RecipeSesame
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Your personal cookbook

Unlock your
recipes.

Save recipes before they disappear, and keep them ready to plan, shop and cook.

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Free. No ads. Stored in the EU.

The RecipeSesame Home screen with sample recipes.

Save from anywhere

Recipes from real life.

Save from a website, YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, snap a cookbook page, or paste a friend's message. RecipeSesame makes it one clear recipe.

Handwritten Waffeln recipe on a notebook page
The real handwritten source for the Waffeln recipe shown beside it.
Waffeln: the owner’s handwritten recipe, presented in the real recipe view.

A smoother way to cook

From recipes
to real meals.

Plan your week, make a shopping list, and cook with everything in one place.

Plan

Make room for your recipes in the week ahead.

Shop

Gather the ingredients in one shopping list.

Cook

Follow your recipe, one clear step at a time.

Sample recipe data: plan, shop and cook

Cook. Note. Improve.

Recipes that get
better with you.

Note what worked and what you’d change. Turn those notes into suggested edits for next time. You decide what to keep.

Sample recipe data: cooking notes and edits

Plan a gathering

Potlucks without
the group chat
chaos.

Share one link and let everyone add what they’re bringing. No account needed for guests.

Remember who you cook for: who loved which recipe, and the allergies to plan around.

Sample people and gathering data: Maria likes the spring green salad and is bringing it to Saturday dinner. Her dietary information is a planning reminder.

The small print

Built to stay out of your way.

Install it from your browser, choose metric or imperial units, and keep your attention on the food.

Read offline

Keep reading recipes you’ve already opened, even without a connection.

Installable app

Add it to your phone or desktop. No app store needed.

EU data storage

Your account and recipes are stored in Frankfurt, Germany.

No ads or trackers

No advertising, tracking cookies or third-party analytics.

A personal project

I built RecipeSesame because I wanted one calm place for the recipes I actually cook, and I decided to share it with others.

RecipeSesame is free.

If a paid option ever exists, everyone already using it keeps what they have at no cost.

Your recipes, ready when you are.

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Screens show the app with sample recipes and AI-generated food images.