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Recipe Room uses recipe types to explain where settings came from, who published each version, and how people can trace it through the community. Camera and film-simulation settings are available for anyone to use. No creator gets exclusive ownership of a particular setting or combination of settings merely by publishing it, and two people may independently arrive at the same settings. Recipe types record source and attribution when an existing Recipe Room recipe was actually used as the starting point.

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Custom Recipes

A Custom recipe is one you create independently from scratch. It isn’t based on another creator’s Recipe Room recipe and has no source recipe attached to it. Use a custom recipe when the settings, title, description, and creative direction are your own.

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Forked Recipes

A Forked recipe starts from another creator’s recipe and adapts its settings. Forked recipes must use a title that isn’t identical to the source. They may keep a recognisable part of the source name. They’re not eligible for creator platform monetization. Read Forked Recipes for the complete guide.

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Community Recipes

A Community recipe is a like-for-like version of another creator’s recipe on your recipe profile. It keeps the same settings and may keep the same title. Keeping the established recipe name counts as credit. Recipe Room may also show the source or creator where that information is available. Read Community Recipes for the complete guide.
When you start from another creator’s recipe, it begins as a community recipe. It remains Community if the settings stay unchanged and becomes Forked if you adapt the settings. It can never become a Custom recipe.

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Choosing the Right Type

Recipe types help creators receive credit and help the community understand where a recipe came from. If your recipe is based on someone else’s settings, start from that recipe and use Community or Forked rather than presenting it as Custom. Similar settings can sometimes be created independently. What matters is choosing Community or Forked when another recipe was genuinely your starting point. Do not manually publish a recipe as Custom using the exact name of an existing Recipe Room recipe in order to present or sell it as your own. This is a violation of Recipe Room’s Terms even if you change the settings. If you believe this has happened to your recipe, follow Reporting and Appeals. Linking a recipe to a post doesn’t change its type. It simply points viewers to the existing recipe and creator. Read How Recipes and Posts Connect for the difference between linking, saving, Community, and Forked. Recipe Room relies on the community to use these types fairly. Further creator protections will be introduced alongside the creator platform and monetization features. For the current monetization direction, read Creator Platform.

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Which Type Should I Choose?

Create a custom recipe.
Create a forked recipe.
Save it as a community recipe.