Cook more at home.
We provide you with recipes and tools to build your personal home cooking system.
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Cook Well is built for creative home cooks. The people who want to cook more often, understand the why behind what they're doing, and feel confident making a meal their own.
Ethan Chlebowski
Founder, Cook Well
Recipes
600+ recipes & frameworks, and the why behind every one.
Every recipe is built on fundamentals you can carry to the next dish, with the video and the reasoning right there. Learn the technique, not just the steps.
- 600+ recipes & frameworks, with new ones every week
- Fundamentals and videos behind the techniques
- Frameworks teach you how to make a dish your own, with whatever's in your fridge, freezer or pantry
Your system
The tools to build your own system.
An intuitive meal planner that automatically builds grocery lists.
- Plan from your own cookbook: favorites, folders and the recipes you've cooked before
- Grocery lists that build themselves, grouped by aisle
- Check items off as you shop, from your phone
Your Library
Everything in one place
Your favorite recipes from Cook Well, the internet and your family, organized the way you cook.
- Save any recipe or framework to favorites and folders
- Import recipes from the internet, or write your own
- Everything syncs between your phone and laptop
Everything you need to cook more at home.
Free
$0
Browse our recipes.
- 300 free recipes
- Fundamentals of cooking
- Collections
- Browse on web & phone
Monthly
$9.99/mo
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
- Everything in Free
- Access to all new recipes
- 286+ frameworks
- Planner + grocery lists
- Ask Cook Well AI
- Import & custom recipes
- Cooking year & stats
- No ads, ever
Yearly
Most popular · save 30%$83.99/yr
$7 a month, billed yearly.
- Everything in Free
- Access to all new recipes
- 286+ frameworks
- Planner + grocery lists
- Ask Cook Well AI
- Import & custom recipes
- Cooking year & stats
- No ads, ever
Less than one takeout meal a month.
Everything else that comes with it.
No ads, ever
No banners, no pop-ups, no life story before the ingredients.
Let's Cook mode
Step by step, showing only the ingredients that step needs.
Curated collections
Sets built for weeknights, hosting and what's in season.
Ask Cook Well AI
Chat a week of dinners and a grocery list into existence.
Favorites and folders
Save anything, and sort it the way you think about food.
Your own recipes
Write them from scratch, with your photos and your notes.
Import from anywhere
Paste a link or a block of text and we'll pull the recipe out.
Meal plans
A full week of dinners, already planned, ready to drop into your planner.
On your phone too
Plan on the web. Cook from your phone.
Build the week on a laptop. Take the grocery list to the store and the recipe to the stove.
What home cooks say
“The Cook Well app essentially gives you the tools to build a personalized cooking system. It's incredibly flexible and actually adapts to how I cook.”
“Now, I am the one teaching others cooking techniques, such as blooming spices, and how to adapt recipes with the ingredients you have on hand. That's all thanks to Cook Well for giving me the tools.”
“I'm already a pretty proficient cook, but I do like to mix it up quite frequently and this app makes it so easy. I often search for a particular ingredient and I get a number of simple recipes to make with it — brilliant!”
Frequently asked questions
What's free?
Browsing all recipes, fundamentals, & collections is free. A membership gets you access to all frameworks, meal plans, & guides plus utility features to plan your week, build grocery lists, chat with Cook Well AI, save & organize recipes, import recipes from the internet, & more.
Do I need the mobile app?
No. Everything works in your browser at app.cookwell.com. The mobile app allows you the same functionality, but on the go.
Does it sync between my phone and laptop?
Yes. One account, one plan. Add a meal on your laptop and it shows up on the planner on your phone.
Why is this a paid app?
Building and maintaining a great app takes a dedicated team. Your subscription supports ongoing development, new recipes and frameworks added weekly, and keeps the app completely ad-free. We believe that's a better experience than free apps cluttered with ads.
Can I import my own recipes?
Yes. Import recipes from a URL or add your own from scratch, with your own photos, notes, and adjustments, so everything you cook lives in one place.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. You can cancel your plan anytime from wherever you purchased your plan. For example, if you purchased from the App Store or Google Play, you cancel from your phone's subscription settings. If you purchased on web, you cancel via Settings -> Manage Subscription.
Can I share with family?
Currently each subscription is for a single account/email. You are more than welcome to share the email on multiple devices. We're looking into better first class support for family sharing options in a future update.
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