What Happens to Your Recipes If Flour Power Ever Goes Away

Most apps will not answer this question publicly. I think that is a mistake.

If you are about to trust an app with years of family recipes, you deserve a straight answer about what happens if the company closes. Apps shut down. Companies pivot. Founders move on. The internet is full of services that were thriving five years ago and gone today.

Here is mine.

The short version

Your recipes are safe because Flour Power is built to make them safe, not because I am promising you I will never close.

The export feature works for every account, every tier, every day, including the free tier and the trial. The export uses open standard formats. JSON. PDF. Markdown. Any modern recipe app can read them.

If I ever announce that Flour Power is shutting down, the off-ramp is 90 days minimum, the export stays free, and I will publish instructions for moving your data to alternative tools. Including ones I do not personally prefer.

That is the commitment.

Why I built it this way

I have planned for my own potential obsolescence.

That sounds strange to say in marketing copy. It is the honest version. I do not know how long Flour Power will exist. I intend to keep building it for a long time. I also know that intentions are not guarantees. Companies fail. Acquisitions happen. Funding dries up. Reasonable people plan for these possibilities.

The way I have planned is by making sure that the value of Flour Power to you does not require Flour Power to keep existing.

Your recipes are in standard formats. Your account can be exported any time. The tool that converts between recipe app formats, MoveMyRecipes, is a separate product with its own existence. If Flour Power vanished tomorrow, your recipes could be in another recipe app by the end of the week.

This is the opposite of how most apps are designed. Most apps make leaving painful because leaving threatens revenue. I made leaving easy because trapping you is not the business I want to run.

What "90 days" actually means

If I ever had to shut Flour Power down, here is what I commit to.

• 90 days of notice, minimum. Three months is enough time to export, evaluate alternatives, and move.
• Export available throughout. Same export tools that work today work on day 89.
• Documentation of alternatives. A clear list with instructions. Including direct competitors.
• MoveMyRecipes keeps running. It is structurally independent from Flour Power. Losing one does not mean losing the other.
• A final bulk export as last resort. If the live service had to go down sooner, a downloadable copy of every user's collection.

Your recipes go home with you, no matter what.

What this protects against

The realistic risks to a hosted recipe collection are these. Each has an answer.

The company shuts down quietly. This is the worst case. My 90-day commitment exists specifically to make it impossible.

The company gets acquired and changes. The export remains free and unchanged through any ownership change. The commitments above apply regardless of who owns the company.

The company tightens the export over time. I do not plan to do this. If we ever did, existing users would be grandfathered.

You delete your account by mistake. The deletion is held for 90 days. Recovery is a support email away. After 90 days, it is permanent.

How to verify this yourself

The portability is verifiable. You do not have to trust me. Start the 14-day trial. Add a few recipes. Run the export from your settings. Look at the file.

If the export does what I say it does, the rest of the relationship is on solid ground. If it does not, tell me, or leave, or both.

I want you to run the test. It is one of the cleanest ways to tell whether the trust story is real or just words on a page.

What this costs me

Building this way costs me something. The cost is that I cannot rely on lock-in to retain customers. I have to compete on whether Flour Power is the right product for your family, not on whether leaving is harder than staying.

That is a harder business to run than the alternative. I am doing it anyway.

Your recipes will outlast any app. Probably mine. Definitely the rest. The architecture is designed so that whatever happens to me, the recipes continue to be available to you, in formats you control.

That is the kind of trust I am trying to earn.