Policy
Free forever,
no charges
Proper Cooked costs nothing to use, and it will stay that way. There is no paywall, no subscription, no trial period and no premium plan waiting behind a feature you need. If you can reach the app, you can use all of it.
Price
$0
Plans
1
Card required
No
What free covers
- Paste or email any recipe link
- Australian metric conversion on every ingredient
- Unlimited recipes in your cookbook
- Aisle-sorted shopping lists, printing and PDF export
- Sharing by text, email or link
- The shared library, chef alternatives and technique notes
What we will never do
- No subscriptions or paid tiers
- No trials that expire
- No feature locked behind an upgrade
- No prices or store names in your shopping list
- No selling your cookbook or shopping data
If that ever changes
Anything you have already added stays free and stays yours. If we ever build something new that costs us real money to run, we will say so plainly before it exists, and the cooking, converting and shopping list features described on this page will remain free.
FAQ
Free, data and limits
- Is any part of Proper Cooked paid?
- No. Every feature is free forever — importing recipes, Australian metric conversion, your cookbook, shopping lists, printing, PDF export and sharing. There is no paid tier to move up to and no card is ever asked for.
- Do I need an account?
- No. You can paste a link and get a converted recipe and shopping list without signing in. An account is only there if you want to keep a cookbook, and it takes a name and an email — no password.
- How many recipes can I store?
- As many as you like. There is no cap on recipes in your cookbook, on shopping lists, or on how many lists you share.
- Are there any limits at all?
- Only fair-use limits that stop one account overloading the recipe reader for everyone: 20 recipe imports an hour and 5 chef research requests an hour. They reset each hour, and normal cooking never comes close. Recipe grids load 50 at a time as you scroll.
- Why are there no prices in the shopping list?
- Because prices go stale and vary by store. Your list gives quantities and pack maths in Australian measures, aisle-sorted — never prices or store names.
- What do you do with my data?
- Your cookbook notes, scaling and shopping lists are yours and stay private to your account. Recipes added from the web feed the shared library, always credited back to the original site and author. We do not sell your data or run ads against it.
- Can I delete my account and everything in it?
- Yes. Deleting your account removes your profile, cookbook entries, notes and shopping lists. Shared library recipes stay, with your personal notes and identity stripped out.
- How is it free if it uses AI?
- Reading and converting recipes does cost us money, which is why the fair-use limits above exist. We would rather cap the extremes than charge cooks. If we ever build something new and expensive, we will say so plainly first, and everything on this page stays free.