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Found something good on a food blog, your supermarket’s website or Pinterest? Tap share and it’s saved with the ingredients, the steps and the photos. No ads, no life story.
Recipe collection & weekly meal planner
Every recipe you love, from every site, in one place
Save recipes from food blogs, Allrecipes, Pinterest and your supermarket’s recipe pages into one tidy collection. Plan the week with your partner, then shop together from one live grocery list that keeps you focused and on budget.
Free to start. No credit card needed.
iPhone & iPad Android Web
Chicken Chili
Saved from a food blog
Burrito Bowls
Saved from Kroger
5 dinners planned
24 groceries · about $62 this week
Save recipes from anywhere you already find them
Your favorite food blogsAllrecipesNYT CookingFood NetworkBon AppétitPinterestYouTubeTikTokInstagram
Kroger recipesWalmart recipesWhole Foods MarketTrader Joe's recipesH-E-B recipesTargetPublix recipesGrandma’s recipe cards
How it works
Collect from everywhere. Plan once. Shop once.
Your recipes come from ten different places. Your dinner plan and your grocery list shouldn’t.
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2Plan
Mix a blog dinner with a supermarket favorite and grandma’s lasagna. Drop them into your week and see what the week will cost.
3Shop
Get one grocery list for the whole week, with every ingredient merged and sorted by aisle. One trip, nothing forgotten, nothing extra.
Try it yourself
Build a week from eight different sites
Tap recipes to add them to your week. Watch the grocery list merge and the estimated cost update, then drag the budget to see what fits.
Estimated groceries
$41.20
$18.80 left of your $60.00 weekly budget
Cooking for
18 ingredients from 3 recipes, merged into 15 lines
Better together
Plan the week together. Shop together, live.
Share your recipe collection with your partner, pick this week’s dinners side by side and split up the shopping. Whatever one of you checks off in the store disappears from the other’s list the same second.
Two phones, one live grocery listOne shared recipe collection
Your food blog finds and their supermarket favorites end up in the same collection, ready for either of you to cook.
Plan dinners side by side
Either of you can add a dinner to the week, and the grocery list updates on both phones.
Split up and shop faster
One grabs the produce, the other the pantry. Checked-off items sync live, so nobody buys the same thing twice.
Groceries
YYou · at home
Groceries
EEmma · at the store
Tap an item on either phone and watch the other one update.
Focused shopping
Walk in with a plan, walk out on budget
Most overspending happens in the aisles: the extra jar you already have, the snack that wasn’t on the list, the second trip for the one thing you forgot.
Shopping without a plan- Buying what looks good instead of what you need
- Doubles of things already in the pantry
- A second trip for the forgotten ingredient
- No idea what the week will cost
Shopping with CookBird- One list built from the meals you planned
- Ingredients merged across every recipe
- Everything in aisle order, one trip
- An estimated total before you leave home
An example week
5
dinners from 4 different sites
31
ingredients merged into 22 lines
$62
estimated groceries for 4 people
1
trip to the store
Spend less, waste less
More ways your collection keeps the grocery bill down
Cook with what you already have
Search your whole collection by the ingredients in your fridge before you buy anything new.
Plan leftovers on purpose
Cook once, eat twice. The grocery list accounts for it.
Sorted by aisle
Produce, dairy, pantry. Walk the store once.
One list for the whole household
Whoever goes to the store sees the same list, and everyone at home sees items get checked off.
Cost per serving
See which dinners are the budget-friendly ones.
Scale for your household
Cooking for 2 or 6? The list adjusts.
No duplicate buys
Shared ingredients show up once, with the total.
Compare
One collection beats ten bookmarks and a supermarket app
| CookBird | Bookmarks & screenshots | One supermarket’s app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipes from any website | Only that store | ||
| Clean recipe without ads | |||
| Weekly meal plan | Sometimes | ||
| One merged grocery list | Only that store | ||
| Estimated cost of your week | Sometimes | ||
| Shop together with a live shared list | |||
| iPhone, Android & web | Varies | Varies |
Planning is the main event for you? See the meal planner app.
FAQ
Questions about collecting recipes and planning on a budget
How do I save recipes from different websites in one place?
Tap share on any recipe page (or paste the link) and choose CookBird. The recipe is saved to your collection with its ingredients, steps and photos, whether it came from a food blog, Allrecipes, Pinterest or your supermarket’s recipe pages.
Can I save recipes from supermarket websites like Kroger or Whole Foods?
Yes. Recipe pages from supermarkets work just like food blogs and recipe sites, so your store’s weekly recipes can sit right next to everything else in your collection.
How does a meal plan help me stick to a grocery budget?
When you plan the week first, you only buy what those meals need. CookBird shows an estimated total before you shop, merges ingredients that appear in several recipes and lets you swap a pricier dinner for a cheaper one.
Does CookBird combine ingredients from different recipes?
Yes. If three recipes from three different sites all need garlic, your grocery list has one garlic line that shows it’s used in three recipes.
Can I see what my week of meals will cost?
Yes. Every recipe shows an estimated cost per serving, and your meal plan adds it up for the number of people you’re cooking for.
What happens if a recipe website goes offline?
Nothing happens to your recipe. Once it’s in your collection, it’s saved in CookBird, with a link back to the original page.
Can my partner or family use the same grocery list?
Yes. Share your collection, meal plan and grocery list with your household. Items checked off in the store update on everyone’s phone.
Can my partner and I shop at the same time from one list?
Yes. Split up in the store and shop from the same grocery list. When one of you checks off an item, it’s checked off on the other’s phone right away, so nothing gets bought twice.
Can I share my recipe collection with my partner?
Yes. Invite your partner and you can both save recipes to the same collection, plan the week together and see the same grocery list.
Does CookBird work on iPhone, Android and the web?
Yes. Save recipes on your phone, plan the week on your laptop and shop from the list on any device. Everything stays in sync.
Is CookBird free?
You can start your recipe collection for free. No credit card needed.
This week, cook what you saved
Bring your recipes together, plan five dinners and shop once. Free on iPhone, Android and the web.