What's cooking
Every fresh batch of Noods — what's new, what got better, and what stopped being annoying.
2026
June
16 updatesBig month in the kitchen: dinner has a finish line now, there are new doors into your cookbook, and — hello! — the page you're reading is itself fresh out of the oven.New
- The Done button. Tap it when you're plating up and Noods counts you down through the remaining steps, then throws a little confetti when you land. Every recipe keeps a running "cooked" tally, so you can see the ones you actually come back to.
- A "recently cooked" sort in your cookbook — the things you've been making lately float to the top.
- Sign in with Apple or Facebook . Two new ways into your cookbook, joining Google, Microsoft, and X.
- One login email, two ways in. The sign-in email now carries a button and a six-digit code — tap the button on the device you're reading it on, or type the code into the one you're not.
- This very page. What's cooking is new: one post a month on what shipped. There's a monthly email digest to match — and a one-tap opt-out in account settings if your inbox is full.
Improved
- The sign-in page got a redesign — providers laid out as tidy tiles, and a layout that finally behaves on small phone screens.
- Our emails got a makeover. Sign-in emails now look like Noods — logo up top, a proper button, and a code box that lines up the way it should.
- Toasts grew up. The little pop-ups now stack politely instead of piling on, stick around when it's an error, and can carry an action or a "more info" tap when there's more to the story.
- Recipe editing feels tidier — the title is now a plain text field you just type into, and the section you're editing gives a little bounce when you tap outside it, so you always know where you are.
- Pages land a little lighter — we put the recipe illustrations on a diet.
Fixed
- Magic-link sign-in now works when you open the link in your browser.
- Squashed a bug that spammed the sign-in code and tripped a "too many requests" error.
- Password managers stop trying to hijack the little sign-in code box — and pasting a code with spaces in it works now.
- Couldn't record a cook? You get a retry toast instead of a silent miss, and your cooking progress resets cleanly when you switch to a different recipe.
- If a recipe was deleted on another device, Noods now tells you plainly instead of acting strange about it.
- The site heals itself after we ship an update instead of showing a blank page, and recipe times read as tidy "1h 20m" style labels.
iOS and Android
Not out yet — here's what we're building behind the scenes:- The app is nearly plated. June brought it the same Done button and sign-in options as the web, plus the thing a phone is for: full offline support — edit recipes and mark cooks with no signal, and everything syncs the moment you're back. The store paperwork is underway. We'll shout when it lands.
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.