Find anything
By name or by ingredient, accents optional: “creme brulee” finds your Crème brûlée too.
Your cookbook.
Gather your recipes in one place, with ingredients, steps and photos. Write them down once and they're always at hand - organized, searchable, just for you.
Features
Everything a good recipe book needs.
And nothing it doesn't. No ads, no social noise - just your recipes.
Split into parts
Meatballs and sauce: each part gets its own ingredients, steps and color.
Light and dark
Dark for cooking at night, light for a sunny kitchen. Drag the slider.
Paste it all at once
A pasted list is split into rows, with the amounts set apart.
Tick off as you cook
Never search for where you were again.
Built-in timer
It reads the time from your steps, and you can name it. Up to four can run, and when one is up, it rings on any screen.
Your own categories
Icon, color, order - however your kitchen does it.
With photos
Up to 12 per recipe with a cover, and four more for the notes.
Your favorites
Tap the heart, and it waits under Favorites on the home screen.
Yours to keep
One tap saves every recipe, category and photo to a ZIP file.
On every device
Phone or tablet, offline too: changes sync when you are back online.
How it works
Collect. Write it down. Cook from it.
Three steps, from notebook pages to a laid table.
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01Gather it in one place
One cookbook instead of notebooks, clippings and saved links. Categories, favorites and search on the home screen.
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02Write it the way you cook it
Photo, category, ingredients and steps. If a dish has several parts, each part gets a block of its own.
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03Cook from it, ticking along
Tap the ingredients and steps as you go, even with the whole recipe on one page. At the end, an “Enjoy your meal!” awaits.
Security
Only you see your recipes.
Everything is encrypted on your phone. Our server sees none of it.
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Your password never reaches us
To log in, your phone works out a separate key from it.
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Recovery key
Your recipes survive a new password. There is no back door.
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No ads, no tracking
We don't build a profile of you. The website has no cookies either.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Something else on your mind?
Want to sort out your recipes? Read the guide
What is mabor?
A recipe keeper app for Android: your own digital cookbook. Collect your own recipes with ingredients, steps and photos, sorted into categories. It's not a recipe site: there are no ready-made recipes and no ads, only your recipes.
Is mabor free?
Yes, completely free, with no ads and no subscription.
How is it better than a notebook or saved links?
All your recipes are in one place, and you can search them by name or ingredient, accents optional. Unlike a notebook, it doesn't get splashed and has room for photos; unlike recipe sites, it has no ads and doesn't vanish when a site shuts down. You can paste an ingredient list copied from elsewhere in one go: the app splits it into rows and sets the amounts apart.
How do I write down a recipe with several parts?
Start it as a simple recipe, then tap “Made of several parts?”. Each part - say, meatballs and tomato sauce - gets its own ingredients and steps, and shows up on the recipe page as a separate block in its own color. To see the ingredients and the steps on one page, part by part, turn on Recipe on one page in the Kitchen section of Settings.
Does it have a timer?
Yes. When a step mentions a time, like “10 minutes”, one tap starts a timer for it; there are quick and custom timers too, and you can name them. Up to four can run at once, and the screen stays on while one runs. When one is up, a dialog appears in the middle of whichever screen you're on: give it another minute, or stop it.
Does it work offline and on several devices?
Yes. Your recipes are on your phone too, so you can read and edit them without internet, and the changes sync the next time you're online. Log in on another phone or tablet and all your recipes are there too.
Can anyone else see my recipes?
No. Recipes, photos and categories are encrypted on your phone before they are sent to us. The server only holds unreadable data; even we can't see what you cook.
Can I share my recipes with others?
Not yet: mabor is your own private cookbook, with no social feed or public profile. You can save all your recipes to a file any time, though.
Is there a light mode?
Yes. The app is dark by default, but you can switch it to light with the Light mode switch in the Kitchen section of Settings.
Does it work on iPhone?
Not yet. mabor is coming soon to Android phones and tablets, on Google Play. If enough people ask for it, we'll make an iPhone version too.
What happens if I forget my password?
When you sign up, you get a recovery key. With it - and a code sent by email - you can set a new password and keep your recipes. You can reset your password without the key too, but then your encrypted recipes are lost, because we can't unlock them either. On Android the app also keeps the key on your phone, so “Forgot password?” fills it in by itself there; still, keep your own copy.
Can I export or delete my recipes?
Yes. In Settings, Export recipes saves all your recipes, categories and photos to a ZIP file in one tap. In the same place, at the bottom of the page, you can delete your account with all its data, instantly.
Which languages does it speak?
English and Hungarian. On first launch the app picks your phone's language, and you can switch any time in Settings. Your recipes stay exactly as you wrote them.
How do I organize my recipes?
Into categories, like Soups or Desserts: each gets its own icon and color, and a recipe can belong to more than one category. Mark your favorites with the heart icon. On the home screen, one tap filters to a category or to your favorites.
Start your cookbook.
Free, made in Hungary, no ads. And it stays yours.