Thyme to CookFile
Filed while it loads, in one screen.
An import takes a few seconds. That is the moment you answer: what it’s for, whether it’s good for meal prep or the freezer, and whether to make it soon. Your own tags go in the same place, so “date night” or “camping food” is one tap away forever.
Under the hood. The AI suggests meal types and you confirm them. Your own tags are never overwritten by a later AI pass.
Sort
Sort a hundred recipes in a few minutes.
Sort mode turns your cookbook into a deck. Swipe right to file a recipe as dinner, dessert, meal prep or your own tag; swipe left to skip it. Made a mistake? Back brings the last card back.
It is how a cookbook of hundreds of saved videos becomes a cookbook you can actually find things in.
Under the hood. Unsorted recipes come first, and the AI’s guess starts selected. Nothing is written until you file a card.
MEAL PREP
SKIP
DINNERDecide
Can’t decide? Spin, or vote.
Spin a wheel made from the recipes you actually saved. Or start a vote: everyone in your cookbook ranks the options, and when the last person has voted the result is revealed.
Because votes are ranked, the option nobody hates beats the one half the table loves and the other half dreads.
Under the hood. Votes are counted by rank, with a tie-break, so a lukewarm second choice still counts for something.
Cook
A cook mode for hands covered in flour.
One step at a time, in type you can read from across the counter, with the ingredients that step needs right under it. Say “next” or “back” and it listens. Timers follow you to the lock screen. Your Apple Watch shows the step and a Next button, and on a watch with Double Tap you can move on with a pinch.
When you finish, you rate it, jot a note, and add a photo of how yours turned out.
Under the hood. The screen stays awake while you cook, and goes back to sleeping the moment you leave.
Eat safely
Allergies and diets, per person.
Record what each person in your kitchen avoids. Every recipe is checked against those flags, and a flagged ingredient says what it found, by name, with a suggested swap and the chance to ask whether it works in this particular recipe.
Under the hood. It searches the words in an ingredient list. It cannot see a shared fryer or what’s in your cupboard, so it says so, every time. Kosher, halal and low-sodium are recorded for the assistant but deliberately not screened, because an ingredient list can’t answer those questions. Read the full note.
- 2 chicken breasts
- ½ cup breadcrumbsCONTAINS GLUTEN
- ¼ cup Parmesan
Ask Sprig
A kitchen assistant that knows your kitchen.
Sprig is the assistant built into the app. It knows your equipment and what your kitchen avoids, so it won’t suggest a smoker recipe if you don’t own one, or a dish with something someone can’t eat. Ask it what goes with tonight’s dinner, how to swap an ingredient, or to plan a week.
Under the hood. Sprig is told what the kitchen avoids, never whose allergy it is. Questions that aren’t about cooking are politely declined and never sent anywhere.
And more
The rest of the kitchen.
- Your pantry decidesMark the staples you always have and the cookbook shows what you can cook right now, and what you’re one to three ingredients short of.
- Make tonight, make soonQueue a recipe for tonight or for later. Everyone sees what’s wanted, and a soon recipe adds its ingredients to the list.
- A shopping list that knows storesSort the list by trip, Grocery or Costco, and add things by speaking. Tick things off from your wrist.
- Whole platesSave a main and its sides as one meal, then cook the whole plate again with a tap.
- Meal prep and freezer flagsRecipes are marked for how well they hold across the week and how well they freeze, so a Sunday cook is easy to plan.
- Restaurants tooSave the places you want to try and the places you loved, alongside the recipes.
- Works without a signalYour cookbook is stored on your phone. A supermarket with no reception doesn’t stop you reading a recipe.
- Yours to takeExport everything you saved, or delete your account and everything in it, from Settings.
Then there’s the part that makes it different: cooking together