Recipes worth keeping.
Keep the recipes that make you feel alive.
Keep the memories alive with them.
Rita’s Recipes is a private Family Recipe Book for the food, handwriting, people and stories that mean more than a list of ingredients.
Today’s favourite recipe may become tomorrow’s family recipe.
Private by default. Only the family you invite.
Why Rita’s Recipes exists
This is my Grandma Rita.
Like so many families, some of our happiest memories were made around food: the recipes she cooked, the things she made without ever needing to measure much and the dishes that simply tasted like home.
But over time, some of those recipes were lost.
One of them was Grandma Rita’s cheese pasties. They were amazing. We’ve tried to recreate them ourselves more than once, but they’re never quite the same. Somewhere along the way, the exact recipe disappeared, and with it, a little piece of our family history that we can remember, but can’t quite reproduce.
That is why Rita’s Recipes exists.
We wanted to create a place where family recipes don’t get lost in old notebooks, drawers, text messages or memories. Somewhere you can preserve not only the ingredients and method, but also who a recipe came from, the story behind it and the people and memories connected to it.
And just as importantly, we want to make those recipes easy to share.
Because recipes are meant to travel between generations, across families and amongst friends. The more we share them, the more of those stories survive.
Rita’s Recipes is about keeping the recipes that matter, sharing them with the people you love and making sure the next generation doesn’t have to wonder how Grandma Rita used to make it.
Don’t lose it. Pass it down.
How it works
- 01
Create your Family Recipe Book
Give it your family's name and add a cover.
- 02
Invite your family
Share by email, message, WhatsApp, QR code or a secure invitation link.
- 03
Add the recipes that matter
Type a recipe, paste text, import a website link or read a photograph of a recipe card. Check the draft before saving.
- 04
Cook, plan and keep them forever
Search, cook, add memories, plan meals and build the archive together.
Everything a Family Recipe Book should do
Family Recipe Books
Private shared Recipe Books, one per family, group or occasion.
Handwritten recipes
Photograph an old card and keep the original handwriting alongside it.
Careful recipe capture
Turn recipe photographs, pasted text and website links into editable drafts. Keep original handwriting and check ingredients, quantities and method before saving.
Shared contributions
Relatives add their own dishes, tips and variations.
Stories and memories
Record who a recipe came from and the occasions attached to it.
Cooking Mode
Big, easy-to-read steps and built-in timers for when you are actually cooking.
Smart shopping lists
Turn recipes into a tidy list, grouped the way you shop.
Meal planning
Plan the week together and see what everyone is cooking.
Search and organisation
Find anything by name, ingredient, person, tag or occasion.
Recipe history
See how a recipe changed, with the saved change notes your family records.
Export and printing
Print individual recipes and download a copy of your Recipe Book information. A full download including all photos and scanned originals is still being built.
Easy invitations
A QR code on the kitchen wall is enough to bring someone in.
Some recipes deserve more than a bookmark.
A recipe in Rita’s Recipes can carry everything around it, not just the method.
- Who the recipe came from
- Photographs of the finished dish
- Scanned handwritten originals
- Stories and memories
- Family notes and tips
- Variations across the years
- The occasions it belongs to
“Grandma Rita used to make this every Christmas.”
Your recipes belong to your family. Always.
Every Recipe Book is private by default and never made public automatically. You choose when to invite family or create a secure share link. We do not sell your family content, and you can download your recipe and account information or use the deletion controls in Settings.
Pricing
Start free with your family and stay free as long as you like. Choose monthly pricing or switch to annual to save. No payment is being taken yet.
Keepsake
A private place to start preserving what matters.
Free
- One private Family Recipe Book
- Up to 25 recipes
- 2 family members total (you + 1 invited person)
- Keep original recipe cards and family photos
- Cooking Mode with large steps and timers
- Meal planning, shopping lists and favourites
- Structured data export
- Up to 5 smart recipe captures per Recipe Book each month
Family
For the family recipes, stories and people you want to keep together.
£3.99/ month
- Unlimited recipes
- Up to 6 family members
- 10 GB private family archive storage
- Family collections, people, stories and recipe history
- Cooking Mode, meal planning, shopping lists and favourites
- Private sharing and family invitation links
- Structured data export
- Up to 50 smart recipe captures per Recipe Book each month
Heritage
For a deeper, multi-generation family archive.
£6.99/ month
- Everything in Family
- Up to 12 family members
- 50 GB private family archive storage
- Priority support
- Higher preservation limits for a growing family archive
- Unlimited smart recipe capture subject to fair use
Questions families ask
Every family has recipes worth saving.
Start your Family Recipe Book today. Add one recipe, invite one person and build it from there.
Create your Family Recipe Book