Hi everybody! I’m a developer from Germany and I made a recipe app called RecipeSesame. https://recipesesame.app/

I know you’ve probably seen a few of these apps already. You paste a link from a website, a reel from YouTube, Instagram or TikTok, or a post, or you take a photo, and the recipe lands in your cookbook.

This is the app I wish I’d had when I started cooking. I was living in a WG (a shared flat) back then, and we wanted to eat as well as we could for as little money as possible (the prices are for Germany for now). So I built it with a household in mind: you share the recipes, the shopping list and the meal plan with the people you live with, and everyone’s allergies and diets are saved so you can plan around them. When you have people over, you can make a gathering, and for a potluck, guests add what they’re bringing.

It runs in the browser because I switch between my phone and my computer all the time. It’s in German, English and Spanish because I speak those, and in French because I’m learning it. Greek is there because a friend helped me test the app, her mother wanted to use it too, so I added it for her.

Since this is Buy European, I want to be honest about what’s European and what isn’t. The data is saved in Frankfurt, the AI that reads the recipes is Mistral (France), and the sign-in emails go through Mailjet (France). But the hosting is Cloudflare and the database is Supabase, both US companies, and the CAPTCHA is from Cloudflare too. The European options I looked at all needed a monthly payment, and since this is a hobby I don’t earn anything from, that didn’t fit yet. I’d love to move over eventually.

There are no ads, no tracking cookies and no third-party analytics. It’s free, and the running costs are small enough that I cover them myself. If it ever grows to the point where that no longer works, I might add a paid option, but everyone already using it keeps what they have for free.

If you try it, I’d really like to hear what you think, especially if a recipe doesn’t import well. Or if there’s something you’d like it to do!

Disclaimer: I’m the developer of this app.