CookShelf: Search Cookbooks

CookShelf: Search Cookbooks

Love your cookbooks more

584 ratings
152 reviews
#29 in top-grossing Food & Drink
🍔 Food & Drink
📚 Books
Free
In-App Purchases

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 7, 2025
  • August 28, 2026
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Discover recipes within your physical cookbook collection. Search by ingredient, dish, or craving to find exactly what you need and where to find it. Track your cooking progress, set goals, and reduce food waste by using ingredients you already have.

Search across personal cookbooks
Find recipes by ingredient
Track cooking progress
Set cooking goals
Bookmark favorite recipes
Add photos and notes to recipes
Reduce food waste
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What users say

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What's New in CookShelf

1.96.0

August 28, 2026

• Updates to the look of the home feed on tablets • bug fixes and performance improvements

Subscription plans

CookShelf Premium - Monthly

Full access to CookShelf, paid monthly

$4.991 Month
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Charts

Top Grossing

📈 29+3

Food & Drink

This app rose +3 positions in Food & Drink chart.

Last updated on August 29, 2026.

User reviews

Some apps should not be subscription based — Too greedy

It’s a good concept, I’m in the middle of cataloging my own cook books on Notion and it’s such a tedious process. I would happily purchase this app for a $5-10 one time fee but no way a monthly subscription. You could have had my money but got too greedy.

Seemed like a great idea

After scanning all my books thinking it might almost be worth the (quite pricey) subscription, I did a general ingredient search ‘lamb’. I thought the search results seemed a bit sparse considering how many books I have and realised it didn’t even find them all. Not even close. Searched for something else that I know is in a few books and it returned ‘0 results’. Kind of a waste of time😔
Even the results returned only give required ingredients and not actual amounts of so not very helpful if I was using it whilst out to buy what I’d need.
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Love love love!

This app has me even more excited to use my cookbook library then ever before! With so many recipes popping up that I may have forgotten about its pure inspiration every time I open up the app!

Love my Cookbooks Again!!

I have over 70 cookbooks. And if I want to do something with a boneless pork chop, it would take forever to go thru them all. Easier to just surf the web and find something.

Now I can put that boneless pork chop in the search bar and they will tell me what recipes, what book, what page number to find what I want.

My cookbooks are again being used as I had done years before the internet was just a wee little thing, when we only had cookbooks and recipe cards to go to!
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Response from developer

Thanks so much for sharing! Reconnecting people with their cookbooks is exactly what our goal is ♥️

A must have for cookbook lovers

I literally never leave app reviews, but this is one app that I always sing the praises of! One of the biggest headaches of having so many cookbooks is when you have to sprawl them all out on your dining room table and do your meal planning for the week and it just feels so overwhelming, but being able to easily find and get inspired by the cookbooks I already have on my shelf- I love it! And then take it even further and be able to do a meal plan in the app and then a grocery list as well?! This is just amazing. Love love love this!
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Response from developer

Thanks so much for your review, we appreciate the kind words!

User experience

Requested Features

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Eliminate multiple entries of the same book in the database

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FAQ

What does CookShelf do?

CookShelf helps you make the most of your physical cookbook collection. It allows you to search for recipes within your books by ingredient, dish type, or what you're craving. The app also lets you track your cooking progress, set goals, and reduce food waste by using ingredients you already have.

How do I find recipes in my cookbooks?

You can easily find recipes by searching for specific ingredients, dish types, or any other term you're looking for. CookShelf will then show you exactly which cookbook contains the recipe and the page number.

Is CookShelf free to use?

CookShelf offers a free version that allows you to add up to 5 cookbooks and use all of its features for those books, including search, bookmarking, cooking goals, and tracking. For unlimited cookbook access and searching across over 15,000 indexed titles, a Premium subscription is available.

What are the benefits of the Premium subscription?

The Premium subscription unlocks your full cookbook library by allowing you to add unlimited cookbooks. It also provides access to search across your entire personal library and over 15,000 indexed online cookbook titles, offering a much broader range of recipe discovery.

Can I track the recipes I cook?

Yes, you can track your cooking progress within CookShelf. The app allows you to bookmark recipes, mark them as cooked, add photos and personal notes, and view a timeline of everything you've made. This feature helps you revisit favorite meals and monitor your cooking journey.