Every recipe, one safe place

A recipe keeper that becomes your cookbook

Stop losing recipes to screenshots, bookmarks, and chat history. Keep them all in one private place, and here's the twist: every recipe you keep is already a sheet in your future book.

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The Bake Book

Butter solves most things

Nadia K.

Biscuits

RECIPENo. 05

Biscuits

Shortbread fingers

50 minServes 18

Ingredients

250 g soft butter
110 g caster sugar
300 g plain flour
60 g rice flour

Method

1Beat the butter and sugar together until just smooth.
2Work in both flours to a soft dough.
3Press into a lined tin, prick all over and chill for 20 minutes.

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A fictional sample binder, “The Bake Book”: its cover and the opening page of a recipe.

Keep everything

However a recipe reaches you, it can stay

Type a recipe, paste it, snap the card or paste rough notes for an AI draft. Whichever way it arrives, it becomes one sheet in your binder, and nothing is saved until you have checked it.

Type or paste

Copy a recipe from a blog, a PDF or an email thread and paste it in. It becomes a tidy sheet behind the tab you choose.

Photograph a card

Snap grandma's index card or a magazine clipping and AI drafts it into a clean recipe. 3 drafts a day, free.

Paste rough notes

Paste a messy note from your phone and AI sorts it into title, ingredients and steps. You review every line before saving.

Collect from the group chat

Copy a recipe from the family chat, then paste it into the signed-in recipe form and review it before saving.

Find it in seconds

Organized like a book, not a drawer

A keeper is only useful the day you need that one soup recipe before guests arrive. So everything has a place.

Chapters that make sense

Soups, Sundays, things-the-kids-actually-eat: file every recipe behind a coloured chapter tab instead of one endless scroll.

A binder per part of your life

Weeknight dinners, the holiday binder, the sourdough experiments. Each gets its own binder with its own tabs.

Private by default

Your keeper is yours. Nothing is shared unless you switch a binder to Anyone with the link and send its unguessable link.

Unlimited binders, free

Free means free: unlimited binders, 10 recipes, 3 AI drafts a day. No card, no trial clock.

Free recipe keeper app

A free recipe keeper, with the limits up front

forever.recipes runs in your phone's browser, so there is no app store download. The free plan keeps 10 recipes in unlimited binders, plus up to 5 private drafts, with 3 AI drafts a day and a small footer on the PDF.

It is built for family recipes, not for everything a recipe app can do: it does not import recipes from websites or social media, and it has no meal planner or grocery list. If you need those, Paprika, Recipe Keeper, ReciMe or Mela may suit you better. We compared all five, with prices and sources, in the best recipe keeper apps in 2026.

And one day, it's a book

The upgrade other keepers can't offer

Most recipe keepers end at the screen. Yours becomes a living online binder with a print-ready PDF for any printer.

1Already laid out

The recipes you kept are not a pile of notes: each is already a sheet, behind its tab, with its photo and tidy typesetting.

2Pick a cloth

Choose the cloth and write the title on the label, then share the binder or export its print-ready PDF as a gift.

3Print or share

Export a print-ready A5 PDF, cook from it in cook mode, or just send the link. The keeper keeps growing either way.

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Good to know

Quick questions

Is the recipe keeper really free?

Yes. The free plan includes unlimited binders and your first 10 recipes, with 3 AI drafts a day. No card is required and the free plan does not expire.

Is it an app I have to install?

No. forever.recipes runs entirely in the browser: nothing to download or update. It works on your phone, tablet, and laptop, and your recipes are always there when you sign in.

Can I export my recipes?

Yes. Your recipes are yours: download the whole binder as a print-ready A5 PDF, free. Forever Club removes the small footer, and you can use any local or online printer. No lock-in.

What happens when I reach 10 recipes?

Nothing dramatic. You keep reading, cooking from, and sharing everything you already saved, forever, free. New sheets wait as private drafts (up to 5) until you make room or join Forever Club, which unlocks unlimited recipes and 20 AI drafts a day.