An open recipe commons
RecDex is a free, ad-free, community-driven recipe index. No paywalls, no life stories before the recipe, no tracking cookies. Just food.
Every recipe on RecDex is structured and searchable — with ingredients you can check off, steps you can follow in cook mode, and a servings adjuster that does the math for you.
Recipes come from three places: our curated collection, community contributions, and AI-assisted extraction from cooking videos. When a recipe is extracted from a video, the original creator is always credited and the source video is embedded on the recipe page.
Anyone can contribute a recipe — either by writing it from scratch or by pasting a link to a cooking video. Our AI reads the video transcript and structures it into a full recipe, which you review and edit before it goes live.
RecDex has community notes on every recipe — tips, substitutions, and tweaks from people who have actually cooked it. There are also community discussion threads for kitchen talk, gear recommendations, and cooking questions.
No accounts required. Just pick a display name and start contributing.
RecDex is built as a public benefit project. The goal is to be the most useful, least annoying recipe site on the internet.
Built with care. No ads, no paywalls, no nonsense.