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Cook Editor
A plain-text recipe workspace for your desktop — write, preview, and plan meals from your .cook files, with an optional AI assistant.
Free and open source. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
macOS · Windows · Linux
Free & open source
Your files stay yours
Add recipes to your shopping list here — it's on your phone at the shop
A focused workspace for your recipes
Built on a familiar VS Code-style editor, tuned for Cooklang
Live recipe preview
See a formatted recipe alongside your text, with one-click scaling and tappable ingredient chips.
Shopping lists by aisle
Combine ingredients across multiple recipes into a single shopping list, grouped by store department.
Multi-day meal plans
Plan whole weeks with .menu files and compile their shopping lists in one step.
Meet CookBot, your AI sous-chef
A built-in AI sidebar that works directly on your recipe files — and always asks for your approval before it changes anything.
- Import recipes from pasted text or a link, converted into clean Cooklang.
- Draft meal plans from what you already have in your collection.
- Edit across your library — tidy metadata, fix units, restructure steps — with every change shown for review first.
CookBot is the AI in Cook Editor and is part of Cook Pro — €12.99/month with a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime. Cook Editor itself is free and open source; everything above is part of Cook Pro. Plans and the trial live on Cook Editor at cook.md.
Cook Basic & Pro
Nutrition reports for any plan
Turn a .menu meal plan or a single recipe into a nutrition report: calories, protein, carbs, sugars and fat for the whole plan, per person per day, and per ingredient.
- A plain-text template in your recipe folder, so you reuse it on every plan and change it however you like.
- Ingredients already scaled to the servings in your plan, so the numbers match what you'll cook.
- Rather not write a template? CookBot can write and fix it for you with Cook Pro.
Nutrition lookups use Cook's nutrition database, included with Cook Basic and Cook Pro.
Make your first report
Plugins
Make it yours with plugins
Plugins add panels, buttons in the recipe preview, commands, even new file types. Cook Editor runs the same kind of extensions as VS Code, plus a small Cooklang API, so a plugin works with your recipes the way the built-in features do.
- Install in one click from the Extensions view, which searches plugins.cook.md, the Cook plugin marketplace.
- Shopping List and Recipe Hub come built in; add Pantry, Nutri-Score, Allergens, a Meal Journal and more.
- Build your own in an afternoon with a little TypeScript. The tutorial goes from an empty folder to a published plugin.
Works with your phone, too
Cook Editor works with the iOS and Android apps through a folder you already sync, or through Cook Cloud (Cook Basic), so the recipes you write at your desk are in your pocket at the shop.
Get Cook Editor
Pre-built downloads for macOS (Apple silicon & Intel), Windows, and Linux (deb, rpm, AppImage).
Get updates
New features and recipes, about once a month.