Your personal recipe book.
The recipes you love from around the web, grandma's recipe cards and the family classics that only live in someone's head: Cookpal keeps them all in one place. The modern take on the old recipe box, with a week plan and shopping list built in. Free on cookpal.io or on your own server.
- Free
- Android & web
- Self-hostable
Collect
All the recipes you love
Save the recipes from your favourite blog, from your cookbooks and from your family before they get lost. Scraps of paper, bookmarks and memories become your own recipe book.
- Import recipes from the web by pasting a link: ingredients, steps and pictures are taken over.
- In the Android app you can browse recipe sites inside the app and import what you are looking at.
- Digitize recipes from your cookbooks: photograph a cookbook page, Cookpal reads it and you check it before saving. A recipe may span several photos.
- Write your own recipes, for example the family recipes that only live in your head. Sort them into groups and find them again with search.
Plan
From recipe book to week plan
Decide what is cooked on which day, or let Cookpal suggest a week.
- The week plan arranges recipes by day and meal. Meals without a recipe and leftovers can be planned too.
- "Plan my week" creates a draft from your own recipes: how many people eat, which days you are away, how often each meal happens, quick or elaborate. You adjust the draft before taking it.
- You set the diet (vegan, vegetarian, with meat), calories per day and a nutrition style.
- Ingredients to use up come first, ingredients you never want are left out.
- You decide after how many weeks a recipe comes round again and whether leftovers are eaten the next day.
- "What should I cook?" suggests recipes that fit what you have at home.
Shop
The shopping list writes itself
A whole week or a single recipe becomes a list you tick off in the shop.
- The list is sorted by supermarket aisle, with icons.
- You can keep several lists.
- Add a whole week or one recipe with the servings you need. Items you usually have at home are left out.
- In the shop the list works offline and syncs later. Everybody in the household sees changes live.
- Or hand the list to the Bring! app instead.
Cook
Cook step by step
The guided view always shows the step you are on.
- Each step shows the ingredients it needs, which you can tick off.
- Timers start right from the steps.
- Servings are scaled to the number of people you cook for.
- The screen stays on, even with flour on your fingers.
Together
The family recipe book
A household shares one recipe book, plus the week plan and shopping list. Family recipes do not end up in five different collections.
- People join the household with an invite link.
- Everybody sees the same recipe book, the same week plan and the same shopping list.
- Share single recipes by link. Whoever opens it reads the recipe without an account and can take it into their own cookbook.
Nutrition
Calories and nutrients per serving
Cookpal estimates calories and nutrients from the ingredients of your recipe.
- They are based on the German Federal Food Code (Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel, BLS) of the Max Rubner-Institut.
- In the week plan you can set calories per day and a nutrition style: balanced, low carb, low fat or high protein.
On phone, tablet and desktop
Web app
Runs in the browser and can be installed on Android, iPhone, iPad and desktop. On the iPhone use "Add to Home Screen".
Open web appWorks offline too
Recipes, week plan and shopping list can be read offline.
Two ways to use Cookpal
Use cookpal.io
Create an account and start your recipe book. Signup is open and free.
Get started for freeHost it yourself
Cookpal runs with Docker Compose on your own server. Your recipe book and your data stay with you.
Frequently asked questions
Is Cookpal free?
Yes. Signup on cookpal.io is open and free. If you host Cookpal yourself, only your server costs anything.
Which sites can I import recipes from?
Many recipe sites that publish their recipes with structured data. Paste the link and try it. If a link does not work, you can enter the recipe yourself.
Is there an iPhone app?
Not in the App Store. The web app runs in the browser though, and on the iPhone you can install it like an app with "Add to Home Screen". For Android there is an app on Google Play.
Does Cookpal work offline?
You can read recipes, the week plan and the shopping list without a connection. In the shop you can tick off the shopping list offline, and it syncs once you have reception again.
Can I plan with my family?
Yes. A household shares one recipe book, week plan and shopping list. New members join with an invite link.
How accurate are the nutrition values?
They are estimates, calculated from the ingredients of your recipe based on the German Federal Food Code (BLS) of the Max Rubner-Institut. How close they come to reality also depends on how exact the ingredient amounts are.
Can I host Cookpal myself?
Yes, with Docker Compose on your own server.
What happens to my data?
Your recipes stay in your account, and only you see them until you share them with your household or pass one on by link. If you want to keep everything at home, host Cookpal yourself.
Start your recipe book today
Create an account and save your first recipes, or run Cookpal on your own server.