Our Recipe Tree Frequently Asked Questions

Our Recipe Tree is an online platform for saving recipes and the stories behind them. You can keep your own personal recipe library, discover recipes other members have chosen to share publicly, group recipes into Recipe Collections and create personalized Recipe Books with an eligible paid membership.

A Recipe Tree is the original idea behind the name Our Recipe Tree: recipes connecting people, stories and memories, much like branches connecting to a tree.

Today, we call the feature for organizing related recipes a Recipe Collection. You can build one around family, friends, special occasions, traditions or any theme that matters to you. You don't need to invite anyone else to create one.

Yes. Our Free membership lets you save unlimited personal recipes, add photographs and stories, and discover publicly shared recipes. You can also contribute to eligible Recipe Collections when you've been granted contributor access. No credit card is required.

My Recipes is your personal recipe library. You can save unlimited recipes there with a Free membership.

A Recipe Collection is an additional organizational feature available with eligible paid memberships. It lets the owner group recipes by people, meals, occasions or other categories, independently or with contributors.

A Recipe Collection is an organized group of recipes managed by its owner. You can group recipes around a family, person, occasion, club, community, school, team or any other theme that matters to you.

You can manage a Recipe Collection yourself or grant other people permission to contribute. A collection does not require multiple contributors.

No. You can create a Recipe Book directly from your own saved recipes in My Recipes, without first creating a Recipe Collection or inviting anyone to contribute. You can also make a Recipe Book from a Recipe Collection. Book creation requires an eligible paid membership.

No. You can create and manage your own Recipe Collection independently. Group recipes by people, meals, occasions or categories that make sense to you. Inviting contributors is optional.

No. People with Free accounts can contribute to eligible Recipe Collections when they receive contributor access. This may happen through an invitation, approved join request or supported linked profile access.

Simply viewing a collection does not grant permission to contribute. Creating your own Recipe Collection requires an eligible paid membership.

Newly saved personal recipes are private by default. You choose when to share a recipe publicly. Adding a recipe to a Recipe Collection does not automatically make that recipe publicly discoverable.

Collection visibility and contributor permissions are managed separately. Private Recipe Collections are invitation-only; open collections may be publicly viewable according to their settings.

Yes, subject to the collection's privacy and access settings. An open Recipe Collection can be publicly viewable, while a private collection limits access according to its invitation and permission settings.

Sharing a collection, granting someone permission to contribute and choosing to publish an individual recipe are different actions. You remain in control of the available settings.

Collection Profiles help you organize recipes within a Recipe Collection. A profile may represent a person, a family member, a category or another grouping you choose.

Some profiles can be linked to actual user accounts and support recipe attribution or access permissions. Profiles are not necessarily the same as contributors.

Creator is $10 per month and includes five lifetime Recipe Collection creations and five lifetime Recipe Book creations. Deleting a Collection or Book does not restore its lifetime creation allowance.

Pro is $20 per month and supports unlimited Recipe Collections and Recipe Books, with additional supported publishing export options. Visit our Pricing page for current membership and billing details.

Yes. With an eligible paid membership, you can create a personalized Recipe Book and download an available printable PDF.

You arrange printing separately with a printer or printing service of your choice. Our Recipe Tree does not print or ship physical books.

Yes. Schools, churches, clubs, nonprofits and community groups can gather recipes to create a collaborative cookbook or Recipe Book fundraiser.

The Amherstburg Food & Fellowship Mission used Our Recipe Tree to create a 119-page Celebrity Recipe Book that helped raise thousands of dollars. Each project's results will vary.

Absolutely. You can use your Free account to save, organize, search and update your personal recipes. You never have to create or purchase a Recipe Book.

Our Recipe Tree is designed to be useful as an ongoing recipe library, not just a tool for producing cookbooks.

Yes. You can add recipe photographs, personal notes, cooking memories and stories connected to favorite dishes.

A small detail about who made a recipe, when it was served or why it matters can be just as valuable as the ingredients.

Yes. You can request cancellation through customer support. Your paid access continues through your current billing period. After that, your account returns to the Free membership.

You do not need to keep paying while taking a break.

Your saved recipes, Recipe Collections and Recipe Books remain associated with your original account when your paid membership ends.

You can return later, sign in to that account and renew an eligible paid membership to regain paid creation and book-access privileges.

Yes. You can export saved recipe information and photographs for your personal records. You can also download available Recipe Book PDFs while your membership includes book-download access.

We recommend keeping personal backups of important recipes, photographs and completed books.