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Move your recipes from another app

Bring a whole collection over from Paprika, Cookbook, Flavorish, Mr. Cook, or Recipe Keeper, images included, and restore a Daily Simmer archive the same way.

Last updated: August 12, 2026

If your recipes currently live in another app, you do not have to retype them or leave them behind. A guided wizard brings a whole collection across in one go, images included.

Start this one on a computer. It works with a file you export from your old app, and files are awkward to move around on a phone.

Apps we can import from

  • Paprika
  • Cookbook
  • Flavorish
  • Mr. Cook
  • Recipe Keeper

If yours is not on that list, you can request it from inside the wizard. That is genuinely how the list grows, so it is worth doing rather than assuming someone else has asked.

How to move your recipes across

  1. Export from your old app first. Every app on that list has an export or backup option, usually in its settings. You want the file it produces; you do not need to do anything to it afterwards.
  2. Open the import wizard in Daily Simmer and upload that file.
  3. See what we found. The wizard tells you how many recipes are in the file before anything is saved.
  4. Take all of them, or pick through them one at a time. Recipes you have already imported are flagged, so running the wizard a second time does not quietly give you two of everything.
  5. Import. Images come across with the recipes.

Nothing is removed from your old app. The export is a copy, so your recipes stay exactly where they are until you decide to stop using it.

What comes across

Recipe content — ingredients, steps, times, servings — and the images attached to each recipe.

How complete the result is depends on how much structure your old app kept. An app that stored ingredients as separate fields gives us more to work with than one that stored a recipe as a block of text. Anything that does not survive cleanly is something you can fix by editing the recipe, and the AI can help tidy a rough import if you ask it to.

Restoring a Daily Simmer archive

The same wizard takes a .simmer archive, which is the format Daily Simmer's own export produces. That is the path for moving between accounts or restoring a backup, and it brings back images and any collection structure the archive carries.