Cook more recipes from your favorite food blogs

Right now, just one person — me, Benjamin.

I spent eight years as a product designer and marketer at startups, then quit tech to cook for families as a private chef.

Cookmode started as the software I built to handle everything except the cooking so I could serve more clients. As I was selling it to other private chefs the most common response was "wait, I want this for my own home cooking".

So I packaged it up to share with home cooks. It's fully independent, no investors, funded entirely by member subscriptions. That means nobody's pushing for ads, data selling, increased profitability or growth tricks.

It's just a tool I use in my own kitchen every week. I hope you love it as much as I do.

Cookmode started as professional software — the private chef tool I built to plan weeks, learn each household's taste, and run everything except the cooking, priced at $99/month to other chefs I was sharing it with.

Cookmode is that same system, priced for home cooks. The real recipe-matching and menu generation behind it aren't cheap to run, and I'd rather charge a fair price than quietly cover costs with ads or by selling your data.

I want to make it accessible to everyone and believe the amount of time it saves you and how much it levels up your home cooking game are worth far more than the price.

And, it pays to be organized and cook at home instead of last minute take out. Subscribers save roughly $135 each month by cooking instead of ordering delivery.

You can sign up for free, no credit card required, and set up your account.

You get full unlimited access to everything, including the menu planner, recipe book, chat, and grocery list features.

Then, at the end of the 7 days if you choose not to continue simply stop using it and don't put your card in.

If you choose to continue after the free week, Cookmode is $12/month (launch price, locked in for as long as you stay subscribed — regular price is $16).

Never. Cookmode doesn't invent recipes. Every dish on your menu is a real recipe from a real food blog — one you chose to trust — credited and linked to its creator.

The only AI involved is the matching: learning what your household likes and picking which real recipes fit, and creating images for the recipes you save.

You tell Cookmode a bit about your household when you start, then rate dishes as you cook them. Every rating sharpens next week's menu. A month in, the menus feel less like suggestions and more like it knows your house.

No — no download needed.

Cookmode works in any browser: your phone, a tablet, or the laptop on your counter. Nothing to install.

I recommend trying it on your computer to plan your week and cook from, in my experience the bigger screen makes the tool much nicer to use than just mobile apps.

With your account you can sign in on both your computer and phone.

One subscription covers your household — the menus are built for the whole house, not one eater.

If you want details on how to log in to multiple devices you can find a video on it inside the community.

No — no boxes, no deliveries. Cookmode plans your week and helps you organize and cook your recipes. You shop and cook with your own groceries.

It's made for home cooks who like to cook and want to be more organized.

Cookmode is built to pay them. It helps them monetize their blog and give their readers a way to save their recipes, plan their week, and organize their home cooking.

Partner bloggers earn 40% of every reader they send — for life — more than ads ever pay.

Every recipe in Cookmode is credited and linked to its blog, so your favorite bloggers get the traffic and the money, and their recipes actually get cooked instead of just saved.

Recipes appear in your recipe book only when you save them, one at a time, same as any recipe app. It costs you nothing extra — subscribing is supporting your favorite bloggers.

Yes. You can get started and use all the features of Cookmode without putting a credit card in.

There's no long term free plan because powering the features costs real money. We are committed to never selling your data or running ads at you, we are committed to supporting our partner food bloggers, and committed to build new features and make Cookmode better.

We'd rather charge honestly than give you a watered-down version. After your first free week, membership is $12/month, cancel anytime.

You'll know in that first week if Cookmode if for you.

We realize it's not for everyone, and if it's not for you, no hard feelings.