CookShelf Downloads & RevenueCookShelf: Search Cookbooks · App Store & Google Play
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks by CookShelf Inc is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks update history & changes
Last change · 48 events since 31 Jul 2025Full timeline ↓📦iOSUpdated to version 2.24.0📈iOSEntered the top 100📈iOSCharting in a new country📦AndroidUpdated to version 2.24.0📦iOSUpdated to version 2.22.0📦AndroidUpdated to version 2.21.0✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: ingredient⭐iOSPassed 1K ratings✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: shelves📈AndroidEntered the top 100📈AndroidCharting in a new country⭐iOSPassed 1K ratings🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSReleased on the App Store🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play
Full timeline · 48 events
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.24.0iOS- Add your own recipes with "Write it yourself" and find them in your Recipe box on your Shelf
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Food & Drink · FR
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks charting in a new countryiOSFrance
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.24.0Android- Add your own recipes with "Write it yourself" and find them in your Recipe box on your Shelf
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.22.0iOS- See which books you have in common with other members
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.21.0iOS- Find recipes faster in your books: filter the table of contents by diet or course, show only recipes with comments, and change the sort order
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.21.0Android- Find recipes faster in your books: filter the table of contents by diet or course, show only recipes with comments, and change the sort order
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.22.0Android- See which books you have in common with other members
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - ✏️CookShelf: Search Cookbooks added hidden keywords: ingredientiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.20.0iOS- See each commenter's star rating next to their recipe comment
- Clear your Recents history
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.20.0Android- See each commenter's star rating next to their recipe comment
- Clear your Recents history
- Bug fixes and performance improvements - 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Food & Drink · ID
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks charting in a new countryiOSIndonesia
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.17.0iOS- Links you tap while signed out now open after you sign in or create an account
- Home refreshes after time away and skips cooks you’ve already seen
- Fewer pop-ups asking you to rate the app
- Bug fixes and performance improvements… more - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.17.0Android- Links you tap while signed out now open after you sign in or create an account
- Home refreshes after time away and skips cooks you’ve already seen
- Fewer pop-ups asking you to rate the app
- Bug fixes and performance improvements… more - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.16.0iOSBug fixes and performance improvements.
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.16.0AndroidBug fixes and performance improvements.
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks: now updating weeklyAndroid4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.14.0iOS- Your saved dietary preferences now apply to "What to cook today" on Home, and recipe search starts with them already selected.
- "What to cook today" now suggests only recipes that have a photo.
- Recipe pages now show ingredient alternatives (such as "butter or oil"), and long ingredient lists display in full on iPhone.
- Personal recipes now show their source on recipe cards, and upcoming books are marked "Coming soon" next to their publication date.
- The barcode scanner recovers if the camera fails to start, and rating stars are back when logging a cook on Android.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.… more - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.14.0Android- Your dietary preferences now apply to "What to cook today" and recipe search.
- "What to cook today" only suggests recipes with photos.
- Recipes show ingredient alternatives, like "butter or oil."
- Personal recipes show their source on cards.
- Upcoming books are marked "Coming soon."
- The barcode scanner recovers if the camera won’t start.
- Rating stars are back when logging a cook.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.… more - ✏️CookShelf: Search Cookbooks added hidden keywords: shelvesiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks entered the top 10iOSTop Grossing · Food & Drink · AU
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.11.0iOS- Meal plan drag-and-drop on Android now drops recipes where you release them, and the dropped card stays in view.
- Meal plan images load faster on Android.
- When you log your first cook, tapping Next after your first name now moves you to the last name field.
- The character counter on long cook notes now stays visible above the keyboard.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.… more - ✏️CookShelf: Search Cookbooks added hidden keywords: shelvesiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.10.0iOS- New book search filters: narrow results by cuisine, book type, whether a book is indexed, and whether it has comments.
- New "Recently Added" sort shows the books you added to your shelf most recently first.
- When adding books, search results across your shelf are now ranked by relevance.
- "What to cook today" now suggests recipes that suit the season.
- Shared bookmark lists now open in the app or on the website. Web subscribers can manage billing and update their card from Manage Subscription.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.… more - 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Food & Drink · NL
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks charting in a new countryAndroidNetherlands
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks entered the top 100 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Food & Drink · MX · Top Grossing · Food & Drink · TH · Top Grossing · Food & Drink · TR · Top Grossing · Food & Drink · VN
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks charting in a new country in 4 chartsAndroidMexico · Thailand · Turkey · Vietnam
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Food & Drink · DE
- 📈CookShelf: Search Cookbooks charting in a new countryiOSGermany
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.7.0iOSBug fixes and performance improvements
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.6.0iOS- Scan a cookbook's cover to add it to your shelf. Look for Scan cover in the Add to shelf menu.
- Keep a wish list of cookbooks you want. Add books to it from any book page or your shelf.
- Your wish list now appears on your profile, and you can share a read-only link with friends and family.
- Opening a CookShelf link while signed out now takes you to sign-in first.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.… more - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.6.0Android- What to cook today: turn on a new Home section that suggests recipes from your shelf.
- Home screen customization: choose what appears on Home in the new Home settings.
- Home-screen shortcuts: press and hold the app icon to jump to your grocery list, meal plan, or search.
- Pescatarian diet filter: if you follow a pescatarian diet, you can now filter your searches for that.
- Keep a wish list of cookbooks you want. Add books to it from any book page or your shelf.… more - ✏️CookShelf: Search Cookbooks added hidden keywords: ingredientsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️CookShelf: Search Cookbooks added hidden keywords: ingredientsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️CookShelf: Search Cookbooks added hidden keywords: ingredientiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.3.0iOSCookShelf 2.0 is here.
Search the cookbooks you already own, then open Home to see what people actually cooked from those same pages. You’ll see what they made, the notes they left, and the little tweaks that made it better. Follow the people whose cooking you trust, and when they make something worth talking about, you’ll see it.
Home is the good part of a cooking group chat, all in the app. We’ll also give you a heads-up when someone new follows you, when a friend likes your cook, and when a book from your shelf is added to our catalog.
Plus, you can plan your week of meals and menus, and build a grocery list from the recipes you’re cooking. Record your cooks as you go—just share a photo directly from your gallery to CookShelf.… more - 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks updated to version 2.2.0AndroidCookShelf 2.0 is here.
Search the cookbooks you already own, then open Home to see what people cooked from those same pages: their notes, photos, and the little tweaks that made it better. Plus, plan your week and build a grocery list from the recipes you’re making, and share your photos right from your phone's gallery to track your cooks.… more - 🆕CookShelf: Search Cookbooks first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited Arab Emirates
- 🆕CookShelf: Search Cookbooks first spotted by AppInsideriOS#22 in Top Grossing · Food & Drink · United Kingdom
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks version 2.2.0iOSNo release notes
- 📦CookShelf: Search Cookbooks version 2.0.0AndroidCookShelf 2.0 is here. Search the cookbooks you already own, then open Home to see what people cooked from those same pages: their notes, photos, and the little tweaks that made it better. Plus, plan your week and build a grocery list from the recipes you’re making, and share your photos right from your phone's gallery to track your cooks.… more
- 🆕CookShelf: Search Cookbooks released on the App StoreiOS
- 🆕CookShelf: Search Cookbooks released on Google PlayAndroid
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.5 ★
1k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#19
App Store · 
Food & Drink Grossing
Food & Drink GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
33
▼ -18% vs the 2 weeks before (App Store)
Measured
App Store
App details
App ID
6743496454
Publisher
CookShelf Inc
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Aug 2025
1 year on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
1 content note below
Languages
1
EN
Size
95 MB
Also listed in
Books
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.cookshelf.mobile
Publisher
CookShelf, Inc
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 100+ | 100k+ |
| Google Play | 10+ | 10k+ Measured |
| Total | 100+ Confidence | 100k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where CookShelf: Search Cookbooks's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How CookShelf: Search Cookbooks makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | CookShelf Premium - Annual subscription | |
| 2 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 4 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 5 | CookShelf Premium - Annual subscription | |
| 6 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #19 Food & Drink Grossing | 4 of 30 countries | – | #28 |
| Google Play | #25 Food & Drink Grossing | 10 of 23 countries | – | #25 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
27
▼ -18% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2.8
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.7★
vs 4.6★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
3.5★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
75/100
faster than 88% of Food & Drink apps
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 20 | 76% | ▼ -20% |
| United Kingdom | 4.8 | 18% | ▲ +10% |
 Canada | 1.5 | 6% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
6
▼ -27% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
Google Play
Recent ratings
4.9★
vs 4.1★ lifetime
Review momentum
36/100
faster than 25% of Food and drink apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 803 |
| Google Play | 4.1 ★ | 240 73 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.5 ★ weighted by ratings | 1k |
What users say about CookShelf: Search Cookbooks
From the 66 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (59% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and not being useful. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “This so simple and just AMAZING”
- Features & content: “Needs more feature for the price tag”
- Useful: “A must have for cookbook lovers”
- Price & subscription: “Needs more feature for the price tag”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Pay to use the books I own”
- Useful: “Only helpful if you’re interested in cataloging your recipe names”
- Ease of use: “Adding books to my library in the Eat Your Books website was so simple”
- Features & content: “Not a functional cooking/shopping tool”
About CookShelf: Search Cookbooks
Do you love cookbooks? Us, too. That's why we created CookShelf, the app that helps you make the most of your cookbook collection, and cook from the books you already own.
Got too much zucchini in the summer, and an excess of cabbage in winter? Or are you just trying to find that one Bolognese recipe you love and make every year, but can *never* remember which book it’s in? Quickly find recipes across your cookbooks that use what you already have—no more forgotten vegetables wilting in your crisper drawer. Simply search by ingredient, dish type, or whatever you're craving, and CookShelf shows exactly which cookbook has what you need and what page it's on.
CookShelf is built for home cooks who love real cookbooks and real creators. Set a goal for how many cookbook recipes you'll cook this year, track your progress, and look back at everything you've made. Plus, get inspired by what our community is cooking from the books you own. We bridge the gap between physical cookbooks and digital convenience—because the best recipes are already on your shelf.
◆ Instantly search across your cookbooks and thousands of online recipes
◆ Find recipes based on what's in your fridge
◆ See ingredients lists before opening your books
◆ See what people are cooking: browse real cooks from the books already on your shelf—what people made, the notes they left, the little tweaks that made it better
◆ Follow your friends: find the people whose cooking you trust and follow along
◆ Track your cooking: bookmark recipes, mark what you've cooked, add photos and notes, and look back at your cooks timeline
◆ Set a cooking goal and watch your progress grow throughout the year
◆ Reduce food waste: use up CSA box ingredients before they spoil
◆ Finally cook from those cookbooks you love but rarely open
◆ 16,000+ cookbooks indexed
Join thousands of home cooks who are rediscovering the treasures in their cookbook collections every day.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CookShelf includes both a free version and a Premium (paid) subscription.
The free version lets you add up to 5 cookbooks and use all of CookShelf's features for those books—search, bookmarking, cooking goals, and tracking.
Premium unlocks your full collection:
◆ Add unlimited cookbooks
◆ Search across your entire library and over 15,000 indexed titles
You can start a free trial to access Premium. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you'll be automatically charged the price shown on the payment screen for your chosen plan. Your CookShelf Premium subscription renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. Canceling disables the automatic renewal, but you'll keep full access through the end of your current period. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.cookshelf.app/terms
Privacy: https://www.cookshelf.app/privacy
Got too much zucchini in the summer, and an excess of cabbage in winter? Or are you just trying to find that one Bolognese recipe you love and make every year, but can *never* remember which book it’s in? Quickly find recipes across your cookbooks that use what you already have—no more forgotten vegetables wilting in your crisper drawer. Simply search by ingredient, dish type, or whatever you're craving, and CookShelf shows exactly which cookbook has what you need and what page it's on.
CookShelf is built for home cooks who love real cookbooks and real creators. Set a goal for how many cookbook recipes you'll cook this year, track your progress, and look back at everything you've made. Plus, get inspired by what our community is cooking from the books you own. We bridge the gap between physical cookbooks and digital convenience—because the best recipes are already on your shelf.
◆ Instantly search across your cookbooks and thousands of online recipes
◆ Find recipes based on what's in your fridge
◆ See ingredients lists before opening your books
◆ See what people are cooking: browse real cooks from the books already on your shelf—what people made, the notes they left, the little tweaks that made it better
◆ Follow your friends: find the people whose cooking you trust and follow along
◆ Track your cooking: bookmark recipes, mark what you've cooked, add photos and notes, and look back at your cooks timeline
◆ Set a cooking goal and watch your progress grow throughout the year
◆ Reduce food waste: use up CSA box ingredients before they spoil
◆ Finally cook from those cookbooks you love but rarely open
◆ 16,000+ cookbooks indexed
Join thousands of home cooks who are rediscovering the treasures in their cookbook collections every day.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CookShelf includes both a free version and a Premium (paid) subscription.
The free version lets you add up to 5 cookbooks and use all of CookShelf's features for those books—search, bookmarking, cooking goals, and tracking.
Premium unlocks your full collection:
◆ Add unlimited cookbooks
◆ Search across your entire library and over 15,000 indexed titles
You can start a free trial to access Premium. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you'll be automatically charged the price shown on the payment screen for your chosen plan. Your CookShelf Premium subscription renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. Canceling disables the automatic renewal, but you'll keep full access through the end of your current period. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.cookshelf.app/terms
Privacy: https://www.cookshelf.app/privacy
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks App Store
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks is #28 in Food & Drink Grossing in United States and charting in 4 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperCookShelf Inc
CategoryFood & Drink
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (803)
Version2.24.0
Age rating12+
First seen by us 24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Rating
4.6 ★
803 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#28
Food & Drink GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
27
▼ -18% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks on the App Store
App details
App ID
6743496454
Publisher
CookShelf Inc
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Aug 2025
1 year on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
1 content note below
Languages
1
EN
Size
95 MB
Also listed in
Books
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
CookShelf: Search Cookbooks downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where CookShelf: Search Cookbooks's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in CookShelf: Search Cookbooks before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How CookShelf: Search Cookbooks makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | CookShelf Premium - Annual subscription | |
| 2 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 4 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 5 | CookShelf Premium - Annual subscription | |
| 6 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Food & DrinkGrossing | #28 |
| United Kingdom | Food & DrinkGrossing | #19 |
 Australia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #21 |
| Canada | Food & DrinkGrossing | #40 |
Apps near CookShelf: Search Cookbooks on the chart
Food & Drink Grossing, around #28.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
803 ratings
Measured
Ratings
803
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
27
▼ -18% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2.8
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.7★
vs 4.6★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
3.5★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
75/100
faster than 88% of Food & Drink apps
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 20 | 76% | ▼ -20% |
| United Kingdom | 4.8 | 18% | ▲ +10% |
| Canada | 1.5 | 6% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about CookShelf: Search Cookbooks
From the 66 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (59% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and not being useful. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “This so simple and just AMAZING”
- Features & content: “Needs more feature for the price tag”
- Useful: “A must have for cookbook lovers”
- Price & subscription: “Needs more feature for the price tag”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Pay to use the books I own”
- Useful: “Only helpful if you’re interested in cataloging your recipe names”
- Ease of use: “Adding books to my library in the Eat Your Books website was so simple”
- Features & content: “Not a functional cooking/shopping tool”
About CookShelf: Search Cookbooks
Do you love cookbooks? Us, too. That's why we created CookShelf, the app that helps you make the most of your cookbook collection, and cook from the books you already own.
Got too much zucchini in the summer, and an excess of cabbage in winter? Or are you just trying to find that one Bolognese recipe you love and make every year, but can *never* remember which book it’s in? Quickly find recipes across your cookbooks that use what you already have—no more forgotten vegetables wilting in your crisper drawer. Simply search by ingredient, dish type, or whatever you're craving, and CookShelf shows exactly which cookbook has what you need and what page it's on.
CookShelf is built for home cooks who love real cookbooks and real creators. Set a goal for how many cookbook recipes you'll cook this year, track your progress, and look back at everything you've made. Plus, get inspired by what our community is cooking from the books you own. We bridge the gap between physical cookbooks and digital convenience—because the best recipes are already on your shelf.
◆ Instantly search across your cookbooks and thousands of online recipes
◆ Find recipes based on what's in your fridge
◆ See ingredients lists before opening your books
◆ See what people are cooking: browse real cooks from the books already on your shelf—what people made, the notes they left, the little tweaks that made it better
◆ Follow your friends: find the people whose cooking you trust and follow along
◆ Track your cooking: bookmark recipes, mark what you've cooked, add photos and notes, and look back at your cooks timeline
◆ Set a cooking goal and watch your progress grow throughout the year
◆ Reduce food waste: use up CSA box ingredients before they spoil
◆ Finally cook from those cookbooks you love but rarely open
◆ 16,000+ cookbooks indexed
Join thousands of home cooks who are rediscovering the treasures in their cookbook collections every day.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CookShelf includes both a free version and a Premium (paid) subscription.
The free version lets you add up to 5 cookbooks and use all of CookShelf's features for those books—search, bookmarking, cooking goals, and tracking.
Premium unlocks your full collection:
◆ Add unlimited cookbooks
◆ Search across your entire library and over 15,000 indexed titles
You can start a free trial to access Premium. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you'll be automatically charged the price shown on the payment screen for your chosen plan. Your CookShelf Premium subscription renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. Canceling disables the automatic renewal, but you'll keep full access through the end of your current period. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.cookshelf.app/terms
Privacy: https://www.cookshelf.app/privacy
Got too much zucchini in the summer, and an excess of cabbage in winter? Or are you just trying to find that one Bolognese recipe you love and make every year, but can *never* remember which book it’s in? Quickly find recipes across your cookbooks that use what you already have—no more forgotten vegetables wilting in your crisper drawer. Simply search by ingredient, dish type, or whatever you're craving, and CookShelf shows exactly which cookbook has what you need and what page it's on.
CookShelf is built for home cooks who love real cookbooks and real creators. Set a goal for how many cookbook recipes you'll cook this year, track your progress, and look back at everything you've made. Plus, get inspired by what our community is cooking from the books you own. We bridge the gap between physical cookbooks and digital convenience—because the best recipes are already on your shelf.
◆ Instantly search across your cookbooks and thousands of online recipes
◆ Find recipes based on what's in your fridge
◆ See ingredients lists before opening your books
◆ See what people are cooking: browse real cooks from the books already on your shelf—what people made, the notes they left, the little tweaks that made it better
◆ Follow your friends: find the people whose cooking you trust and follow along
◆ Track your cooking: bookmark recipes, mark what you've cooked, add photos and notes, and look back at your cooks timeline
◆ Set a cooking goal and watch your progress grow throughout the year
◆ Reduce food waste: use up CSA box ingredients before they spoil
◆ Finally cook from those cookbooks you love but rarely open
◆ 16,000+ cookbooks indexed
Join thousands of home cooks who are rediscovering the treasures in their cookbook collections every day.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CookShelf includes both a free version and a Premium (paid) subscription.
The free version lets you add up to 5 cookbooks and use all of CookShelf's features for those books—search, bookmarking, cooking goals, and tracking.
Premium unlocks your full collection:
◆ Add unlimited cookbooks
◆ Search across your entire library and over 15,000 indexed titles
You can start a free trial to access Premium. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you'll be automatically charged the price shown on the payment screen for your chosen plan. Your CookShelf Premium subscription renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. Canceling disables the automatic renewal, but you'll keep full access through the end of your current period. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.cookshelf.app/terms
Privacy: https://www.cookshelf.app/privacy
Latest updates
2.24.0
- Add your own recipes with "Write it yourself" and find them in your Recipe box on your Shelf
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
2.22.0
- See which books you have in common with other members
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
2.21.0
- Find recipes faster in your books: filter the table of contents by diet or course, show only recipes with comments, and change the sort order
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
CookShelf Android
CookShelf gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
CookShelf is #25 in Food & Drink Grossing on Google Play in United States and charting in 10 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperCookShelf
CategoryFood & Drink
PriceFree
Released
Installs10k+
Rating★ 4.1 (240)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.1 ★
240 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#25
Food & Drink GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
6
▼ -27% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
CookShelf on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.cookshelf.mobile
Publisher
CookShelf, Inc
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
CookShelf downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where CookShelf's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in CookShelf before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How CookShelf makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | CookShelf Premium - Annual subscription | |
| 2 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 4 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription | |
| 5 | CookShelf Premium - Annual subscription | |
| 6 | CookShelf Premium - Monthly subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Food & DrinkGrossing | #25 |
 India | Food & DrinkGrossing | #52 |
 Mexico | Food & DrinkGrossing | #59 |
 Indonesia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #52 |
 Saudi Arabia | Food & DrinkGrossing | #52 |
 United Arab Emirates | Food & DrinkGrossing | #52 |
 Netherlands | Food & DrinkGrossing | #52 |
 Turkey | Food & DrinkGrossing | #59 |
 Thailand | Food & DrinkGrossing | #58 |
 Vietnam | Food & DrinkGrossing | #48 |
Apps near CookShelf on the chart
Food & Drink Grossing, around #25.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.1 ★
240 ratings
Measured
Ratings
240
Measured
Written reviews
73
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
6
▼ -27% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
Google Play
Recent ratings
4.9★
vs 4.1★ lifetime
Review momentum
36/100
faster than 25% of Food and drink apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about CookShelf
From the 113 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed (46% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and good value. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and not being useful. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Useful: “So useful and easy to use”
- Price & subscription: “definitely worth paying for”
- Ease of use: “So useful and easy to use”
- Features & content: “Great cookbook indexing tool!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “don't waste your time or money”
- Useful: “its entirly too expensive and is noy helpful”
- Ads: “Disingenuous by not advertising the fact that it requires a monthly or yearly subscription to be used”
About CookShelf
Do you love cookbooks? Us, too. That's why we created CookShelf, the app that helps you make the most of your cookbook collection, and cook from the books you already own.
Got too much zucchini in the summer, and an excess of cabbage in winter? Or are you just trying to find that one Bolognese recipe you love and make every year, but can *never* remember which book it’s in? Quickly find recipes across your cookbooks that use what you already have—no more forgotten vegetables wilting in your crisper drawer. Simply search by ingredient, dish type, or whatever you're craving, and CookShelf shows exactly which cookbook has what you need and what page it's on.
CookShelf is built for home cooks who love real cookbooks and real creators. Set a goal for how many cookbook recipes you'll cook this year, track your progress, and look back at everything you've made. Plus, get inspired by what our community is cooking from the books you own. We bridge the gap between physical cookbooks and digital convenience—because the best recipes are already on your shelf.
◆ Instantly search across your cookbooks and thousands of online recipes
◆ Find recipes based on what's in your fridge
◆ See ingredients lists before opening your books
◆ See what people are cooking: browse real cooks from the books already on your shelf—what people made, the notes they left, the little tweaks that made it better
◆ Follow your friends: find the people whose cooking you trust and follow along
◆ Track your cooking: bookmark recipes, mark what you've cooked, add photos and notes, and look back at your cooks timeline
◆ Set a cooking goal and watch your progress grow throughout the year
◆ Reduce food waste: use up CSA box ingredients before they spoil
◆ Finally cook from those cookbooks you love but rarely open
◆ 16,000+ cookbooks indexed
Join thousands of home cooks who are rediscovering the treasures in their cookbook collections every day.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CookShelf includes both a free version and a Premium (paid) subscription.
The free version lets you add up to 5 cookbooks and use all of CookShelf's features for those books—search, bookmarking, cooking goals, and tracking.
Premium unlocks your full collection:
◆ Add unlimited cookbooks
◆ Search across your entire library and over 15,000 indexed titles
You can start a free trial to access Premium. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you'll be automatically charged the price shown on the payment screen for your chosen plan. Your CookShelf Premium subscription renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. Canceling disables the automatic renewal, but you'll keep full access through the end of your current period. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.cookshelf.app/terms
Privacy: https://www.cookshelf.app/privacy
Got too much zucchini in the summer, and an excess of cabbage in winter? Or are you just trying to find that one Bolognese recipe you love and make every year, but can *never* remember which book it’s in? Quickly find recipes across your cookbooks that use what you already have—no more forgotten vegetables wilting in your crisper drawer. Simply search by ingredient, dish type, or whatever you're craving, and CookShelf shows exactly which cookbook has what you need and what page it's on.
CookShelf is built for home cooks who love real cookbooks and real creators. Set a goal for how many cookbook recipes you'll cook this year, track your progress, and look back at everything you've made. Plus, get inspired by what our community is cooking from the books you own. We bridge the gap between physical cookbooks and digital convenience—because the best recipes are already on your shelf.
◆ Instantly search across your cookbooks and thousands of online recipes
◆ Find recipes based on what's in your fridge
◆ See ingredients lists before opening your books
◆ See what people are cooking: browse real cooks from the books already on your shelf—what people made, the notes they left, the little tweaks that made it better
◆ Follow your friends: find the people whose cooking you trust and follow along
◆ Track your cooking: bookmark recipes, mark what you've cooked, add photos and notes, and look back at your cooks timeline
◆ Set a cooking goal and watch your progress grow throughout the year
◆ Reduce food waste: use up CSA box ingredients before they spoil
◆ Finally cook from those cookbooks you love but rarely open
◆ 16,000+ cookbooks indexed
Join thousands of home cooks who are rediscovering the treasures in their cookbook collections every day.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CookShelf includes both a free version and a Premium (paid) subscription.
The free version lets you add up to 5 cookbooks and use all of CookShelf's features for those books—search, bookmarking, cooking goals, and tracking.
Premium unlocks your full collection:
◆ Add unlimited cookbooks
◆ Search across your entire library and over 15,000 indexed titles
You can start a free trial to access Premium. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you'll be automatically charged the price shown on the payment screen for your chosen plan. Your CookShelf Premium subscription renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. Canceling disables the automatic renewal, but you'll keep full access through the end of your current period. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.cookshelf.app/terms
Privacy: https://www.cookshelf.app/privacy
What's new in 2.24.0
- Add your own recipes with "Write it yourself" and find them in your Recipe box on your Shelf
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
- Bug fixes and performance improvements