Cooklang (Alexey)

Share a recipe with a friend via QR code in iOS app.

Coming to Brussels for #FOSDEM

Great stuff 👍

GitHub - cooklang/cooklang-skills Contribute to cooklang/cooklang-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you use Claude Code or Codex or other similar tool, you can use skills I just created github.com/cooklang/coo...

Not really, it has separate thin client and server because I want to reuse it for integrating into mobile apps and offload heavy requests like web-search, etc. The client I can open source, but it's not usable without server.

Another highly requested iOS feature is a mise en place screen, which highlights all ingredient prep upfront—so you don’t discover halfway through cooking that the onions were supposed to be chopped.

Also very experimental image to cooklang: you can take a screenshot from whatsapp and convert to cook file
Or picture from a cookbook

iOS app now can import recipes form the browser

GitHub - cook-md/cookbot Contribute to cook-md/cookbot development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pricing: €10/month for the first 100 users. AI APIs aren’t cheap, and I’m still learning real usage patterns 😅

Refunds available if it’s not for you.

Install for macOS/Linux & report issues:
github.com/cook-md/cook...

Feedback very welcome.
- Alex

Basically, you can ask Cookbot to do almost anything with your recipes.
Because Cooklang recipes are just files, the AI can reason about them deeply.
Powered by Claude Sonnet - great at following instructions and thinking clearly.

Meet Cookbot 🤖
It lets you work with your recipes as files:
• find top-rated recipes you might like
• build a 3-day meal plan
• normalize metadata
• convert units to metric
• tweak recipes (healthier, substitutions, etc.)
…and more.

Terminal AI application for managing recipes

Before adding AI to the Cooklang mobile apps, I built a small proof-of-concept terminal app (TUI) for managing recipes.
I didn’t plan to release it-TUIs are niche-but I started using it myself and found it genuinely useful. So… here it is.

Drag&drop images to convert to Cooklang

If you have hand-written recipes or pictures from cooking books that you want to Cooklang, now you can do that at cook.md/cookifies/new.

Cook: Cooklang recipe app App - App Store Download Cook: Cooklang recipe app by Alexey Dubovskoy on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Cook: Cooklang…

Download from AppStore via link apps.apple.com/us/app/cookl...

The only app I know that supports three ways of scaling: by multiplier, by servings and by ingredient The last bit is similar to baker's percentages. For example, if a recipe calls for 200g flour but you have 300g, tap on the flour amount and enter 300. The entire recipe scales proportionally.

iOS app screen of a recipe in Cooklang mobile app

iOS app just got full metadata support and recipe scaling

Just sent out to beta-testers new feature of iOS app: alternative to iCloud file sync. 1 - via CookCloud for syncing from any platforms. 2 - local folder for using other sync services like Nextcloud/Syncthing

Packaging Bingo cooklang.org/bingo.html

Weird to think about Italian food without tomatoes…

Answer as always: it depends 😀

Me just trying to make rice, wash it, don’t wash it

Looks really neat! Love it

Now my blog has recipes thanks to @cooklang.bsky.social

blog.cabra.su/recipes/

(not many thanks to me)

Really neat markup language.

Dishwasher salmon - Wikipedia

Oops, broken link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwas...

Goal: Build a sustainable alternative to ad-driven recipe sites. Community-curated, not algorithm-driven.

Try it: recipes.cooklang.org
Contribute: github.com/cooklang/federation
Read more: cooklang.org/blog/13-the-...

Questions welcome! 👨‍🍳

This is also the 4-year anniversary of Cooklang! Started with a simple spec, now it's an ecosystem:

• Parser libraries (Rust, JS, TS)
• CLI tools
• iOS/Android apps
• Editor extensions
• 30+ repos on GitHub

And now: the federation ✨

Currently indexing:
• 60+ active feeds
• 3,500+ recipes
• Growing daily

All open source, decentralized, community-governed via PRs.

Draft spec: github.com/cooklang/fed...

Recipes are written in Cooklang—a simple markup language:

```
Add @bacon{200%g} to a pan and fry.
Add @onions{2} and cook until soft.
Mix in @tomatoes{400%g} and simmer for ~{15%min}.
```

Human-readable, machine-parseable. Your recipes in plain text = full control.

How it works:

• You host recipes on your domain/GitHub
• Federation indexes them (GitOps approach)
• Everyone can search across all recipes
• No ads, no tracking, no platform lock-in

Think "GitHub Pages for recipes" or "RSS reader meets recipe search"

The "Dishwasher Salmon Problem": Recipe sites modify recipes for SEO, creating an arms race that produces worse content (yes, dishwasher salmon is real: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwashe…).

I built a solution: Cooklang Federation—a decentralized search for community recipes

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