Terms of Use
Maggie’s Cookbook · updated 13 November 2026
These terms cover your use of the Maggie’s Cookbook app and service, made by Ethan Gorman (“we”). By using the app you agree to them. If you got the app from the App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies; where the two differ, these terms add to it rather than replace it.
Your account
The app starts you as a guest tied to your device; signing in with Apple is optional. You’re responsible for what happens on your account. You can delete it at any time from Profile (see the Privacy Policy).
Free use and Pro
- Typing recipes in and importing recipe websites that publish a recipe card are free. A small number of imports that need AI (videos, posts, scans, screenshots, pasted text) and Ask questions are free; Pro lifts those limits, subject to reasonable daily fair-use ceilings that protect the service.
- Subscriptions renew automatically. Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly are charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase and renew at the same price and length unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before that.
- Manage or cancel in your Apple Account: Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal; Pro stays on until the period you paid for ends. Deleting the app or your account doesn’t cancel it.
- Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase that doesn’t renew.
- Refunds are handled by Apple under its policies (reportaproblem.apple.com). Use Restore Purchases in the app to bring Pro back on a new phone.
- Prices are shown in the app before you buy. If we change a subscription’s price, Apple tells you first as its rules require.
Your content and the shared library
You keep whatever rights you have in recipes, notes and photos you add. You give us permission to store, process and display them to provide the app to you, including sending them to the services listed in the Privacy Policy.
When you import a public link, the recipe as published there may be added to Maggie’s shared library for other users (your own edits, notes and photos never are). By importing a link you confirm you’re allowed to access it, and you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to copy, adapt (for example, rewrite it in a consistent style, tag it, illustrate it), display and distribute that recipe within Maggie’s Cookbook. The library credits the original source and links to it. To flag a library recipe that breaks these terms, open it and choose … → Report this recipe; we review reports and remove what breaks them. If you own a recipe in the library and want it credited differently or removed, email support@maggiescookbook.org.
Acceptable use
Don’t use Maggie’s Cookbook to break the law or anyone’s rights; to import or share content that is hateful, sexual, violent, harassing or dangerous; to get around the free limits, rate limits or device checks; to scrape, overload or reverse engineer the service; or to resell it. We may remove library recipes, and suspend or close accounts, that break these rules.
AI and nutrition
Recipes read from videos, photos and text, Ask answers, tags, illustrations and covers are produced by AI models and can be wrong or incomplete. Check quantities, temperatures, cooking times and allergens yourself, especially for food safety. Nutrition figures are estimates from public food data, not lab measurements, and nothing in the app is medical, dietary or allergy advice. If you have a medical condition or allergy, follow your doctor’s or dietitian’s guidance.
Recipes from others
Library recipes come from public websites and creators. We don’t endorse them and aren’t responsible for third-party sites or content you reach through the app.
The service
We work to keep Maggie’s Cookbook running and your cookbook safe, but the app is provided “as is”, without warranties beyond those the law requires, and features may change. To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability is limited to what you paid us for Pro in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that can’t be waived.
Changes
We may update these terms; we’ll change the date above and mention big changes in the app. Using the app after a change means you accept the new terms.