Recipes you can read
Big type, clear amounts, and steps numbered the way you’d cook them. Photos for the dish and for any step.
For iPhone and iPad
Every recipe you cook, in one place. Even the not‑best ones.
The family classics, the ones from websites, the one on the back of an envelope. Keep them together in a cookbook you share with the people you cook with, plan the week, shop from one list, and cook with timers that ring even on Silent.
Works without an account, and on the web once you sign in. No ads, no tracking.
Everything between “what’s for dinner?” and dinner
Not My Best Cookbook isn’t a magazine and doesn’t want your attention. It’s the book on your counter: your recipes, the week’s plan, the list for the shop, and a cook mode you can read from across the kitchen.
Import from anywhere
Paste a recipe website, a note, an email or a Markdown file. The title, times, servings, ingredients and steps come across, ready to check.
Scale and convert
Cook for 2 or for 12. Quantities scale as real fractions, and switch between US and metric in a tap.
Cook mode
One step at a time, in type you can read from the stove, with the screen kept on while you cook.
Timers that ring
Any step with a time gets a timer. Run several at once, see them on the Lock Screen, and hear them even on Silent.
The week’s menu
Put recipes and meals on the days you’ll cook them. Step through the weeks and see what’s planned at a glance.
One shopping list
Add a recipe or the whole week. Ingredients merge (two recipes’ garlic is one line) and sort by aisle.
Shared cookbooks
Invite family as editors or viewers. Recipes, the menu and the shopping list stay in step on everyone’s phone.
A library of 70,000 recipes
When you need an idea, search a library of more than 70,000 recipes and save the ones you like to your own cookbook.
Nutrition estimates
Calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium per serving, estimated from USDA data for the ingredients it can match.
Share a recipe
Send a link anyone can open in a browser, no app needed. People who have the app can save their own copy.
Works offline
Your recipes live on your iPhone first, so the kitchen with no signal is fine. Changes back up as soon as you’re online.
Made for iPad too
Tabs that open into a sidebar, roomier recipes with ingredients beside the method, and a cook mode that fills the screen.
No account needed
Start cooking straight away. Sign in later with Apple or your email to back up, use more than one device, and share.
Private by default
No ads, no tracking, no analytics in the app. Your cookbooks are visible only to the people you invite. Privacy policy.
Recipes
Written the way you’d write them down
Type ingredients one per line, as you would on paper. The app works out the amount, the unit and the ingredient, and tells you if a line didn’t make sense.
- Shelves for Favorites, Recently Added and each category: breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides, sauces, desserts, snacks and drinks.
- Scale to any number of servings. “1½ cups” stays a fraction, not 1.5.
- US or metric, switched from any recipe, with units picked to be easy to measure.
- Photos of the finished dish and of any step, so you know what “golden” is supposed to look like.
- Search by title or ingredient, and filter by category, total time or the ingredients you have.
Cook mode
Read it from the stove
Start Cooking turns a recipe into one big step at a time. Flour on your hands? The buttons are large, and the screen stays on.
- A timer for every step that has a time. “Simmer for 15 minutes” gets a 15-minute timer, and “9–10 minutes” sets 9.
- Several at once, each named for its step, along the top of the screen.
- On the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can put the phone down.
- They ring like the Clock app’s, even on Silent, on iOS 26. On iOS 18 you get a notification instead.
Import
Bring in the recipes you already have
Most of your recipes already exist somewhere: a bookmark, a note, an email from your aunt. Bring them in and you can check and fix everything before it’s saved.
- Websites. Paste the address. For most recipe sites, the recipe, times, servings and photo come across, without the life story.
- Text from a note, an email or a message, with or without headings.
- Files: Markdown or plain text, including a title and “serves” at the top.
- Read on your iPhone. The page is fetched and read on your device, not on our servers.
Menu and shopping
Plan the week, then shop it in one trip
Decide on Sunday, stop deciding every evening. The menu holds the week; the list holds everything it needs.
- Put a recipe or a meal on any day. A meal is a few recipes that go together, like a roast and its sides.
- Add the whole week to the list in one tap, or a single recipe at the servings you’ll cook.
- Lines merge and sort by aisle. Two recipes’ garlic is one line, with both recipes named under it.
- Tick things off in the shop, add your own items, and share the list as text.
- Shared with your cookbook, so whoever’s at the shop sees the same list.
Shared cookbooks
One cookbook for the whole household
Cooking is rarely a solo act. Share a cookbook and everyone sees the same recipes, the same menu and the same list.
- Invite by email. They sign in with that address and the cookbook appears for them.
- Editors can add and change recipes; viewers can cook from them.
- More than one cookbook: yours, the family’s, the one for the holidays. Switch from the top of Recipes.
- Offline and in step. Edit on the train; it backs up when you’re back online, and the newer edit wins.
Library and nutrition
Ideas when you’re stuck, numbers when you want them
For the nights when nothing in your own book appeals, there’s a library to search. And for the curious, a rough idea of what’s in a serving.
- More than 70,000 recipes, searchable by name and sorted alphabetically or quickest first.
- Save to your cookbook to make one yours: edit it, plan it, shop for it.
- Nutrition per serving, estimated from USDA FoodData Central for the ingredients it can match, and it says how many it counted.
- Match an ingredient once on the Ingredients screen and it counts in every recipe that uses it.
Room to cook on iPad
Tabs that open into a sidebar, recipes with the ingredients beside the method, and the whole week’s menu on one screen. Prop it up on the counter.
Not My Best Cookbook is coming soon
It’s on its way to the App Store for iPhone and iPad. When it arrives, you can start cooking without an account, and bring your family in whenever you’re ready.