Cookfolio Family: share your cookbook with your household
Cooking with others means sharing: the recipes you love, the week’s shopping, Sunday’s menu. For a long time, that also meant juggling one shared account between several people — not ideal. With Cookfolio Family, everyone keeps their own personal account while the cookbook stays common.
What the Family plan brings
One subscription, up to 4 accounts in a single household. Each member signs in with their own credentials from their phone, tablet or computer. The shared workspace contains:
- The common cookbook (every recipe added by any member)
- The weekly meal planner
- The shopping list generated automatically from the planner
- The custom tags to categorize together
If someone adds a new dish or tweaks a serving count, everyone sees it in real time. Saturday morning’s shopping list builds itself — no more “did you add the pie crust?”.
How it compares to other household apps
Household sharing exists elsewhere, but with caveats.
AnyList Household offers a similar feature at $14.99/year. Cheaper, but AnyList has no AI assistance — you re-type every recipe by hand. No YouTube import, no photo scanning, no PDF import. AnyList is strong on shopping lists, but the recipe book is minimal.
Mela relies on Apple’s iCloud Family Sharing. If everyone in your household is on iPhone/iPad and signed into the same iCloud group, it works. Mix Android and iOS, or include people outside your iCloud circle (parents, housemates, friends who cook together), and it breaks.
Cookfolio Family works on all 3 platforms (iOS, Android, web). Each member signs in with their own email, with no dependency on a specific ecosystem. And AI import is included: photo, PDF, Word, web link or YouTube video — the AI automatically structures the title, ingredients and steps.
Pricing and activation
€59.99/year for the whole household — about €1.25/month per person if you’re four. By comparison, 4 individual Pro subscriptions would cost 4 × €39.99 = €159.96/year — a 62% saving.
A monthly option exists at €6.99/month if you’d rather not commit annually.
Activation happens in Settings → Family inside the app. Whoever subscribes becomes the admin: they pay the subscription, generate a 6-character invite code, and share it with other members. Each one enters the code in their own account and joins the family.
When joining, a dialog offers to import your existing personal recipes into the shared workspace — you pick which ones to share, duplicates are detected automatically.
What hasn’t changed
Family isn’t a Pro downgrade — it’s Pro for four. Everything that was in Pro is still there: unlimited recipes, unlimited AI imports, cooking mode, serving adjustment, Paprika/Mela migration, 6 interface languages.
If you leave the family, your personal recipes (the ones added before joining) are preserved and become visible again in your personal workspace. No data lost.
Bottom line
The Family plan suits households where several people cook: couples, families, flatshares, parents whose kids are starting to cook for themselves. Everyone has a personal account, the cookbook is common, and a single subscription covers all of them. If you’re the only cook in your home, the Pro plan remains the right choice.