Cooklang is an open, plain-text markup language for recipes. Recipes are files you own: readable without any app, easy to keep in git, and simple to turn into shopping lists, meal plans and reports.

Start here

• Write your first recipe
• Playground: try the syntax in your browser
• Language spec
• Manifesto

Tools

• CookCLI: shopping lists, a recipe web server and reports from the command line
• Editor support: VS Code, Obsidian, Emacs, Sublime Text, Kakoune, any LSP editor
• Cook apps for iOS and Android, and Cook Cloud to sync your recipe folder across phone, desktop and CLI
• Awesome Cooklang: projects and libraries that work with Cooklang

Get involved

• Discord and r/cooklang: ask for help or say hello
• Spec discussions: suggest ideas for the language
• Current development: vote with 👍 or contribute
• Help needed: validate recipes to improve AI conversion