Everything about Aldenté, in one place.
Every question we get about the app, pricing, how it compares to other recipe apps, and how the printed cookbook works. Straight answers.
About Aldenté
What is Aldenté?
Aldenté is a recipe app for iPhone and iPad. You save recipes from TikTok, Instagram, recipe websites, and photos of handwritten cards in one tap. They land in your library, organized into cookbooks. Every recipe has a chef you can ask while you cook. You can see what your friends are cooking, share a grocery list and meal plan with your household, and print a real, bound cookbook of your favorite recipes for yourself or as a gift.
Who built Aldenté?
Aldenté is built by Malcolm Smith and Sophie, two home cooks who got tired of losing recipes and eating the same three meals every week. The company behind it is Saucey App Corp, a Texas corporation, and the app has been on the App Store since October 21, 2025. We're a small team. We test every feature by cooking dinner with it. If it doesn't help in our own kitchen, it doesn't ship.
Why is it called Aldenté?
Al dente is the Italian phrase for pasta cooked just right, with a little bite. We chose it because the brand is about cooking that's deliberate, careful, and made with love. Not perfect. Just right.
Is Aldenté just another tech app?
No. We've built tools that make saving and organizing recipes fast, but the whole point is the craft of cooking: finding the recipes you love, cooking them with friends, and turning the keepers into a book you can hold. The chefs, share-sheet saving, and meal planning just work. We don't make a thing of how.
Does Aldenté work with ChatGPT or Claude?
Claude, yes, in a private beta. Add Aldenté to Claude as a custom connector at https://aldente.kitchen/mcp and Claude can find your recipes, open a recipe, save a new one, read your meal plan, and read or add to your grocery list. ChatGPT is coming soon. Setup steps are at /works-with-claude.
Is Aldenté on Android?
No. Aldenté is iPhone and iPad only.
Does Aldenté work in Spanish?
Yes. Aldenté is fully localized in Spanish. The interface, recipe imports, chef characters, meal planner, grocery list, and printed cookbooks all work in Spanish. Set your iPhone's language to Spanish and the app follows automatically.
¿Aldenté está disponible en español?
Sí. Aldenté está totalmente disponible en español. La aplicación, los chefs, el planificador de comidas, la lista de compras y los libros de cocina impresos funcionan en español. Cambia el idioma de tu iPhone a español y la app cambia automáticamente.
How it works
How do I save a recipe?
On TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, or any recipe website: tap the share button, then tap Aldenté in the share sheet. We read the recipe from the caption, the description, or the page the post links to, format it, and save it to your library. We don't listen to spoken audio, so a recipe that's only said out loud in a video won't come through. For handwritten recipes, take a photo. You can also tap + and add a recipe by voice or by typing it.
How does the friends feed work?
When you follow other Aldenté users, you can see what they're saving and cooking. Steal their dinner ideas. Send them yours. It's like a social feed, but it's only your actual people. No algorithmic recommendations, no influencers you don't follow.
Can I import handwritten family recipes?
Yes. Snap a photo of a recipe card, save it to Aldenté, and it lives alongside your other recipes. You can edit the text, add photos of the dish, and include it in printed cookbooks.
How do printed cookbooks work?
Inside Aldenté, you can take any cookbook you've built and order a real, printed copy. Pick hardcover, softcover, or coil-bound, and ship it to your door or straight to the person you're gifting it to. Standard shipping takes about 2 weeks, express about 1 week, and about 3 weeks to Australia and New Zealand. Anyone with the free app can order one. It's not Premium-only.
Pricing
Is Aldenté free?
Yes. Saving and importing unlimited recipes from TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest and websites is free, with no weekly cap. So are the grocery list, the pantry, the friends feed, Cook Mode, chat with Sage plus one chef you pick, and ordering printed cookbooks (you pay per book). No credit card to start, and no ads in Aldenté today.
What's in Premium?
Premium ($7.99/month or $47.99/year) adds every chef, meal plan generation, and 30 Zest a month for recipe images. There's a 7-day free trial. The grocery list and pantry stay free.
How do I cancel Premium?
On your iPhone: Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions → Aldenté → Cancel. We don't make you call anyone or fill out a form.
Is there a free recipe app with no limit?
Yes. Aldenté lets you save and import as many recipes as you want for free, from TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest and recipe websites. There is no weekly cap and no trial countdown on saving. The grocery list, pantry, friends feed, Cook Mode, a shared household list and meal plan, and chat with Sage plus one chef are free too.
How much does the printed cookbook cost?
Hardcover is $39, softcover is $29, and coil-bound is $39, each for up to 100 pages. Extra pages are 10 cents each. Shipping is $7.95 to the US and UK, $12.95 to Canada, and $18.95 to Australia and New Zealand, and it's free when you order 2 or more books. You see the exact total in the app before checkout.
How Aldenté compares to other apps
What's the best alternative to Paprika?
Aldenté if you save from TikTok and Instagram, since Paprika has no native social-video import. ReciMe if you need Android. Pestle if you want best-in-class web parsing on iOS. See the full breakdown at /compare/paprika.
What's the best alternative to ReciMe?
Aldenté is the closest direct alternative. Both apps save from TikTok and Instagram. Aldenté adds a friends feed, unlimited free saving, chef help while you cook, and printed cookbooks. ReciMe is on Android; Aldenté is iPhone and iPad only. Full comparison at /compare/recime.
What's the difference between Aldenté and MOB?
MOB is a recipe destination: chef-curated, editorial-driven content. You go to MOB to find someone else's great recipe. Aldenté is a recipe library for the recipes you've saved from anywhere. Many cooks use both: discover on MOB, save to Aldenté, eventually print the keepers as a cookbook. Full comparison at /compare/mob.
Which recipe app is best for printing a cookbook to give as a gift?
Aldenté prints and ships a real, bound cookbook straight from your saved recipes, starting at $29 for softcover. You can ship it to yourself or straight to the person you're giving it to. See /cookbook.
Where do I see all the comparisons?
Visit /compare for a hub page with the side-by-side feature table for all major recipe apps and links to the full comparison for each one.
Privacy & data
Where does my data live?
Your recipes are stored securely in our database. Anything you mark private stays private. Anything you share with friends shows in their feed.
Do you sell my data?
No. We make money from Premium subscriptions and printed cookbooks. We don't sell ad space and we don't sell user data. See /privacy for the full policy.
What happens to my recipes if I cancel Premium or delete the app?
If you cancel Premium, all your recipes and cookbooks stay yours. Nothing is deleted. You go back to Sage plus one chef. If you delete the app and your account, your data is removed per our privacy policy.
Still curious?
The fastest way to know if it's for you is to use the free version for a week.