- What is Kept?
- A private home for your family's recipes — including the handwritten ones. Keep a to-cook list, log what you actually cooked with ratings and reviews, and do it together inside family circles. Cooked with love, kept forever.
- How do I add a recipe?
- Go to Add a recipe. You can type it in by hand, paste a link to any recipe on the web (we clean it up automatically), or snap a photo of a handwritten card or printed page and we'll transcribe it — keeping the original photo as a keepsake.
- Who can see my recipes?
- Recipes are private by default — only members of your circle can see them. When adding or editing a recipe you can mark it Public, which gives it a shareable link anyone can open (handy for recipes you want to share beyond the family). Logged-out visitors only ever see public or sample recipes.
- Can I edit or delete a recipe?
- Yes — if you added it, you'll see Edit and Delete on the recipe page. Editing lets you fix ingredients and steps, change who it came from (and their photo), adjust tags, and switch it between public and private.
- What are originator (ancestor) pages?
- Every recipe can name who it came from — Grandma, Mom, an uncle — with their photo. That person gets their own pageshowing every recipe attributed to them across the whole family. Click an originator's name on any recipe to see all of theirs. Use the same name and Kept links them together automatically — so Grandma is one person, not a dozen duplicates.
- How do I invite family?
- On the Circles page, tap “Create invite link” and text it to family. Anyone who opens it joins your circle and can see and cook everything.
- Will I get notified of activity?
- Yes — Kept emails you when someone comments on or cooks one of your recipes, replies to your comment, when a new recipe lands in your circle, when someone joins, and when someone you follow adds a recipe or logs a cook. You can fine-tune which emails you get in Settings. Signing in is by magic link sent to your email — no password to remember.
- What's a “cook log”?
- When you make a recipe, log it: a rating, a quick review, any tweaks, a photo — and who you ate it with and where. Your logs turn each recipe into a memory timeline of every time it was made (the photos, the people, the places), and show up in the home feed so everyone can follow along.
- Can I follow people?
- Yes. Open anyone's cook profile and tap Follow — family in your circles or any cook with public recipes. Their new recipes and cooks then show up on your home feed under “From people you follow,” and you can get an email when they post. See everyone you follow on your Following page.
- How do I share a recipe?
- Every recipe has a Share button. On a phone it opens your share sheet — iMessage, WhatsApp, wherever — and on a computer it copies the link. The preview shows the dish photo and details, not a generic image. Public recipes are best for sharing widely; private recipes stay private to your circle.
- What if a recipe card is in another language?
- Snap it like any other card. Kept detects the language and transcribes the recipe into clear English for cooking — while keeping your original photo exactly as it was written, as a keepsake. You'll see a small “Translated from …” tag on the recipe.
- What's a “fork”?
- A variation of a recipe — eggless, spicier, half-batch, whatever. Forking keeps the original intact and credited, and links your version back to it so the family lineage of a dish stays visible.
- Can I scale a recipe or switch units?
- Yes — on any recipe, use the servings stepper to scale ingredients up or down, and toggle between original / imperial / metric.
- Can I add a cook-along video?
- Yes. On a recipe you added, upload a short cook-along video — ideally one you film with the family member the recipe came from.
- How do I change my name or photo?
- Open Settings (or tap your email in the header). You can set a display name and upload a profile photo.
Still stuck? Ask whoever set up your family's Kept. 🍳
