What's New

A small but handy addition to meal planning, plus a reliability fix for new accounts.

New Features

Freeform Notes in the Meal Plan

You can now add short text notes to any meal plan slot without linking a recipe — useful for quick reminders like "cereal", "dinner leftovers", or "eating out".

• Click the + button at the bottom of any meal slot to open an inline input
• Type your note and press Enter or click Add
• Notes appear as compact cards alongside recipe entries
• Remove a note with the Remove button, just like a recipe entry

Bug Fixes

• New kitchens now always get a default Shopping List created automatically, preventing a redirect loop that sent some new users back to the dashboard on their first visit to Shopping List

Major upgrades to shopping workflows and recipe structure handling.

New Features

Multi-List Shopping

Shopping lists now support multiple named lists per kitchen.

• Create, rename, and delete lists
• Switch between lists with tabs directly in Shopping List
• Set a personal default list so Shopping List opens where you left off
• Open per-list settings from the list tab for faster management

Per-List Aisles

Each shopping list can now either share kitchen-wide aisles or use its own list-specific aisles.

• Toggle aisle mode per list
• Manage list-specific aisles from Settings > Aisles
• Keep shared aisle mode for simpler kitchens

Ingredient Sections (Multi-Component Recipes)

Recipes can now store and display ingredient sections (for example, "Salad" and "Dressing").

• Ingredient sections are preserved in recipe data
• Section headers render in Recipe Detail
• Kitchen Mode now shows ingredient sections
• Recipe editing and import flows support section-aware ingredient grouping

Improvements

Better Import Parsing for Plugin-Based Recipe Sites

Ingredient section extraction is now more reliable for common WordPress recipe plugins.

• Added a plugin parser architecture for HTML ingredient-group detection
• Added/expanded support for WPRM and Tasty Recipes section mapping
• Improved section overlay onto flat LD+JSON ingredient arrays

Settings & Shopping UX Refinements

• Shopping Lists and Aisles settings are better separated and easier to navigate
• Added direct links from list settings to full settings management
• Added stronger empty/error/loading handling across list management actions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed list/category cross-kitchen integrity edge cases with stricter database validation
• Improved atomicity and fallback behavior when toggling list aisle modes
• Fixed async UI action handling to ensure errors are surfaced and loading states clear reliably
• Hardened bulk delete and list-scoped operations to avoid affecting the wrong kitchen/list

Several new features and improvements since our initial launch.

New Features

In-App Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? You can now send feedback without leaving the app.

• Send Feedback button in the sidebar, available on every page
• Report this issue button on the error screen — automatically attaches the current URL, browser info, and recent errors so you don't have to describe them
• Something missing or not working? shortcut on the Help page
• Bug reports, feature requests, and general feedback are all supported

Improvements

Better Print Layouts

Printing recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists now produces much cleaner output.

• Recipes: ingredients stack above instructions and content fills the full page width
• Meal plans: print in landscape so the 7-day grid fits on one page
• Shopping lists: denser rows and a 2-column layout so more items fit per page

Help Article: Ways to Access Recipe Studio

A new help article covers every way to install and access Recipe Studio — Chrome / desktop PWA, iOS Add to Home Screen, Android Add to Home Screen, and the browser bookmarklet.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an HTML decoding bug in the recipe scraper that could corrupt ingredient names and instructions imported from certain websites
• Fixed sidebar layout so it always spans the full viewport height

Welcome to Recipe Studio! We're excited to launch the first public version of your personal recipe management platform.

What's Included

Recipe Management

• Save and organize your entire recipe collection
• Create recipes manually or import from any food blog URL
• AI-powered recipe extraction for sites without structured data
• Browser bookmarklet for one-click saving while you browse
• Import recipes from YouTube cooking videos

Collections

• Group recipes into themed collections (e.g., Holiday Favorites, Quick Weeknight Dinners)
• Add any recipe to multiple collections

Meal Planning

• Weekly calendar view to plan meals for the whole week
• Drag and drop to reschedule meals
• One-click export of all meal plan ingredients to the shopping list

Shopping List

• Smart grocery list with manual and recipe-sourced items
• AI-powered aisle categorization to organize by store layout
• Custom aisles to match your specific store
• Drag and drop reordering
• Convert purchased items to pantry inventory with one click

Pantry

• Track what you have at home
• Prevent duplicate grocery purchases

Sharing & Kitchens

• Share any recipe via public link (no account required for recipients)
• Invite household members to a shared kitchen
• Shared meal plans and shopping lists across your kitchen

Settings

• Imperial or metric measurement units
• Custom shopping list aisles with color coding