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The whole app. Your recipes on your device. Sync by pointing the app at your own relay.
- ✓Every feature, no gates
- ✓Unlimited recipes, menus & lists
- ✓Mac, Windows, iOS & Android
- ✓No account, no ads, no tracking
- ✓Works fully offline
- ✓Self-host the encrypted sync relay
- ✓Export everything, any time
For the tech-savvy who'd rather run the relay on their own server. You cover that hosting; we're never in the loop.
Notify me at launchWe run the sync, you just cook. Every device stays in step, with no server to manage.
- ✓Everything in the free app
- ✓Managed sync across all your devices
- ✓~50 GB of storage (~100,000 recipes)
- ✓End-to-end encrypted, so we can't read it
- ✓Zero setup, works instantly
- ✓Cancel anytime; your recipes stay on your devices
Low commitment. The easiest way to try hosted sync. Cancel whenever.
Notify me at launchPay once. Sync for the life of Gratin 1, guaranteed at least 5 years. No renewals, nothing to remember.
- ✓Everything in Hosted sync
- ✓Sync for the life of Gratin 1 (min. 5 years)
- ✓No renewals, ever
- ✓~50 GB of storage (~100,000 recipes)
- ✓Discounted upgrade when Gratin 2 arrives
Cheaper than four years of the yearly plan, and it'll almost certainly run longer than that.
Notify me at launchPaid plans include ~50 GB of storage, room for roughly 100,000 recipes with photos, on the order of the entire AllRecipes catalogue. Your recipes live on your device with no limit either way.
The honest version
Every recipe app that offers sync lives with the same tension, and so do we: sync costs money to run for as long as it exists, but people would rather pay for it once. Something eventually gives (a price rise, an acquisition, a shutdown), and the recipes you spent years building are usually what's caught in the middle.
We're not claiming to have escaped that
Our $39 buy-once plan makes the same bet every one-time app makes: money up front against a cost that never stops. That's exactly why we bound it (sync for the life of Gratin 1, at least five years) rather than dress it up as a lifetime we couldn't honestly promise.
We charge for sync because it genuinely costs money
The app runs entirely on your device, so it costs us nothing to give away. Hosting sync is a real, ongoing cost, so we put a plain price on it ($12 a year or a one-time $39) instead of burying it in ads or in selling your data.
The safety net is the architecture, not the price
This is the part that actually protects you, and it holds whatever happens to us: your recipes live on your devices, you can export them to open, standard formats any time, and you can run the sync relay yourself. Gratin is going open source, too. If our own math ever catches up with us, you lose nothing and just point the app elsewhere. You were never held hostage to begin with.
Pricing questions
Is the app really free?
Yes. The full Gratin app, on every platform, with unlimited recipes and no account, is free forever. You only pay if you want us to host your sync, and if you're tech savvy you can self-host that instead.
What happens if I stop paying the yearly plan?
Sync pauses, but nothing is held hostage: your recipes stay on all your devices, and you can export them or point the app at your own relay. We keep your cloud copy for 60 days in case you resubscribe, then remove it. Your devices keep everything.
What does the life of Gratin 1 mean on the $39 plan?
Hosted sync is guaranteed for at least 5 years, and for as long as Gratin 1 is supported, whichever is longer. When we eventually retire it (never before 5 years, always with notice), your recipes are already on your devices and you can self-host or export. You may lose the convenience, never the data. Gratin 2, if it comes, will be a separate discounted upgrade.
How much can I store?
Paid tiers include ~50 GB of hosted storage, room for roughly 100,000 recipes with a photo, on the order of the entire AllRecipes catalogue. The recipes themselves live on your device with no limit; the allowance is for the photos we sync and back up for you.
Your $39 plan is a one-time price too. Isn't that the same trap you describe?
Honestly, yes. Taking money once for a cost that recurs is the same bet Paprika and the others make, and we're not pretending we've solved the economics. Two things keep it honest rather than a promise we can't keep: we bound it (sync for the life of Gratin 1, at least five years, not a vague lifetime), and your data is local-first, so if the math ever catches up with us you keep everything and can self-host. If you'd rather pay as you go, the $12/year plan is there too.