// Plain text recipe manager

Your recipe collection.
In one editor.

Cook Editor is a desktop app for writing, previewing, and planning meals from your .cook files. With CookBot AI assistance built in.

Cook Editor showing a recipe preview with shopping list sidebar
Cook Editor code view with syntax-highlighted Cooklang

Write in plain Cooklang

Syntax highlighting, inline validation, and autocomplete for ingredients and cookware. Your recipes stay as .cook text files — diffable, git-friendly, future-proof.

Cook Editor preview with shopping list grouped by aisle

Beautiful preview. Shopping list included.

One click turns your .cook file into a scaled, chip-tagged recipe view. Select multiple recipes and Cook Editor builds a combined shopping list, grouped by aisle.

Cook Editor showing a multi-day meal plan rendered from a .menu file

Meal plans in a single file

.menu files link recipes across days and meals. Scale by household size, see the week at a glance, and let the shopping list flow from the plan.

---
servings: 2
time: 25 min
---

Preheat the #oven{180°C}

Mix @flour{200%g} with
@eggs{3} and
@whole milk{250%ml}.

Bake for ~{25%minutes}.

Plain text files. Yours forever.

Every recipe and menu is a text file on your disk. No database. No lock-in. Readable in any editor in fifty years.

AI Assistant

CookBot, built in

The AI assistant lives in a sidebar. It can read your collection, import recipes from URLs, and draft meal plans — writing changes directly to your files with your approval. Included with Cookbot Pro.

See pricing →

Edit on your laptop.
Cook from your phone.

Cook Editor plays nicely with the Cooklang apps for iPhone and Android. Your collection and shopping list stay in sync, so you can tick items off at the store while someone else preps at home.

iOS app showing cookbooks list
Android app shopping list grouped by aisle
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Pricing

Simple pricing.

Cook Editor

Free
  • Full editor with syntax highlighting
  • Recipe preview and scaling
  • Shopping lists by aisle
  • .menu meal plans
  • Works with iOS & Android apps
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Your recipes. Plain text.
One editor.