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Find Recipes Faster, Import Smarter 🔍

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

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