About Sift
Sift is a recipe app built around one idea: the recipes that matter to you belong in a cookbook your family keeps — not in a feed, and not in a company’s advertising data.
Private, by default and by design
Every recipe you save on Sift is visible only to you. Put recipes in a cookbook and invite people, and they become visible only to that group. Nothing on Sift is ever public. There is no feed, no discovery page, and no recommendation engine learning what your household eats. Most recipe platforms are built to make your saves public so they can farm engagement; Sift is built the other way around.
Import from anywhere — including the recipes an AI wrote
Paste a link from a food blog, TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube and Sift reads the recipe out of the page, caption, or transcript, keeping the ingredients and steps and dropping the headnote, the ads, and the long personal essay. You can also paste text straight from ChatGPT or Claude, or a photo of a handwritten card. Video posts and AI answers disappear or drift out of reach quickly — Sift is a way to keep the ones you’ll actually cook.
A cookbook you build together
A cookbook on Sift is a shared space. Invite the people you cook with, and everyone adds their recipes, arranges the sections, and picks the cover. It’s made for the collections families have always wanted to compile: a grandparent’s handwritten cards, the holiday dishes nobody wrote down, five siblings pooling what they remember.
And then a real book
When a cookbook is ready, Sift lays it out as a designed, one-recipe-per-page book and gives you a print-ready PDF — keep it, or take it to a printer to bind. Ordering a bound copy directly through Sift is coming soon. A finished cookbook is the kind of thing people already print for weddings, new babies, and milestone birthdays; Sift is meant to make getting there straightforward.
Free to use
Saving, organizing, scaling, cook mode, search, and shared cookbooks are all free, with no ads. The printed book will be the only thing you pay for. That keeps the incentives simple: Sift only has to be genuinely useful, not sticky.