A recipe is never finished. Now it doesn't have to be.
Shikomi is version control for cooking. Capture any recipe, cook it, and commit your tweaks, so the recipe gets better every time and you never lose the version that worked.
+ rest 20 min → 35 min
− butter 45g → 38g
Every tweak, kept. Every version, recoverable.
You know the feeling. The loaf finally sang. But was it the 80% hydration, or the extra night in the fridge? Shikomi remembers so you don't have to. Each time you adjust a recipe, commit the change as a new version with a note. Compare any two versions side by side, see exactly what changed, and bring back the one that worked with a single tap.
It's the discipline of version control, translated for people who measure in grams, not commits.
Explore Versioning →
oven 200°C
bulk 4h
oven 200°C
bulk 4h
Change one thing. Learn something.
Hunches are where great recipes start. The testing lab is where they get proven. Set up an experiment: hydration up five percent, oven down twenty-five degrees. Cook the variation, log the result, and when it wins, promote it into the main line. It's serious recipe development without the spreadsheet, built for the way bakers and pitmasters actually iterate.
Explore the Testing Lab →Built for hands covered in flour.
When it's time to cook, Shikomi gets out of the way. Cook mode strips a recipe down to the step in front of you: big type, timers built into the steps that need them, and a screen that stays awake as long as you do. Scale servings on the fly, flip to baker's percentages, and move through the recipe without ever wiping your hands to unlock a phone.
Explore Cook Mode →Paste it. Link it. Or just describe it.
Grandma's index card, a food blog, or a dish that exists only in your head. Every recipe has a way in. Shikomi structures it into clean ingredients, steps, and amounts, ready to be cooked, measured, and versioned.
Your recipes are yours. Full stop.
A recipe box should outlast any app, including this one. Shikomi is local-first: your recipes live on your device, work offline, and sync when you're back. Everything is backed up automatically, and a full export is always one click away. No lock-in, no hostage data. Just the same promise a shoebox of index cards makes, kept properly.