Changelog

What's new in Cooking Rebel.

High-level notes for every release. Mechanical fixes and internal refactors don't show up here — those live in git.

  1. v1.0.0

    May 8, 2026

    First public release. Save recipes from your favorite AI, the web, or by hand — and actually cook from them later, on any device.

    Save it from anywhere

    • Tell Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat, Perplexity, or Grok to save a recipe and it lands here. The title, photo, ingredients, steps, and any notes the AI mentioned all carry over.
    • Paste a recipe URL and we pull in the title, ingredients, steps, yield, prep and cook times, and photos. Photos are kept on our side so the recipe doesn't go blank if the original site changes its URLs.
    • Type a recipe in by hand with section headers ("For the dressing"), drag-to-reorder rows, and pasting an entire ingredient list at once. Track equipment, substitutions, make-ahead notes, and storage tips alongside.

    A real library, not a folder of bookmarks

    • Browse every recipe in one place. Filter by cuisine, course, dietary tag, difficulty, or where it came from — multi-select inside each.
    • The cuisines and courses you cook with most float to the top, both when you're filtering and when you're writing a new recipe.
    • Filters narrow each other intelligently: pick "Italian" and the Course list shrinks to the courses you actually have Italian recipes in — no clicking into a dead end.
    • Search the full text of every recipe — title, description, ingredients, steps.
    • Quick lists for "All", "Favorites", and "Rated" so the things you cook again are one tap away.

    A recipe page built for actually cooking

    • Big photo, sectioned ingredients, sectioned steps, and a clean strip showing prep / cook / total time at a glance.
    • Tap any photo to open a full-screen viewer with pinch-zoom and swipe between shots.
    • A 5-star rating and a heart for favorites — both filterable from the library.
    • A cooking journal tucked under each recipe for "less sugar next time" and "doubled the garlic." Notes show up the next time you open the page, exactly where you left them.
    • Every AI-saved recipe gets a small "Saved from Claude" / "Saved from ChatGPT" stamp so you remember where it came from.

    Built for your phone

    • Mobile gets a single-row filter strip — chips for Favorites and Rated, plus tap-to-open panels for Cuisine, Course, Dietary, Difficulty, and Source.
    • Single-column recipe grid with banner-sized photos that don't dominate the screen.
    • A hamburger menu carries every nav action — add a recipe, switch theme, sign out — so the top bar stays clean.
    • Light, dark, and "match my system" themes, switchable from the menu and synced across devices once you sign in.

    Share what you cook

    • Generate a share link for any recipe. Anyone with the link can read it; no account required.
    • Share links render as proper preview cards in iMessage, Slack, and Twitter.
    • If the person you sent it to has Cooking Rebel, they can save a copy to their own library with one tap.
    • Rotate or revoke any share link anytime if you change your mind.

    Yours to keep

    • Every save creates a new revision. See the full history of any recipe and revert with one click — accidentally delete an ingredient and it's back.
    • Download a JSON export of every recipe, note, and share link from your account, anytime.
    • Delete your account and everything goes — recipes, photos, AI connections, no traces.