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.

It works out to about a pack of chicken thighs a month — and most members save more than that in one skipped "nothing sounds good, let's order out" night.

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

I will say, I built this as a tool for being on a laptop or iPad, which I think makes for a nicer cooking experience that scrolling around a 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.