Cook: Cooklang recipe app Apple

Cook: Cooklang recipe app

Cooklang client recipe app

Features & Capabilities

Cook: Cooklang format recipe app – Lossless Recipes

Most recipe apps strip away the details that make recipes actually work. Cook preserves everything by using Cooklang recipe format based on text files.

Capture How Recipes Really Work Real recipes have structure. A pie has a crust and a filling. Bread has preferments. Sauces get referenced across dishes. Cook handles all of it:

  • Sections – Keep dough, filling, frosting, and garnish organized as distinct parts of one recipe
  • Recipe references – Link to your pizza dough from your pizza recipe instead of copying it everywhere
  • Shorthand preparations – Write "onion, diced" once and the app understands both the ingredient and the prep
  • Notes and metadata – Oven temps, timing cues, source attribution—nothing gets lost

Shopping Lists That Match How You Shop Group ingredients your way: by store section, by recipe component, or by store. Cooklang builds your list automatically and lets you configure the groupings to fit your routine.

Your Recipes, Your Files Cook runs on Cooklang, an open-source plain text format. Create recipes on desktop, sync via iCloud, CookCloud, or any sync app. Works offline. No lock-in—your recipes stay yours forever.

  • Organize in folders
  • Scale by servings, multiplier, or ingredient ratio
  • Share and export freely

Download and start building a recipe collection that captures how you actually cook.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Alexey Dubovskoy
Rating:
3.70
(6)
Version:
0.7.5 Last updated: 2026-04-21
Version code:
884721334
Creation date:
2021-12-18
Compatible devices:
Size:
28.79MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-08
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Alexey Dubovskoy
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cook-cooklang-recipe-app/id1598799259
Website:
https://cooklang.org/app/

User Reviews

It would be nice if we could do simple CRUD. The feeding in videos with the AI stuff is cool, but it still doesn’t have the basic CRUD options. Right now I’m forced with using Apple shortcuts/Files to add recipes and photos so it’ll be nice if we could do that and then also if the shopping list could be outputted into a file as well that we can pass through that would be great. Also the ability to re-categorize make folders move around folders. Other than that, it’s a pretty good app.
by ca*****, 2026-04-26

It would be great if the app allows to store the recipes outside of a default folder on iCloud. It crashes at the first startup multiple times but I hope it is resolved once the config files are set up.
by Pm*****, 2023-08-30

I tapped remove on a recipe to take it out of my shopping list and it’s now gone from iCloud. The whole .cook file has been deleted. Removing this app from my devices and asking for a refund.
by ba*****, 2022-08-28
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