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Recipe app with subscriptions: monetize your cooking blog and your recipe videos
Readers cook your free recipes, take out the subscription without leaving the app to unlock the rest, and get an alert as soon as a new dish is out.
Turn your cooking blog, food magazine or recipe channel into a native app, without coding: free and locked recipes, technique videos, banners for those who don't pay, billing by the month or the year.
Free 30-day trial - No credit card required
Ingredients for everyone, the method for subscribers
You decide how far a non-subscriber can read into each recipe
On a locked recipe, show the photo, the intro and the ingredient list, then stop the reading before the steps: the subscription offer appears at the paragraph you pick. Sales start once ten recipes are locked; every subscriber then opens the whole collection, paying by the month, by the year, or after a free trial period.
Your blog carries on, the app takes it further
Blog posts flow into the app on their own; your exclusive recipes are written inside it
Connect your WordPress blog or its RSS feed: every post on the site lands by itself in a free section, with nothing to retype. Paid recipes are written directly in the app, where each one can be locked on its own. The blog draws readers from search engines; the app offers them the subscription.
From cooking blog to recipe app: four settings
What gets set once, before the first recipe is sold.
The blog feed
A free section your site fills on its own.The locked recipes
Ten at least, written in the app, each with the number of paragraphs left visible.The offer
A monthly plan, a yearly plan, or the two side by side, a rate for each store, plus an optional free trial.The alerts
One automatic alert per section, preceded by a prefix such as “New recipe:”.
Technique videos, right inside the recipe
For food creators: the video and the written steps, locked together
Embed the video of the move that makes the difference, dough being worked or a sauce coating the spoon, at the heart of the reserved recipe. Streaming these videos costs you nothing in bandwidth; only storage space varies with the plan, with more of it in Pro. A YouTube section stays open to all, like your Live Video broadcasts: use them as a shop window, and keep the full method for subscribers.
A food magazine, with two sources of revenue
Ads for free readers, ad-free reading for subscribers
If you publish a food magazine, lay out each issue in sections, feature of the month, seasonal recipes, a producer profile, and let an automatic push announce it. Sell your ad space yourself through the internal ad server, or hand it to Google AdMob; one setting spares subscribers the ads. On each subscription GoodBarber takes nothing, and the store keeps its share, usually 15%.
AI in your recipe collection
What they change for your readers and for you, and what they cost.
To cook
“I have zucchini and feta, what can I make?”
The Chatbot draws on your published recipes, answers in the reader's language and links to the recipes it used. Without a subscription, only free recipes serve as its source.
29€/month
To adapt
A serving-size calculator
One sentence in the back office is enough, along the lines of “enter the quantities for four and the number of guests, show the new amounts”: the AI Extension Builder builds the section, in your app's style.
Free
To publish
Sunday's recipe sent from your assistant
The MCP server links the app to Claude or ChatGPT: you hand it the recipe to put online and its notification, you read it over, then you approve.
Included
A recipe app, an ad-funded blog or a creator subscription platform?
Three ways to earn from your recipes, and what each one leaves in your hands.
| Your app with GoodBarber | Blog with ads only | Creator subscription platform | |
|---|---|---|---|
| On both stores, under your brand | native iOS and Android | no | depending on the platform |
| Recipes reserved for paying readers | recipe by recipe, adjustable preview | no | yes |
| How the subscription is paid | from the phone, through the store | not applicable | by card, on the platform |
| Alert for each new recipe | push notification | email or social media | email, depending on the platform |
| What is taken from your revenue | nothing by GoodBarber, the store's share | depending on the ad network | a percentage, depending on the platform |
What else readers find in the app
A favorites list
Recipes saved for Sunday lunch.
Search
Find a recipe by name or ingredient across the whole app.
Comments
Readers share how their attempt went under the recipe; you moderate.
A printable recipe card
The recipe as a PDF, visible to subscribers only.
A badge on paid recipes
In your brand's colors, to spot them in lists.
Free recipes visible on the web
On the web version, Google and other engines can list your free recipes.
The food blogger
Her blog stays free and brings readers in; holiday menus and detailed basics move to the app, for subscribers.
The food magazine
One issue a month in sections, ads for free readers, full features for subscribers.
The chef who teaches
When your recipes turn into a program by levels, a cooking school app fits it better.
The video cooking schoolPioneers of no-code
15 years of experience building native apps for businesses and content publishers. And the numbers to prove it.
25 000+
Daily downloads for apps built with GoodBarber*
30 000+
Clients have brought their app projects to life with GoodBarber
2011
The year GoodBarber was born: no-code, before anyone else
* Source: internal download tracking, App Store and Google Play, April 2026.
What your recipe collection costs as an app
Premium puts your native apps online; to charge for recipes, you add Memberships, which comes with Pro. The Chatbot is billed separately; hosting, bandwidth and alerts add nothing.
| Premium · iOS and Android apps, web version | 55€ /month, billed yearly |
| Memberships, added to Premium | 49€ /month |
| Chatbot, if you want it | 29€ /month |
| Pro · subscriptions built in from the start | 105€ /month, billed yearly |
Apple and Google are paid on each subscription; GoodBarber is not. Your developer accounts are settled with the stores.
Extension Store
For a paid recipe collection: Memberships (paid with Premium, free with Pro), articles and videos, the blog feed, favorites, automatic alerts, Chatbot, AI Extension Builder.
Reviews from GoodBarber customers
Published reviews, across all kinds of apps.
GoodBarber is a powerful app builder.
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Great support and always very helpful answers.
Great support and always very helpful answers. Nothing is too trivial for the team to answer.
Responsive support and usually quick.
Responsive support and usually quick. Software is by far the best in the market, with tremendous capabilities for configurations.
Recipe subscription app: frequently asked questions
How do you monetize a cooking blog with an app?
Keep the blog free to attract readers, and reserve in the app the recipes that take the most work: complete menus, filmed techniques, printable cards. The reader pays for the subscription through their store; banners can fund free reading. On these sales only the store gets paid, not GoodBarber.
Can recipes imported from my blog be reserved?
No: whatever arrives through the feed stays freely readable. Write the locked recipes in the app, and keep the feed for the free showcase.
Can I sell a single cookbook?
Not in the app: the subscription is monthly or yearly, and it opens every reserved recipe. A printed book belongs in a shop: GoodBarber's eCommerce app is made for that.
I publish a food magazine: can I keep advertising?
Yes. Non-subscribers see banners from your own ad server or from Google (AdMob, Ad Manager), and one option hides them from subscribers.
Do my recipe videos cost more to stream?
No: there is no bandwidth bill. Storage space grows with the plan, from Premium to Pro.
Premium or Pro to sell recipes?
Premium plus Memberships, or Pro, which contains it. Recipe sales also depend on a live web version, hosted on a domain you own.
GoodBarber turns your cooking blog into a recipe app sold by subscription, with no GoodBarber commission
Open and reserved recipes, adjustable preview, videos, your blog's feed, ads for free readers, a push for each recipe, Chatbot, a serving-size calculator built with the AI Extension Builder.