The small things we’ve been fixing, adding and quietly improving. Newest at the top.
Connect Claude and it can save recipes, fill the plan and the list, walk you through a cook and log it afterwards, free; you also stay connected for months between uses instead of signing in again every week.
Show me howWrite a line or two about a recipe under its name, and start a method line with Tip: to put a tip under the step above it; both show wherever the recipe is read, and the form you write it in now comes in clear sections.
A recipe that runs over a few photos, or arrives as a PDF, is read in one go: pick them together and the ingredients, method and details come in as one recipe, with the pages kept beside it.
With Premium, start a new recipe from a photo of a card, a page or a handwritten note: the ingredients, method and details are read off it for you to check before you save, and the photo stays with the recipe.
Turn on Let followers see my log in your profile and the cooks who follow you see when you make a published recipe, with your rating and your note only if you choose, while Following and each recipe’s page show who made what; it stays off until you turn it on, and you can hide any one log.
Discover now reads like your own book, with For you and Following side by side, a Save on every recipe that you can undo, Save all on a cook’s collection, and a shop on cooks’ profiles.
A line with no amount, like pepper to taste or cheese for serving, is left out of the calories and macros without marking them as incomplete, and you can still give it a weight.
Every recipe shows its cover and its details in one plain line, lists are tidy rows, the recipe page sits beside its photo, and Profile is sorted into short sections you can jump between.
A new pricing page sets what’s free beside what Premium adds, the home page shows the app as it really is, and new members get a Start here card to try their macros first.
Compare Free and PremiumPremium recipes now show calories and macros per serving and where each number comes from, your plan checks every dinner against a target you set, and the Book can sort by protein or calories.
See what’s in PremiumAdd several things at once, tick them off even with no signal, skip what you have at home, and tap Done shopping to keep a record of each shop and what it came to.
Profile → Membership now says what your Premium costs, when it renews or ends, and opens billing in one tap. The privacy and terms pages say how payments are handled.
Casserole stays free to keep a book, plan and cook; Premium adds planning tools on top, and you can ask to hear the day it opens.
See what’s in PremiumYour profile has a Features section now: turn off the table view if you only cook from cards, and hide Premium if you’d rather not see it.
Bigger buttons, fewer bars, one tap to start cooking, and the controls you need sit where your thumb already is.
Add a photo and up to three links from your profile page. They show under your name on your public page and on every recipe you publish, so readers can find you elsewhere.
Some sites serve their ¼s and ½s garbled, and a recipe brought in from a link carried the mess along (“¼ cup”). Imports now tidy that up on the way in.
A recipe now opens with what you wrote the last time you made it, and on wide screens the log opens beside the recipe — so you can read the makings while you jot what you changed.
Spot a recipe on someone’s page before you have a book? Tap Keep, sign in, and it’s already waiting in yours — following a cook works the same way.
No more waitlist — anyone can start a book with Google or an email code, so go ahead and send a friend the link.
Tuck a cook away to check the list and its timers still ring — with a way straight back to the step that needs you.
Plan and List now open beside whatever you’re doing instead of being pages of their own — a panel on wide screens, a sheet on phones — so a recipe goes on the plan without leaving the page, and ＋ Plan sits on every card in your book. You land on Book, with tonight on top and one tap from cooking. The list takes a line any time, plan or no plan, and “What to eat?” is one pick at a time.
Open PlanThe tabs now say what they’re for. You always land on Plan, with tonight up top. The grocery list is its own tab, one tap from anywhere, with a count of what’s left to get. Cooking takes the whole screen — tuck it away and it waits just above the tabs until you’re back. And one + adds a recipe however it arrives: a link, your own words, or Discover.
See PlanImporting from a link now tells you up front that it brings the words and a link back — not the photo — and nudges you to add your own.
Casserole now opens onto what you’re making — Today holds tonight, the week and the grocery list, Cook gets you going in a tap, and Book keeps your cards, collections and cooked log together, with a tab bar under your thumb on phones.
See TodayThe how-to for connecting Claude now sits in your avatar menu and in the How Casserole works tour, and the grocery list will mention it once, then never again if you say not now.
Show me howOnce Claude is connected, your profile lists it with what it can do and when it was last active, and one tap on Disconnect cuts it off for good.
Open your profileThere’s a new “Claude and other assistants” section on your profile with the address to copy, a one-line reminder of where to paste it, and what a connection can do on your plan.
Open your profileWondering how to actually connect Claude to your book? There’s a page for that now: your address to copy, the three-minute setup, things worth asking, and exactly what a connection can and can’t do.
Show me howRecipes now open newest first, with a sort beside the view toggle (Recently added, Last made, Never made, A–Z, Quickest) that remembers your pick. Search looks past the title too: type an ingredient, a note or where a recipe came from, and each result tells you why it matched.
Plan something for six and that’s what you shop for and what you make: Cook now opens at the servings on your plan (or the ones you picked on the recipe), and the scale control takes any count — “Serves 5”, − / + — with ½×, 1× and 2× still a tap away.
Walk a recipe through to the last step and it’s logged and cleared from your plan in one go — no more leftovers under Earlier, no double logging. Made it without the walk-through? “Log it” now lives in the row’s ⋯ menu.
Nothing pinned to today? The card above your recipes now leads with the first thing in your Up next queue — Cook button and all — instead of telling you nothing’s planned, and a brand-new book points you to Discover for collections worth borrowing.
Every recipe now has a Table view next to the card: makings down the left, each step a cell spanning what it combines, so you can see how a dish comes together before you start. Flip between Card and Table above the recipe — it remembers which you like.
Claude can pull a recipe, the plan, or the grocery list straight into a conversation, and its prompt picker now has “Plan my week”, “What’s for dinner tonight?” and “Shop for the plan” ready to go. Reading is for everyone; letting Claude change your book is part of Premium for now.
Start a cook from a chat, ask “what’s next?”, have it set the twenty-minute timer, and tick things off as you go — it works the same guided cook the app does, so you can pick up on your phone mid-way.
Tell it what's in the fridge and it picks from your book — what's all on hand, what needs one thing — and it can keep your staples list up to date as you run out.
“I made the tray roast last night, four stars, less salt next time” — Claude logs it (and takes it off the plan if it was on there), and can tell you when you last cooked anything.
Ask it to make the list from your plan, add one more recipe at the servings you want, take a line off, or clear the lot — the same list you see in the app.
Paste a link or describe a dish in a chat with Claude and say “save this” — it lands in your book, with the source kept, and Claude can tidy a recipe or move it between collections too.
Halfway through a recipe and can’t remember how much butter? Hit Ingredients while you’re cooking to bring the mise en place list back up — tick things off as you go, tap again to get back to your step.
Connect Casserole to Claude and ask it what's on the plan, pull up a recipe mid-cook, or add lemons to the grocery list — it acts as you, with exactly the access you allow.
Show me howTwo things on for today? The Tonight card at the top of your recipes now lists them all, each with its own Cook button, instead of only the first.
Switching tabs to grab your code no longer bounces you back to the email step — the code box stays put until you’re in.
Tap any day on the plan to add straight to it, the save button on a new recipe now stays in reach on your phone, taking something off the plan or the grocery list offers an Undo, you keep the app menu while browsing other cooks’ pages, and a sweep of small fixes — matching headers, real buttons everywhere, bigger tap targets, and one name for things.
Cooking for two? Tap Plan together on the plan, send the link to the cook you live with, and you’ll share one plan and one grocery list — either of you can line things up, cook them, or do the shop, and both phones stay in sync.
Done shopping, or want a do-over? A Clear button now wipes the list — it double-checks you mean it, and the plan can make you a fresh one whenever you're ready.
Casserole now follows your device's light or dark setting — and if you'd rather pick, there's a switch in the avatar menu that remembers your choice.
Standing in the shop, the list used to be three taps deep. Now it sits in the top bar with a count of what's still to get, on every screen, from the moment there's a list to open — and there's a Grocery list row in the menu too, so it's findable before you've ever made one.
The book now leads with what you're cooking tonight and a button to start it — or, when the week's still open, a quick way into What to eat? and the plan. Everything below it got tighter too: four recipes on the first screen instead of one, and filters that open in a sheet on your phone or right under the button on a desktop — pick as many categories as you like, and clear the lot in one tap.
The cooked feed now matches the rest of the app — the big section header with your stats, framed rows you can actually tap, and proper headers over each stretch of time.
Public recipes, shelves, and the Discover pages now carry a breadcrumb trail — one tap climbs back to the profile or the Discover hub from anywhere you land.
Your cooked feed moved out of the account menu — it now sits as a tab beside the book on the Recipes page.
Discover now sits in the main navigation, and on phones all the sections live in a new slide-in menu — everything one tap from anywhere.
Switching filters or sort on the all-recipes page now refines the grid in place instead of flashing it back to loading blocks with every click.
The Discover portal — other cooks' published recipes, collections, and books, all forkable with credit — is now on for every visitor, signed in or not.
A recipe you forked now says so right on its card — “after @thecook” — so the borrowed chapters of your book read like borrowed chapters.
A collection you've published now has a proper address of its own — cover art, your byline, and the recipes listed with a fork button on every row. Share the shelf, not just the book.
When a recipe lands in your book from someone's page, the receipt now offers ＋ Plan on the spot — straight onto this week's list, no detour through your copy.
Mid-cook, a slim strip now rides under the top bar on every screen — one tap back to where you left off. Plan rows grew a Cook button, the grocery-list picker slides up from the bottom like its siblings, and a recipe's action row no longer spills off the edge of a phone.
The landing page now walks the whole loop — jot it, organize it, plan the week, shop once, cook it through, log the keeper, share as you please — with cook mode finally getting top billing.
When a recipe's steps haven't been timed yet, cook mode now spreads the card's own total time across them instead of guessing five minutes apiece — so a four-hour roast plans like a four-hour roast.
Cook mode grew a Timeline view: every step laid out at its planned time, a line marking where you are right now, and a heads-up if two oven steps disagree on temperature. Pick “Ready at…” when you start and the schedule works backward from dinner time.
Every step in cook mode now has a one-tap timer — it counts down on screen, chimes and buzzes when it's done, and the screen stays awake while you cook. Wander off and come back late? It tells you when it rang instead of pretending.
Every recipe card grew a Cook button: pick your servings and when you want dinner ready, gather the mise en place from a tickable list, then walk the method one big step at a time — and log the cook when it's done.
Ticking Cooked ✓ on the plan still takes one tap — and the little confirmation now offers “Add a note” if tonight's verdict is worth writing down.
A ＋ Plan button right on every recipe (tap for the queue, or pick a day), and adding from the plan now searches your book in place — with a Surprise me for the undecided.
Tell Casserole what you always have — olive oil, rice, the standing staples — and the grocery list quietly stops asking you to buy them.
Share or copy the grocery list as tidy plain text — it works in any store, any delivery app, or on the back of an envelope.
Roll the whole plan into a single aisle-sorted shopping list — amounts added up across recipes, tick things off as they land in the cart, and your own additions survive a re-plan.
A new Plan tab: queue up what's next, or give each meal a day of the week — then tick Cooked ✓ and it logs itself to your book.
We've set aside the blue-and-cream look while we focus on making everything work beautifully — the fresh design returns once the foundations are solid.
Published recipes now show how many times they've been forked — and if one's already in your book, the fork strip says so and takes you straight to your copy.
Recipe cards on public profiles now wear their pattern-art covers with the note underneath — easier to browse someone's book at a glance.
The danger zone works now: Suspend takes your public page and everything published back to private in one click (nothing deleted, fully reversible), and Delete account removes it all for good — with an export offered first and an emailed link to confirm, so nothing happens by accident.
The AI ingredient matcher on What to eat? is no longer premium-only — tell it what you’ve got and it finds the recipes that fit; do tell us how it does. The page also gets the same underline in the nav as Recipes and Collections.
A two-minute tour of how Casserole works — the book, jotting, linked cards, your page — lives in the welcome card and replays anytime from the account menu.
New books open with two sample cards to poke at — they're yours the moment you cook or change them — and a short checklist: name yourself, jot your first recipe, claim your @handle (publishing stays off until you say so).
A mistyped link or a rare crash now gets a proper Casserole page with a way back — not a bare error screen.
A small batch of waiting cooks gets in each morning, oldest first — and the moment you're approved, an email lands with your way in.
The Filters & grouping panel on Recipes now has a visibility row, so you can see just the recipes on your public book — or just the ones you're keeping to yourself.
If you haven't claimed your handle yet, a little card now points the way (dismiss it and it stays gone). The avatar menu also grew a quick jump to your public profile, plus one-tap link copying once you're live.
The ½× / 1× / 2× serving scaler now works on shared links and published profile recipes too, so whoever's actually cooking from your link gets the right amounts.
A component can now point at another recipe in your book — link your BBQ sauce into the ribs, the wings, the pulled pork, and fixing the sauce once fixes it everywhere. Linked parts read in full on the page and on shares, and you can save any part as its own recipe with one tap.
A recipe you’ve broken into components shows each one as its own numbered section — the ribs, then the sauce — on the recipe page and on anything you share, with the steps numbered fresh for each part.
Some dishes are really two recipes — the ribs and their sauce. There’s now a “Break this into components” button on the jot form: name each part and give it its own makings and method, and reorder or remove parts as the dish takes shape.
Recipe cards now have ½× / 1× / 2× buttons above the makings — pick one and every amount (and the serves count) reworks itself for the pot you’re actually cooking. The amounts are worked out on the fly, so keep a cook’s eye on the odd tricky line.
The What to eat? page matches your kitchen against your book the moment you type — no more “matching…” wait — and it keeps things tidy: the pick plus your four best alternatives, only recipes that actually use what you’ve listed.
Every recipe now keeps a private log: jot the date, a 5-dot rating and what you changed from the “Your log” strip mid-cook, read the full history at the bottom of the card (where the share card was — sharing moved to the ⋯ menu), and see every make across your book on the new What I’ve cooked page in the avatar menu. Only you ever see it — your log is never part of what you publish or share.
Public kitchens now have a Follow button — and any recipe you can see, you can fork into your own book as an editable copy that keeps a permanent “forked from” credit. Your follows can even widen the “What to eat?” roll.
The live preview on the jot page now shows your makings and method taking shape, not just the cover — laid out the way they’ll read in the book, and trimmed with a “+N more” when a recipe runs long.
The roll now sits beside a filterable shortlist of your book, and if you tell Casserole what’s in your kitchen it sorts that list by what you can actually cook tonight — all on hand, grab one thing, or closest match (a premium pilot feature).
Filing a recipe is a reflex now: Breakfast, Snacks, Starters, Mains, Sides, Desserts, Breads, Drinks, Staples — one word each, one simple question. Anything you’d already saved moved across on its own.
Paste a recipe’s web address on the jot page and Casserole pulls it in for you — the name, makings, method, time and servings, all filled in and ready to tweak before you save. Works with most recipe sites.
Your recipes, the links you share, and your published pages now wear one clean layout — with a neat “Adapted from” credit when a recipe came from the web, and, on the pages others see, a note of who shared it and a peek at more from the book.
Standardized title weights across cards, panels, and dialogs for a more consistent look.
The jot page is grouped into tidy sections now, with a new Source line for crediting where a recipe came from — a link, a cookbook, or “Mum’s recipe box” — and a live preview that shows exactly how the card will land in your book.
You’ve got a page now: claim a handle, add a line about how you cook (your city fills in from a ZIP), and switch your profile live at casserole.recipes/@you. Publish any recipe or whole shelf — each wears a dot for whether it’s public, its actions tuck into one ⋯ menu, and your first publish walks you through going live — then share a clean front-of-house page, with your recipe and shelf counts, tab-able shelves, search, and a card-or-list switch, that anyone can browse without logging in.
The landing page tells the whole story now — what goes in your book, how the invite list works, and why pilot members get a say in what we cook up next.
The serves and time steppers on the jot form grew up — tap the buttons, nudge with arrow keys, or type the number straight in.
The dashed “Jot a new one” tile now shows up in a collection’s card view too, filing the recipe straight onto that shelf — with new behind-the-scenes checks so cards and lists keep working the same everywhere.
A feature tracker lives in the account menu now — back the ideas you want, wave off the ones you don’t, and send new ones through Feedback.
The feedback box is a proper popover now — tap outside or hit Esc and it tucks itself away.
Tap it for your profile, this change log, and a way out — all where you’d reach for them.
Recipes, shelves and the whole book now share one tidy Share → Copy link pill.
Add a photo while you jot or edit and it becomes the cover — in the book and on anything you share.
Collection pages get the list view too, and jotting from a shelf files the recipe straight onto it.
Flip the recipes index between cards and a tidy list — it remembers which you prefer.
The feedback panel stays put, the nav settles into two calm rows, and every category filter fits.
Group recipes into collections — Keepers, Weeknight, whatever fits — filter by them, or share a whole shelf.
Already signed in? The front door says so now, instead of asking you to knock again.
Every recipe gets a public link with a proper preview card — no account needed to read it.
The capture form shows the generated cover live, with a reroll if the pattern isn’t the one.
No photo? A generated ink-on-cream pattern stands in — same name, same cover, forever.
Export every recipe as clean plain text, anytime, from your profile.
Edit any card, or delete it properly — with a moment to make sure you mean it.
Recipes you jot are saved to your account and follow you to any device.
That’s the lot for now. Got a gripe or a wish? There’s a feedback button just below.