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Private family beta

Your whole recipe world, all in one place.

From Grandma’s handwritten cards to your favorite food creators, Buttermade brings the recipes you love together in one place.

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Coming soon. Family beta is open now.

Grandma’s card
that screenshot
Mom’s Recipes.docx
the old doc
Holiday
Baking
cookbooks
favorite creators (coming next)
Aunt Ruth’s Lemon Bars in the Buttermade app

All in one place.

  1. The Buttermade Capture screen with Take Photo, Choose Photos, Speak a Recipe and Enter Manually
    1Save

    Snap it, say it, or type it. The original stays with it.

  2. The Buttermade Recipes list with search, filters and saved recipes
    2Organize

    One cookbook you can search and sort.

  3. The Buttermade sharing screen for a family cookbook
    3Share

    Invite the family you cook for.

  4. A recipe’s sources in Buttermade, crediting who shared it
    4Pass it down

    Cook it together, and keep it for the next generation.

Made by people

Recipes made by humans, not robots.

Buttermade is a home for recipes created, tested and loved by real people, from your family’s favorites to the creators you follow and trust. Creator recipes come straight from the people who made them, never scraped, and creators share in every cookbook sold.

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Lemon bars dusted with powdered sugar

Good food brings us together.

In your kitchen

Made to be cooked, not just kept.

Aunt Ruth’s Lemon Bars in Buttermade, marked From Aunt Ruth with the original recipe photo
Keep the original cardThe handwritten original stays with every recipe.
Buttermade listening as Mom speaks her lemonade recipe
Record Mom’s voiceSay it out loud and Buttermade writes it down.
An ingredient changed in Mom’s version of a recipe
Save family versionsMom’s extra lemon, without changing the original.
Cook Mode showing the current step of a recipe
Cook step by stepOne step at a time, with timers built in.

Our story

We built it for our mom first.

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. Now we’re opening it up so more families can keep their recipes together too.

Melissa has spent years developing and testing recipes as a food creator, so we care about who made a recipe and whether it works. Buttermade doesn’t invent recipes or copy them from creators’ websites. Every recipe comes from a real person who cooked it, whether that’s your grandma or a creator you trust.

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

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