Honest answers, short and human.

No. forever.recipes runs entirely in the browser — phone, tablet, or computer — so your book is always the current version with nothing to update. If you like chatting your recipes in, the Telegram bot lets you forward voice notes and photos of recipe cards straight into your book, but it is an extra doorway, not a requirement.

Yes — that is what the free plan is for. Unlimited books and your first ten recipes, with three AI drafts a day, no card and no trial clock. You only meet Forever Club pricing if your family outgrows ten recipes or you want the PDF export without the small free-plan footer.

Your call, per book. Public means anyone with the unguessable link can read it; private means only you. You can flip the switch in the book settings anytime, and flipping to private takes effect immediately.

Anytime. Print to PDF from the browser, export the PDF, or write to [email protected] and we will send you everything we hold: books, recipes, and photos. Deleting your account deletes the data with it.

Only people you share the book link with, and only if the book is public. Photos live in private object storage and are served through the app; there is no public gallery, no feed, no discovery page.

No, we deliberately leave the printing to printers. Browser print and PDF export are free for everyone, with a small footer on free-plan PDFs, and Forever Club makes the PDF clean and print-ready — take either to any local or online print shop and choose the paper, binding, and quantity yourself. Your local shop will do a nicer clothbound job than a one-size-fits-all mailer.

Yes. Browser print and PDF export are free for everyone: the editorial view is built to come out of a printer looking like a real book, one recipe per page. Free-plan PDFs carry a small footer; Forever Club gives you the same pages clean.

Nothing dramatic. You keep full access until the end of the paid period, then you glide back to the free plan. Your books stay readable and editable forever; only the club extras (unlimited recipes, bigger AI allowance, clean PDF export) pause.

Subscriptions renew automatically and you can cancel anytime from the customer portal; you keep the club until the period ends. Refunds are handled case by case at [email protected], and if you are in the EU you have the usual 14-day withdrawal right. Details on the refunds page.

No catch, just a sized plate: unlimited books, 10 recipes across them, 3 AI drafts a day. Many families never need more. If yours does, the club is priced like a baguette a week.

No. When you ask for an AI draft, what you submit is processed by OpenRouter to produce that one answer, under their policy (no training on your data). Nothing is sold, nothing is shared, and the app works completely fine if you never touch the AI features.