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A dining table set with lasagne, partway through a shared meal from a communal dish, wine poured, a chair pushed back with a cardigan left over it, a tablet propped up near the hob showing a recipe.
In development · for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac

Know what's for dinner, before you're hungry.

Forno keeps every recipe you've saved, this week's plan and the shopping list in one place - for whoever's cooking tonight.

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An old handwritten Italian recipe notebook, open on a table, corners worn from years of use.

Somewhere in your camera roll, your notes app, a screenshot you never went back to, there's the dish that means home to you.

Maybe it's a TikTok you saved at midnight and never found again. Maybe it's handwriting you'd know anywhere. Forno is built to hold both, properly, so neither gets lost.

How Forno works

The recipe app that owns the whole loop

No AI guesswork, no diet tracking - just the mechanics of getting dinner on the table, done properly.

Capture

Save recipes from anywhere

Sharing from Instagram, TikTok, or any recipe site - tap Share, pick Forno, and it reads the same structured recipe data Google uses for recipe cards, so ingredients, steps, times and photos land clean. Anything unclear gets flagged for a quick check instead of a silent guess.

Real screenshot of Forno's add-recipe sheet, offering to save from Instagram, TikTok or the web, import from a photo or gallery, or write a recipe manually.
Plan

A week planned, not winged

Add recipes to the days you'll actually cook them, mark a night as eating out, or carry last night's leftovers forward - the plan understands a night off as easily as a night in. Prep reminders catch what needs thawing the day before, and Forno nudges you toward recipes you haven't cooked in a while, so the week doesn't turn into the same five dinners on repeat.

Real screenshot of Forno's weekly plan, showing Saturday's Meatballs Alla Norma, Sunday marked as today with Easiest Broccoli Quiche, and Monday's Mushroom Risotto.
Shop

One list, not five tabs

Everything on the plan merges into one shopping list, grouped by aisle to match how you actually walk the shop. Quantities combine correctly across recipes - a can and a weight never get mashed into one wrong number - and your usual items are one tap away when the list starts empty.

Real screenshot of Forno's shopping list, with the aisle picker open showing categories from Fruit & Veg to Dairy, Eggs & Chilled.
Cook

Built for a kitchen counter, not a browser tab

The screen stays awake, type is large enough to read across the room, and timers mentioned right in the method - "simmer for 20 minutes" - become tappable automatically. Scroll past a running timer and it sticks to the edge of the screen, so it's never lost mid-step. Adjust servings and every quantity scales with it.

Mockup of Forno's cook mode showing recipe steps with a tappable running timer stuck to the edge of the screen - illustrative, not the finished app.
A wood-fired oven, door open, fire glowing inside.
The name

Forno means oven in Italian - the one part of a kitchen every household actually gathers around.

Moving from another app

We tell you what didn't come over cleanly

Import your Paprika, Crouton, Mealie or Copy Me That library directly. Most tools give you a silent best-effort import. Forno shows you exactly what happened. Coming from Paprika? Here's how to export your recipes first.

Real screenshot of Forno's import review for Egg & Mango Chutney Flatbreads, flagging an uncertain cook time and a step it's not sure it read correctly before you continue.
A contemporary sage-green and terracotta kitchen, table set mid-meal with pasta, bread and wine, a cardigan left over the back of a chair.
Whoever's cooking tonight

Couple, flatshare, family, just you - one list, one plan, same app either way.

Story

Why we're building Forno

Forno started from a familiar frustration: recipes scattered across bookmarks, screenshots and a paid app that still feels like a filing cabinet.

Paprika wins on capture, AnyList on lists, Crouton on cook mode, Mealie on data ownership - but no single app covers the whole loop from finding a recipe to plating dinner. Forno is built to close that gap, in the open, one honest release at a time.

A few questions people ask

Forno is a recipe manager that covers the whole loop: capturing recipes from anywhere, planning your week, building one shopping list, and cooking with a mode built for the counter, not a browser tab.
Pricing isn't finalised yet, but the core app will be a one-time purchase - no subscription required to own your recipes, and your data exports in an open format, always. A future household plan will add sync and shared libraries, but nothing you get at launch will ever move behind a paywall later.
iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.
Yes. Import directly from Paprika, Crouton, Mealie or Copy Me That. Forno tells you exactly what imported cleanly and what needs a look, rather than a silent best-effort.

Get early access

Forno is in development. Join the waitlist to hear when the beta opens and get first access at launch.