Save a recipe, and you have dinner.Share it, and you keep a tradition alive.
Recipes We Share is the private, year-round cookbook app for your whole family—built for weeknight dinners, handwritten heirlooms, and social recipe finds. And Thanksgiving is the perfect moment to start yours: invite everyone coming to dinner to add the recipe for the dish they’re bringing, creating lasting connections that grow all year long.
Available for iOS, Android, and web
Spiced Heirloom Apple Pie
Contributed by Grandma Rose • Made every Thanksgiving since 1974
Original handwritten card attached
AI digitized • Preserves Grandma’s original handwriting
Why Families Start Their Cookbook At Thanksgiving
The whole family is already in one room talking about food.
Most families mean to gather their recipes “someday.” Thanksgiving makes it effortless: everyone is bringing their signature dish, stories are being told around the table, and a single holiday meal becomes the start of a shared cookbook you’ll use for years.
Invite everyone to add the dish they’re bringing
Make this Thanksgiving special before the table is even set. Ask everyone coming to dinner to add their recipe—so every dish on the table becomes the first chapter of your shared family cookbook.
Scan Grandma’s cards while you’re together
While the family is gathered in the kitchen, snap photos of handwritten recipe cards and clippings. AI turns them into clean, searchable recipes and keeps the original handwriting attached forever.
Scale servings & cook hands-free
Hosting 14 instead of 6? Scale any recipe with one tap. Cook Mode highlights adjusted ingredient amounts inline and runs step-by-step timers so nothing burns while you visit with family.
Much Bigger Than One Holiday
Start at Thanksgiving. Use it every week of the year.
Thanksgiving is just the kickoff. Once your family cookbook is set up, it becomes your everyday kitchen companion for busy Tuesday nights, Sunday dinners, grocery runs, and every holiday ahead.
Save recipes from anywhere
Import everyday recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, food blogs, or cookbooks into your personal shelf—then share the true keepers with the family.
Weekly Meal Planner & nutrition
Plan your household’s breakfasts, lunches, and dinners on a shared calendar with automatic per-serving calories and macros calculated for every recipe.
Live shared grocery list
Turn your meal plan or any recipe into a categorized shopping list. Two people at the grocery store can check off items together in real time on their phones.
Collections, notes & Memory Gallery
Organize collections for Christmas Baking, Summer Grilling, Quick Weeknights, or Kids’ Favorites—complete with family stories, tips, and table photos.
Preserved with the recipe
“These cards have been through forty years of family dinners.”
The original handwritten card remains permanently attached to the recipe, so your family keeps both the handwriting and the step-by-step directions.
Preserve More Than Ingredients
Keep the handwriting. Keep making the recipe.
A family recipe isn’t just a list of ingredients. It’s Grandma’s cursive in the margin, Dad’s secret spice adjustment, and the dish everyone asks for whenever they come home.
- Let AI do the typing: Snap a photo of any handwritten card, recipe binder cutout, or magazine clipping. We convert it into an editable, searchable recipe in seconds.
- Remember who made it: Credit recipes to parents, grandparents, and aunts so everyone knows whose famous dish they are cooking.
- Keep the original card: Even after editing ingredients or serving sizes, the original photo stays attached right alongside the recipe text.
Everyday Recipe Imports
From “I saved this” to “we make this.”
Recipes shouldn’t disappear into screenshots and bookmarks. Whether it’s a quick weeknight pasta from TikTok, a salad on Instagram, or a holiday bake from a blog—save new finds to your personal shelf, then share the keepers in your family cookbook.
Import recipe links from
- TikTok
- YouTube
- Websites
One Annual Subscription Covers Everyone
Invite up to 20—or 50—family members all year long.
Everyone gets their own personal login for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and every weeknight dinner of the year—no sharing passwords or asking relatives to buy their own subscription.
Free Plan
To try with a small household
Start saving recipes and test the app before inviting the extended family.
What’s included:
- Up to 3 household members
- Up to 20 recipes
- AI recipe card extraction & Cook Mode
- Weekly Meal Planner & shared grocery list
Family Plan
14-day free trial • Cancel anytime
Start this Thanksgiving with parents, siblings, aunts, and cousins—and cook together all year.
Everything in Free, plus:
- Up to 20 family members (separate logins included)
- Up to 200 recipes for holidays & everyday dinners
- Recipe Collections: Holidays, weeknights & family favorites
- Living Memory Gallery: Table photos, stories & comments
- Priority support all year round
$79/year after 14-day trial • Less than $4/year per family member
Legacy Plan
For large extended families
Unite multiple generations and households across the entire family tree.
Everything in Family, plus:
- Up to 50 family members across every generation
- Up to 500 recipes for multi-branch archives
- Full Memory Gallery & unlimited family notes
- Early access to new family features
A Living Gift For The Whole Family
Give up to 20—or 50—relatives a shared family cookbook they use all year
Unlike a static printout that goes out of date the moment it is made, your subscription gifts the entire extended family a year-round kitchen home. Parents, siblings, cousins, and grandkids get their own login to add the dishes they bring, plan weekly meals, share holiday photos, and stay connected through Thanksgiving, Christmas, and every dinner in between.
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
How Recipes We Share works for Thanksgiving dinner and every week of the year.
Is Recipes We Share only for Thanksgiving, or do families use it all year?
Recipes We Share is a complete, year-round family cookbook and everyday kitchen app. Thanksgiving is simply the best moment to kick yours off because everyone is together talking about food. Once your family is in, you use it all 365 days of the year for weeknight dinners, weekly meal planning, shared grocery lists, social recipe imports, Christmas baking, and summer cookouts.
How does inviting everyone coming to Thanksgiving work?
You send a simple invite link to everyone coming to dinner. Each family member creates their own login (no separate subscription or credit card needed) and adds the recipe for the dish they are bringing—along with the story or family note behind it. After Thanksgiving, they keep that login to share recipes all year.
Does each family member need their own paid subscription?
No. One subscription covers your whole family all year long. On the Family Plan, up to 20 relatives get their own private login—or up to 50 relatives on the Legacy Plan. You subscribe once, and your parents, siblings, cousins, and kids join for free.
Why gift a living family cookbook subscription instead of a printed book?
A printed book stops growing the day it is printed. A Recipes We Share subscription is a living service for 20 to 50 family members: relatives keep saving weeknight finds from TikTok or Instagram, attaching holiday photos to the Memory Gallery, planning weekly meals, and cooking together from their phones all year long.
Can we scan Grandma’s old handwritten recipe cards?
Yes. Simply photograph any handwritten card, binder page, or magazine clipping with your phone camera. Our AI transcription extracts the ingredients and steps into a clean, editable recipe while keeping the original photo and handwriting permanently attached.
Can we import everyday recipes from TikTok, Instagram, or food blogs?
Yes. Anyone in your family can save recipe links from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, or any recipe website into their personal recipe shelf for weeknight cooking, then share the keepers to the family cookbook.
How does the 14-day free trial work?
You can start a 14-day free trial of the Family Plan or Legacy Plan with zero risk. Invite everyone coming to Thanksgiving, test AI card scanning, Cook Mode, and the weekly Meal Planner in your kitchen, and cancel anytime before the trial ends.
Is our family cookbook private?
Yes. Your family cookbook is private by default. Only the relatives and guests you explicitly invite can view your recipes, family notes, and photos. We never sell your data or display outside ads.
Save a recipe. Share a tradition.
Start your family cookbook this Thanksgiving—and enjoy it all year long.
Invite everyone coming to dinner to add the recipe for the dish they’re bringing, then keep cooking, planning, and sharing together every week of the year.
14-day trial of Family features • Covers up to 20–50 family members • Available on iPhone, Android, and web