I spent way too long trying to design a family cookbook by hand — resizing scanned recipe cards, matching fonts, and keeping page layouts consistent across dozens of photos and typed notes.
Eventually switched to Cookbook AI for the layout part. It takes the uploaded recipes as-is (PDF, Word, or photos), keeps the original text and images untouched, auto-sorts everything by dish type, and outputs a clean print-ready cookbook. You can still go in and tweak individual pages afterward if something looks off.
Saved a huge amount of manual formatting time compared to doing it in a generic design tool.