Questions & answers

What is Kept?

A private home for your family's recipes — including the handwritten ones. Keep a to-cook list, log what you actually cooked with ratings and reviews, and do it together inside family circles. Think of it as a cooking diary your whole family shares.

How do I add a recipe?

Go to Add a recipe. You can type it in by hand, paste a link to any recipe on the web (we clean it up automatically), or snap a photo of a handwritten card or printed page and we'll transcribe it — keeping the original photo as a keepsake.

Who can see my recipes?

Only members of your circle. Recipes are private by default — nobody outside your family circle can see them. Logged-out visitors only ever see sample/demo recipes.

How do I invite family?

On the Circlespage, tap “Create invite link” and text it to family. Anyone who opens it joins your circle and can see and cook everything.

What's a “cook log”?

When you make a recipe, log it: a rating, a quick review, any tweaks you made, even a photo. Your logs build a history of every time the family cooked a dish — and show up in the home feed so everyone can follow along.

What's a “fork”?

A variation of a recipe — eggless, spicier, half-batch, whatever. Forking keeps the original intact and credited, and links your version back to it so the family lineage of a dish stays visible.

Can I scale a recipe or switch units?

Yes — on any recipe, use the servings stepper to scale ingredients up or down, and toggle between original / imperial / metric.

Can I add a cook-along video?

Yes. On a recipe you added, upload a short cook-along video — ideally one you film with the family member the recipe came from.

Still stuck? Ask whoever set up your family's Kept. 🍳