Export your recipes anytime

A recipe app should never hold your recipes hostage. Pinch of This lets you export a single recipe in the format you need, or download your entire collection as a portable backup, on every plan. The subscription pays for unlimited storage and AI imports, never for access to your own data.

Export one recipe

Open any recipe and choose Export from the action row next to Remix and Cooked. Pick the format that fits where the recipe is going:

• Print or PDF. A clean printed layout with the title, photo, servings, cook time, ingredients, directions with their section headings, notes, tags, and source. Use your browser's print dialog to save it as a PDF.
• Markdown. A .md file with front matter for the title, source, servings, cook time, tags, and favorite status, then Ingredients, Directions, and Notes sections. Ideal for Obsidian, Notion, or any notes app.
• Plain text. The same recipe without markup, ready to paste into a message or email.
• JSON-LD. A standard Schema.org Recipe document, the same structure recipe websites publish, so other apps and tools can read it. App-only details such as notes and favorites travel in a separate pinchOfThis object so the standard part stays valid.

Every text format also offers Copy to clipboard, which works on every device.

Download your whole cookbook

Open your account settings and choose Export & Backup. Export all of your recipes, only your favorites, or everything under one tag. Pinch of This builds a ZIP archive that contains:

• A manifest.json with the export date, recipe and photo counts, your tags, and a checksum for each recipe file.
• One JSON file per recipe in the Pinch of This backup format, which preserves every field: ingredients, directions with sections, servings, cook time, notes, tags, favorite and cooked dates, source, nutrition, and both English and Spanish translations.
• One Markdown file per recipe, identical to the single-recipe export.
• Your recipe photos.

Keep the archive in your own cloud drive or on a hard disk. It restores losslessly through Import recipes, and the Markdown files are readable anywhere without Pinch of This.

What export does not change

• Exporting never deletes or alters a recipe.
• Recipes you have deleted are not included.
• Shared recipes you accepted from friends export like your own.
• Each archive holds up to 500 recipes and 200 MB of photos; larger collections export in a few passes by tag or favorites.

Why this matters for a family cookbook

Handwritten cards fade and websites disappear. If you have digitized your family's recipe cards or filled a digital recipe box over the years, a backup you control is the last step. Export once a season, or before any big change, and the collection survives a lost phone, a closed account, or a switch to another app.

Export questions

Your recipes, your files

Your first 20 recipes are free. Export is included on every plan.