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Cookzy: Easy Recipes & Meals

A cookbook that follows you to the stove.

Live on Play Store · v 0.9 beta · 2026
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Cookzy: Easy Recipes & Meals app icon
Screen-on, hands-free
Step mode
Any recipe URL
Import
Opt-in, end-to-end
Sync
None
Tracking
Results

Numbers that matter.

92%
Beta retention after week 1
8.4 / 10
Net promoter score in closed beta
3.1k
Recipes imported in private alpha
< 1s
Step-mode wake from sleep
Timeline

From blank page to Play Store.

01
Research
Month 1
Kitchen ethnography with eight cooks, audit of 22 recipe apps, and a teardown of the failure modes.
02
Design
Months 2 - 4
Step-mode prototypes, multi-timer UX, and a cookbook IA that fits how people actually save recipes.
03
Build
Months 5 - 8
Android build with cooking-mode tweaks, large step cards, timers, and local recipe storage.
04
Beta
Month 9
Closed beta with 120 cooks, daily build cadence, and a wait-list opening to the public.
Hard parts

Where the work got interesting.

01

Recipe import quality

Recipe markup on the web is wildly inconsistent. We trained a parser that falls back through three structured-data formats, then to readable-text heuristics.

02

Multi-timer mental model

Cooks juggle three or four timers per meal. We surfaced them as stacked chips in the notification shade with quick dismiss and snooze.

03

Wake-lock without battery cost

Step-mode keeps the screen on, but only while the user is in the recipe. A clean teardown on background ensures the radio stays asleep.

A look inside.

"I finally stopped propping my phone against a flour bag. Step-mode is the only app that respects what cooking is actually like."
Meera S. Home cook, Bengaluru
About this app

Frequent asks.

Will Cookzy have ads or in-app purchases? +

Cookzy may include ads and in-app purchases for optional features, but it is designed without tracking.

Can I bring my recipes from another app? +

Yes, we import from any URL, plain text, and the major recipe app exports. Migration is one-tap.

Is sync end-to-end encrypted? +

Yes, sync is opt-in and end-to-end encrypted. Cookzy servers see only opaque blobs.

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