Cleaver Kitchen: frequently asked questions
What is Cleaver Kitchen?
Cleaver Kitchen is a recipe and cooking app for iPhone and iPad that times a whole meal. You pick the dishes you're making and the time you want to eat, and Cook Together builds one cooking timeline worked back from that serve time, so you know when to start each step of each dish.
Is there an app that tells me when to start each dish so dinner is ready at the same time?
Yes. That's what Cleaver Kitchen's Cook Together does. Choose two or more recipes and a serve time, and it lays every step from every dish on one timeline, with timers for each step. It's free for 2 dishes; Cleaver Pro covers 3 or more.
Can Cleaver Kitchen help me plan Thanksgiving dinner?
Yes. It includes a free 5-dish Thanksgiving sample dinner you can walk through before the day, and Cook Together builds a timeline from your own recipes worked back from the time you want to eat. Make-ahead steps such as 'refrigerate overnight' are scheduled the night before. There's also a free printable countdown timeline at cleaverkitchen.com/thanksgiving.
How do I import recipes into Cleaver Kitchen?
Share a recipe link from Safari or another app, take a photo of a recipe page, or share a Pinterest pin to Cleaver Kitchen. Recipe import is free. Cleaver Kitchen doesn't import from TikTok or Instagram videos.
Does Cleaver Kitchen have meal planning and a shopping list?
Yes, both free. The Meal Plan has a Week view with a photo row for each day, and Plan This Week can fill the week with a main plus a side each day. The shopping list merges ingredients and groups them by store aisle, remembers aisle changes, and shows which recipe each item is for.
Can I cook hands-free?
Yes. Cooking Mode has free voice control: say 'next', 'back', 'timer', 'read step' or 'read ingredients'. The screen stays awake on cooking screens, and each step shows the ingredients it uses with amounts.
How much does Cleaver Kitchen cost?
Cleaver Kitchen is free to download. Recipe import, meal planning, shopping lists, timers, voice control and Cook Together for 2 dishes are free. Cleaver Pro unlocks Cook Together for 3 or more dishes: $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $79.99 once for Lifetime (US prices).
Is Cleaver Kitchen on Android or the web?
No. It's a native iPhone and iPad app with free iCloud sync between your devices. It also adapts to iPhone Duo when closed, half-open or flat.
How is Cleaver Kitchen different from Paprika or Mela?
Paprika and Mela are excellent recipe organizers. Cleaver Kitchen also saves recipes, but its focus is timing: it schedules several recipes together, worked back from your serve time, and walks you through them with voice control and timers. If you mainly want a big recipe archive across Mac, Windows and Android, Paprika is the better fit; if you cook several dishes for one meal, Cleaver is built for that.
Does Cleaver Kitchen use AI?
No. Cook Together schedules steps from each recipe's own times and your serve time.
Who makes Cleaver Kitchen?
A small independent team. Contact: [email protected].