Built by one person who was sick of losing recipes.

Hi — I’m Lee. I’m a software engineer in the UK, and RustleUp exists because I kept losing recipes.

One was a screenshot, somewhere in my camera roll. One was a bookmark I’d saved with genuine optimism in 2023. One was on a website so heavy with ads that my phone warmed up reading it. And the good one — the one I actually wanted — was nine paragraphs deep in somebody’s memories of a summer in Tuscany, behind a “jump to recipe” button that didn’t.

So I built the app I wanted. You paste a link — or share one, or photograph a magazine page, or type “something with chorizo and not much washing up” — and you get a clean recipe back. It goes in your cookbook. Your cookbook plans your week. Your week writes your shopping list. And when you’re mid-cook wondering whether crème fraîche can stand in for soured cream, you ask the recipe. It answers.

Why “RustleUp”?

Because “I’ll rustle something up” is the most quietly confident sentence in cooking. That’s the feeling the app is chasing: less faff, more dinner.

The deal

No ads. No investors optimising your attention. No selling data — the subscription funds everything. When you email support, it’s me. When you vote on a feature in the app, I read it. When a recipe saves wrong and you report it, I see that too — and it gets fixed for everyone.

— Lee