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What if your recipes could talk back?

Cookie is your voice-powered cooking companion. Save recipes, hear every step, and ask questions while you cook.

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Cookie app home screen asking What are you cooking today?, with a recipe search field and Take Photo, Paste Recipe and Import Instagram buttons

Try saying

  • “Cookie, how many eggs do I need?”
  • “Cookie, set timer for 8 minutes”
  • “Cookie, what’s the next step?”

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Natural conversation

A conversation with your recipe.

Ask questions, get substitutions, hear each step, and keep cooking hands-free.

  1. Cookie reads

    Cookie reading Step 1 aloud: Mix the flour and sugar in a large bowl. A Tap to stop speaking hint sits below.

  2. You ask

    “Can I use regular milk instead?”

  3. Cookie answers

    Cookie answering: Yes, you can substitute regular milk for buttermilk using a simple 1:1 ratio. For the best results, add one tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar to your regular milk and let it sit for five minutes before using.

Everything you need in one place

Simple tools for real cooking.

  • Bring in any recipe

    Take a photo, paste a recipe, or import from Instagram.

    Home screen with Take Photo, Paste Recipe and Import Instagram buttons

  • Hear every step

    Cookie reads ingredients and instructions aloud while you cook.

    Chocolate Fudge Cake ingredient checklist in large, readable text, with a Say Cookie button

  • Keep your favorites close

    Browse saved recipes and find the right dish fast.

    My Recipes library with saved recipes, category filters and a search field

See it in action

Why I built Cookie.

Recipe websites are a maze of headings and ads, and with VoiceOver it’s exhausting. Watch the same recipe on the web, then in Cookie.

Read the video transcript

Imagine this. I have a craving for chocolate chip cookies and I found a recipe that looks perfect. Now, all I need to do is actually find this recipe and scroll and scroll and scroll. And this is frustrating for everybody, but it's where things start to fall apart for people who are visually impaired.

Let me show you what this sounds like with voice over.

"Safari, skip to content. Headings. 36 headings. I'm going to have to scroll through 36 headings to find the instructions and the ingredients. The chip cookie recipe ever. Heading my latest videos. Heading level three. How to make chocolate chip cookies. Make the chocolate chip cookie dough. Heading level portion and roll dough. Heading level for how to freeze cookie dough. Heading level. How to bake frozen dough. Heading level eight. Heading level three until day. Heading level three, just until day. Heading level three, just barely looked on. Heading level three, Patty Leel, March 14, get tickets. K8 BZ 917,157F K7BGFB on 10R ly 2026 03. Voice over off."

This is no fun. And imagine that you have to do this with flour on your hands when you're halfway through the recipe when all you want to know is how much vanilla is in this. And so this is why I built cookie because for someone who cited this is annoying, but for people who find it hard to read, relying on voice over is exhausting. It's not about cooking or baking. It's about fighting the interface.

Welcome to cookie. I'll do the same thing here. I'll find some chocolate chip cookies. I'll save it to my recipes. And now you see that all of the ingredients and instructions are clean. They're structured and exactly where you would expect them to be.

And now I can ask really simple things like, "Hey, Cookie, how much vanilla do I need?" Two teaspoons pure vanilla extract.

Or I can also ask, "Cookie, what's the next step?" Step one, preheat oven to 375° F, 190° C. Line three baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.

And I can also ask more complicated questions like, "Cookie, can I substitute something for the vanilla?" You can substitute an equal amount of maple syrup for the vanilla extract. This will give your cookies a slightly different caramel-like flavor.

Cookie isn't about fancy features. It's about being able to cook independently without friction and without fatigue. And it's making cooking fun again.

Built for more people

Independent cooking — for everyone.

Built with VoiceOver from day one, Cookie helps blind, low-vision, dyslexic, and busy-handed cooks stay focused on the food.

  • VoiceOver ready
  • Voice Control
  • High contrast
  • Dyslexia friendly
  • Large type

“Being low vision, I like that I didn’t have to really magnify the screen. I could just talk to Cookie.”

— John

“Cookie has been a game changer when in the kitchen!”

— Rachel

“It was easy to use with VoiceOver.”

— Alise

Loved by home cooks

“Cookie let me stay immersed in cooking my Thanksgiving meal instead of juggling the recipe, a device, and the food.”

— Paul

“Cookie makes it so much easier to have messy hands (and a cleaner apron) because I don’t have to fiddle with my phone or laptop!”

— Scott

“I love how it converts a long winded blog post into a simple step by step formula that is easy to follow.”

— Uday

“Your app is the best thing that’s come around since sliced bread.”

— Member of Herbie’s cooking group

Start cooking with Cookie.

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