A heritage cookbook for a family that actually cooks.

Heirloom is the modern heritage cookbook: private, multi-generational, printable. Build the one your family never got around to.

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What makes a heritage cookbook different from a recipe manager

A recipe manager helps you cook tonight. A heritage cookbook helps your grandchildren cook in 2062. The job is different. A heritage cookbook has to survive device replacements, app upheavals, family moves, and memory loss. It has to be exportable, printable, and legible to a person who has never touched the app it lives in.

Heirloom is built for the heritage-cookbook job. Every recipe has an owner. Every cookbook has a member list. Every export is a self-contained PDF with lineage preserved. If the app disappears tomorrow, the cookbook survives.

Three generations, one cookbook: lineage on every recipe

When your mother adapts her grandmother’s Bolognese — a little less wine, a different cut of meat — Heirloom keeps both versions linked. When you adapt her version, the chain grows: Grandma’s original, Mom’s adaptation, your variation. Three generations visible in one recipe card.

Lineage popover showing three generations of Sunday Gravy: Nonna Rosa (Original), Marco's Version, Your Version — Tap any generation to switch — the recipe rewrites itself with that version’s ingredients and steps.

Lineage diff view showing what Marco changed from Nonna Rosa's original recipe — Every modification is recorded — what changed, who changed it, when. The cookbook remembers the people.

This is the difference between a cookbook and a recipe pile. The cookbook remembers the people.

From digital cookbook to printed page

Heirloom cookbooks export as beautifully laid-out PDFs — styled by one of 20 designed templates. Print at home, at the library, or take it to a local print shop. Send it to family wherever they are. The cookbook lives wherever the people do.

Your family’s recipes are their story.

Keep the story.

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