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Every feature in Daily Simmer

One recipe library, and everything you do with it: bring recipes in, make them yours, keep them organised, plan and shop, cook, and cook together.

Add recipes

Save recipes from websites, social posts, photos of handwritten cards and other recipe apps, or find one in Explore.

A mushroom and lentil ragu imported into Daily Simmer from a recipe site, with its source credit, timing, servings, ingredients, and steps.

Import recipes from websites, social posts, and other apps

Paste a recipe link, a social post, or an export from another recipe app. Review the ingredients and steps, then save it to your library.

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The Daily Simmer import page listing CookBook, Flavorish, Mr. Cook, Paprika, Recipe Keeper, and a Daily Simmer backup.

Move your recipes from another app

Bring your collection over from Paprika, CookBook, Flavorish, Mr. Cook or Recipe Keeper, photos included, without retyping a single recipe.

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Make it yours

Ask Simmer to adapt a recipe, start one from an idea, remix a favourite, and scale servings and units.

A cook asks Simmer to make a chili-lime salmon bowl recipe vegetarian for guests, and Simmer swaps the salmon for tofu and holds the changes for review before they save.

Create and adapt recipes with AI

Start with what you have or what you're craving. Daily Simmer gives you ingredients, steps, servings, and timing in a recipe you can review, change, and save.

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Your library

Search, filter and sort your recipes into collections, with notes, ratings and cook history.

A Daily Simmer recipe library with chili-lime salmon bowls, a quick pantry pasta, tomato bruschetta, and more.

Your recipe library

Every recipe you create, import or save lives in one library you can search, sort into collections and come back to.

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Plan and shop

Plan the week, get meal ideas, and shop from one merged list with a pantry that remembers what you have.

A Daily Simmer week plan with lunch and dinner on most days and two breakfasts, with each dinner's leftovers kept for the next day's lunch.

Meal planner and shopping list

Plan the week from the recipes you saved, then add it to one shopping list that merges quantities and sorts itself by aisle.

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Cook

Follow one big step at a time, with timers for every dish and steps read aloud.

Daily Simmer cooking mode on step 3 of a sheet-pan shawarma chicken, with the roast timer running at 14:32 and the next step below.

Step-by-step cooking mode

Cook without losing your place. Cooking mode keeps the screen awake, highlights the current step, and keeps an AI assistant nearby when your hands are busy.

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Cook together

Share recipes and collections, and cook as a Family from the same recipes, week and list.

Two shared recipe collections, Summer table and Bakes & treats, on a cook's Daily Simmer profile.

Cook together with Family and sharing

Send one recipe with a link, open a collection to friends, or bring your household into one Family with the same recipes, week and shopping list.

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Bring your first recipe home.

Paste a link, snap a card, or start from an idea.

Save your first recipe