What's New

Use this page to see recent Sparky Cooks updates that affect everyday use.

Web, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV

Note This While You Cook: Capture quick, timestamped observations without leaving the Cooking Guide and keep them synchronized across participating devices.
Ask a Cooking Question: Ask about substitutions, technique, timing, or another immediate problem from inside the guide.
Cook From Scratch: Start without a saved recipe, record what you do, and turn the completed session into a recipe draft.
Review Before Saving: Review proposed recipe changes, create a variation, append a cooking note, or accept a scratch recipe before saving.
Cook Across Devices: Continue Cooking Sessions on the web, iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. iPhone and iPad use on-device voice transcription, Apple TV uses system dictation, and web accepts typed notes or system dictation.

Start Cooking: Move through Plan, Gather, Prep, and Cook without changing the saved recipe.
Focused Cooking Steps: See the current instruction with its ingredients, helpful equipment, timers, temperatures, and a preview of what comes next.
Apple Cooking Timers: Run multiple timers, pause or extend them, follow them on the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island, and hear an alarm until you stop it.
Cooking Progress That Waits: Close Start Cooking and return without losing the current stage, checklists, or cooking step. Finish clears the temporary session.
Existing Recipes: Prepare a cooking guide automatically the first time Start Cooking is used with an existing recipe.
Fresh Guidance After Editing: Check whether the cooking guide needs an update after a cooking-related editing session closes.

Recipe Browsing: Browse account and shared recipes by folder, search, and keep your preferred sort and dashboard tab.
Full Recipe Editing: Create and edit complete recipes with headings, lists, links, alignment, and images.
Manage Files and Photos: Preview, open, move, and rename recipes; create and rename folders; and manage recipe photos.
Cooking Assistant: Create recipes, ask cooking questions, and request help with selected recipe text.
Grocery Lists: Create lists from recipes, import pasted or uploaded lists, reorder and check items, share lists, and work offline.
Sharing and Comments: Accept recipe shares, manage sharing and public links, and follow recipe conversations.
Offline Protection: Read cached recipes, keep local drafts, and review differences when the saved recipe changes elsewhere.
Profile, Passkeys, and Account Controls: Use native profile, security, notification, sharing, and permitted account-management screens.

Start Cooking: Move through a focused Plan, Gather, Prep, and Cook guide without changing the saved recipe.
Useful Step Context: See the ingredients, equipment, temperatures, and timers relevant to the current cooking step.
Continuous Navigation: Use Previous to move backward through individual steps and earlier cooking phases.
Temporary Progress: Ingredient and preparation checks belong only to the current cooking session and never rewrite the recipe.
Import Lists: Paste a grocery list or upload a text or CSV file, review and edit the items, check possible duplicates, and add them to a new or existing list.
Smoother List Editing: See more responsive checkboxes and faster entry while adding or editing list items.
Better Recipe Imports: Retain more original sections, instructions, ingredients, and yield information.
Improved Cooking Assistant: Get clearer answers and choose whether the assistant can use saved recipes.
Better Recipe Search: Find recipes with more precise results and clearer folder information.
Faster Reuse: Sparky Cooks reuses a current cooking guide and regenerates it only when cooking-related recipe content changes.
Faster Loading: Dashboards, recipes, and shared folders load more efficiently.
Clearer Progress: Signup and invitation actions show better loading and progress feedback.

Rename Folders: Rename recipe folders from Files without disconnecting their recipes or shares.
More Reliable Folders: Keep folder selection, account switching, default folders, and all-files views consistent.
Improved Image Uploads: Upload larger recipe images with upload and processing progress.
Use Existing Assets: Choose a stored Sparky Cooks image directly from the recipe editor.
Upload, Replace, or Embed: Use the same editor image menu to upload a device image, select an existing asset, embed a URL, or replace an image.
Better Editor Menus: Open recipe editor menus in a more usable position.
Cleaner Sharing and Comments: Follow sharing and comment links to the expected recipe.
Tag Editing Fixes: See manual recipe tags refresh correctly after saving.
Account Safety: Protect the last account owner and protected users from accidental deletion.

Public Links: Share an individual recipe with anyone using a read-only link.
Link Control: Copy, open, enable, and disable public recipe links from Sharing Center.
Folder Sharing: Share a recipe folder once and include recipes added to that folder later.
Better Shared Folders: Filter shared recipes by folder and include subfolders when you want a broader view.
Reusable Grocery Lists: Create, edit, duplicate, delete, and share grocery lists.
Recipe to List: Create a grocery list from selected recipes or append ingredients to an existing list.
Offline Grocery Lists: Use recently synced grocery lists without a connection and sync changes later.
Quick Mobile Access: Add Sparky Cooks grocery lists to your mobile home screen.
Clear Read-Only Views: See clearer read-only behavior when viewing recipes shared by someone else.
Notifications: See alerts for sharing activity, comments, and replies from the notification bell.

No More Passwords: Use your fingerprint, face, or PIN to sign in securely with optional passkeys.
Stay Safe: Your biometric data never leaves your device.
Manage Easily: Add or remove passkeys from your Settings page.
Updated Cooking Assistant: Paste a recipe URL and let Sparky Cooks import and format the recipe.
Ask Cooking Questions: Ask cooking-related questions and get quick, helpful responses.
Search Account Recipes: Include account recipe data for more personalized Cooking Assistant responses.
Try it Out: Open Cooking Assistant from the app or start a recipe from the sidebar.
More Profile Choices: Upload photos from your device, choose a previous profile photo, or have Sparky Cooks generate one for you.
Generate Avatar: Go to your Profile page and click Generate Avatar to create a unique profile picture.

Secure Sign-In: Use fingerprint, face, or PIN sign-in with passkeys.
Faster Photos: Browse photos faster with smart previews.
Folder Organization: Organize photos and recipe files with folders.
Recipe Sharing: Send recipe sharing invitations and accept or decline shared recipes.
Mobile Friendly: Use a smoother mobile-friendly recipe experience.
Streamlined Settings: Find account and profile preferences more easily.