Cookaburra
Family recipes, planned
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Cookaburra is where your family's favourite recipes live — and how next week's dinners get decided.
CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE
Photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten card. Paste a link. Share a
recipe site, Instagram, or TikTok post straight into Cookaburra. It
reads the recipe — title, ingredients (kept in their sections, like
"Marinade" and "Sauce"), steps, times, even the dish photo — and turns
it into something you can cook from. Every import lands in a review
screen first, so you always have the final say.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Recipe understanding runs entirely on your device with Apple
Intelligence. There are no Cookaburra servers, no accounts, no
analytics, and no tracking. Your recipes sync through your own private
iCloud, and shared recipe links carry the recipe inside the link
itself — nothing is uploaded or stored anywhere.
COOK WHAT THE FAMILY LOVES
Rate how each meal went down and star the keepers. The planner steers
you toward well-received dishes you haven't had in a while, handles
weekly regulars like taco Tuesday automatically, and can fill your
whole week in one tap. Filter any recipe list by ingredient — show
only what you can make with the mince in the fridge, or hide
everything with mushrooms.
WASTE LESS
Give pantry items a best-before date and Cookaburra keeps watch:
things that need using soon get badged, "Use it up this week" suggests
recipes for what's expiring, and Fill My Week leans toward those
ingredients too. Optional reminders give you a nudge the day before
something turns.
SHOPPING SORTED
The shopping list writes itself from the week's plan — ingredients
aggregated across recipes with quantities and which meal needs them.
Tick off what you already have, shop for the rest. And when you're not
sure what to make tonight, "What can I cook?" matches recipes against
what's in your kitchen.
SHARE THE GOOD ONES
Send a recipe as a link that works for everyone — friends without the
app see a beautiful web version they can cook from; friends with it
get the recipe imported in one tap. Post the week's plan to the family
chat. Or AirDrop full recipes, photos included, between family devices.
FREE TO START, ONE PURCHASE FOREVER
The free version does everything, for up to 15 recipes — and you can
try each Pro feature a few times before deciding. Cookaburra Pro
unlocks unlimited recipes, weekly regulars, Fill My Week, and week
sharing — a single one-time purchase, shared with your whole family
via Family Sharing. No subscriptions.
Note: automatic recipe extraction uses Apple Intelligence and requires
a supported device. On other devices, imports arrive as editable text
and everything else works exactly the same.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
This update makes capturing recipes more reliable, helps you use up
what you already have, and keeps your library feeling safe on a new
device.
• Best-before dates for your pantry. Add a date to any item and
Cookaburra badges what needs using soon — with an optional gentle
reminder the day before.
• "Use it up this week." The planner spots what's expiring and
suggests recipes that use it, and Fill my week now leans toward
those ingredients too.
• Filter recipes by ingredient — everywhere. Show only recipes with
what you've got, or hide the ones with things you're avoiding.
• TikTok and Instagram imports got much smarter. Cookaburra now reads
the recipe straight from the post's caption — along with the cover
photo — so shared links import what was actually written, not a
rough guess.
• Try Pro features free. Fill my week, weekly regulars, and sharing
can each be tried a few times before unlocking Cookaburra Pro —
now also available from Settings.
• New "Syncing with iCloud" indicator, so a new phone shows recipes
on their way instead of an empty shelf.
• Fixed the Cookaburra Pro screen sometimes staying stuck on "the
App Store isn't reachable".
The developer, Glu IO Pty Ltd, 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
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Glu IO Pty. Ltd
- Size
- 6.7 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Cookaburra Pro $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Glu IO Pty. Ltd.

