Everything about Aldenté, in one place.
Every question we get — about the app, pricing, how it compares to other recipe apps, and how the printed cookbook works. Straight answers.
About Aldenté
What is Aldenté?
Aldenté is a recipe app for iPhone. You save recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, websites, and photos of handwritten cards in one tap. They land in your library, organized into cookbooks. You can see what your friends are cooking in a social feed. And when you're ready, you can print a real, bound cookbook of your favorite recipes — yours, or as a gift for the people you love.
Who built Aldenté?
Aldenté is built by Malcolm and Sophie — two home cooks who got tired of losing recipes and eating the same three meals every week. We're a small team. We test every feature by cooking dinner with it. If it doesn't make our own kitchen better, it doesn't ship.
Why is it called Aldenté?
Al dente — the Italian phrase for pasta cooked just right, with a little bite. We chose it because the brand is about cooking that's deliberate, careful, and made with love. Not perfect. Just right.
Is Aldenté an AI app?
No, and we don't position it that way. We've built thoughtful tools to make saving and organizing recipes faster, but the brand is about the craft of cooking — not technology. The pocket chef characters, share-sheet imports, and meal planning all just work; we don't make a big deal out of how.
What platforms is Aldenté on?
iOS only for now (iPhone and iPad). Android is on the roadmap — sign up on the contact page if you want to be notified when it launches. There is no Mac, Windows, or web version yet.
How it works
How do I save a recipe?
On TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or any recipe website: tap the share button, then tap Aldenté in the share sheet. We pull the recipe out of the caption, voiceover, or page, format it, and save it to your library. For handwritten recipes, take a photo and import it the same way.
How does the friends feed work?
When you follow other Aldenté users, you can see what they're saving and cooking. Steal their dinner ideas. Send them yours. It's like a social feed, but it's only your actual people — no algorithmic recommendations, no influencers you don't follow.
Can I import handwritten family recipes?
Yes — and this is one of the most-loved things people do with us. Snap a photo of a recipe card, save it to Aldenté, and it lives alongside your other recipes. You can edit the text, add photos of the dish, and include it in printed cookbooks.
How do printed cookbooks work?
Inside Aldenté, you can take any cookbook you've built and order a real, printed copy. Hardcover or softcover, shipped to your door (or directly to whoever you're gifting it to) in 1–2 weeks. Anyone with the free app can order one — it's not Premium-only.
Pricing
Is Aldenté free?
Yes. The core experience — saving unlimited recipes, organizing into cookbooks, the friends feed, basic meal planning, Cook Mode, ordering printed cookbooks — is free with no credit card. No ads, ever, for free or Premium users.
What's in Premium?
Premium ($47.99/year or $7.99/month) adds: unlimited cookbook collections (vs 3 free), pantry tracking, smart grocery lists by aisle, one-tap ingredient scaling, all six pocket chef characters, advanced meal planning, and priority support. There's a 7-day free trial.
How do I cancel Premium?
On your iPhone: Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions → Aldenté → Cancel. We don't make you call anyone or fill out a form.
How much does the printed cookbook cost?
It depends on size and finish. A small softcover starts around the price of a nice dinner out; a hardcover keepsake costs more. You see the exact price inside the app before checkout.
How Aldenté compares to other apps
What's the best alternative to Paprika?
Aldenté if you save from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube — Paprika has no native social-video import. ReciMe if you need Android. Pestle if you want best-in-class web parsing on iOS. See the full breakdown at /compare/paprika.
What's the best alternative to ReciMe?
Aldenté is the closest direct alternative — both apps save from TikTok and Instagram. Aldenté adds a friends feed, a more generous free tier, and printed cookbooks. ReciMe is on Android today; Aldenté is iOS-only for now. Full comparison at /compare/recime.
What's the difference between Aldenté and MOB?
MOB is a recipe destination — chef-curated, editorial-driven content. You go to MOB to find someone else's great recipe. Aldenté is a recipe library — for the recipes you've saved from anywhere. Many cooks use both: discover on MOB, save to Aldenté, eventually print the keepers as a cookbook. Full comparison at /compare/mob.
Which recipe app is best for printing a cookbook to give as a gift?
Aldenté is currently the only major iOS recipe app that prints and ships a real, bound cookbook of your saved recipes. The cookbook page is built specifically for the gifting use case — making the book for the people you love. See /cookbook.
Where do I see all the comparisons?
Visit /compare for a hub page with the side-by-side feature table for all major recipe apps and links to the full comparison for each one.
Privacy & data
Where does my data live?
Your recipes are stored securely in our database. Anything you mark private stays private. Anything you share with friends shows in their feed.
Do you sell my data?
No. We make money from Premium subscriptions and printed cookbooks. We don't sell ad space and we don't sell user data. See /privacy for the full policy.
What happens to my recipes if I cancel Premium or delete the app?
If you cancel Premium, all your recipes stay yours — you go back to a 3-cookbook limit but nothing is deleted. If you delete the app and your account, your data is removed per our privacy policy.
Still curious?
The fastest way to know if it's for you is to use the free version for a week.