The recipe app we wanted for ourselves
No ads and with your privacy respected. CookNest is an independent project with a single obsession: that no good recipe ever gets lost.
- Average rating
- 4.8 Average rating
- Users
- 150k+ Users
- Recipes saved
- +1.5M Recipes saved
Those who've cooked CookNest
Those who dream up, design and build CookNest every day.
Carles
Founder & development
Founder of CookNest. Brings it to life with code, sets the product direction and replies personally when you email support.
Miglė
Migle StudioDesign & brand
Product and brand designer. Shapes CookNest's identity and makes sure every screen feels warm and easy to use.
How CookNest started
Like a lot of people, I had my best recipes scattered across screenshots, phone notes, loose papers and links I could never find again. No app convinced me: they were either full of ads or a catch-all mess.
So I decided to build the one I was missing: a place to keep them all, with no noise, that felt as cosy as the family recipe book. With Miglė on design, CookNest took shape.
More than 150,000 people use it today, but the idea is still the same: an independent app, cared for in detail, that we use every day ourselves. If a feature doesn't convince us, it doesn't ship.
— Carles, Founder
“I didn't want another app. I wanted the place where I'd keep my own recipes.”
Built for what a recipe really means
A recipe isn't just a list of ingredients: it's the voice of whoever taught it to you, an afternoon in the kitchen, a memory. That's why we look after details other apps don't even consider.
The voice that tells it
Dictate a recipe and CookNest keeps the recording of your mum, your dad or your grandma explaining it, not just the text.
The recipes of a lifetime
Snap a photo of the family notebook and digitize it to keep it intact, generation after generation.
To share and pass on
Family collections and printed books to gift and preserve what brings you together.
Why you can trust CookNest
We're not a big company. We're a small team, obsessed with looking after every detail.
No ads, ever
We don't sell your attention. Cooking is for enjoying, not for dodging banners and pop-ups.
Real privacy
Your recipes are yours. We don't sell them or hand them to anyone for advertising.
Never locked in
You can export your recipes whenever you want. No hostage-taking, no fine print: if you leave, you take them with you.
You talk to the maker
No call centres, no canned replies. Behind support, it's actually us.
