Recipe app · in development

The recipe app that owns the whole loop

Capture from anywhere, cook without the chaos, plan the week, shop with one merged list — and always know what's for dinner tonight.

iOS · coming soonAndroid · coming soonWindows · coming soonMac · coming soon
Mockup of the Forno app home screen, showing tonight's dinner and this week's planned recipes — illustrative, not the finished app.
How Forno works

From saved recipe to cooked dinner, one step at a time

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

01
Capture

Save recipes from anywhere

Save a recipe from any website in one tap via a share-sheet extension. Forno reads the same structured recipe data Google uses for recipe cards, so ingredients, steps, times and photos land clean.

Share to Forno
smittenkitchen.com
Brown Butter Gnocchi
Saved · 9 ingredients · 32 min
02
Cook

Built for a kitchen counter, not a browser tab

The screen stays awake. Type is large enough to read across the room. Timers mentioned right in the method — "simmer for 20 minutes" — become tappable automatically.

Mockup of Forno's cook mode showing a recipe step with a running timer — illustrative, not the finished app.
03
Plan

Drag the week into place

Drag recipes onto the days you'll cook them. Portions and leftovers stay in view as you plan, so nothing gets forgotten in the fridge.

THIS WEEK · JUL 6 — 12
MTWTFSS
Sunday Ragù
Dinner · serves 6 · 2 nights leftover
04
Shop

One list, not five tabs

Selected recipes merge into one shopping list. Duplicates combine automatically, and the list is shareable with whoever's doing the shop.

PRODUCE
San Marzano tomatoes2 cans
Garlic1 head
Fresh basil1 bunch
PANTRY
00 flour1 kg
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.

Mockup of a Forno import summary from Paprika, showing recipes imported cleanly and a few that need a look — illustrative, not the finished app.
Story

Why we're building Forno

Named after the Italian word for oven, 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 by one developer trying 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, Mac and web — one purchase covers all of them, no per-device tax.
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.