About Cooking Together

What Cooking Together is

Cooking Together is a recipe-sharing and cooking community for home cooks. Every recipe in our library was added by a real person — friends sharing family favorites, hobbyist bakers documenting their experiments, or aspiring cooks importing dishes they saw on Instagram, TikTok, or favorite food blogs. We built Cooking Together to make it easier to keep, organize, and rediscover the recipes that matter to you, and to make sharing them with friends or a wider community feel natural.

Who it is for

Whether you are an experienced home cook with hundreds of recipes scattered across screenshots and bookmarked pages, or someone who is just starting to learn their way around a kitchen, Cooking Together is designed to grow with you. New cooks use our discovery feed and cooking mode to follow recipes step-by-step. Experienced cooks build private collections, invite friends to private communities, and document their cooking journey through cooking stories.

What makes it different

• Recipe import from anywhere. See a recipe on Instagram, TikTok, a WhatsApp message, or a food blog? Paste the link or share to Cooking Together and we turn it into a clean, structured recipe in seconds.
• A real community feed. Follow friends and chefs whose taste you trust. Their new recipes show up in your feed alongside posts from the broader Cooking Together community.
• Cooking stories that never expire. Most apps treat photos as throwaway. Our cooking stories let you document a recipe attempt — with photos, short video clips, and notes — and they stay attached to that recipe forever, so anyone who tries it later can see how it actually turned out.
• Private collections and groups. Organize recipes into your own collections, or create private communities where your family or cooking group can share recipes only with each other.
• Cook AI assistant. Search for recipes by what you have in your fridge, ask follow-up questions while you cook, or get smart recipe scaling and nutrition estimates.
• Cooking mode. Step-by-step view that keeps your screen awake, lets you check off ingredients, and adapts cleanly to phone or tablet so you can cook without flipping back and forth.

Privacy and trust

Your private recipes stay private. Recipes you mark as private are visible only to you and the specific people you share them with — they are never indexed by search engines and cannot be re-shared by others. We are clear about what we collect and why; see our Privacy Policy for the full breakdown. We do not sell your personal data.

How Cooking Together is funded

Cooking Together is free to use. The full core experience — sharing and discovering recipes, joining communities, importing recipes, basic AI search — is available without paying. We offer an optional premium subscription for power users that unlocks features like unlimited AI recipe assistance, nutrition analysis on every recipe, smart ingredient scaling, video in stories, and a premium badge on your profile. The free version is supported by occasional display ads on a small number of surfaces.

Get the app

Cooking Together is available on iPhone, iPad, and Android. The web version lets you browse and try the app, but cooking mode, recipe import, AI features, and content creation work best in the mobile apps.

Learn more

• How it works — a step-by-step walkthrough
• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Service