CookShelf: Search Cookbooks

CookShelf: Search Cookbooks

Love your cookbooks more

784 ratings
195 reviews
#26 in top-grossing Food & Drink
🍔 Food & Drink
📚 Books
Free
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Released
August 7, 2025
Updated
October 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's New in CookShelf

2.17.0

October 28, 2026

- Links you tap while signed out now open after you sign in or create an account - Home refreshes after time away and skips cooks you’ve already seen - Fewer pop-ups asking you to rate the app - Bug fixes and performance improvements

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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

CookShelf Premium - Monthly

Full access to CookShelf, paid monthly

$4.991 Month
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Top Grossing

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Food & Drink

This app dropped -2 positions in Food & Drink chart.

Last updated on October 30, 2026.

User reviews

If you have cookbooks you need this.

This might be the only app I’ve ever written a review for, and it’s because I really love this app. If you have a bunch of cookbooks and you find yourself wanting to cook from them more, but maybe aren’t home, or you’re at work and dont know whats in them, then this app is for you. When I’m at work thinking about what to do for dinner, I use this to plan, then I hit the grocery store on the way home. It has made it soooo much easier to cook out of the books that I love and has gotten me away from using online recipes where you need to either print them out or read from your phone/tablet. This is one of the few apps I willingly pay for and will keep paying for.
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We love this app

This apps unlocks the power of our 90 odd cookbooks. We love how we can search by ingredients. No more flipping through indexes or leafing through cookbooks with no indexes. We have started using most of our cookbooks again. We wish it was offered at a more affordable price point. We think it is overpriced; however now that we have it we definitely use it multiple times every week.

I do, however, wish they would stop asking me to review the app…once was enough!
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Response from developer

Hi there, thanks for your review - we're glad that CookShelf is helping you reconnect with your cookbooks! Regarding the review prompts, thanks for bringing this to our attention - this was a bug. We've found and fixed the issue so we don't repeatedly prompt people for reviews. (While we do appreciate getting positive reviews, we don't want to get in the way of cooking with your cookbooks.) We're really sorry for the annoyance.

Love this App!!!

Changed the way I cook - I can so easily look up a recipe for an excess ingredient I have. I would spend hours looking through all my ottolenghi books for where that 1 bean recipe was and no I can find it in an instant, and also pull new recipes out of some of my encyclopedic books!!!

Very Useful!!

This is the best way I have found to make use of my cookbook addiction! I really love using this app to help me find recipes!!

Brilliant concept

Thanks to CookShelf, I am cooking out of my cookbooks more than ever before! It’s a brilliant concept. I wish ingredient quantities were included so this could be a helpful resource while grocery shopping vs only at my home, but I also understand why that’s not the case. Overall I find a lot of value in it. Really appreciate the responsiveness to feedback, the new update restores everything I appreciated about the original version I downloaded!
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Eliminate multiple entries of the same book in the database

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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.