What does a My Recipe Box export look like?

My Recipe Box exports a single .csv file with one row per recipe. Columns include title, description, preparationTime, cookingTime, totalTime, quantity, ingredients (newline-separated), instructions, notes, nutrition (key:value pairs), favorite, rating, categories, tags, video, source, originalPicture. Upload the .csv directly here.

How do I export from My Recipe Box?

Open My Recipe Box, go to Settings → Backup & Sync → Export Recipes. The app produces a single .csv with every recipe in your library. Save it somewhere you can find again.

Will photos and nutrition come through?

Photo URLs are referenced as remote images. Nutrition is a free-form list of key:value pairs (calories, protein, fat, etc.) — we map every recognized nutrient to its schema.org NutritionInformation field. Ratings, categories, tags, and source URLs all carry through.

Can I move my My Recipe Box recipes to another app?

Convert to JSON or .cook here, then import into the destination app. Most modern recipe apps accept schema.org JSON-LD or have a generic JSON import path.

My Recipe Box CSV exports now supported

Convert your My Recipe Box export

My Recipe Box hands you a CSV with every recipe you've saved. We turn it into PDF, JSON, Markdown, or .cook so your collection works in whatever app you use next.

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

What we support

Drop in the .csv from My Recipe Box's Export Recipes action.

.csv Supported

One CSV with every recipe — title, description, ingredients, instructions, notes, nutrition, ratings, categories, tags, video links, source URLs, and photo URLs all carry through.

How to export from My Recipe Box

1

Open My Recipe Box

Launch the app on whichever device holds your collection.

2

Open settings

Tap the gear icon and find the Backup & Sync section.

3

Export Recipes

Choose Export Recipes. My Recipe Box builds a single .csv containing every recipe and saves it where you tell it.

4

Upload it here

Drag the .csv into the upload area above and pick the output formats you want — PDF, JSON, CSV, Markdown, or .cook.

Why move recipes out of My Recipe Box?

My Recipe Box gets the basics right and the CSV export is generous — every important field is in there. But a CSV isn't something most other recipe apps natively read. If you switch to Paprika, Mela, Mealie, or anything else, your collection lands in spreadsheet form and stays there.

That's the gap this page closes. We translate the CSV into the formats every other app understands — preserving ingredients, instructions, nutrition, photos, source links, and even the video URLs My Recipe Box tracks separately.

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

Export to any format

Get your recipes in formats that work for you

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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 My Recipe Box collection

Drop your My Recipe Box .csv above and we'll convert every recipe into the format you want.