Big meal planner: plan Christmas dinner, a Sunday roast or any big meal from the Home screen. Choose your dishes and when you want to eat, and Larder works out what to start and when, including how to share one oven. Roasting a whole turkey? Enter its weight and the cooking time is worked out for you, based on the Food Standards Agency's guide. Mark dishes to make ahead, and add every ingredient to your shopping list in one tap. Christmas: 15 new recipes, from turkey with sage butter and a nut roast to mince pies, Christmas puddings and Boxing Day leftovers. Three new Christmas guides cover roasting a turkey, defrosting one safely and what to make ahead. Kitchen library: a new section in Profile with 45 cooking guides on the science behind everyday cooking, what's in season each month, ingredient swaps, conversions and a glossary. Cooking Mode links steps to the guide that explains them, and marks the meal as cooked when you finish. Planning: your plan is always ready to edit, with no unlocking needed. Tap Undo to reverse a swap or removal. Plan opens on today, and the Build and Update buttons stay at the bottom of Your week. Ask Larder now lives inside Genie. Recipes and shopping: a new In season filter. Over 300 recipes rewritten with complete methods, and snacks include safety tips for young children. Portion sizes corrected on more than 500 recipes written for larger households, so amounts, shopping totals and costs are more accurate. Nutrition recalculated from the ingredients on over 800 recipes. Improved allergen and vegetarian labels, including sulphites, gluten in soy sauce and vegetarian alternatives to Parmesan. Side dishes are never suggested as a meal on their own, and Christmas recipes appear automatically only in December. Batch cook costs show the true price per portion. Clearer buttons: 'Add to larder' and 'Add to this week'. Make Larder yours: switch off anything you don't use in App Settings, under Choose features. Nothing is deleted, and you can switch it back on at any time. Food banks: find your nearest food bank through Trussell from Profile.

Fix to pricing calculation and issue where recipes would other calculate protein sizes

Ask Larder. Describe what you want in plain English, "quick vegetarian dinner under £2 a portion", and get meal ideas or a full week's plan back. Runs entirely on your phone, and always respects your allergies, exclusions and budget. You can also ask it to adapt any recipe, dairy-free, no nuts, whatever you need, saved as a new recipe so the original's never touched. Autopilot. Switch it on and next week gets drafted for you each weekend, ready to check and tweak. Smarter prices. Tell us when a receipt was just your meal shop, and after a couple of shops your estimates tune themselves to what you actually pay at your supermarket. Faster ways to add recipes. Import straight from a web link, or scan a barcode or receipt to keep your larder up to date, matched against real ingredients rather than just added as a random new item. Cooking Mode improvements. Hands-free voice control ("next", "back", "timer"), reverse-timed cooking so you know exactly when to start, a kids' helper mode with bigger text and simpler controls for little ones cooking alongside, and a combined timeline for batch-cook days when you're running more than one recipe at once. Also new: cuisines you can rule out entirely, not just see less often; a nudge for staples like oil and salt that never make it onto a shopping list; and a freezer challenge to actually clear out what's in there. Plus bug fixes and general polish.

Smarter planning this update, and a couple of small things that quietly save you money and time. GENIE • Now favours recipes that reuse ingredients already in this week's plan, so a bunch of coriander or a pack of crème fraîche gets used properly instead of half going to waste, and tells you when it's done this • Won't repeat a suggestion you've already seen this session, ask again and it moves on rather than circling back COOKING • Reverse-timed cooking: tell a recipe what time you want to eat, and it works backward to tell you exactly when to start, with an optional reminder LARDER • A "still got this?" nudge for the staples that never make it onto a shopping list, oil, salt, stock cubes, so they don't just quietly run out As always, everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, nothing shared.

Bug fixes in the UI which meant inconsistent styling appeared in some areas.

Home and the shopping list both got a proper rework this update, alongside a redesigned Recipes screen and a few genuinely new ways to plan. HOME • Rebuilt around "what's happening today" instead of a settings form, tonight's meal and quick actions come first • Your week is now a short summary (supermarket, budget, household) with everything else moved to a dedicated settings screen • Surprise Me renamed to Inspire Me, with a short caption under it and Genie explaining what each one actually does RECIPES • Full redesign: search and results come first, filters and sorting tucked behind a single toolbar instead of a wall of chips • All / Favourites / Recently viewed tabs • Add recipe is now one button with a proper menu, matching the rest of the app, not a native system prompt • "Not a normal week?" presets for things like being unwell, a new baby, or wanting to batch cook and coast through a busier week SHOPPING LIST • Redesigned around actually shopping with it: budget and progress up top, checked items settle to the bottom of their category as you go • Add an item (name, quantity, category) straight onto this week's list, it slots into the right aisle immediately, not a separate section • Bulk actions (mark all, clear checked, reset) moved behind a menu with confirmation, so they're not one accidental tap away • Categories you've finished now show as genuinely complete, not just collapsed DATA QUALITY • Reviewed the whole recipe library for vague or missing instructions, several hundred recipes tightened up with real timings and clearer steps • Corrected allergen information across hundreds of recipes, so dietary filtering is more reliable throughout the app As always, everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, nothing shared.

Larder's had a proper redesign, top to bottom, plus a good number of new features. Here's everything that's changed: DESIGN • A full visual redesign across every screen, quieter, more considered, less clutter • Your profile now shows your initials in a colour of your choosing, instead of an emoji • Recipes screen tidied up throughout, including Batch Cook Mode PLANNING • Plan multiple weeks ahead, not just this week and next • Pin your regular weekly meals so they plan themselves every time • Keep to budget while planning, a toggle that actively picks cheaper recipes as your week fills up • Recipe Folders, organise your own collections (Sunday roasts, kids' favourites, date night) • Recurring days that aren't a recipe, like a standing takeaway Friday, so the planner leaves them alone • A cooking confidence setting, steering suggestions toward simpler recipes if you'd like • A "What's new" screen right in the app, so you always know what's changed COOKING • Cook Diary, automatically logs what you've made, with space for your own photos and notes • Step timers built into Cooking Mode, so nothing overcooks while you're reading the next step • Surprise Me, just pick something for tonight without thinking about it SHOPPING & LARDER • Add your own items to the shopping list, not just recipe ingredients, they'll show up in your Larder too • Batch Cook Mode now shows real cost-per-portion as you browse recipes • Batch cook a bulk buy moved to Recipes, closer to where you're actually picking what to cook SHARING • Share any recipe with another Larder user, by file or QR code • Share a whole week's plan the same way, not just one recipe at a time • Import a recipe straight from a photo of a cookbook page or recipe card BUG FIXES • Fixed a batch of duplicate recipes that could show up with a confusing "(2)" or "(3)" after the name • Fixed Surprise Me occasionally showing a blank screen the first time you tapped it • Fixed a recipe screen that could show blank instead of the recipe in rare cases • Various small fixes and polish throughout As always, everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, nothing shared.

This release is for Dan - added more recipes (including chicken Madras) Ability to share recipes across Larders using QR code. Improvement to budge calculations so budget stays within range.

Urgent bug fixes to recipe instructions, some recipes would exclude steps or display them in the incorrect order

What's New Browse now lets you filter recipes by cuisine, so you can find exactly what you're craving faster. Starting next week's plan now uses a simple slide-to-confirm, replacing the old button and pop-up confirmation. It's also fully accessible with VoiceOver, so it works with a double-tap for anyone who uses it. Fixed an issue where the Genie prompt ("What do I want to eat?") wouldn't show properly when looking ahead to next week's plan.

New Batch cook, properly. Tell Larder what you bought in bulk, a big pack of chicken thighs, a bag of onions, whatever it is, and it’ll find batch-friendly recipes that actually use a proper amount of it. Pick as many as you like and add them as their own standalone cooking sessions, alongside your normal plan, not in place of it. See everything you’re batch cooking in one place from Plan, mark sessions as cooked, and remove them when you’re done. Hands-free Cooking Mode. Say “next,” “back,” or “repeat” to move through a recipe without touching your phone. Entirely on-device, nothing is sent anywhere to make it work. Import a recipe from a photo. Take a photo of a recipe card, a cookbook page, or a printout, and Larder will read the text and pre-fill a new recipe for you to check over and save. Also entirely on-device. A proper look at tonight. Home now leads with what’s for breakfast, lunch, or dinner right now, based on the time of day, with one tap through to the full recipe, straight into Cooking Mode, or to mark it as cooked. Cooking streaks. Keep marking meals as cooked and Home will quietly keep count. Week in review. Once a week actually ends, see a short, honest summary, how many nights you actually cooked, nothing gamified, just what happened. Automatic week rollover, if you want it. Off by default. Turn it on in Profile and Larder will start your next week on its own once the current one has genuinely passed, rather than waiting for you to tap “Start next week.” Swipe to check things off. In your shopping list, swipe an item right instead of tapping, the same gesture as Mail or Reminders. Whole aisles now tidy themselves away automatically once everything in them is found. A tidier Home and Profile. Once your week is planned, the settings and day-by-day grid collapse into a single line, tap to reopen if you need to change something. Profile’s sections got the same treatment, plus a visual refresh to match the rest of the app. iPad support. Larder now properly fills the screen on iPad rather than sitting in a stretched phone-sized column. Fixed Allergen-free filters (gluten-free, dairy-free, and so on) can now be combined, they were incorrectly limited to one at a time. Adding a baby to your household now automatically switches on weaning meals, rather than requiring a separate manual step. Toggling desserts or weaning meals on or off now updates your week’s cost immediately, instead of waiting for a manual rebuild. Fixed an issue where a batch-cooked recipe could show the wrong portion size when opening its full recipe page. Fixed inconsistent button sizing on the Home screen.

New “What’s Cooking” view. 1. Allergen-free filters couldn’t be combined with each other in profile. Gluten-free and dairy-free (and the other allergen-free options) were incorrectly treated as mutually exclusive, selecting one silently deselected any other in the same group. Fixed so that group specifically allows multiple selections, since those are genuinely simultaneous needs, not alternatives. 2. “Include weaning meals” didn’t auto-enable when a baby was added. There was already logic to auto-disable it when the baby count dropped to zero, but nothing did the reverse. Fixed so adding a first baby now auto-enables weaning meals (still manually overridable afterward). 3. Toggling “Include desserts” or “Include weaning meals” didn’t update the shown cost. The slots were being correctly activated behind the scenes, but nothing told the plan to actually rebuild into them, so the total stayed stale until a manual rebuild. Fixed so both toggles (and the new babies-triggered auto-toggle) rebuild the plan live whenever one already exists.