Changelog

Two months since my last post, and here's why: I rebuilt the iOS and Android apps from scratch. Version 3 is out, so I can finally tell you about it.

📱 A Completely New App

It has a new design, it's much faster and everything feels a lot smoother. Each recipe page now takes its colors from the recipe's photo, so every recipe looks a little different. iPad and Android tablets got their own layouts too.

Your recipes, cookbooks and lists are all still there. Just update the app.

📶 It Works Offline

Offline mode has been one of the most requested things on the board for a long time. The app now opens without internet and your shopping list keeps working, then syncs once you're back online.

Recipes you've opened and everything planned for this week stay readable, photos included. Editing recipes still needs a connection.

🛒 A Better Shopping List

I rebuilt this one as well. All of this works on the web too:

• Every item has its own little product icon, so the list is much easier to scan.

• Drag the categories into the order of your store. Everyone on the list sees the same order.

• Your own categories stay around now. Move an item to another category and the list remembers it for next time.

• One tap puts a recently bought item back on the list.

In the apps you can also print the list or share it as text, one item per line.

🗓️ Meal Planning in the Apps

The AI meal plan is now a few short questions: which meals and days, how many people, your diet, how much time you have. You can plan this week or next week, and you check the result before accepting it.

Out of ideas for one day? The Idea button suggests one of your own recipes. Don't like it, tap Another.

On iPhone there's a new widget for the Home Screen and Lock Screen, with today's meal and the next few days.

🍳 Cooking Mode

Steps now scroll from top to bottom in the apps. The current step and your next timer stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island on iPhone, and in a notification on Android. You can jump to the next step right from there.

📖 Recipes

Ingredients have product icons on the recipe page now, on the web too. Two more things work everywhere:

• A new setting hides calories and nutrients in recipes, the meal plan and printouts.

• You can hide a cookbook from My Recipes. Its recipes then only show up in that cookbook and in search.

And in the apps:

• Crop your recipe photos

• Recipe PDFs are A4 and include the photo

• Recipe in another language? The menu offers to translate it

• Import from Paprika or Recipe Keeper, and export all your recipes as JSON, CSV or PDF

✨ Imports & AI

I moved recipe scans, nutrient estimates and AI images to better models. Ingredient lines like "1 Msp. Zimt" or "250 gr Mehl" now get recognized properly, across all 12 languages.

The apps also have short guides, with videos, for saving recipes from Instagram, TikTok and other apps through the share sheet.

🤝 Invites & Help

If you invite someone to a list or cookbook, they now get a welcome screen in the app showing who invited them, then go straight in after signing in.

There's also a chat in the Help section of the app. It goes straight to me.

🛠️ Smaller Fixes

• Saving a cookbook or adding a recipe to one no longer looks frozen

• You can create tags right in the recipe form in the apps

• Safari no longer blocks the checkout and billing tabs

• "Manage subscription" works on Android

• Irish and Jewish cuisines added, and a few misspelled cuisine names fixed

💚 Thank You

Thanks to everyone who tested the betas and sent me bug reports. Many of the fixes in this release started with one of your messages.

💬 Feedback

It's a new app, so there are bugs I haven't found yet. If something's broken or you miss something from the old app, tell me.

- Jan

Two weeks since the last update. Less visual stuff this time, more things that help you actually find and save recipes.

🥕 Filter by Ingredients

You can now filter your recipe library by ingredients. Type a few things you have on hand (chicken, rice, lemon...) and Mr. Cook shows recipes that include them.

Works on My Recipes and inside cookbooks. Up to 10 ingredients at once. Comma or Enter to add each one.

🌍 Smarter Cuisine Filter

The cuisine filter no longer dumps the entire world cuisine list on you. It only shows cuisines that appear in your actual collection. Much easier to find "that Italian pasta dish I saved last month."

📊 Better Nutrient Analysis

I rebuilt how the app estimates calories and macros. The AI now accounts for cooking (pasta absorbing water, meat losing moisture)

Should be noticeably more accurate, especially for non-English recipes.

📱 Social Media Imports

Instagram and Facebook recipe imports got a lot of attention:

• Incomplete posts (caption only, no structured recipe) get salvaged better. Titles and descriptions pulled from captions when possible.

• Instagram cover images should download reliably again.

• Facebook posts pick up recipe images more consistently.

• Empty imports (title but no ingredients) get caught and filled in when there's enough text to work with.

🌐 Website Imports

Behind the scenes, but you should notice fewer broken imports:

• Better parsing on some recipe websites

• Smarter image extraction when a site has multiple photos

• AI-generated recipe images retry automatically if the first attempt fails

🛒 Shopping List & Subscriptions

Fixed a bug where the shopping list could show stale items after someone else edited it.

Also spent time fixing subscription state for long-time users. If your plan ever looked wrong after a billing change or account transfer, that should be sorted now. (If it's still off, tell me.)

🛠️ Smaller Fixes

• Android: keyboard no longer covers the bottom drawer

• Back button clears search text before leaving the page

• Sign-in no longer shows errors on flaky connections

• Numbers format correctly regardless of timezone

• App loads a bit faster

💚 Thank You

Thanks for sticking around and for everyone on a paid plan. I'm grateful for your support!

💬 Feedback

Imports still failing on a site you use? Let me know.

- Jan

Three weeks since my last update and I've been rebuilding big parts of the app. This one is mostly visual, but I added some useful stuff too.

🎨 A Fresh Look Everywhere

The biggest change this month: I redesigned most of the app. Recipes, Discover, cookbooks, settings, the shopping list, and the meal plan all look cleaner now. Better spacing, nicer cards, things feel more consistent.

Content pages like recipes, cookbooks, and the recipe editor now go full-screen. More room to read and edit. Back navigation should also make more sense now.

📝 New Create Recipe Flow

Adding a recipe manually no longer opens a tiny dialog. There's a dedicated full-page editor now, same form as when you edit an existing recipe. Much nicer when you're typing out ingredients and instructions.

📖 Recipe Page Redesign

I cleaned up the recipe page again. Time, difficulty, calories, rating, and comments sit in a compact bar at the top now, so you don't have to scroll to find the basics.

Cooking Mode has a floating button on the recipe page. One tap and you're in.

📚 Custom Cookbook Colors

You can pick a cover color when creating or editing a cookbook. Makes it easier to spot your collections.

🍽️ Meal Plan Overhaul

I rebuilt the meal planner:

• Daily macro bars for protein, carbs, and fat

• Copy a meal to another slot without adding it again

• Copy your whole week to next week in one go

• Cleaner day cards and a simpler empty state

🛒 Shopping List Refresh

Same story for the shopping list:

• Actions live in a dropdown now (share, copy, clear checked items, etc.)

• Items grouped more clearly, with nicer check-off animations

• New dialog to wipe checked items in bulk

✨ AI & Nutrients

AI-generated recipes now get nutrient analysis automatically. Macros and calories show up when you generate a recipe.

📥 Smarter Imports & Parsing

Mostly under the hood, but worth knowing:

• 622+ website importers now

• Trickier YouTube videos should import more reliably

• Cooking Mode handles duplicate ingredients better. Same name, different amounts? Each mention in the steps gets the right one (most of the time).

• Ingredient parsing prefers the recipe's language over your UI language

• Teaspoons and tablespoons no longer get converted to milliliters when you switch to metric

🏠 Better First Impressions

Redesigned empty states if your library is still empty. Clearer buttons to import, scan, or generate your first recipe.

Settings got reorganized too. Profile and membership up front, preferences easier to find.

🛠️ Smaller Fixes & Polish

• Floating action buttons on a few key screens

• Cleaner upgrade prompts in the sidebar and settings

• Better empty states for cookbooks

• Smarter back button when you're in full-screen pages

• Discover filters and cookbook menus cleaned up

💚 Thank You

Thanks for your support, to all paid subscribers and for every positive review on the App Stores. It helps a lot!

💬 Feedback

Thoughts on the new look? Something feel off? Let me know.

- Jan