SpinRecipe

The recipes you saved, one spin away.

Share a recipe from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads or Safari, and SpinRecipe writes it onto an index card with a proper name. When nobody can decide what to cook, spin.

Join the TestFlight beta For iPhone, iOS 26 or later. Coming to the App Store soon.

Eight sample cards. Try a spin.

From a post to a card

No typing. The recipe comes from the post you were already looking at.

  1. No. 1

    Share it

    On a recipe post or page, tap Share, then SpinRecipe. A short sheet shows the card before you save it. Copied a recipe from a message or a note? Paste it in with +.

  2. No. 2

    It's written up

    The dish gets a short name and a few tags: what kind of dish it is, its main ingredients and how it's cooked. If the post or page holds a recipe, its ingredients and steps go on the card too, amounts first, and the card gets a red corner.

  3. No. 3

    Spin for dinner

    Spin in the app and the stack streams past until one card lands. Tap Cook this to open it, or Spin again.

Spin from your Home Screen

Tap the dice and the widget rolls through your recipes and lands on one, without opening the app. Tap the recipe to open it.

  • Small is the photo and the dice: the quickest way to answer "what should I eat?"
  • Medium adds how long it takes and what goes in it, and a Want to cook button to keep it for later.
  • Large lists the first ingredients, and keeps the last two picks a tap away if you spun past a good one.
  • Choose what each widget spins from: the time of day, your Want to cook list, or one meal time. Breakfast in the morning, dinner after three.

Plan

September
Thursday

Lunch Gochujang butter noodles

Dinner Miso salmon traybake

Plan the week

Put a recipe on the day you'll cook it, and the calendar fills with your dishes. A day with more than one fades between them, so the month reads at a glance.

  • From the recipe: tap Plan, pick a day, and it's on the calendar.
  • From the calendar: tap a day and tick what you'll make. Want to cook comes first.
  • Lunch or dinner: a recipe that works for both can be planned for either, and each day lists its dishes in meal order.

Also on the desk

  • Stacks. Want to cook, Favourites, what you've Cooked, and a pile per meal time.
  • Cooking for more? Tap the servings and every amount changes to match.
  • A grocery list. Tick things off in the shop; open the recipe from it; a finished recipe clears itself.
  • Your own photo, notes and rating on every card.
  • English titles for captions written in any language, if you want them.
  • Search by dish name or tag.
  • Every card on every device, through your own iCloud, with a weekly backup in iCloud Drive.
  • Two looks. Classic index cards, or Glass: the dish's photo under clear iOS glass. Both in light and dark.

Try it before it's out

SpinRecipe is in beta on TestFlight, Apple's app for testing apps before release. Leave your email and you'll get an invite to install it on your iPhone.

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