Cookpad

Cookpad Cookpad is a home cooking community for food lovers. Explore thousands of highly rated recipes, search by ingredients, save favorites, and get daily personalized recommendations.

Cookpad

Cookpad is a home-cooking community made for people who love making meals. It helps you learn how to prepare a wide range of everyday dishes, and it also lets you share your own favorite recipes with other users. You can earn likes and gain downloads as your recipes get attention.

You can search for recipes by ingredients, so you can quickly find what you want to cook. Cookpad can also suggest daily recipes and then narrow them down based on dietary preferences, the cooking tools you use, and different cooking methods. As you spend more time in the app, it learns from your reading and can recommend even more relevant recipes to match your cooking needs.

Key Features

• Endless meal inspiration: The app draws from thousands of highly rated recipes, and many of them are grouped by cooking or preparation style.
• Global culinary exploration: Discover recipes from many cuisines and learn new ways to work with ingredients through different techniques.
• Smart ingredient search: Use what you have—especially ingredients left in your refrigerator—to find tasty options while helping you save money.
• Centralized recipe collection: Recipes that fit your needs are separated into organized categories, making it easier to explore dishes you might not have tried before.
• Effortless meal planning: In current versions, the app can suggest menus using real data, helping you try new ideas you may otherwise miss.

App Highlights

• Personalized recipe collection & organization: Save all your favorite recipes—no matter where they come from—into one searchable place.
• Discover and filter recipes widely: Explore millions of recipes from a global community, with options that suit different diets and cooking methods.
• Ad-free cooking experience: Enjoy cooking without interruptions from ads.



• Community sharing & engagement: Share your cooking, connect with other home cooks, and follow creators for more inspiration.
• AI-powered recipe management: Use AI tools to digitize handwritten recipes and help you write new ones, so important details aren’t lost.

User Reviews

“I’ve tried many cooking apps, and some are basically clickbait—pushing you to external sites full of ads, or burying recipes in overly long stories. Cookpad is exactly what it claims to be: search by ingredients or recipes, view results clearly, save what’s good, and share your own with the community. Simple, classic, and not intrusive.”

“I’ve used this app for a long time and it was really helpful. Recently I couldn’t open it, and when it started working again it had switched regions to England. I panicked because I couldn’t find my favorite Japanese recipes. I finally realized I could change the region in the settings. Now I can enjoy English recipes in the English region (with English language) and Japanese recipes in the Japanese region.”

“This app is great! I can search for the recipes I need and they show up consistently. You can also add people, make friends, and create anything you can imagine—from breakfast and snacks to lunch, dinner, and even desserts. That’s why I think it’s such a great app.”

“I use Cookpad in Japanese, English, and Indonesian, and each language generates different recipe ideas. In all three regions, Cookpad has a huge recipe library, and I’ll keep using it.”

FAQs

What is the Cookpad Premium service?

Cookpad Premium helps you find the most popular recipes in the app. “Most popular” means recipes that thousands of users have cooked and enjoyed over the years.

How can I browse recipes from other countries?

To browse and search for recipes posted by authors in other countries, open Settings, tap Region, then choose a country and language from the list. If you save recipes while searching in another country, those saved items will show up in the saved section of your collection.

What is my recipe collection, and how do I create one?

After you create an account, you can build a personal recipe collection by saving recipes from other users, writing your own recipes, or sending cooksnaps. You can also organize your saved recipes into folders to find them faster.

How do I write my own recipes?

To create your own recipe, tap the orange “+” button.