Cooking Steps
Your recipes, one step at a time

Cook without losing your place.

Cooking Steps turns any recipe into big, calm steps. Timers ring when things are done, the shopping list writes itself, and your whole cookbook follows you from phone to laptop. Free, no ads, no fuss.

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Works on iPhone, Android and any browser. Nothing to download from a store.

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🍗Tandoori Chicken
STEP 1 OF 4
First marinade
  1. 1Slash the drumsticks so the spice gets in.
  2. 2Coat with the lemon juice and salt.
  • TBSP2 lemon juice
  • TSP1 salt
Step 1 of 4

Go on, tap it. The arrows, the dots and the timer really work.

Made for real kitchens

Messy counters, wet hands, three pans going.

Cooking Steps was built at the stove, not at a desk. Everything about it assumes you are actually cooking.

One step at a time

Each step fills the screen in big type you can read from across the counter. Swipe when you are ready, never scroll.

Timers that tap you

Any step with a time gets a one-tap timer. It keeps counting while you browse other recipes, and rings when dinner says so.

A list that writes itself

Tap the ingredients you need and they merge into one tidy shopping list. Salt from two recipes becomes one line.

Serves 2 tonight, 10 on Sunday

Change the servings and every amount follows along, snapped to real kitchen fractions. Try it:

Serves 4

    Reads how you measure

    Pounds, ounces or kilos. Fahrenheit or Celsius. One toggle and every recipe speaks your language, and your mom's too.

    A cookbook that follows you

    Sign in once and your recipes sync to every device. Lose the phone, keep the cookbook. Works offline at the stove.

    Three steps, then dinner

    Any recipe becomes steps.

    From a website, a group chat, a screenshot caption or the back of a packet. Paste the whole thing, mess and all.

    Paste anything

    Drop in the whole recipe text. The app finds the servings, times, ingredients and steps on its own.

    Steps appear

    One step per screen, with its own ingredients and a timer already attached. Neat as a well-kept recipe box.

    Just cook

    Prop the phone by the stove and swipe through. Your place is saved, your timers keep ringing, your hands stay floury.

    A little kitchen community

    The Explore shelf

    Proud of a recipe? Publish it and it appears on the Explore shelf for everyone, with your name on it.

    Found something that smells promising? One tap saves it into your own cookbook, credit included, ready to cook step by step.

    Browse Explore in the app
    Put it on your phone

    Installs like an app, lives like a website.

    Two taps and it sits on your home screen with its own icon, works offline, and quietly updates itself.

    iPhone & iPad

    1. Open cookingsteps.app/app in Safari
    2. Tap the Share button
    3. Choose Add to Home Screen

    Android

    1. Open cookingsteps.app/app in Chrome
    2. Tap Install app when it appears, or the ⋮ menu
    3. Choose Add to Home screen

    No app store. Sign in with your email once and your cookbook follows you to every device, automatically.

    Warm from the oven

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