What is Cookmate and what does its export look like?

Cookmate is the Android recipe app formerly known as My CookBook. It exports as a .zip containing one XML file per recipe, plus any attached images. Each XML file holds the recipe's title, ingredients, instructions, prep/cook times, and notes.

How do I export from Cookmate?

In Cookmate on Android, open the menu and choose Backup or Export. The app produces a .zip (or .mcb, which is also a zip under the hood) containing every recipe as XML. Save it to your phone storage and upload it here.

Will my photos and notes come through?

Yes. We extract every per-recipe XML file from the zip, parse the structured fields, and preserve image references through to PDF and HTML outputs. Notes, prep/cook times, ratings, and categories all map to schema.org Recipe fields.

Can I move my Cookmate collection to another app?

Yes — convert to JSON or .cook here, then import into the destination app. Schema.org JSON-LD works in Mealie, Tandoor, Paprika, and most modern recipe apps.

Cookmate (My CookBook) backups supported

Convert your Cookmate recipes

Cookmate (formerly My CookBook) bundles every recipe into a zip of XML files. We unpack the lot and turn it into PDF, JSON, CSV, Markdown, or .cook.

100% free. Open-source parsing. No account required.

What we support

Cookmate's zipped XML backup, or a single XML if that's all you have.

.zip / .mcb Recommended

The full backup — every recipe XML and image. We unpack and parse each recipe individually.

.xml Supported

A single per-recipe Cookmate XML file works too — useful if you've already extracted the zip.

How to export from Cookmate

1

Open Cookmate on Android

Launch the app on the device that holds your collection.

2

Open the menu

Tap the three-dot menu or the side drawer and look for Backup, Export, or Settings → Backup.

3

Create a full backup

Choose the option that exports every recipe. Cookmate writes a .zip (sometimes named .mcb) to your phone's storage.

4

Transfer and upload

Copy the file to your computer via USB, cloud sync, or email. Drag it into the upload area above.

Why convert Cookmate recipes?

Cookmate is Android-only, and the per-recipe XML format isn't something other apps natively read. If you switch phones, move to iOS, or just want a printable card, the recipes stay locked to the app.

That's the gap this page closes. Cookmate's XML is well-structured, so the conversion is mostly lossless — ingredients keep their structure, instructions keep their order, and image references carry through.

Convert to JSON for re-import into another app, PDF for printing, Markdown for a personal cookbook, or .cook for any CookLang-compatible tool.

Export to any format

Get your recipes in formats that work for you

{ }

JSON

Schema.org compliant

PDF

Print-ready cards

CSV

Excel-friendly

MD

Markdown

Plain text

.cook

CookLang

For developers

DB

SQLite

Portable database

ORF

Open Recipe

YAML format

Free your Cookmate collection

Drop your Cookmate backup above and we'll convert every recipe into the format you want.