Grocery Recipes

Grocery’s raison d'etre has always been to be the most efficient grocery list app. This means being efficient when shopping, like using SmartSort to automatically put your shopping list in order, or using the Apple Watch app so you don’t have to keep pulling your phone in and out of your pocket or purse. But it also means being efficient when creating your list. While the UX of adding individual items is great, we realized that shoppers who often cook from recipes didn’t have the best experience adding those items to their Grocery list.

In Grocery 1.0 the best solution was to use another recipe app to export a list to reminders (We used Paprika and Basil for a while), or you could just copy and paste ingredients from a website. And while those methods still work, in Grocery 2.0 you can now create, manage, and share a personal library of recipes.

You can also create a meal plan of several recipes — so you can shop for all the needed ingredients at once. Just open the recipe and select “Add to Meal Plan”. Doing so will ask you which items to add to your list (uncheck what you already have) and add the recipe to the Meal Plan. This will make the recipes easy to find when you're ready to cook.

So that covers creating recipes and planning them, but then there's the actual cooking. We had 2 ideas that we think have a huge impact of the cooking experience: custom recipes layouts, and an innovative timeline feature.