Simmer

Every recipe you love, in one place — and ready to cook.

Save recipes from websites, social posts, screenshots and cookbooks — and Simmer turns them into recipes you can actually use. Scale the servings, plan your weekly menu and build one organized shopping list automatically.

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Simmer is in testing. This page will link to both stores the day it launches.

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The Simmer recipe library on a phone: a search field, a Search by Ingredients button, and a grid of saved recipe cards, each with a photograph of the dish, its rating and how many it serves.

How it works

  1. Save it

    Share a recipe to Simmer straight from your favorite apps, paste a link, or photograph a page from a cookbook. Simmer turns it into a clean, organized recipe that’s ready when you are.

  2. Make it yours

    Edit anything, file it into cookbooks, and set the servings you're cooking for. The ingredient amounts scale with it.

  3. Cook and shop

    Put recipes on your weekly menu and send them to a shopping list that adds up the same ingredient across recipes and sorts it by aisle.

What Simmer does

Save recipes from websites, social platforms, photos and more.

Recipe sites, blogs, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or photographs of a cookbook page. Simmer pulls out the ingredients and the method and keeps a link back to the source.

The Add Recipe sheet on a phone: a field to paste a link, with the platforms Simmer reads listed beneath it, plus options to scan a photo or add a recipe manually.

Cook for two tonight, six on Sunday

Change the servings and every ingredient amount is recalculated. Switch between metric and US measurements without rewriting the recipe.

A recipe open on a phone: a photograph of the baked lasagna, the servings stepper set to six, the amounts that scaled with it, and a Convert control for switching measurements.

One list for the whole week

Add recipes to the shopping list and Simmer adds up what repeats, converts the weights and volumes into your measurements, and groups everything by aisle. Share a household and both phones see the same list as it's ticked off.

A shopping list on a phone, grouped into categories, built from two recipes.

Plan the week

Put recipes on the days you'll cook them, breakfast to dinner, and see the week at a glance. Turn your weekly menu into one organized shopping list.

The weekly menu on a phone, with recipes placed on the days they'll be cooked and labelled lunch, dinner or snack.

  • Cookbooks

    Group recipes the way you think about them — weeknights, baking, the ones the kids will actually eat.

  • Find it by what's in the fridge

    Search your library by ingredient and see the recipes you can cook with what you already have.

  • Nutrition per serving

    Calories and macros are calculated from the ingredients, and they follow the servings you set.

  • Share a household

    Invite the person you cook with. Recipes, the weekly menu and the shopping list are shared, and changes show up on both phones.

Cook in your language — use Simmer in English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Brazilian Portuguese.

Support

Have a question, found a problem, or spotted something Simmer got wrong with a recipe? Email support@getsimmer.org and we’ll be happy to help.