me access to multiple recipes for a dinner party as I was sick having 5 books on the bench and difficult to use Pinterest boards! The app has revolutionised how I store and use my recipes and how I create shopping lists and plan my weekly menu. It’s incredible to be at the markets and discover a fresh ingredient is in season and to quickly refer to the app to find all the recipes I like to cook with that ingredient and know exactly what I need to buy. Saving recipes from online links is also a dream and means I have quickly built up a collection of 400 recipes to which I refer often. I have photographed all my old favourite recipes from different books and now all my recipes are in the one place - it’s a dream. I also use the app to plan our weekly menu to focus what we eat, be more healthy, and be more efficient with shopping. Finally, now that so many of my family and friends are also using the app we are constantly sharing recipes within the app in a way that is so efficient and easy. I couldn’t be more positive about my experience with CookBook. Karen, Sydney.

Developer Response
Thank you Karen!! :) you're amazing! Thank you soooo much for leaving such an incredible and detailed review. It sounds like you are taking advantage of everything CookBook offers and making meal planning and cooking easy! We love that you're sharing recipes between family & friends too :D you'll love our CookBook friends section when we add it! Thanks again and happy new year :)
Crazy for this app. ❤️ Cookbook
16/12/2021
Kazzamcan

I went looking for an app that would streamline my recipe filing and enable me access to multiple recipes for a dinner party as I was sick having 5 books on the bench and difficult to use Pinterest boards! The app has revolutionised how I store and use my recipes and how I create shopping lists and plan my weekly menu. It’s incredible to be at the markets and discover a fresh ingredient is in season and to quickly refer to the app to find all the recipes I like to cook with that ingredient and know exactly what I need to buy. Saving recipes from online links is also a dream and means I have quickly built up a collection of 400 recipes to which I refer often. I have photographed all my old favourite recipes from different books and now all my recipes are in the one place - it’s a dream. I also use the app to plan our weekly menu to focus what we eat, be more healthy, and be more efficient with shopping. Finally, now that so many of my family and friends are also using the app we are constantly sharing recipes within the app in a way that is so efficient and easy. I couldn’t be more positive about my experience with CookBook. Karen, Sydney.
Developer Response 03/01/2022
Thank you Karen!! :) you're amazing! Thank you soooo much for leaving such an incredible and detailed review. It sounds like you are taking advantage of everything CookBook offers and making meal planning and cooking easy! We love that you're sharing recipes between family & friends too :D you'll love our CookBook friends section when we add it! Thanks again and happy new year :)
Best recipe book app out there
18/07/2025
Kerdiapie
I would be utterly lost without this app!It is now an integral part of my life and houses my entire recipe collection, along with all my personal recipe tweaks and comments and I pretty much use it every day!It is so easy to cook from, and to import, edit and share recipes with dinner guests who “must have that recipe”!My anxiety has got the better of me, that the app should ever disappear, but it has also been easy to make a backup in PDF form in case that ever happens so I still have all my precious recipes in a readable form.My gripe with the new app format, though, is that the new orange app logo and recipe layout looks a lot less classy than the previous graphics and no longer stands out enough from the crowd of other recipe apps, many of which are also orange-themed, as the previous app logo did, which helped it stand out in the crowd. More than the fact that I get less pleasure opening it on my devices, I hope this won’t reduce the market share and therefore the viability of the app because I want it to last forever!!

Developer Response
Thank you for your review and five-star love!! We are stoked that CookBook is part of your everyday cooking life. We appreciate the feedback on the new orange icon and layout and will keep it in mind. A darker icon option is already on our roadmap so you'll be able to choose the icon that feels right on your Home Screen in a future update. If you have specific thoughts on the new layout, we’re all ears email team@cookbookmanager.com anytime. Happy Cooking! 🍳😊
Best recipe book app out there
18/07/2025
Kerdiapie

I would be utterly lost without this app!It is now an integral part of my life and houses my entire recipe collection, along with all my personal recipe tweaks and comments and I pretty much use it every day!It is so easy to cook from, and to import, edit and share recipes with dinner guests who “must have that recipe”!My anxiety has got the better of me, that the app should ever disappear, but it has also been easy to make a backup in PDF form in case that ever happens so I still have all my precious recipes in a readable form.My gripe with the new app format, though, is that the new orange app logo and recipe layout looks a lot less classy than the previous graphics and no longer stands out enough from the crowd of other recipe apps, many of which are also orange-themed, as the previous app logo did, which helped it stand out in the crowd. More than the fact that I get less pleasure opening it on my devices, I hope this won’t reduce the market share and therefore the viability of the app because I want it to last forever!!
Developer Response 21/07/2025
Thank you for your review and five-star love!! We are stoked that CookBook is part of your everyday cooking life. We appreciate the feedback on the new orange icon and layout and will keep it in mind. A darker icon option is already on our roadmap so you'll be able to choose the icon that feels right on your Home Screen in a future update. If you have specific thoughts on the new layout, we’re all ears email team@cookbookmanager.com anytime. Happy Cooking! 🍳😊
Leaves a bad taste in your mouth
16/04/2022
Runoutofideas
UPDATE— can’t even begin with this developer. Original response to my original was to ask me to email them with my concerns. Do more for you, hey? Lo and behold, they email me later saying they didn’t hear from me. So, you had my details available all along and expect me to do all the work to write to you again what I’ve expressed clearly here. Also—last time this app was updated was 10 months ago when they announced the extra charges. So much for always updating, fixing and adding things. Beware the cash grabbers!!!!! ORIGINAL—Sadly I can’t reconcile my feelings of being siphoned by an app developer. Like many others commenting here, I bought this app outright years ago after a lot of research and comparison, testing of recipe apps. Only to be informed that they want me to pay again. And again. And again! Every month or every year—the choice is mine; how considerate. Or I could get a lifetime subscription for $65–will you be around in several years still, or will you change the rules of the game again then, too? I suppose the way to sweeten this bitter aftertaste is to offer one year free. What a great idea in the boardroom as we discuss how to win dollars and alienate people. How about asking your faithful users who gave you their hard-earned dollars when you were starting out to help you spread the word far and wide? To be brand advocates instead of dissenters. Do I want to give even $2 or so a month to people who think this is a way to do business, to treat customers who’ve been with them a long time? No thanks— I’m voting with my feet.

Developer Response
Hi Runoutofideas, we cannot access your information from your review and therefore do not have your details nor know your CookBook contact details. The email you would have received is from the app store forwarding our review reply to you, which asked you to send us an email to support@thecookbookapp.com.If you did contact us when originally leaving your review, we would have already provided you with a solution and made things right for you, however we have not received anything from you so our second reply to your review was us trying to help by reminding you to get in touch.In December 2021, we released our highly requested brand new web app which is included as part of all customers plans for no extra charge, unlike almost every other recipe app who charge for this in addition. We have also built brand new PDF layouts & recipe cards which have been released and are available in the web app, they will also be available in the phone app in the coming release.Alongside this, we have been updating a lot of our back end systems and working on improving our OCR workflow, shopping list categorisation/merging and adding brand new recipe fields, including a highly requested star rating. All of this is in production, being developed and tested so it's ready for our next big update due out in the next few weeks. So as you can see, we most definitely have been developing CookBook since announcing the change a year ago. Developing apps and web apps take time, especially when you are a very small team and do not have the luxury of having big teams of developers.As before, if you'd like to send us an email with your CookBook details, we would be happy to provide you with a solution for you to continue using CookBook.
Leaves a bad taste in your mouth
16/04/2022
Runoutofideas

UPDATE— can’t even begin with this developer. Original response to my original was to ask me to email them with my concerns. Do more for you, hey? Lo and behold, they email me later saying they didn’t hear from me. So, you had my details available all along and expect me to do all the work to write to you again what I’ve expressed clearly here. Also—last time this app was updated was 10 months ago when they announced the extra charges. So much for always updating, fixing and adding things. Beware the cash grabbers!!!!! ORIGINAL—Sadly I can’t reconcile my feelings of being siphoned by an app developer. Like many others commenting here, I bought this app outright years ago after a lot of research and comparison, testing of recipe apps. Only to be informed that they want me to pay again. And again. And again! Every month or every year—the choice is mine; how considerate. Or I could get a lifetime subscription for $65–will you be around in several years still, or will you change the rules of the game again then, too? I suppose the way to sweeten this bitter aftertaste is to offer one year free. What a great idea in the boardroom as we discuss how to win dollars and alienate people. How about asking your faithful users who gave you their hard-earned dollars when you were starting out to help you spread the word far and wide? To be brand advocates instead of dissenters. Do I want to give even $2 or so a month to people who think this is a way to do business, to treat customers who’ve been with them a long time? No thanks— I’m voting with my feet.
Developer Response 18/04/2022
Hi Runoutofideas, we cannot access your information from your review and therefore do not have your details nor know your CookBook contact details. The email you would have received is from the app store forwarding our review reply to you, which asked you to send us an email to support@thecookbookapp.com.If you did contact us when originally leaving your review, we would have already provided you with a solution and made things right for you, however we have not received anything from you so our second reply to your review was us trying to help by reminding you to get in touch.In December 2021, we released our highly requested brand new web app which is included as part of all customers plans for no extra charge, unlike almost every other recipe app who charge for this in addition. We have also built brand new PDF layouts & recipe cards which have been released and are available in the web app, they will also be available in the phone app in the coming release.Alongside this, we have been updating a lot of our back end systems and working on improving our OCR workflow, shopping list categorisation/merging and adding brand new recipe fields, including a highly requested star rating. All of this is in production, being developed and tested so it's ready for our next big update due out in the next few weeks. So as you can see, we most definitely have been developing CookBook since announcing the change a year ago. Developing apps and web apps take time, especially when you are a very small team and do not have the luxury of having big teams of developers.As before, if you'd like to send us an email with your CookBook details, we would be happy to provide you with a solution for you to continue using CookBook.
You make my life easier 🥰 thanks
30/09/2023
Banana87🍌
I’ve downloaded several free and paid recipe apps over the years, and they’d done okay, but each tended to be good at one aspect but not all. However… The Cookbook App was the answer to all my “wants”. It gracefully takes care of every aspect of planning and creating mealtimes. It handles the process from collecting recipes, storing and categorising them, scheduling daily/weekly menus, creating specific shopping lists, through to a versatile and thoughtful platform for actually following the recipe. The best part is, that all of these ‘parts’ work beautifully in their own right and this app combines them to work seamlessly together. My favourite part is the money and time I’ve saved from using the meal planning and shopping lists, the $avings far outweigh the cost of the app. I’m purchasing only & exactly what I need for the week, and my grocery bills are shockingly cheaper, just what we all need right now :-) I always recommend this app to friends and now have a community of mates to share recipes with.

Developer Response
Wow this is awesome!! 🎉 thank you so much for taking the time to write us such a lovely review. Its great to hear you've found CookBook to be the answer to all your recipe management wants along with utilising all of CookBook's features and they're helping you save money. Thank you so much for sharing the CookBook love with your friends and happy cooking! 🍽️👩‍🍳🎉
You make my life easier 🥰 thanks
30/09/2023
Banana87🍌

I’ve downloaded several free and paid recipe apps over the years, and they’d done okay, but each tended to be good at one aspect but not all. However… The Cookbook App was the answer to all my “wants”. It gracefully takes care of every aspect of planning and creating mealtimes. It handles the process from collecting recipes, storing and categorising them, scheduling daily/weekly menus, creating specific shopping lists, through to a versatile and thoughtful platform for actually following the recipe. The best part is, that all of these ‘parts’ work beautifully in their own right and this app combines them to work seamlessly together. My favourite part is the money and time I’ve saved from using the meal planning and shopping lists, the $avings far outweigh the cost of the app. I’m purchasing only & exactly what I need for the week, and my grocery bills are shockingly cheaper, just what we all need right now :-) I always recommend this app to friends and now have a community of mates to share recipes with.
Developer Response 27/11/2023
Wow this is awesome!! 🎉 thank you so much for taking the time to write us such a lovely review. Its great to hear you've found CookBook to be the answer to all your recipe management wants along with utilising all of CookBook's features and they're helping you save money. Thank you so much for sharing the CookBook love with your friends and happy cooking! 🍽️👩‍🍳🎉

CookBook is the #1 AI recipe organiser and meal planner loved by thousands of home cooks. Import recipes from Instagram, TikTok or any website. Got cookbooks? Snap a photo and import instantly. Keep every recipe, grocery list and meal prep plan in one place. Track macros and order groceries in a tap. Start free with a 7-day trial. CookBook 3.0 has a fresh design, faster performance and powerful new AI features including importing from Instagram, TikTok and beyond.

Version 3.0.245 23/11/2025

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Seller: CookBook Co. Pty Ltd
Size: 159.3 MB
Category: Food & Drink
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.4 or later.

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Ratings & Reviews

Crazy for this app. ❤️ Cookbook

Best recipe book app out there

Leaves a bad taste in your mouth

You make my life easier 🥰 thanks

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Larger Text

Dark Interface

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