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For personal chefs
Recipe manager for personal chefs.
Every household eats differently. Keep each client’s version of every dish—and send one link they tap to approve the week, then follow to reheat it.
Right now
- what can't they eat again?
- menu buried in texts
- wrong thing on the shop run
- did they ever approve it?
- every house eats different
With CookDay
This week
Each house, its own version
One link—approved
Reheated from the same link
Cook day, handled.
Getting started is easy
Import a library — spreadsheet or Paprika
Paste a recipe, or a link
Describe a new dish — it drafts with that client’s prefs
How the job runs
A week, start to finish
Start of the week
Plan the menu, per household
Pull from your master list and tune each dish to each home—portions, swaps, hard-nos.
Mushroom risotto
serves 2- 1 cuparborio rice
- 4 ozwild mushrooms
- ½ cupparmesan
- 2 tbspbutter
The base every household starts from.
One master recipe—each family keeps their own version.
A tap for them
Send it for approval
Clients keep, swap, or skip each dish. No app, no login — and you choose how it presents.
Cook day
Cook, then they rate
The same link they approved now shows reheating directions—no printouts. Likes and “never again” come back and shape the next menu.
See after cook day ↗After cook day
Sample · tap a ratingMushroom risotto
Reheat 350°F · 12 min · foil on
How was it?Payday
Get paid, without the paperwork
Invoices and payments built in
Completed Jobs - Send Invoice
Connect Stripe once, then send and get paid
Link Stripe from Invoices (a few minutes). After that, clients pay from the same kind of link they already use for menus.
Run your next week like a pro
Why CookDay
I cooked for private clients for years, then became a developer. This is the software I wished I'd had.
Every part of CookDay—planning, approvals, shopping, next week’s prep—comes straight from real cook weeks.
Pricing
One plan. Everything included.
One plan for chefs running recurring clients.
Founding beta
Sign up now in unlimited beta for free. Your 14-day trial begins when beta closes.
List $50, founding rate $29/month$29/month
Founding members who join during beta lock this rate after the trial.
Every plan includes
- A saved version of each dish, per client
- One link: approve the menu, then reheating directions
- Invoices and payments built in
- One shopping list from what they approved
- Every household's tastes, allergies, and hard nos on file
- Unlimited clients & menus
- Free listing on Personal Chef Finder — the map clients use to find chefs. Included with CookDay.
- AI recipe drafting — concept to full recipe, per client
Frequently asked questions
Because it’s more than a recipe manager
Who it’s for
Recipes & import
Client menus
Cook day & shopping
Billing & support
Beta features
Beta and Experimental Features
These are in the product today. They’re the pieces we’re still tuning with chefs in beta.
Unify your units across all recipesBeta
Tablespoons, teaspoons, ounces, fluid ounces — same ingredient, four lines at the store. CookDay lines them up so milk is milk.
Scattered
- milk — 2 tbsp
- milk — 1 tsp
- milk — 1 oz
- milk — 1 fl oz
Aligned
- milk — 3 fl oz
Recipe HealthBeta
A guided pass over your master recipes. Units, leftover lines, reheating notes, and tags—you confirm each fix.
Recipe health
Checked 12 master recipes
Units & quantities
1 group · 4 lines
Lines to fix
2 lines
Missing reheat
Reheat text present
Untagged
3 recipes
SMART Recipe CreatorBeta
You still decide what to make. It helps you formulate and write it for that client—Suited to their Meals, Allergies, Restrictions, Tastes.
Choose the Client
Choose the Style
Kid-friendly salmon, no dairy — oven-ready