Cookestra: Cook & Recipes
Burak Akbay Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Cookestra: Cook & Recipes is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Burak Akbay. Requires iOS 16.0. Updated August 7, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 489 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Aug 7
- 2026 · v1.0
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About Cookestra: Cook & Recipes
Cookestra is a decision-first cooking companion that turns your mood, time, preferred cuisine and ingredients on hand into one confident answer for the table. DECIDE WHAT TO COOK • Follow a short editorial survey for a personal recommendation. • Search by dish or ingredient, explore 12 cuisines, or choose Surprise Me. • Start with what is already in your kitchen and find compatible recipes. • Explore 1,279 carefully authored recipes, including 378 Chef+ editions. COOK WITH CONFIDENCE • Follow clear, step-by-step cooking instructions. • Listen to spoken guidance and move through steps with Siri when your hands are busy. • Keep timers visible with Live Activities and Dynamic Island. • Control an active cooking session from Apple Watch. • Switch between authored metric and imperial measurements. • Review allergens, critical temperatures and food-safety notes without a paywall. COMPLETE THE TABLE WITH CHEF+ Chef+ brings planning, technique and service into one quiet, premium workspace: • The Week creates a varied seven-dinner plan and consolidated shopping list. • The Table composes a coherent guest menu around time, budget and dietary needs. • The Service coordinates several dishes, parallel timers and spoken cues so every plate finishes together. • Build tasting menus, study progressive Mastery programs, open technique and plating guides, and discover curated Editions. • Let My Kitchen remember trusted substitutions, household tastes, serving preferences and your own cooking notes. PERSONAL, NOT INTRUSIVE Cookestra has no ads and does not track you across apps or websites. Personal cooking data is protected on device. Optional Cookestra Cloud sync uses your private iCloud database so favorites, plans, progress and kitchen memory can follow you between devices. The free edition includes recipe search, cuisine discovery, favorites, basic personalized recommendations, Cook with What You Have, single-recipe cooking mode, spoken steps, timers and accessibility tools. Chef+ is an optional auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription. A seven-day trial is available with the annual plan when Apple shows your account as eligible. Prices, currencies, trial dates and renewal terms are displayed by Apple before purchase. Manage or cancel at any time in your Apple subscription settings. Available in English, Turkish, French, German and Spanish. Cook with confidence. Serve with calm. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
App privacy
The developer, Burak Akbay, 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:
- Contact Info: Name
- User Content: Other User Content
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Identifiers: Device ID
Used for: Product Personalization, App Functionality
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