Cook:RE keeps your recipes on your device. There is no account to create, no profile, and no feed. This page describes every case where data leaves your iPhone.
What stays on your device
Your library — recipes, edits, notes, tags, collections, measurement preferences, and timers — is stored locally on your iPhone and included in your own iCloud or local device backups. We cannot read it, unless you connect an AI assistant (see below).
What leaves your device
Recipe import. When you share a recipe in from a website, an app, or a photo, the page content or image is sent to our import service so it can be turned into structured ingredients and steps. The result comes back to your phone and is stored there. Import requests are processed and not retained as part of a user profile. Photos and PDFs are read by our text-recognition provider, which keeps them for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring and then deletes them. They are not linked to you.
An AI assistant, if you connect one. Connecting ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another assistant (an experimental feature, set up from Preferences → Assistant) makes Cook:RE keep a copy of your recipes on its server, hosted by Cloudflare, so the assistant can read and edit them. Only the assistant you connected can read that copy, through its tools, and only when you ask it something. Your phone and the copy stay in step, so an edit made by the assistant appears in your library. What the assistant does with recipe text it reads is governed by that assistant’s provider and your account with them, not by Cook:RE. When you disconnect your last assistant, the server copy is deleted. You can disconnect in Preferences → Assistant at any time.
Purchases. Subscriptions and the one-time purchase are handled by Apple. We receive the receipt needed to confirm your purchase is valid. We never see your payment details.
Diagnostics. If the app crashes or hits an error, we may receive a crash report describing what went wrong. These reports do not include your recipes.
Support reports. If you submit the support form on this website, your reply email and message are sent to the Cook:RE support mailbox so we can reply. Cloudflare Turnstile also receives the information needed to check that the submission is from a person. Support reports are handled manually; this site does not create an account or a support profile.
What we never collect
- Your contacts or an account profile
- Advertising identifiers; we run no ads and do no tracking
- The contents of your library, except the copy an assistant connection keeps while it is connected
This website
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Your choices
You can export or delete your library from within the app at any time, and disconnect an assistant to delete its server copy. Deleting the app removes the local copy; anything in your own device backups is under your control in iCloud settings.
Contact
Questions about any of this can be sent through the support page.
This policy describes current behavior and will be updated alongside the app. Material changes will be noted here with a new date.