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Cookbo

Every recipe you cook, in one place.

Share a recipe link and Cookbo keeps the recipe and leaves the rest: the title, photo, ingredients and steps. No ads, no accounts, and your recipes stay yours as plain files.

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A recipe in Cookbo: Caramelized Tomato and Shallot Soup

See it in use

Demo video: save a recipe from Safari, then cook from itassets/media/cookbo/demo.mp4
A recipe with its photo, ingredients and steps
Sending ingredients to Reminders
Checking off steps while cooking
Editing a recipe
The cookbook, organized by category

The details

Close-up loop, 4–8 sassets/media/cookbo/closeup-1.mp4

Save from anywhere

Share a link from Safari or any app, and Cookbo pulls out just the recipe.

Close-up loop, 4–8 sassets/media/cookbo/closeup-2.mp4

Check ’em off as you shop

Send any ingredient to your Reminders grocery list.

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Never lose your place

Check off each step as you cook.

How it came together

Your recipes, your files

Cookbo is a recipe manager built for a single purpose: your recipes should belong to you. No accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud lock-in. Recipes are stored as plain Markdown files in your iCloud Drive, visible in the Files app, portable anywhere.

From link to recipe

The import flow is the fastest possible path from a recipe website to your collection: tap Share, tap Cookbo, done. The app parses ingredients, steps, times and metadata from the page automatically. From there you can edit freely: reorder steps, adjust quantities, add personal notes.

Cooking mode

Cooking mode is designed to keep your place without tapping. Ingredients check off as you go. Steps are large and scrollable. The screen stays on. Nothing in the way.

Cookbo is built with SwiftUI and runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sync happens through iCloud Drive without any server involvement. The file format is standard and legible in any text editor.

Working with AI Draft

[What you asked for, what it got wrong, what you kept. Quote a prompt.]

Process image: a sketch, an early build, a promptassets/media/cookbo/process-1.webp

The name

When I was making the icon, Apple’s Image Playground drew a book with “Cookbo” written on it, and it stuck. I also like that you can’t spell cookbook without cookbo.