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Make a personalized family cookbook out of the recipes you already have

Right now your family's recipes live in about four places: a tin box on your mother's counter, the back of an envelope, a screenshot on your phone, and somebody's memory. RecipeMemoir puts them in one place and gives that place a real address you can text to your sister.

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What it costs

Nothing today. Every part of RecipeMemoir is free while we're in beta.

What you get

A live website at recipememoir.com/u/yourname, in one of 24 styles, with a page for every recipe.

How long it takes

A Paprika export of 1,600 recipes comes in inside a few minutes. Typing index cards takes as long as typing takes.

What arrives

A link rather than a parcel. Nothing ships, so there's no delivery date to miss.

What goes in

Three ways your recipes get here

You don't have to start over. Most people arrive with a collection that's already half-digital and half-paper, and both halves come in the same way.

A Paprika export

In Paprika, choose Settings, then Export, then "Paprika Recipe Format." Drop the file on the import page and every recipe, photo, rating and category comes across. Sixteen hundred recipes takes a few minutes.

A link from anywhere

Paste the address of almost any recipe page and we save a clean copy: ingredients, steps, photo, and a link back to where it came from. Good for the ones you keep re-Googling.

Grandma's index card

Open a blank recipe, type in what the card says, and photograph the card itself so her handwriting sits on the page next to the ingredients. The "butter, enough" and the "bake till it smells right" go in the notes, in her words.

A handwritten recipe card with a butter stain in one corner, on a wooden kitchen table beside a wooden spoon
The card in the tin box is usually the one nobody has copied. That's the one to do first.

What you get back

A website with your name on it, at an address you can hand to anyone

Every recipe gets its own page with the ingredients, the steps, your photo and your notes. The collection gets a front page, a search box and category browsing, so finding the chili takes one tap instead of a scroll through a shared drive.

You pick how it looks from 24 styles across six taste families, from big-serif magazine to bright and cheerful to country. Every style previews with real recipes and real photos before you commit, and you can change your mind later without redoing anything.

Then you have an address. Send it to your kids, your cousins, the neighbor who's been asking about the enchiladas for two years. Nobody needs an account to read it and nobody needs to install anything.

About printing

There's no printed book yet

If what you want is a hardcover on a shelf, we're not there. RecipeMemoir makes a website today. A print-ready cookbook export is on our roadmap and it is not built, so please don't order this expecting something in the mail.

What does work on paper: every recipe page prints cleanly on its own, without the site wrapped around it, so you can put the pie recipe on the counter without your laptop getting flour on it. And you can export your whole collection as a JSON file any time, free, because the point of this product is that your recipes stay yours.

Price

Free right now, and here's what we're thinking for later

RecipeMemoir is in early beta. Everything is switched on and nothing charges you: the imports, all 24 styles, the nutrition data, the AI photo tools.

We've published the pricing we're considering rather than keeping it quiet. Around four dollars a month for one site, around eight for a family plan with several collections. None of it is turned on, none of it is final, and anyone testing with us now stays free for a year no matter where we land.

Questions

The things people ask before they start

Personalized, personalised, custom, personal: which one is this?

All of them. A personalised cookbook (the spelling used in the UK and Australia), a custom recipe book, a personal recipe book and a personalized family cookbook are the same thing, and this page is it. There's nothing different to buy.

What if I only have six recipes?

Then you have six recipes, and one is enough to see your site come alive. Most family cookbooks that never get made die from trying to collect everything first. Put in the ones you can remember tonight and add the rest as you pry them out of people.

Who can see my site?

Anyone you send the address to. It's a public link rather than a locked account, which is what makes it easy to share with an eighty-year-old.

Photos that came in attached to someone else's recipe belong to that site, so visitors see a friendly placeholder instead of the original. Your own photos always show. If you'd rather your family saw the originals, you can set a photo password and hand it around at dinner.

Can I fix the recipes after they're in?

Every recipe has an edit view: name, times, servings, ingredients, directions, categories, photo. Edits save to your own layer, so your version of your mother's meatloaf wins without wrecking the original import.

Can I get my recipes back out?

Yes, as a JSON file, free, whenever you want, and every imported recipe keeps its source link. Data lock-in is the thing this product exists to end, so the door out stays as easy as the door in.

Is this a gift I can give someone?

People do use it that way, and we've written up how it works for grandparents, for brand-new grandparents, and for the mom who returns everything.

Start with one recipe

Sign in with your email (no password to invent), drop in a file or type one card, and pick a look. You can see what it turns into before you decide whether to do the whole box.

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