How Cooking Together Works

1. Create an account

Sign up with a Google account, Apple ID, Facebook, or email and password — whichever you prefer. We use your sign-in only to identify you across devices and to keep your recipes safe. There is no separate username and password to remember if you use a social login. New accounts can browse the public feed and follow recipes immediately, even before adding any of your own.

2. Import your first recipe from anywhere

One of Cooking Together's most-used features is the recipe importer. Paste a link, share a post, or upload a screenshot, and we will turn it into a structured recipe with ingredients, steps, photo, and source attribution.

• From Instagram or TikTok: tap the share button in the source app, choose Cooking Together. We extract the recipe from the post and caption.
• From a recipe website: paste the URL into the import screen. We parse structured recipe data using schema.org standards.
• From WhatsApp: the bulk WhatsApp import ingests an exported chat thread and finds every recipe in it. Great for the recipes your relatives have been forwarding for years.
• From a photo: snap or upload a photo of a printed cookbook page or handwritten card, and we read the text and build a recipe from it.

3. Discover recipes you would not have found otherwise

The home feed shows recent posts from people you follow and from the broader community, mixed with chef-curated content. You can search for recipes by name, ingredient, or what you happen to have in the fridge. Search by ingredients is especially useful for the "what can I make with these four things" problem. Recipes that interest you can be bookmarked into private collections you create — for example, "weeknight dinners", "dishes for company", or "try someday".

4. Cook with cooking mode

When you are ready to cook, open Cooking Mode. It walks you through the recipe one step at a time, keeps the screen awake, and lets you tap off ingredients as you go. You can adjust the serving size and the ingredient amounts will scale automatically. Cooking Mode also adapts to phone and tablet form factors so you can prop your device on the counter and still read every step from across the kitchen. If you are cooking more than one thing at once, multi-cook mode lets you swap between two recipes without losing your place.

5. Save what worked with cooking stories

Every recipe can have cooking stories attached to it. After you cook a recipe, snap a photo or shoot a short video clip and add notes about what you would change next time. These stories stay attached to the recipe forever, so when someone else opens that same recipe a year later, they can see how it actually turned out for real cooks. Cooking stories are also a nice way to keep a personal record of your cooking, especially recipes you make over and over.

6. Share with friends, family, and communities

Follow friends to see what they cook. Create private communities for groups that share recipes only among themselves — a great fit for families that want a shared recipe box, or friend groups doing a cooking challenge. If you want to share a recipe outside the app, every recipe has a clean shareable link that works on any device.

7. Ask the Cook AI for help

Cook AI is built into the app. Ask it to find recipes that match a craving, or while you are cooking ask it for an ingredient substitute or how to fix a sauce that is too salty. Premium users also get smart ingredient scaling and per-recipe nutrition analysis.