Honest answers, short and human.

No. forever.recipes runs entirely in the browser on a phone, tablet, or computer. After signing in, you create a binder and add recipes to it: type one, paste one, paste rough notes for an AI draft, or photograph a recipe card for an AI draft that keeps the original wording. You check every AI draft before it is saved.

Yes, that is what the free plan is for. Unlimited binders and your first ten recipes, plus up to five private drafts, 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.

A draft is a recipe you are still working on. It waits behind a grey Drafts tab at the back of your binder, visible only to you, and never appears in the shared binder or the PDF. When it is ready, put it behind a real tab. The free plan holds up to 5 drafts; on Forever Club they are unlimited.

A full-screen kitchen view of one recipe: tick off the ingredients, then follow one step at a time in large type, with the screen kept awake on devices that allow it. Open it from the Cook mode button on any recipe.

Your call, per binder. Anyone with the link means anyone with the unguessable link can read it; Private means only you. You can change it in the binder's Share panel anytime, and switching to Private takes effect immediately.

You can use browser print or PDF export for your book. The account page also provides account deletion. Stripe may retain billing and subscription records under its own obligations and policies.

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

No. forever.recipes does not print, bind, sell, or ship physical books. Browser print and PDF export are available, with a small footer on free-plan PDFs. You can take the PDF to a local or online printer you select and agree the paper, binding, quantity, price, and delivery directly with that printer.

Yes. PDF export is free for everyone: download your binder as print-ready A5 pages, with the contents, a divider for each chapter tab, and every recipe on its own sheet. Free-plan PDFs carry a small footer; Forever Club gives you the same pages clean.

A5, which is 148 by 210 mm (about 5.8 by 8.3 inches), one binder page per PDF page. It is not a standard US paper size, so ask your printer to print on larger paper and trim, and to punch the pages for your ring binder.

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. Refund requests are handled case by case at [email protected]. Details are on the refunds page.

No catch, just limits stated up front. The free plan includes unlimited binders, 10 published recipes across them, up to 5 private drafts, 3 AI drafts a day, and a small footer on the PDF. Forever Club is $3.90 a week, $9.90 a month or $89.90 a year for unlimited recipes, 20 AI drafts a day and a PDF without the footer.

AI features are optional. When you request an AI draft, the submitted notes or photo are sent to OpenRouter for processing under its current terms and privacy policy. You can enter and edit recipes without using an AI draft.