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24 alternatives to Textual Chef

Text only recipes

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation▲189
Set of scripts and notebooks used to produce results visible in RecipeNLG paper - Glorf/recipenlg
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cook Magic▲169
Text your ingredients. Eat delicious recipes.
2020 · its alternatives →
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Cleartext▲307
A text editor that allows only the 1,000 most common words
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
4
CookLang – Recipe Markup Language▲415
Cooklang is a markup language for recipes.
2021 · cooklang.org · its alternatives →
5
Instantly search 2M recipes▲349
Recipe Search with Typesense
2020 · recipe-search.typesense.org · its alternatives →
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ChefPage▲86
Publishing platform for food & recipes
2021 · chef.page · its alternatives →
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Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later▲201
Save and organize your favorite recipes from any website. Extract recipes, sync across devices, and print beautiful recipe cards. Your personal recipe collection in the cloud.
Dec 2025 · onlyrecipeapp.com · its alternatives →
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Sous▲71
Transform recipes into voice-navigated, step-by-step cards
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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RecipeWriter▲125
Author recipes. Simple and Beautiful.
2014 · app.samsungfood.com · its alternatives →
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Tonic Textual▲211
Get your unstructured data AI-ready in minutes
2024 · tonic.ai · its alternatives →
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Fine-grained stylistic control of LLMs using model arithmetic▲85
We developed a new framework that enables flexible control of generated text in language models. By combining several models and/or system prompts in one mathematical formula, it lets you tweak your style and combine model outputs with ease. A handy tool for those working with LLMs, looking for more fine-grained control of stylistic output. More details in our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14479. Feedback and potential applications are welcome.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Plain Old Recipe: convert online recipes to plain-text▲22
Takes a recipe website URL and transforms it to a plain-text version for reading or printing. - poundifdef/plainoldrecipe
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
13
RecipeBook by Shofo▲106
Buy video training data by the hour featuring 25M+ clips
Jul 2026 · recipebook.shofo.ai · its alternatives →
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Textual – An async-powered terminal application framework for Python▲66
The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser. - textual/README.md at main · Textualize/textual
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Be My Chef▲97
An AI-powered recipe generator, for unlimited recipes
2023 · its alternatives →
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ChefBook▲99
Keep all of your recipes at one place
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Textcraft▲106
Magic text transformations
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Cookbook▲80
All in one recipe manager
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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7courses - The easy to use online recipe manager.▲47
2012 · 7courses.com · its alternatives →
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Keyword Chef▲77
Simple keyword discovery tool built for publishers
2021 · keywordchef.com · its alternatives →
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Yemake▲21
Turn any cooking video into a step-by-step text recipe.
Jun 2026 · yemake.semender.ai · its alternatives →
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Chef!▲18
Type your craving, get a full AI recipe instantly
2025 · its alternatives →
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Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes▲33
2021 · rapidrecipe.reichel.dev · its alternatives →
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Only Cookery▲8
Building multiple revenue streams for food content creators
2021 · its alternatives →

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