A cookbook you can talk to.

Keep the recipes that only live in someone’s head. Say them out loud, the way you’d tell a friend, and Bookcook writes them down. Then cook from them with your hands free.

Open the app

Free, with nothing to sign up for. Your recipes stay on your device.

Tell it the way you’d tell a friend.

Bookcook asks one question at a time and writes down what you say. Ingredients land in the right place as you say them, and times become timers. You check it all before it’s saved.

  1. What’s this dish called?
  2. Whose recipe is this?
  3. How many people does it feed?
  4. Tell me the ingredients, one at a time.
  5. Now the steps. What do you do first?
  6. Any tips for someone making this?
  7. Who taught you this?

Tell me the ingredients, one at a time.

What Bookcook hears

Amount
2 cups
Ingredient
basmati rice
Note
washed

Or tap one to say it

Mom’s Chicken Biryani, so far

    Cook with busy hands.

    One step at a time, in type you can read from across the kitchen. Each step is read to you, and Bookcook listens while you cook, so floury fingers never touch the screen.

    Say it, or tap it

    Step 1 of 5

    Use the arrow keys, or tap a timeTap a time to start a timer

      Mom, on her chicken biryani

      “My mother, every Sunday. I learned by watching her hands, not measuring.”

      Her name on every recipe.

      From Mom’s kitchen, from Dad’s, from Grandma’s. The cook stays part of the dish.

      Her voice, kept.

      Voice notes stay with the recipe, so you can still hear how she says it.

      Her words, never corrected.

      The story and everything said around the recipe are saved word for word, as “In her words”.

      Ask for the one you’re missing.

      Send a request link to whoever knows it. They answer by telling it, and the recipe comes back to your cookbook.

      Sam would love to learn your apple pie. Tell it in Bookcook:

      A recipe request: Apple pie

      bookcook.pages.dev

      9:41

      Big type. Five looks. Light or dark.

      Made for the cook in reading glasses: three text sizes up to Huge, high contrast, and a word on every button. Try it. This page grows too.

      Text size
      Look
      Light or dark
      Close Ingredients
      2Step 2 of 5 Listening
      Rice6:58

      Boil the rice with the cardamom and bay leaf until it’s about three-quarters done, around 6:58 left, then drain.

      Back Read Next

      On the phone, the tablet and the computer.

      Open it in any browser and install it to use it offline, or get the Android or Windows app. Prop the tablet by the stove, plan the week on the computer.

      Bookcook on a computer: the cookbook with Mom’s Chicken Biryani open.
      Bookcook on a tablet: cook mode with the ingredients beside the step.
      Bookcook on a phone: the recipe page for Mom’s Chicken Biryani.

      Yours, and only yours.

      • No account to make.
      • No server holding your recipes.
      • No AI, and no paid services.
      • No ads, no tracking.
      • No streaks, no nagging.

      It all lives on your device.

      Recipes, photos and voice notes stay on your phone or computer, not on someone else’s.

      Share it as a link.

      The recipe travels inside the link itself. Whoever opens it can add it to their own Bookcook.

      Back it all up.

      Save everything to a file you keep, photos and voice notes included.

      Open source.

      Every line is public, under the MIT licence. Read the source on GitHub.

      Start with one recipe.

      The one you’d hate to lose.

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      • Works in any modern browser. Install it from the browser menu to use it offline.
      • Talking works best in Chrome and Edge. Typing works everywhere.