About Kitchenote

The story

It was a Tuesday night, and I was trying to make that Thai curry recipe I'd bookmarked. The one from... somewhere. Was it that food blog? A YouTube video? Maybe I screenshotted it? After 15 minutes of searching through bookmarks, screenshots, and Pinterest boards (why do I even have Pinterest?), I gave up and ordered takeout.

That was the moment I knew something was broken.

Here's the thing—there are plenty of recipe apps out there. But most of them want you to browse their recipes, not save your own. Or they're basically digital cookbooks with no import features. Or they're so complicated that organizing recipes becomes another chore.

I wanted something different. Something that would just... work. Paste a URL, get a clean recipe, organize it however makes sense, and actually be useful when I'm standing in the kitchen with chicken juice on my hands.

So I built it.

What we believe

Cooking at home should be joyful, not frustrating. Technology should make it easier, not harder. And nobody needs to read a 2,000-word essay about someone's grandmother before they can find out how much garlic to use.

We believe in:

• Simplicity over features. Every feature in Kitchenote exists because it solves a real problem. We'd rather do five things brilliantly than fifty things mediocrely.
• Your data is yours. Your recipes are stored on your device. We don't mine them for ads, we don't sell them to third parties, and we don't require an account to use the app.
• Good design matters. An app you use while cooking needs to be readable, responsive, and get out of the way. We obsess over these details so you don't have to.
• Cooking is universal. That's why Kitchenote works in English and Japanese, with more languages coming. A recipe is a recipe, wherever you are.

The future

We're just getting started. There's so much more we want to build—meal planning, grocery delivery integration, better sharing features, maybe even a way to connect with other home cooks. But we're taking it slow, making sure each feature is genuinely useful before moving to the next.

In the meantime, we're cooking every day with Kitchenote. And we hope you will too.