Cookbooks, from empty to shared.

A cookbook in this app is exactly what it sounds like. It is a group of your recipes, arranged in the order you choose, with a cover picture and a title. Like a book on your shelf, but on your phone.

You can make one for your grandmother's recipes, one for weeknight dinners, one for the holidays, one to give to a grandchild going off to college. They live in your library, and you can share any of them.

The free plan comes with room for one cookbook. If you want more, the Pro plan gives you unlimited cookbooks.

From the Cookbooks tab, tap the New cookbook button. A short form appears asking for a title, a description, and a cover picture.

The title is what you and everyone else will see. Keep it short and clear, like Grandma's Kitchen or Sunday Dinners.

The description is a sentence or two about what the cookbook is. It shows up under the title when someone opens it. If you are not sure, leave it blank and add it later.

For the cover, tap the picture area and pick a photo from your phone, or drag one from your computer. You can change it any time by clicking on the cover again.

Open a cookbook and tap Add recipes. You will see a list of all the recipes already saved in your library. Tap the ones you want to add. Tap Done, and they show up in the cookbook.

If a recipe is not in your library yet, you have a few ways to get it in. You can type it out by hand, paste in text from a website, take a photo of a page from a paper cookbook, or paste a link and let the app read it.

The same recipe can live in more than one cookbook. If your chili recipe belongs in both Weeknight Dinners and Grandma's Kitchen, put it in both. It is not copied twice, it is just linked in both places. If you edit it, both cookbooks show the update.

To change the order recipes appear in, press and hold on one and drag it up or down. That is the order people will see when they open the cookbook.

A section is a heading inside a cookbook, like Appetizers, Main Dishes, or Desserts. If you have more than about ten recipes in a cookbook, sections make it much easier to read.

To add a section, open your cookbook and tap Add section. Give it a name. Then drag recipes into it. Sections show up in the reader as big headings, and readers can jump straight to the one they want.

You do not have to use sections. A short cookbook is fine without them.

Every cookbook has a share link. Open your cookbook, tap Share, and copy the link. You can text it, email it, or paste it into a message. The person who opens the link does not need to make an account. They just read it.

If you cook with the same people all the time, like your spouse or your kids, add them to your household instead. Then every cookbook you make shows up in their app automatically, no link needed. See the households tutorial for that.

You can also stop sharing. Open the cookbook, tap Share, and turn the link off. Anyone who tries to open it after that gets a polite message that it is no longer available.

Fixing a typo or adjusting the amount of salt in one recipe is easy. Just open the recipe, edit it, and save. Everyone sees the change right away, including anyone you shared the cookbook with.

If you make bigger changes, like rewriting a recipe, adding several new ones, or reordering the whole book, publish a new version. Open the cookbook, tap Publish, and add a short note about what changed.

Older versions are kept in your history, so you can look back at them or bring one back if you decide the new version was a mistake.