Cook from the pros.
Sell what you cook.
The marketplace for chef-tested recipes and cookbooks. Browse thousands for free, and publish, price, and sell your own.
- Free to browse
- No subscription
- Chef-tested recipes
Chicken karahi
Amara Osei
Lamb plov
Yuki Tanaka
Chicken alfredo
Lina Ferrari
Chicken curry
Marco Rivera
Kabuli pulao
Amara Osei
Chocolate macaron
Lina Ferrari
Rated 4.8 / 5 by home cooks in 40 countries
120+
Recipes published
20+
Professional chefs
40+
Countries
4.8
Average rating
Cuisines on the platform
One platform, three jobs to do
Chefalio is the same product seen from three sides. All three are below — find yours.
Find the dish, not a wall of blog posts
Filter by what is actually in your kitchen and how much time you have. Save what works, buy the cookbooks worth owning.
- Filter by ingredient, cuisine, diet, time, and difficulty
- Save recipes and purchased cookbooks to one library
- Buy individual cookbooks, no subscription required
Chicken karahi
Lamb plov
Chicken alfredo
Publish your work and get paid for it
Upload recipes, group them into cookbooks, and sell straight to the people cooking them. You keep the audience.
- Publish recipes with full instructions and imagery
- Bundle recipes into cookbooks and price them yourself
- Track views, likes, saves, and orders as they land
$1,284
Weeknight Curry
12 recipes
Rice & Pilaf
9 recipes
Sweet Finishes
6 recipes
See the whole platform in one view
Review chef applications, watch revenue and engagement move, and keep the catalogue healthy without guesswork.
- Review and approve incoming chef applications
- Track users, revenue, and recipe engagement over time
- Manage users, roles, cookbooks, and orders
Amara Osei
Applied 2 days ago · Accra
Yuki Tanaka
Applied 4 days ago · Osaka
12,480
$52.9k
3,148
Everything the platform actually does
No feature list padding. This is the product.
Search that respects your kitchen
Filter by ingredient, cuisine, dietary preference, cooking time, and difficulty. Find the dish you can actually make tonight.
A real cookbook marketplace
Chefs bundle recipes into cookbooks and set their own price. You buy the ones you want and keep them for good.
Weeknight Curry
$24
Rice & Pilaf
$32
Sweet Finishes
$18
Publish and price your own work
Upload recipes, group them into a cookbook, and sell straight to the people cooking from it.
Know what is working
Views, likes, saves, and orders per recipe, so you can see which dishes earn.
Saves this month
Chicken karahi
412+24%
Chicken curry
288+11%
Chocolate macaron
196+8%Every recipe has an author
Chefs apply, get verified, and keep their name on the work. No anonymous content farm.
Marco Rivera
Modern Iberian · Lisbon
Amara Osei
West African · Accra
Yuki Tanaka
Rice and pilaf · Osaka
Lina Ferrari
Pastry · Bologna
One library for everything
Saved recipes and purchased cookbooks live in the same place — and the cookbooks stay yours whether or not you keep using the site.
128
Saved
6
Cookbooks
14
Collections
Secure by default
Accounts use hashed passwords and tokens held in HTTPOnly cookies. Checkout is handled by a payment provider, so card details never touch our servers.
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Tokens are never readable from page JavaScript.
Hashed passwords
Salted and hashed at rest — never stored in plain text.
PCI-compliant checkout
Card details go straight to the payment provider.
Role-based access
Cooks, chefs, and admins each see only their own tools.
From a weeknight recipe to a living
The same platform, followed all the way through — from the search box to the payout.
Lamb plov
75 min · Yuki Tanaka
Lamb chops, saffron rice
45 min · Marco Rivera
Rack of lamb
55 min · Lina Ferrari
Discover
Search by ingredient, cuisine, diet, or time. Every result belongs to a chef whose work you can trace back to a real kitchen.
Lamb plov
75 min · Yuki Tanaka
Lamb chops, saffron rice
45 min · Marco Rivera
Rack of lamb
55 min · Lina Ferrari
Cook
Full instructions with prep time and difficulty called out before you start, not buried three scrolls down. Save the ones that land.
Prep
10 min
Cook
22 min
Level
Easy
Publish
Approved chefs upload recipes and bundle them into cookbooks, priced however they want. No gatekeeper taking the pen.
Cookbook title
Weeknight Curry
Earn
Cookbooks sell directly to the people cooking from them. Orders and payouts land in your dashboard the same week.
Payout · this week
$0.00
52 cookbooks sold · 4 titles
Last 6 weeks
24%The people already cooking and selling here
I had four cookbooks sitting in a folder for two years because self-publishing meant becoming a marketer. I uploaded the first one on a Sunday and it sold eleven copies before I finished service on Monday.
Marco Rivera
Head chef · Lisbon
The filters are the whole thing for me. Off shift I type in what is actually in the fridge and forty minutes, and I get food, not an essay about someone's grandmother.
Amara Osei
Chef · Accra
My name sits on every recipe I put up, and so does everyone else's. That is the part I trust. Nothing here was written to rank on a search engine.
Yuki Tanaka
Chef · Osaka
I set my own price, I can see which recipes people actually save, and the payout lands the same week. It is the first platform that felt built for the person cooking.
Lina Ferrari
Pastry chef · Bologna
Free to cook from. Pay only for what you keep.
There is no subscription anywhere on Chefalio — not for cooks, not for chefs.
Cook
Everything you need to find dinner and actually make it.
- Browse the full recipe catalogue
- Filter by ingredient, diet, time, difficulty
- Save unlimited recipes to your library
- Follow the chefs whose food you like
Cookbooks
Buy the ones worth owning. Once, not monthly.
- Everything in Cook
- One-time purchase, no subscription
- Purchased cookbooks stay in your library
- Chef sets the price, you see it up front
Chef
Publish your work, price it yourself, get paid weekly.
- Publish recipes and bundle them into cookbooks
- Set your own price on everything you sell
- Views, likes, saves, and orders per recipe
- Weekly payouts once your application is approved
Checkout is handled by a payment provider. Card details never touch our servers.
“The best meals begin with curiosity and end with connection.”
Sofia Anderson
Co-founder and Head Chef
Closing the gap between professional kitchens and home cooks
Most recipes online are written to rank, not to cook from. Chefalio works the other way round.
Written to cook from
Not to rank. Prep time, difficulty, and the whole ingredient list are visible before you commit to the dish.
Attributed to a person
Every recipe belongs to a named chef with a profile and a body of work you can read back through.
Paid for properly
Chefs price their own cookbooks and keep the audience. The platform doesn't sit between them and the people cooking.
Questions, answered plainly
- Does it cost anything to browse recipes?
No. Browsing is free, permanently.
Creating an account and reading the full recipe catalogue costs nothing. You only pay when you decide to buy a cookbook.
- How does buying a cookbook work?
One payment, and it is yours to keep.
Pick a cookbook, pay once, and it lands in your library straight away. No subscription, no recurring charge — purchased cookbooks stay in your account whether or not you keep using the site.
- Where do my saved recipes and cookbooks live?
One library, on your account.
Recipes you save and cookbooks you have bought sit side by side in the same place, so you are not hunting across the site mid-cook.
- How do I become a chef on Chefalio?
Apply from your account; a person reviews it.
Sign up as a normal user, then submit a chef application. Once it is approved your chef dashboard unlocks, and you can publish recipes and build them into cookbooks.
- What do chefs earn from a cookbook?
You set the price and keep the audience.
Chefs price every cookbook they publish. Orders and earnings appear in the dashboard as they come in, alongside views, likes, and saves for each recipe.
Your next good dinner is already here
Browse thousands of chef-tested recipes for free. Pay only for the cookbooks you want to keep.
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