• Full-recipe scaling and conversion: Adjust quantities throughout a recipe, including amounts in instructions, and switch between metric and US measurements. • Redesigned photo import: Review potential text recognition errors alongside the original image and choose suggested corrections. • Improved recipe import: Better organization of ingredients, instructions, and other recipe details, with easier corrections. • Full-text search: Find recipes by words in their ingredients and instructions, even when those words are missing from the title or tags. • Updated for iOS 27 and iPhone Duo. • Additional bug fixes and improvements. • Updated privacy policy.

- New "Edit Queue" ensures changes can be undone/redone with better precision. - PDFs support a new mixed-column layout where the recipe ingredients and steps are laid out in two columns until the ingredients have been listed. Then, the layout will switch to a full-page layout for the remaining steps. This ensures better use of page-space. - New icon. - Updated onboarding and feature-walkthrough design better explains recipe import and other app-features. - Improvements to recipe parser to better capture recipe data. Parser can now look at node.js NEXT_DATA for websites that use it. - Updated recipe loading: The recipe view opens faster and with fewer hitches, and non-essential data-loading, like measurement conversions, are deferred until needed. - Better recipe timer text detection. - Bug fixes: Full list of fixes and improvements is available in Settings > Show Change Log. - Backend improvements.

- Fixed bug on pre-26 devices where the in-app browser silently failed. View now properly handles browsing errors. - Fixed bug on pre-26 devices where the url field in the in-app browser wouldn't display the URL until the Browser navigated to a second page (or the user edited the field). URL field now works properly. - Fixed bug where creating a new recipe from an external source, inside of a keyword, would create a disconnect between the keyword and the recipe. - Fixed additional bugs with recipe row when recipes are displayed in list view. Rows should appear the same on all devices. - Fixed issue where ingredient section could be left empty after removing the last ingredient. - Added undo/redo support. All text changes (edit title, ingredient, instruction, etc., text) and destructive edits (delete recipe, ingredient, instruction, tag) can be undone/redone. Shake-to-undo supported, and Recipe View now shows undo/redo in the gear/more menu. - Added support for the Commands Menu on iPad. - Improved recipe row design on larger device sizes. - Recipe gear menu's font size submenu now includes additional label for context. Added sensory feedback for undo/redo and font size changes. - Reduced animations when low power mode on.

- Improved recipe list and grid performance. - NEW: Total recipe time (if available for recipe) now shown in the recipe list row view. - NEW: Recipe rating (if available for recipe) now shown in the grid view grid cell. - NEW: Ingredient conversions are now stored with the ingredient once calculated, rather than calculated on-the-fly. - NEW: Drag and drop imported photos after selection to ensure the order of your photos matches recipe order. - NEW: Alarms sheet displays a title and subtitle. - Fixed issue where the keyboard dismiss button didn't work when adding a new tag in the recipe tag picker. - Fixed issue where the keyboard would obscure the tag search field when returning to the tag list from a child view. - Removed stray parenthesis from the tag picker empty list label. - Fixed issue where the recipe importer would flicker as recipe values were updated. - Improved photo import performance. The interface now flows better as data is classified, with improved classification quality. - Fixed issue where deleted instruction wouldn't retain its' links when restored (on device shake). - Fixed bug where recipe needed to be reopened before restored instruction would re-appear after restoring (on device shake). - Fixed a bug where words like "about, around, approximately" were counted as secondary measurements in cases, such as when no actual measurements followed those words. Secondary measurements are better detected by the system. - Fixed bug where "cup" in "cupcake" would be marked as a cup measurement in the recipe instructions. - Fixed bug where non-temperature, non-measurement numbers in recipe instructions (such as dates) would be highlighted as temperatures. - Improved recipe view performance, especially when opening the recipe for the first time. - Faster Edit mode toggle, with faster animations and better performance. - Bug fixes & improvements

- Added a grid layout for the recipe view to help with identifying recipes by their images. Change your preferred layout style by tapping the ellipsis (...) button in the Recipes List navigation bar. - New minor design changes to the recipe view. - Improved matching for ingredient measurements. - Restyled timer widget so that the recipe title is located where it can be the largest text. - Fixed small design issues in the Onboarding view. - Bug fixes & improvements.

- Improved list loading performance. Recipe list should scroll more smoothly. - Fixed issue with Photo Import where recipe instructions weren't always being correctly categorized. - Photo Import should recognize recipe properties better. - Disabled 'Convert' button when importing recipes from a photo until the photos have been fully retrieved from the System. - Fixed recipe instruction row animation issue when transitioning into EditMode while viewing recipes. - Fixed iOS 18-related tag/keyword bugs introduced in the last update. Tag filter search in the recipe list now works correctly. Tag picker when adding tags to recipes now functions correctly on iOS 18. Please contact us if you are on iOS 18 and encounter any issues. - Fixed an issue where rapidly moving the keyboard focus between ingredients or instructions could cause a crash. - Introduced new transition animations between specific views. - Further improved loading & scroll performance for the recipe view. - New UI design when importing from a photo. - Improved matching when importing from a photo (the app is better at identifying and categorizing the component parts of the recipe photo).

Maintenance and Performance - Fixed a number of small issues with Alarms. Alarm Live Activity now includes a Stop button, in addition to the Pause button. - Added support for additional recipe blogs. - Updated ingredient to instruction matching to better isolate the primary ingredient. - Improved ingredient measurement extraction to both better identify quantities and units and to support additional conversions. - Search and recipe list performance improved for large recipe databases. - Fixed issues with alerts not being shown when networking problems arise. - Improved recipe list loading performance. - Fixed issues with recipe pinning and unpinning. - Fixed issues where modifying ingredients or instructions would lead to a visual glitch. - Deleting ingredients now immediately updates matched instruction steps. - Increased level of image compression when saving recipe images to reduce potential storage impacts.

- Fixed an issue that could cause multiple alarms to be created when the app is installed on a new device. - Fixed an issue where editing a recipe instruction step could result in another steps' label being removed. - Fixed an issue where settings weren't correctly syncing to other devices. - New sheet to display the change-log and other comments. - Improved recipe detection. - Fixed an bug with ingredient detection. Ingredients with measurements that are unspaced are now be detected (again). - Fixed an issue with the international english spelling of the SI unit system. - Reconfigured Settings view for better clarity.

- NEW: Cookery now links from ingredients to instructions, so ingredients can be tapped within the instruction to show a menu containing the full ingredient string. Tapping the ingredient will return you to the ingredients section and highlight the picked ingredient (iOS only, currently). - NEW: Time ranges, and time values, are now links that can be tapped to directly create a timer (iOS only, currently). - NEW: Ingredients now display measurement conversions in the accompanying menu. - NEW: Ingredients and instructions now utilize a button to mark the step or ingredient prep as completed. This allows full link support in the recipe view. - NEW: Design changes to Share Extension - NEW: QuickLook Support - NEW: Improvements to recipe matching functionality. - NEW: Extracting a recipe from a photo should be more reliable. - NEW: Design changes to onboarding view. - General performance improvements.

- Shake to Undo: Shake your device to undo deletion for deleted recipes, instructions, and ingredients. - PDF Export settings now reflect whether PDF Export is enabled or not (PDF Export is a Cookery+ feature). - Fix to creating a new recipe where the ingredients and instructions group were mislabeled initially, when the group is empty. - Fixed bug where certain parts of the recipe row aren't immediately updated when the recipe is modified. - Fixed bug where the text field won’t contain the ingredient or instruction text if the app is restored (from being closed) to the recipe view. - Fixed occasions where text field contents disappears when scrolling beyond the field. - Fixed issue where newly imported web recipe’s thumbnail for recipe rows isn’t initially updated even after the recipe image is downloaded. - Fixed issue where the set recipe image dropdown menu doesn’t appear when creating a new, empty, recipe in the recipe list view. - Performance improvements - Accessibility improvements: Added more accessibility features.

- New onboarding screen to help users get acquainted with the app's features.

- Bug Fix: Deleting recipes was accidentally disabled in the last update. This has been fixed.

- Added fluid ounces as a measurement - Added additional measurement abbreviations commonly used in non-english language recipes, so measurement highlighting can occur even if the recipe isn't english. - Fixed an animation issue when swiping-to-pin a recipe in the recipes list. - On the iPad, pressing the return key when entering a tag (via the # sign) in the search bar now auto-completes the tag if one exists in the tag database. - New Feature: Customize PDF page formatting in the in-app Settings view. - New Feature: Added the ability to use Image Playground (on supported devices) to generate a recipe image when one doesn't exist. This can be helpful with imported text recipes that may not have an associated photo. - New Feature: Added ability to generate a recipe description based on the recipe details. This can be useful for imported text recipes that may not have a recipe description included.

- NEW: Added support for iOS 26 alarm timers that remain active and counting down even while the app is closed. We use both Dynamic Island and NotificationCenter widget to support alarm modifications (pause, start, stop) outside of the app. - Added new user interface features to track alarms. - NEW: Search for recipes directly in Spotlight (the search bar on your iOS home screen). Tapping the result will open the app to the chosen recipe. - NEW: Import recipes from a text file via the Share Recipe extension: Works with Apple Notes and any other app that supports sharing documents as a text file. Recipe is auto-formatted for Cookery when imported. Requires Apple Intelligence. - NEW: Added special tag that supports filtering recipes list to only show “untagged” recipes. Tap the Search Bar in the Recipes list, then tap the “#” key to presents the tag picker. Special tags are located after user-created tags. - Updated web import sheet design. - Improved performance and user interface when importing a recipe from a photo. - Adding an item to the grocery list now shows a small cart icon next to the ingredient row. - Fixed issues with in-app browser on iOS 26 where the URL field was causing problems. - Fixed bug when editing instructions where editing in certain circumstances would cause a crash. - Fixed an issue where share extension would crash on iOS when presented via certain external browsers. - Removed default recipe and updated the empty background label to better inform user on first steps.

- Fixes a ghostly overlay in the navigation bar when viewing recipes containing an image that occurred on iOS 26. - Improvements to iOS 26 appearance. - Fixes for instruction highlighter to better match highlighted regions. - Small bug fixes and improvements.

- Expand or collapse recipe info when viewing recipes, improving readability while cooking. - Photo import now available for free to try (with up to 5 free imports). - Improved detection for measurements and units for both ingredients and instructions. - Other bug fixes.

Cookery version 2.3 for iOS and iPad OS has been redesigned for iOS 26, with a new, fast and accurate photo import feature. Recipes can now be imported from the web or the real world, be it a cookbook or family recipe written by a grandparent. Take a clear photo of the recipe, and Apple Intelligence will assist in automatically categorize the ingredients, instructions, title, and more, so there is little-to-no typing or editing required for most recipes. After you've approved the import, Cookery will apply the usual (and customizable) automatic coloring for ingredient quantity and measurement units and add it to your stored recipes.

- Improved scrolling performance further for recipe view. - New: Full recipe export and import to file (Cookery+) - New: Recipe ingredient and instruction sections can now be reordered. - New: Ingredient & Instruction text can be copied to clipboard without toggling edit mode to manually select text (tap menu next to each ingredient / instruction row) - New: Highlight colors for ingredients and instructions can be customized by opening the Settings tab and changing the default colors. - Fixed: Secondary ingredient quantity and unit are highlighted again. - Improved: Detector for instruction highlights improved.

This version updates the design for the recipe view, along with general fixes and improvements.

Cross-device sync improved, with recipe list auto-updating when changes are made to recipes on another device. Added a corner radius to the images used in exported PDFs. Updated help menus to better reflect their actions when clicked. Fixed in-app purchase issue to ensure full app is accessible to all Cookery+ purchasers' devices.

Bug fixes: Tag icons are no longer stretched in the overlay view when searching tags. Setting a tag icon while the tag list is filtered works correctly now. Additional improvements to editing for ingredient and instruction lists -- these features should be more consistent, perform better, with fewer edge cases for bugs. New features: Submit a recipe to support directly from the recipe view, after import. Even if the recipe import completes, if you notice issues with the formatting of the recipe you can now request a review to determine how the recipe can be better supported by the importer.

Small bug fixes and design improvements: Fixed an issue where pinned / bookmarked recipes can't be deleted. Fixed some incorrectly labeled elements in the grocery list view. Adding new grocery items when editing the grocery list will automatically switch focus to the new item. Improved performance when scrolling. Added ability to set an icon for individual Tags: Tap and hold on a tag to choose a tag icon.