Cookwright
Cookwright — the recipe notebook

Plan the month. The shopping list writes itself.

Cookwright is a recipe notebook that does the arithmetic. Write what you cook, drag it onto a calendar, and it works out what you’ll run out of, when, and what to buy. Or skip the typing and let an AI assistant do the whole thing.

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Free to use, with no account needed to start — and nothing tracking you.

The Cookwright planner: a month of meals with a recipe rail beside it. Under every meal are its macros and what that serving costs; a column down the right adds each week up.
One batch of chili across three nights — 1/3, 2/3, 3/3. Under each meal is what that serving is worth, in calories and in money; the column on the right is the week it belongs to.

A cookbook that knows what’s in the kitchen

A recipe notebook that does the arithmetic for you. Write your recipes, put them on the calendar, and it works out the macros, tells you which ingredients you are missing, and figures up what the shopping will cost. It is a planning tool: an all-in-one shopping list with the convenience features that take most of the thinking out of sticking to your macros while you shop. Cookwright does not shop for or deliver anything.

Never do the math

No typing in a calorie count, no converting a measurement. Write what you cook and how much, and the numbers follow — on the recipe, on the day, and across the whole month. They come from USDA’s own figures, so they are as close to the mark as you can get without reading every label yourself.

Simple recipe input

Two tablespoons of sugar. A can of tomato paste. Six whole onions. Write the recipe down exactly as it reads and the app does the rest with what you gave it — no converting anything first, and no arguing with a form about which unit it wants today. (The assistant can write the whole recipe for you instead, and that part is paid.)

No more shopping lists

Keep putting recipes in and you always know what you need and when you need it by, counted the way you actually buy it — three cans, or one whole tomato, not 1,200 g. Take it to the shop, or send it to Instacart.

Daily, weekly or monthly

Plan a day, a week or a month, and know what the grocery order should come to before you place it. Leftovers are planned rather than remembered at eight o’clock: put one pot across the nights you want it and every one of them is counted and shopped for, which is less food in the bin.

Start with no account

You can use Cookwright without an account and without paying a dime — signed out, everything stays in your own browser. Make one later and your kitchen follows you from the laptop to the phone in your hand at the shop. Customize it for free, sixteen color schemes from GitHub Light to Dracula, and pay later only for the convenience features, like the AI assistant.

Part of the paid plan

Or just say what you feel like eating

Hand an AI assistant the keys to your kitchen and it does the tedious half for you. Describe a dish, paste a recipe you found, ask it to go and find one, or ask for a week of dinners — it looks every ingredient up against USDA, converts the quantities, writes the recipe, puts it on the days you want and tells you what to buy. You never open a food database, and you never type an ingredient list again.

There is an assistant tab inside the app, so this needs nothing installed and nothing configured — you open Cookwright and type. Watch it work as it works: every recipe it writes and every meal it puts on the calendar appears beside the conversation as it happens, and the chats stay on your account.

Prices it puts on your food are marked as estimates, everywhere they turn into a figure, until you type the real one over them. It knows roughly what food costs; it does not know what your shop charges.

Or point your own chatbot at it instead: Claude, or anything else that speaks MCP. Twenty-nine tools, read and write, on your account and nobody else’s.

Three things, in this order

1

Fill the ingredient set

Search USDA for each food and take their name for it — that is what carries the macros. Say how you would rather read it (each, g, cup) and how you buy it, if the two differ: eggs are weighed but bought by the egg.

2

Write the recipes

Add lines from the set with the quantity the recipe calls for — type 2 tbsp straight into the field. Say how many meals a batch makes. Put the method in Notes; that is what you read at the stove.

3

Fill the calendar

Drag a recipe from the rail onto a day. Shift-drag to run one batch across several days. Tell Stock what is already in the cupboard, and the shopping list is the difference.

The Cookwright kitchen page: a warning that two meals are short on ingredients, the recipes and their editor, and below them the shopping list, the stock and the ingredient set in three columns.
The kitchen: what you cook and what a serving of it costs, what to buy, what is on hand, and every ingredient that exists — on one page. The line across the top is the plan running short before it runs out.

Free is the whole planner

The free planner is free, and always will be. Paid adds room to grow and hands an AI assistant the keys, for ten dollars a month, cancellable whenever you like.

Free

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Everything below, for as long as you like.

  • The planner, calendar and chains in full
  • USDA macros on every ingredient and recipe
  • The shopping list, and sending it to Instacart
  • What it all costs — per serving, per day, per week, and what the shopping comes to
  • Up to 20 recipes
  • An account — sign in with Google or GitHub, no password to forget — so your kitchen follows you between devices, and deletes in one press when you want it gone
  • Favorites, dislikes and allergies, with recipes checked against them
  • All sixteen color schemes — the editor themes you already know, from Solarized and Gruvbox to Nord, plus two built for contrast
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