Mercury is a recipe storing and sharing app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS (with Apple Silicon).
Harness the power of on-device Apple Intelligence to save recipes from the web, YouTube, photos of handwritten recipes, or from pasted text.
Cook with confidence
Enter full-screen Cook Mode for any recipe and follow each step one at a time — Mercury keeps your screen on and, on supported devices, highlights exactly which ingredients and amounts you need for each step.
Track your time in the kitchen
Log each time you make a recipe, rate how it went, and keep notes. Earn achievements as you cook, import recipes, and grow your library.
Share with family and friends
Create a shared library and invite others to join with a 4-letter code or QR code. Add your favourite recipes so everyone cooks from the same collection.
Everything else you need
• Search across your personal and shared libraries
• Widgets to quickly open favourites or recently cooked recipes
• Ask Siri to open a recipe or log a cook, or build automations in Shortcuts
• Create custom grocery lists for each recipe
• iCloud sync across all your devices
• Deleted recipes are kept for 30 days in Recently Deleted
Save up to 5 recipes for free. Upgrade to Mercury Pro for unlimited recipes, AI-powered import, iCloud sync, and shared libraries.
Terms of Use:
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
5.0
out of 5
1 Ratings
New Features in Version 1.2.2
Show Tips setting
A new toggle in Settings lets users turn off all TipKit tips app-wide. The setting is stored in AppStorage and a new ConditionalTipView wrapper automatically respects it everywhere tips appear — no tip will render when the setting is off.
Library status in the share sheet
The "Copy to My Library" and "Add to Shared Library" buttons now reflect whether the recipe is already present. If it's already in your personal library, the button changes to "Already in My Library" with a checkmark. Likewise for the shared library. The shared library check is reactive — the button updates in real time as recipes are added or removed.
Improvements
Recipe import sentence spacing
When importing recipes, steps that had sentences run together without a space (e.g. "Heat the pan.Add oil.") are now automatically corrected to "Heat the pan. Add oil." This is applied across all import paths: Foundation Models, JSON-LD, and plain text.
Shared library status available immediately on launch
The SharedLibraryViewModel now seeds its sharedRecipes list from the local SwiftData cache at startup, rather than waiting for the CloudKit sync to complete. This means the "already in shared library" check works correctly from the moment the app opens.
Bug Fixes
- Light image export had light text — Exporting a recipe card with the "Light" style produced white text on a white background. Fixed by switching from adaptive Color(.label) (which respects the system dark/light mode) to explicit Color.black for all text when the background is light.
- Share extension version number was null — The CFBundleShortVersionString of the share extension showed as (null) due to a circular MARKETING_VERSION = "$(MARKETING_VERSION)" self-reference in the build settings. Removing the target-level override lets the project-level value propagate correctly.
- SwiftData compile error — var dateAdded: Date = .now caused a build failure under the SwiftData @Model macro. Fixed with the fully-qualified form Date.now.
- 11 compiler warnings — Addressed across SharedLibraryViewModel, HACCPAnnotator, RecipeImporter, and CookingModeView (unused variables, ambiguous enum cases, and discarded return values).
Version 1.2.2
The developer, Jeffrey Milner, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Jeffrey Milner
Size
8.6 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
