A Fresh Look Across Mr. Cook 🎨
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