ckbk: discover great cookbooks
1000 Cookbooks Ltd Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
ckbk: discover great cookbooks is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by 1000 Cookbooks Ltd. Rated 4.7/5 from 98 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 4.7
- 98 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 43 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 10
- 2026 · v1.11.2
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About ckbk: discover great cookbooks
ckbk offers the world’s best cookbooks, all in one place: • Filter your searches by diet, type of dish, national cuisine, author and more... • Recipes are enhanced with macronutrient data to help you meet your healthy-eating goals • Customize your preferred units (metric or US cups) and dietary filters (e.g. vegan, keto, gluten-free) • Create and share your own ‘recipe playlists’ • Swipe left/right to browse the full content of every cookbook (not just the recipes!) • Pin recipes to the top of the screen for quick access • Tag recipes once you have cooked them, and add star ratings and reviews • Add private notes to keep track of your own tweaks • Post questions about any recipe to get advice from the ckbk community • Follow recommendations from leading chefs and authors to explore new areas • Discover regional cuisines from around the world • Browse bookshelves to find the most popular cookbooks by country or category FEATURED CHEFS AND AUTHORS Featured authors include Dominique Ansel, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Mark Bittman, Paul Bocuse, Jayne Cohen, Le Cordon Bleu, Chantal Coady, The Culinary Institute of America, Josceline Dimbleby, Alain Ducasse, Naomi Duguid, Auguste Escoffier, Keith Floyd, Eleanor Ford, French Culinary Institute, Bo Friberg, Daniel Galmiche, Peter Gilmore, Wayne Gisslen, Darra Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Alice Hart, Valentina Harris, Marcella Hazan, Pierre Hermé, Mark Hix, Ken Hom, Nisha Katona, Tessa Kiros, Jennifer Joyce, Prue Leith, Deborah Madison, Nick Malgieri, Christine Manfield, Francisco Migoya, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Sri Owen, James Peterson, Darren Purchese, Steven Raichlen, Stéphane Reynaud, Gary Rhodes, Claudia Roden, Julee Rosso, Michael Ruhlman, Richard Sax, Nick Sharma, David Tanis, Jeremiah Tower, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Anne Willan, Paula Wolfert and many more. A WEALTH OF COOKBOOKS • ckbk covers every style of cooking: from simple 20-minute weeknight meals and healthy vegan options to dinner party show-stoppers and Michelin-starred chef creations • Award winning titles from top food writers and chefs, reference works including The Oxford Companion to Food, Escoffier and On Food & Cooking, and professional titles such as Professional Cooking by Wayne Gisslen • Build your expertise with titles from great culinary schools including Le Cordon Bleu and the French Culinary Institute • Explore culinary history with vintage cookbooks from Mrs Beeton, Hannah Glasse and Fannie Farmer WORLD CUISINES From Italian to Indonesian, and Spanish to South African, ckbk has it covered. Featuring more than 80 national cuisines, ckbk puts recipes from every corner of the world at your fingertips. BENEFITS OF USING THE CKBK APP • Instant access to ckbk, wherever you are • No need to keep waking up your phone with sticky fingers! The ckbk app keeps your recipe visible while you cook! CKBK MEMBERSHIP • Free Members can search ckbk's entire collection and access up to 3 recipes per month • Premium Members have unlimited access to the full content of every book • Take out a free 14-day trial of monthly Premium Membership • Save even more with annual Premium Membership • ckbk members can use their membership via the app and also via the ckbk website Terms & Conditions https://www.ckbk.com/terms Privacy Policy https://www.ckbk.com/privacy Get in touch: [email protected]
Ratings & reviews
4.7
98 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.11.2 · Updated September 10, 2026
Improvements to newly added nutrition preferences and search behaviour
App privacy
The developer, 1000 Cookbooks Ltd, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Other Usage Data
- User Content: Customer Support
- Search History: Search History
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: App Functionality
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|---|---|---|---|
| ckbk: discover great cookbooks | 4.7 / 5 (98 ratings) | Free | September 10, 2026 |
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| Kneady: Bread & Baking Recipes | 4.8 / 5 (729) | Free | Jul 15, 2026 |
| Guardian Feast: Daily Recipes | 4.8 / 5 (648) | Free | Sep 21, 2026 |
| FOOD & WINE | 4.4 / 5 (363) | Free | Jun 2, 2026 |
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