Your recipes are yours, and you can take a complete copy of them whenever you want. Export lives in Settings on the web.

What an export contains

Every recipe you own or can edit, with its images. Recipes that were shared with you as a viewer stay with the person who owns them and are not included: an export is a copy of your library, not of everyone else's.

You can also tick the manual collections whose structure should travel with the export, so the way you organised your recipes survives the move rather than arriving as a flat pile.

The two formats

.simmer is our own format and the one to take if you might ever restore it. It is a versioned ZIP archive holding checksummed recipe JSON, collection membership, your embedded images, and Schema.org Recipe projections of each recipe. It is the only format that restores completely.

Schema.org JSON-LD is the portable one, meant for other recipe tools and scripts that understand the standard. It is a genuine export of your recipes, but it is not a backup: we do not promise a lossless round trip back into Daily Simmer, because the standard has no place for some of what a Daily Simmer recipe carries.

Take the .simmer archive if you want a backup. Take the JSON-LD if you want to do something with your recipes elsewhere.

Restoring an archive

A .simmer archive goes back in through the ordinary import wizard, images and selected collection structure included.

Restoring is careful by design. Your archive is unpacked in your own browser rather than uploaded somewhere to be opened, the declared checksums are verified, and archives that look unsafe — oversized entries, suspicious compression ratios — are rejected rather than opened. A restore that has to retry reuses the recipe and collection identities it already established, so a hiccup partway through does not leave you with two of everything.

Getting a shopping list out

Shopping lists travel separately from recipes, and they have their own quick ways out:

Copy as text on the web puts the list on your clipboard, one item per line, ready to paste into any list app or a message.
The share sheet on iPhone and iPad does the same thing through the native share menu.
A webhook hands the list to another app directly, which is the one to reach for if you want it to land in Home Assistant or a Bring bridge.

Both of the first two send only what is still unchecked, in the form 2 kg potatoes, one per line.

Deleting your account

Deleting your account removes your personal data and cancels an active subscription, and it is permanent. Take an export first if there is anything you want to keep. Once the deletion goes through there is nothing for us to restore from.