Free vs Premium: What's Included

Cookonut is designed to be useful on the free plan. Premium adds extra power for users who want more. Here’s a detailed breakdown of what each plan offers.

Complete Feature Comparison

Feature	Free	Premium
AI imports per month	10 credits	Unlimited
Saved recipes	Up to 50	Unlimited
Manual recipe entry	Unlimited	Unlimited
Import methods	All 6 (social media, photo, voice, text, browser, from scratch)	All 6
Cooking mode (with timers)	No	Yes
Meal planner (build by hand)	Yes	Yes
Meal plan randomizer (random week)	No	Yes
Grocery list generation	Yes	Yes
Cookbooks	Yes	Yes
Tags & categories	Yes	Yes
Search & filter	Yes	Yes
Ingredient search	Yes	Yes
Serving scaling	Yes	Yes
Unit conversion	Yes	Yes
Pick a Recipe (single random pick)	Yes	Yes
Cloud sync	Yes	Yes
Offline access	Yes	Yes
Export as PDF	Yes	Yes
Print recipes	Yes	Yes
Share via text/email	Yes	Yes
Copy meal plan week	No	Yes
Share grocery list	Yes	Yes
8 app languages	Yes	Yes
Dark mode	Yes	Yes
Nutrition info	No	Yes
Recipe translation	No	Yes
User-to-user sharing	No	Yes

What’s Free (and Will Always Be)

Cookonut’s core experience is completely free:

Saving recipes: Import from any source — websites, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, photos, voice, pasted text, or the in-app browser. You get 10 AI-powered imports per month. Manual recipe entry (from scratch) is always unlimited and doesn’t use credits.

Organizing: Create cookbooks, add tags, search and filter your collection. All organization tools are free.

Cooking: Serving scaling and unit conversion on every recipe. (Step-by-step cooking mode with built-in timers is a Premium feature.)

Planning: Build your weekly meal plan by hand and generate grocery lists from it — every meal, every week, at no cost. Can’t decide? Pick a Recipe picks one random recipe for free. (Smart Meal Planning — random week and copy week — is Premium.)

Exporting: Print recipes, export as PDF, share via text or email. All free.

Sync and offline: Your data syncs to the cloud and is available offline. Free.

What’s Premium-Only

Premium unlocks the following:

Cooking Mode

Follow any recipe step by step with large, kitchen-friendly text, a progress bar, a screen that stays on, and built-in cooking timers. On the free plan, you can read recipes; cooking mode unlocks with Premium.

Smart Meal Planning

Two power tools for the weekly planner: Generate random week (auto-fill your week from your collection) and Copy a week (reuse a plan in another week). Building a plan by hand stays free.

Nutrition Information

See estimated calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, and fiber for every recipe. Calculated from the ingredient list and shown per serving. Useful for dietary goals, meal planning, and general awareness.

Recipe Translation

Translate any recipe into one of Cookonut’s 8 supported languages (English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese). Found a recipe in French but cook better following English instructions? Translate it with one tap.

User-to-User Sharing

Share recipes directly with other Cookonut users. The recipe arrives in their app complete with all details, ready to save to their collection. This is different from sharing via text or email (which is free) — this is an in-app sharing experience.

Higher Limits

Premium also removes the free-plan limits: unlimited AI imports (instead of 10 per month) and unlimited saved recipes (instead of 50).

Premium Pricing

• Monthly: $4.99/month
• Annual: $38.99/year (35% savings vs. monthly)

Who Should Upgrade?

Stay on Free if you:

• Import fewer than 10 recipes per month
• Have a collection under 50 recipes
• Don’t need nutrition data
• Share recipes via text/email (which works fine)

Upgrade to Premium if you:

• Regularly hit the 10-credit monthly limit
• Want to build a large collection (50+ recipes)
• Want step-by-step cooking mode with built-in timers
• Want Smart Meal Planning (auto-fill and copy weeks)
• Want nutrition information for dietary planning
• Cook from recipes in different languages
• Want seamless recipe sharing with other Cookonut users

You Can Always Upgrade Later

There’s no rush to decide. Use the free plan as long as it meets your needs. When you’re ready, upgrading takes seconds from the Settings screen.