Everything you might ask. Answered straight.

A private family cookbook app. You photograph handwritten recipe cards, the original is kept forever exactly as written, and a living recipe grows beside it: one that scales servings, remembers dietary needs and guides you step by step at the stove. No feed, no ads, no strangers.

An app. Your cookbook lives on your phone, your iPad and any web browser, and on the devices of everyone you invite, always in sync. iPhone and iPad on the App Store, Android on Google Play, and a web app for any browser.

About ten minutes for your first five recipes. The free plan holds twenty recipes forever, so the archive can exist tonight without you paying anything.

If you can take a photo, you can keep an archive. Nothing to install for the web version, large clear type, and every step is one obvious tap. Plenty of our keepers are grandparents.

Handwritten cards, notebook pages, newspaper clippings, typed sheets, and the ones that were never written down at all, which you can add directly while the cook talks you through them.

It is kept forever, safe from being lost. Only the person who keeps that recipe, or the family keeper, can ever change or replace it. You choose whether it's shown proudly as the recipe's cover or tucked away behind one tap: kept is the rule, shown is your choice.

Only the person who keeps that recipe, or the family keeper. Everyone else, including other family members, can view it but never change it.

No. The scan is the keeping. Frame the special ones, keep the tin if you love the tin, and let the rest go if you want your drawer back. Some families keep everything. Some keep two cards. Both are right.

Photograph it now, exactly as it is. The butter stains are part of the story, and the photo stops the fading where it stands.

Add them directly while you cook together: the spice ratios, the technique, the moment it is done, recorded in the cook's own words and attributed to them. Get Mum's curry while she can still talk you through it.

Whoever you invite: family, friends, or just the people you want to share more meals with. The archive doesn't check surnames.

No. On the Family archive plan, everyone you invite joins free, forever. One person keeps the subscription; the whole family keeps the recipes.

As many as you invite. There's no six-seat family cap and no per-person pricing: one subscription, and everyone joins free with their own account, on any phone, tablet or browser.

Three: you (the owner), family, and guest. Everyone can read, cook and add notes. Family can also add and share recipes and export the archive. Only you can invite, remove, restore from the bin and manage billing.

No. They add a note in their own words instead, and every note carries a name and a date. Only you can override an edit, and every change is attributed.

Their recipes stay in the archive, still attributed to them, and they keep their own exported copy. Nothing anyone contributed is ever lost to the family.

You invite them, or they request to join and you approve it in one tap, choosing their role as they come in.

Yes. Quantities recalculate for any table from two to twenty. Cooking times stay the cook's own, because doubling a dish doesn't double its time; the app points you to the cook's cues instead: the colour, the feel, the moment it's done.

Record each person's needs once and every recipe flags conflicts automatically. No more "wait, can Emma eat this?" And shared links never reveal anyone's allergy information.

Yes. Recipes you've opened stay available at the stove with no wifi, floury hands and all.

Step-by-step mode walks you through the method with built-in timers, and you check off each step as you go, the way a 12-year-old can make her great-grandmother's pudding without anyone hovering.

Yes, by link or by email. Free plans include five emails a month, enough to send one to your sister; paid plans are unlimited. Links from paid plans carry just your name, not ours.

They show the one recipe you shared, and nothing else. Never allergy notes, member emails, the family's notes thread, or any other recipe in the archive.

Yes. Anyone can stop their own share links, and the archive owner can stop every link on a recipe at once.

Free keeps 20 recipes. Personal is $19 a year, unlimited recipes for one person. Family archive is $49 a year: unlimited recipes, everyone you invite joins free, with roles and permissions. See the full comparison →

It exists to stop abuse, not to limit you. It resets every year, applies per archive, and a family adding its real recipes will not hit it.

Nothing is deleted. Everything stays readable and exportable; you just can't add new recipes until you're back.

It sits in the bin for thirty days, and we email you a full export first. After thirty days it's gone.

Always, on every plan: a single recipe or the whole archive, every scan and every note, anytime. It's yours.

To a bin, not away. Only you can empty it, and anything in it can be restored.