Your recipes are bigger than any one app
You've spent years building your collection in Cookmate. A copy in open formats means you can keep it, print it, or move it to another app whenever you want.
100% free. Your recipes, your formats, forever.
About Cookmate
Cookmate, which you may still know as My CookBook, is a freemium recipe manager (free tier, with a paid Premium plan for unlimited recipes) for Android, iOS, and the web. It has been around for over a decade and handles importing, shopping lists, and meal planning. Its native backup is the .mcb file, which keeps your recipes and your photos together in one place.
How to export from Cookmate
Get a .mcb backup of your collection in a few taps.
Open Cookmate
On your phone or tablet, open the Cookmate app (it may still appear as My CookBook). On desktop, sign in at cookmate.online.
Open File Import / Export
Open the menu and choose File Import / Export.
Pick where to send it
Choose your device storage or Dropbox as the destination for the backup file.
Select your recipes
Choose the recipes you want, or select all for a complete backup, then tap Export.
Choose the .mcb format
Pick .mcb and give the file a name. The .mcb format includes your photos, so it is the most complete option.
Tip: Your Cookmate library stays untouched. We only read a copy.
Upload to MoveMyRecipes
Come back to this page and drop your .mcb file into the upload area above, or click Browse Files.
About Cookmate's export formats
Cookmate exports in several formats, and they are not equal. The .mcb is the most complete backup option:
A complete backup with photos. Under the hood it is a zip of your recipes plus an images folder.
Your recipes as text, without photos.
Older interchange formats. Cookmate leaves out some details when it writes these — personal notes, the source link, and cook time — so they make for an incomplete migration.
For the cleanest result, export as .mcb.
The Cookmate format problem
Cookmate is solid software, but a .mcb or .xml backup really only opens in Cookmate. Here is why that matters:
Trapped in one app
Want to try a different recipe manager? Most cannot read a .mcb file. We convert it to formats they can.
Years of work at risk
Family recipes, the tweaks you have dialed in over time, all sitting in one app's format. A copy in open formats keeps them safe.
Can't share easily
Sending a recipe to someone means they would need Cookmate too. Export to PDF and share with anyone, anywhere.
Print-ready recipe cards
Sometimes you just want the recipe on paper in the kitchen. We make clean PDFs you can print and keep.
Your recipes should move with you
Keep forever
PDFs, printouts, your own archive. Formats that never expire.
Move to any app
Standard formats any recipe app can import. Switch apps without starting over.
Future-proof
Apps come and go. Your recipes stay yours.
Export to any format
Get your recipes in formats that work for you
Schema.org compliant
Print-ready cards
Excel-friendly
Plain text
For developers
Portable database
YAML format
Convert your Cookmate export
Export your .mcb file and upload it above. We will turn it into PDF, JSON, CSV, or any format you need.