buttermade.

Private family beta

Recipes worth
keeping.

A shared cookbook for your family’s recipes.

Handwritten Aunt Ruth's Lemon Bars recipe card
Keep the original.
Lemon bars on a floral plate
Aunt Ruth’s Lemon Bars
Actual Buttermade app showing Aunt Ruth's Lemon Bars, recipe timings, oven temperature, pan size, and source credit.

Recipe capture

Keep the recipes you grew up with.

Save Grandma’s handwritten recipe, including her notes in the margins. The original photo is kept with the recipe.

Aunt Ruth’s handwritten lemon bar recipe
Aunt Ruth’s original recipe photo

Voice capture

For the unwritten recipes.

Ask Mom how she makes it and record her answer. Buttermade turns the recording into a recipe you can review and save.

Voice capture in Buttermade

Hands-free Cook Mode

Keep cooking without touching your phone.

Ask for the next step, hear an instruction again, or start a timer with your voice.

Cook Mode in Buttermade

Shared cookbooks

A cookbook everyone can add to.

Invite your family to add recipes to the same cookbook. You choose which recipes to share.

Family versions

Save Mom’s extra-lemon version without changing the original recipe.

Family versions in Buttermade

The people behind Buttermade

Ben and Melissa Fallon

We’re a brother-and-sister team. Our mom wanted one place for the recipes she had scattered across paper, Word documents and photos. During the holidays in 2025, Ben built an iOS app for the family.

A childhood photo of Ben and Melissa together
Ben and Melissa growing up.
Ben’s portrait at a laptop

Ben Fallon

Co-founder & app developer

10+ years building iOS and Android apps.

  • Phyn
  • Rachio
  • MapQuest

Want to try Buttermade?

We’re testing with a small group of families. If you’d like to take part, send us an email.

Request beta access

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