Rules for sharing recipes

Draft of 11 October 2026. The app has not been released yet, and these rules may change before it is.

In the Supperwell app you can tick Make public on a recipe. That puts the recipe in Supperwell's recipe library, where it may be shown to other people who use the app. Ticking the box means you agree to these rules. They are short.

What belongs in the library

Recipes: real dishes that someone could cook and eat, written so that someone else could follow them.

What can be made public, and what other people see

• A recipe from a website. Other people see its name, its ingredients and its rating. For the method they are sent to the original page, so the person who wrote it gets the visit.
• A recipe you typed in, photographed from a page, or pasted in as text. Other people see all of it. The app asks you to confirm that it is yours to share: that you wrote it, or have the right to pass it on. A recipe from a cookbook, a magazine or someone else's website is usually theirs, not yours, however long you have owned the book.
• A recipe Claude wrote for you. Other people see all of it.
• A recipe someone else gave you, by sending you a link or by sharing it here, cannot be made public by you unless it came from a website. It is theirs to share.

Before a recipe appears

Every recipe is checked automatically against these rules before anyone else can see it. One the check is unsure about is looked at by a person first. A recipe can be changed until it is made public, and not while it is. To change a public recipe of your own, take it back, change it, and make it public again; it is then checked again. Recipes are listed best rated first. A recipe is ranked by its rating once five people have given it a thumbs up or down; until then it is listed after the ones that have been.

What does not

Do not make public anything that:

• is not a recipe: advertising, spam, links to other things, jokes at someone's expense, or messages to other people;
• is hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit or violent, in its name or anywhere in its text;
• would be unsafe to make or eat as written: for example non-food or harmful ingredients, unsafe canning or preserving, or instructions likely to cause injury;
• makes medical claims, such as that a dish treats or cures an illness;
• contains personal details, yours or anyone else's: names, addresses, phone numbers, or anything else that identifies a person;
• you do not have the right to share, or have been asked to keep private;
• is against the law.

Do not use more than one copy of the app to push a recipe's rating up or down.

Sending a recipe as a link

A recipe you send to someone as a link is not public: it is not listed in the library and is shown only to people who have the link. The same rules apply to what you send. A link that breaks them is removed, and whoever made it can be stopped from sharing.

Reporting a recipe

Wherever the app shows you a recipe from the library, it offers a way to report it, with a reason. A report goes to the person who runs Supperwell, who reads every one. A recipe that several people report is held back from everyone until it has been looked at. The app also lets you hide a recipe, or everything from whoever shared it, on your own phone straight away. To report a recipe someone sent you as a link, write to the address below with the link.

What happens when a rule is broken

• The recipe is removed from the library. It stays on the phone of whoever shared it, but cannot be made public again.
• Someone who breaks the rules seriously or repeatedly is stopped from sharing at all.

These decisions are made by a person, not automatically.

If a recipe of yours is in the library and should not be

If you are the author or publisher of a recipe and want it taken out of the library, write to the address below and say which recipe you mean, by its name or its web address. It will be removed. You do not have to give a reason.

Taking back your own recipe

Open the recipe in the app and untick Make public, or delete the recipe. It is removed from the library. The privacy policy says exactly what is stored and for how long.

Contact

Supperwell is run by Sean Trostel. For reports, removal requests and questions, write to sean.trostel@gmail.com.