Your recipes belong to you.
Your recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, and notes are yours — not ours to sell, analyze, or monetize. This page explains what that means in practice.
Private by default
Your collection is invisible
Recipes you save are private. They aren't published on the web, indexed by Google, or visible to other users unless you explicitly share a specific recipe with a specific person.
We actively block web crawlers — including AI scrapers — from accessing your collection. Your recipes aren't training data for someone else's model.
No tracking cookies
We use Plausible for analytics — cookieless, GDPR-compliant, privacy-first. We see aggregate page views. We don't see individual behavior or build advertising profiles.
No data sales
Your recipe data, account information, and usage patterns are never sold to data brokers, advertisers, or third parties. We use your data only to provide the service.
No passwords
Sign in with a passkey (Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello) or a magic link. No password to create, forget, or have stolen. Passkeys can't be phished or reused.
You control sharing
When you want to share a recipe, you generate a private link or QR code for a specific person. No public profiles, no recipe feeds, no algorithm deciding who sees your content.
How we use AI and what it means for your data
When you import a recipe — from a URL, a photo, a PDF, or pasted text — the content is sent to an AI service to extract the structure (title, ingredients, instructions). This is how we turn a cluttered webpage or a photo of your grandmother's handwriting into a clean, editable recipe.
What we want you to know:
- AI only processes the import. Your saved recipes, meal plans, and notes are never sent to an AI service. Only the source material you're actively importing is processed.
- Your content doesn't train AI models. We use AI services under agreements that prohibit using your content to train their models.
- The AI services don't retain your recipes after processing. Once the extraction is complete, the content isn't stored by the AI service.
- You review the result. AI can make mistakes. That's why we show you a draft of the extracted recipe, and you can always edit it later.
The full Privacy Policy names the specific services we use and links to their data handling policies.
You keep us honest
Most recipe tools are built on business models that depend on keeping your data. Platforms change. Free tiers get restricted. Companies get acquired. We've built Sharp Cooking to serve you.
Export anytime
Download your full recipe collection whenever you want. Your data isn't trapped.
Delete anytime
Remove your account and all associated data permanently.
No lock-in
We want you to stay because the product is useful, not because leaving is hard.
What we actually use your data for
Only what's necessary to run the service:
- Store and sync your recipes, plans, and lists across devices
- Authenticate your account via magic links or passkeys
- Send notifications you've opted into
- Improve the product using aggregate, anonymized usage data
- Prevent abuse
The legal details
This page explains our philosophy. For the complete legal privacy policy — including third-party services, GDPR/CCPA rights, data retention, and how to exercise your rights — read the full Privacy Policy.