Grocery Recipe Timers

When we set out to build Recipes, we knew we had to include a timer feature. But we wanted to make timers more visual, to give you a sense of the complexity of a recipe, the time it would take to make a recipe as a whole, and how the current timer fits into the rest of the recipe.

What we created is a stacked list of progress bars, one for each timer in the recipe. Each bar’s length is relative to the others. As you complete timers, they push incomplete timers off to the right, such that by the end, you’ll have a timeline of what you cooked when. For complex dishes, this makes it easy to know when to start cooking which parts so that everything is done at the same time.

Words that look like timers (e.g. “6 minutes”) are automatically parsed out of steps, and turned into tappable buttons.

Since iOS doesn't allow apps to make sounds in the background, if you close the app while a timer is running, we'll send a push notification to remind you. This way won't accidentally miss your timer.