The family recipe binder

Your family recipes,
made into a book.

Every recipe that earns its place gets its own sheet in a ring binder: chapter tabs, your notes in the margin, a cook mode for the stove. Share it by link, then print the A5 PDF wherever you like.

A fictional sample binder, typeset live by the real reader. Open it full screen

One sheet per recipeOnline and print-readyPrivate by defaultYour printer, your choice
Why a binder

Filed like index cards, kept like treasure

Every recipe you keep gets its own sheet, written in your words, with your notes in the margin. The book grows one sheet at a time.

No. 01

A sheet for every recipe

Type a recipe or paste it in. It is set on its own A5 sheet, in the same clean layout every time, and filed behind its tab.

No. 02

Notes in your own voice

"Nonna's rule: room-temperature tomatoes." Those little warnings and victories are set in a handwritten style, right on the sheet.

No. 03

Chapter tabs and cook mode

Name your tabs, pick their colours, and jump straight to a chapter. At the stove, cook mode shows one step at a time in big type.

No. 04

Draft it from rough notes

While signed in, snap a recipe card or paste rough notes to get an editable draft sheet. Nothing is saved until you have checked it.

A peek inside

Straight from “From Nonna's Kitchen”

Three sheets from the sample binder. The notes are the best part.

How it works

A clear path from recipe to book

1Gather

Collect your greatest hits. Ten recipes make a lovely binder; forty make a family heirloom.

2File

Pick a cloth, write the title on the label, name a few tabs. Each recipe you add gets its own sheet, filed behind its tab.

3Hold it

Share the binder by link, cook from it in cook mode, and download a print-ready A5 PDF for any local or online printer you trust.

Still gathering? Estimate your cookbook pages first →

See it in the app

From Grandma's card to a binder you can cook from

  1. Phone screen of the app: a handwritten recipe card for Nonna's minestrone, photographed and ready to be read
    Snap the cardPhotograph Grandma's handwritten card and we draft the recipe for you.
  2. Phone screen of the app: the drafted minestrone recipe with highlighted ingredients and steps, and two notes asking to check a smudged line
    Check the draftEvery line is highlighted, the unsure ones say why, and nothing is saved until you agree.
  3. Phone screen of the app: the binder open on the Ciambellone sheet behind the Sweet things tab, with its photo, ingredients, and a Cook button
    Cook from the binderEach recipe gets its own sheet behind a coloured tab, with cook mode for the stove.
  4. Phone screen of the app: the Share panel with Anyone with the link selected, a QR code, the link to copy, and a PDF download
    Share it, print itSend the link or the QR code, or download the A5 PDF for any printer.

Real screens from the app, showing a fictional sample binder.

What you receive

One binder, two useful formats

A living binder online

Keep adding sheets from any device. When you want to share, switch the binder to Anyone with the link and send the link or its QR code.

Print-ready A5 PDF

Download the whole binder as A5 pages: contents, chapter dividers and every recipe, typeset the same way as on screen.

Your printer, your choice

Take the PDF to any local or online printer and choose the paper, the punching or binding, and the quantity.

Cloth & tabs

Pick a cloth, write on the label

Four cloths, a metal label holder you write on, and coloured tabs for your chapters. Print the PDF with the paper and binding you prefer.

See more binders in the gallery →

Good to know

Questions, answered

Is my data private?

Your recipes are yours. Every binder is private until you share it. We never sell your content or use it to train models. Export or delete everything anytime.

How does printing work?

Download your binder as a print-ready A5 PDF. PDF export is free with a small footer on every page; Forever Club removes it. You then print with any local or online printer you choose.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Forever Club is month-to-month (or weekly/annual). Cancel in one click and keep your first 10 recipes free forever.

Do you use AI?

Only to create an editable draft from rough notes or a recipe-card photo, never to invent recipes or rewrite your voice.

More on the full FAQ.

Free to start (10 recipes). Forever Club from $3.90/week. See pricing