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Daily Simmer vs Mr. Cook

Mr. Cook is a tidy place to build and keep recipes. Daily Simmer keeps them and puts them to work: adapted with you, planned into the week, shopped for, and cooked beside you, together with the people at your table. Your Mr. Cook archive comes along.

What Mr. Cook offers

  • Build and organize recipes with Mr. Cook's recipe tools
  • Use Mr. Cook across its documented web and mobile experiences
  • Create and manage recipes with Mr. Cook's supported features
  • Export a recipe archive that Daily Simmer can import

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What changes in Daily Simmer

  • One account on your laptop and your phone, free to start, with your library exportable whenever you like.
  • Turn a link, a social video, or a photo of a card into a recipe, then adapt it in conversation with the original kept.
  • Share collections with friends and cook from one Family library at home, with one plan and one shopping list.
  • Cooking mode keeps the step large and the screen awake, with timers for every dish and an assistant that answers without leaving the recipe.

Common questions about switching

What to check before moving your recipe library.

Will I lose my photos or images?

Imports keep recipe images when the export includes them. Review your imported library before removing anything from your previous app.

How long does the import take?

Import time depends on the size and format of your library. You can keep using Daily Simmer while the import runs.

Can I keep using my old app during the switch?

Yes. Importing reads the export file you provide and does not change the library in your previous app. Keep the original export until you have reviewed the imported recipes.

What if some recipes don't import correctly?

Fields differ between export formats. If something looks off, edit the recipe directly or add the missing detail by hand.

Import your Mr. Cook recipes and keep going

Import your Mr. Cook archive, review the recipes, and keep the original until your library looks right.

A phone playing a soup video, with the YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok marks beside it, becomes a recipe card landing in an open green recipe box.