Everything that has arrived since March 2026
I write this every month — what changed in Savvy, newest first.
Share one plan with up to five people
The Family plan puts up to five people on one bill, each with their own account and recipes, and everyone draws on one monthly allowance of imports.
Open a recipe’s video at the step you’re on
When you cook a recipe that came from a YouTube video, the video link on each step opens the video just before that step begins, and Savvy works the times out again whenever you save a change to the method.
Prepare ingredients in the order you’ll use them
Each stage of a recipe starts with its ingredients in the order the method uses them, and a step that adds something you made earlier, such as the cooked lentils, names it and lets you look back at how you made it without losing your place.
Write an ingredient by any of its names
Savvy now knows over 4,000 ingredients from the Open Food Facts database, so icing sugar, powdered sugar and sucre glace all match the same one, and its density, sugar and water content go into every gram conversion, sweetness figure and baker’s percentage.
Scale a recipe from one ingredient
Enter the amount you have of one ingredient, such as 300 g of carrots, and every other quantity in the recipe changes to match.
Read any recipe in metric or imperial
A recipe you can’t edit, such as one someone shared with you, shows its measurements in metric or imperial, whichever you’ve chosen, and the recipe itself keeps the numbers its author wrote.
Ask Savvy to write a recipe from an idea
Describe a dish you want to make, even roughly, answer a few questions about it, and Savvy writes the recipe; every conversation is kept, so you can go back to one and carry on.
Set what you don’t eat for the recipes Savvy writes
Tell Savvy on your profile what you don’t eat, and it applies that to every recipe it writes for you, but it never checks the recipes you already have or calls any recipe safe.
Copy a recipe as plain text
Copy a recipe from its page as plain text, with only its ingredients and method, and paste it into your notes or a message.
Send a recipe link that previews the recipe
When you paste a recipe link into a message or a chat, the preview shows the recipe’s name and photo instead of a bare link.
Cooking with your hands covered in dough
The screen stays lit, you move one step at a time, and a spoken ‘next’ gets you there without touching anything.
Timers that follow you out of the recipe
Start a timer on a method step and it carries on wherever you go next, then rings your phone when it’s up — even with Savvy closed.
Write a recipe with your assistant
Work a recipe out with your assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, whichever you use — and it’s in your archive before you’ve closed the conversation.
Take your recipes with you
Everything downloads as one file — recipes, collections, photos and every cook note — and that same file reads back in, here or into a friend’s archive.
Cook notes shared across a collection
Turn it on for a collection and its members read each other’s notes on those recipes — off by default, because a note about your own cooking is yours until you say otherwise.
Follow a cook, and their recipes come to you
Subscribe to a channel you already watch and its new videos land in your archive on their own, so the recipe you’d have gone hunting for is already waiting.
A list for the recipes you want to save for later
Anything worth coming back to goes into a mix — Weeknight dinners, Sunday roast for eight — and saving to one is a single tap with nothing to confirm.
Search your archive and YouTube at once
Search for a dish and the strongest YouTube matches sit above your own recipes.
Send one recipe to someone
A link opens the recipe for whoever you send it to, and if they’re on Savvy they can keep a copy in a collection of their own.
Quantities checked while you write
As you write an ingredient list I mark the lines I can’t weigh or don’t recognise, and each one gets fixed where it stands.
Your own weights for the ingredients you buy
Set a weight or a density once, and every number Savvy works out uses yours.
A record of every time you’ve made it
Record that you cooked something, with a note and a photo if you want, and the recipe starts keeping a history of your own cooking.
Recipes come in from a link, a video or a photo
Paste a link, hand me a YouTube video or photograph a page of a book, and what comes back is a recipe with its ingredients and method already separated.
A recipe you can read, change and find again
The first thing I built — a list to find a recipe in, a page to cook it from, and an edit screen for when it’s wrong.