Share your plate. Tell your tale.
Your friends' food, not a stranger's feed.
Forktales is a private cooking log for you and the people you actually eat with. Post what you cooked, ask for the recipe, and keep every dish so you can make it again.
Free to start. Sign in with email or Google, no password.
How it works
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Post your plate
One photo and an optional caption. Made it or bought it, at home or out. It takes as long as sending a photo to a friend.
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Friends ask for the recipe
Anyone in your circle can tap “Ask for the recipe” on a dish. You see who asked, and you write it up once.
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The recipe lives with the plate
Every time you cook it, every friend’s photo of it, and every rating attaches to the recipe. A friend’s tweak becomes a named variant that hangs off yours.
Built for a circle, not a crowd
Everything in Forktales assumes the people looking are people you know.
Friends only
Your posts and recipes are visible to the people who accepted your friend request. No public profiles, no strangers, nothing to discover but your own circle.
No algorithm
The feed is your friends’ posts, newest first, every time. Search it by dish, ingredient, or tag when you’re hungry for something specific.
Ask for the recipe
See a dish you want to make? Ask with one tap. The cook gets a nudge to write it up, and you’re told when it’s ready.
A recipe box that remembers
Each recipe shows when you last cooked it, how many times, and what your friends’ versions looked like.
Variants, not copies
Take a friend’s recipe, change it, name it. Your version shows up on theirs, and theirs stays theirs.
Cook mode
One step at a time in big type, and the screen stays awake while your hands are busy.
Not another recipe site
There are a thousand places to find a recipe. There is nowhere to keep track of what the people around you actually cook, or to ask them how. Forktales is that place, and nothing else.
Questions
Who can see what I post?
Only friends you have accepted. Friendship is mutual and either of you can end it at any time; the moment you do, they lose access to your posts and recipes, and you lose access to theirs.
Is it free?
Yes. Posting is unlimited. A free account keeps up to 25 recipes; if you outgrow that, Forktales Plus is a single one-time purchase that removes the limit. There is no subscription and there are no ads.
Do I need to install an app?
No. Forktales runs in your phone’s browser. Add it to your home screen from Safari or Chrome and it opens like an app, with its own icon.
How do I sign in?
With a link sent to your email, or with your Google account. There is no password to make up or forget.
Can I leave?
Yes. Delete your account from your profile and your posts, recipes, ratings, and friendships are removed. If a friend made their own variant of one of your recipes, their copy stays with them, credited to a deleted user.
Cook something. Post it.
Start with the friends you already trade recipes with. Everyone else can wait.
Get started