1. Scan a Product
A barcode identifies the item. If you have cooked it before, your saved settings come straight back. If you have not, you can name it yourself.
Everything you need to repeat a good cook
Cook It Again combines barcode-based cooking records, Custom Dishes, reliable timers, results, history, and portable backup in one focused, local-first utility.
2. Save what worked
Appliance, temperature or power level, time, preheat, portion, and any timed steps — flip, shake, check. Save a different setup for every appliance you own.
3. Cook it again
Start the timer, get an alert when a step is due, and record how it turned out. The next cook starts from the setting that worked.
Packaged products
Scan the package. Save your version.
The barcode identifies a saved item and nothing more. Cook It Again does not read cooking directions out of a barcode — it brings back the setting you saved.
- A barcode identifies the saved item
- Basic name and brand lookup is optional
- An unrecognised package can be named manually
- Items you have already saved work offline
Your appliance. Your settings.
The same product cooks differently in an air fryer, an oven, a microwave, a grill, a toaster oven, and on a stovetop. Save a setup for each one.
- Appliance and cooking method
- Temperature, or power level for a microwave
- Duration and preheat
- Portion
- Timed steps: flip, shake, check
A barcode is an identifier. It does not contain cooking directions — the settings come from you, and the data-sources page explains what a lookup actually does.
Custom Dishes
Save the dishes you make your way.
A Custom Dish is a homemade or non-barcoded dish you cook again and again. It is for remembering what you already make, not for finding something new to cook.
- A name, and optionally a photo and a category
- Base portions — how much the dish makes
- An optional ingredient list, in the order you use it
- Preparation notes
- The same cooking setups, timers, results, and history
Scale the amounts without rewriting the dish.
Cooking for twice as many? Pick 1.5×, 2×, 3×, or type the number of portions you need. The saved dish is untouched — the scaled amounts are a view for this cook.
Ingredient scaling does not automatically change cooking time, temperature, power, or timed steps.
Timers, results, and history
Timers that survive a locked phone.
A cook is tracked by timestamps rather than by a counter running in the app, so the time left is right when you come back to it.
- Local notifications for timed steps and for the finish
- Add time to a running cook
- Pause and resume
- A cook still running when you reopen the app is picked back up
Alerts are scheduled with your device. Focus modes, Do Not Disturb, and battery settings can affect when your phone shows them.
Record the result. Keep the history.
Perfect, needed more time, overcooked, or something else. Cook It Again may suggest a revised time based on what actually happened — and it only changes your saved setup if you tap to accept it.
- Every past cook keeps its own record of the settings used
- History stays readable after you edit or delete the item
- Cook these settings again, straight from a past cook
Nothing changes your saved setup automatically.
Local-first, with a backup you control.
Your saved records live on your device. When you want a copy, you export one file and choose where it goes — iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Files, or anywhere else you keep documents.
- No account and no sign-in
- One exported file holds products, dishes, ingredients, setups, history, settings, and photos
- You choose the destination; the app does not upload it
- Restoring a backup is always free, whether or not you have bought the unlock
Backup is a file you export and file yourself. It is not automatic sync, and purchase status is never written into it.
Simple, honest pricing.
One optional purchase. No subscription, no monthly anything.
Free
Enough to know whether it suits you.
- Up to 5 saved items
- Any mix of packaged products and Custom Dishes
- Ingredients and portion scaling included within the limit
- Timers, results, and history
- Restoring a backup file
Lifetime unlock
One purchase, kept for good.
- Unlimited products and Custom Dishes
- Portable backup export
- Everything in the free tier
The price is shown by the App Store or Google Play in your own currency. A purchase is tied to the store account that made it, and there is no account here to move it between platforms.
Deliberately not included
These are not missing features waiting to arrive. They are outside what the app is for, and leaving them out is what keeps the rest of it quick.
- No recipe discovery and no importing recipes from websites
- No grocery lists, pantry tracking, or meal planning
- No nutrition, calorie, or allergen information
- No social feed and no sharing
- No AI suggesting what to cook
Save what worked. Cook it again.
