Sharing without giving away: how your recipe privacy works

Your cookbook is yours

The first question everyone asks when saving their mother's recipe is the right one: who will be able to see this?

Short answer: you decide, recipe by recipe. There's no master switch that exposes your cookbook. Every recipe is born under your control and stays that way until you say otherwise.

Four ways to share

Private

Only you see it. For the one you're still adjusting, for the house secret, or simply because that's how you want it.

Family

Visible to the people who accepted your family invitation. This is the truly shared cookbook: your sister adds your aunt's cake, you add the pozole, and everyone cooks from the same source. We also flag allergies when you plan the week's menu.

With a link

You generate a link and that recipe — only that one — can be opened without an account. Perfect for sending it over WhatsApp to a friend who asked. The link can be revoked whenever you want: stop sharing, and the link stops working.

Community

The recipe appears in the Community Center and anyone can cook it. Here your recipe becomes part of something bigger: someone in another country will make it this week, and they'll read it in their own language because we translate it automatically.

Why publish anything to the community?

Because that's how you find everyone else. A family that shares its arepas recipe attracts whoever is looking for real arepas — and along the way, that person discovers the family's cookbook. The community grows on what people choose to give, not on what we extract.

And one honest detail: publishing is free and always will be. What we're preparing as a paid service is the opposite of the internet norm — privacy: keeping recipes private, family-only, or shared with selected people. Publishing costs nothing; keeping the intimate things to yourself will, someday. And any private recipes you already have will stay private, always.

Invite your people to have their own

Sharing a recipe is lovely. Your cousin having her own cookbook is better: her recipes, her family, her inheritance. In your cookbook there's an Invite button that sends her a lucky invitation 🍀 with your name on it.

Create your free cookbook and decide what you share.