What's cooking
Every fresh batch of Noods — what's new, what got better, and what stopped being annoying.
2026
May
1 updateQuiet on the website this month — and for good reason: most of May went into the app (peek at the bottom). One small touch did land out front, too.Improved
- Cookbook search reads more clearly: the filter pills now say "search by …" instead of the old "exclude" wording.
iOS and Android
Not out yet — here's what we're building behind the scenes:- The app picked up real speed this month. Where it's headed: your whole cookbook in your pocket, the same photo / link / file / text import you know from the web, and offline support for when the kitchen Wi-Fi gives out. We'll shout when it lands.
2026
April
11 updatesThe big one for import: snap a photo, drop a file, or paste some text, and Noods turns it into a real recipe. We also gave the whole site a new, tactile look.New
- Import a recipe from a photo. Take a picture of a cookbook page, a handwritten card, or a screenshot, and Noods reads out the ingredients and steps for you.
- Import from a file or pasted text. Got a PDF, or a recipe buried in a wall of text? Drop the file in or paste the text and get a clean, structured recipe.
- Smarter link import. Paste a recipe URL and Noods grabs it fast when the site offers up structured data — and reads the page itself when it doesn't, so more links just work.
- Imports run in the background. Start one and keep browsing your cookbook; you'll see live progress, and you can cancel a run that's dragging.
- An About page, for the curious.
Improved
- A whole new look. We rolled out our "cartoon-tactile" style across Noods — buttons, switches, and cards with real depth that press like physical things.
- Recipe links look great when shared. Drop a Noods recipe link into a message or a post and it unfurls with the title, servings, and total time.
- Your cookbook, your way. Search by specific fields, filter by tags, and sort your recipes — and on desktop, choose a stacked or wide recipe layout. Scale a recipe by typing the serving count.
- Clearer empty states when a recipe is missing a title or a time.
Fixed
- A pile of import polish — clearer messages when a link is unreachable versus simply invalid, recovering an import that got stuck, and keeping what you typed when something errors out.
- Tightened the recipe page's spacing and layout across devices.
iOS and Android
Not out yet — here's what we're building behind the scenes:- We started building a native Noods app for iPhone and Android. Very early days; we'll have more to show as it takes shape.
2026
March
11 updatesA big one for the night owls: Noods got a proper dark mode. Plus a recipe page that behaves on every screen, and a new way to beam a recipe to your phone.New
- Dark mode. A full dark theme across Noods — kinder on the eyes for late-night recipe hunts. Pick it once and we'll remember it on your account.
- Share a recipe by QR code. Every recipe now has a QR code in its footer — point a phone at it to open the recipe on another device, no link-copying required.
- A friendlier "page not found" — now with a little illustration instead of a dead end.
Improved
- The recipe page now looks right on every screen, from a phone propped against the kettle to a wide desktop monitor.
- Freshened up the account and billing pages.
- The home page got a glow-up — short clips of importing and sharing in action, a gentle bounce as it loads, and the browsers and stores Noods works with.
- Sign-in plays nicer with password managers, so your logins autofill more reliably.
Fixed
- Cancelling a social sign-in no longer leaves the button spinning forever.
- The serving-size "−" button now actually counts down.
- Deleting a recipe no longer flashes a false "done!" before it's finished.
- Recipe search behaves itself again.