Frequently Asked Questions

Most recipe apps let you save recipes and maybe build a shopping list. KiWi does that too, and then keeps going. Five things really set us apart, and the best of it is free.

1. Recipes from anywhere. Bring in recipes from wherever you find them: any recipe website (we support more of them than any other app), a social post from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook, a photo of a cookbook page, or text you paste from a message or your own notes. KiWi turns any of them into a clean, structured recipe you can edit and make your own, or discover tens of thousands more in our searchable, filterable index, with new ones added every day. If it's a recipe, KiWi can read it.

2. Yours everywhere. Your recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists follow you across every device: iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet, Mac, the web, and on your wrist with Apple Watch and Android Wear OS, all syncing instantly. It's offline-first, so a spotty connection or no signal at all never gets between you and dinner. And every imported recipe keeps a tab straight to the author's original page, so you stay connected to the creators and sites you love.

3. Nutrition you can actually trust, free. Every recipe and every barcode-scanned product gets real nutrition mapped against official government food databases: actual facts, not an AI's guess. You don't have to take our word for it: tap any nutrient to see exactly how it was calculated and which database the numbers came from. And we turn those numbers into what you actually care about: strong teeth, healthy skin and hair, steady energy, not a wall of vitamins you've never heard of. The nutrition grade, the highlights, the calories and the standout nutrients are free on every recipe, along with allergen and dietary warnings that read your real ingredients rather than keywords, so you can see at a glance whether a recipe is gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, halal or kosher. Warnings are always free. Kiwi Pro opens the rest: the exhaustive nutrient list, and the per ingredient contribution lines that show which ingredient the iron or the sodium is really coming from. Add barcode scanning with an instant score, plus nutrition tracking and trends across everything you cook and scan, on your phone and your watch.

4. Cook hands-free. KiWi can read your recipe aloud, both the ingredients and the step-by-step instructions, so you never have to touch the screen with messy hands. It works on your phone and on your wrist: leave the phone on the counter and have each step read to you right on your Apple Watch or Android Wear OS watch.

5. Cooking, in sync. Tell KiWi when you want each dish on the table and it works out when to start every one, so the whole meal lands together, or perfectly staggered, with dessert timed for later. Your family cooks along: shared shopping lists update in real time while someone's at the store, and family notifications keep everyone posted when a plan changes or dinner is nearly ready. KiWi can even share your cooking ETA in a notification, so everyone shows up right when the food does. And on iPhone, Live Activities put your timers and cooking progress on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island.

And there's plenty more. Free: family sharing for up to five people, with plans, lists and recipes updating in real time; picture-in-picture video that keeps the original cooking video on screen while you follow the steps; multiple saved versions of the same recipe, so the original, your tweaks and grandma's variation sit side by side; shopping lists that combine duplicates across multiple stores; filtering your own recipes by what is already in your fridge; translation into 49+ languages with localized ingredient names and units; and clean, ad-free printing of recipes, meal plans and shopping trips. With Kiwi Pro: the KiKi AI assistant (ask about any recipe, make it dairy-free, or generate a brand-new one from a description), smart ingredient swaps and either/or alternatives, and Fridge Suggest, which turns what you have on hand into dish ideas.

And we're just getting started.

When you share a social media post with Kiwi Recipes, KiKi tries several approaches to create the best possible recipe, in this order:

• Author's description: KiKi first looks at the post description or caption. If the author wrote out the recipe (or enough detail to reconstruct it), KiKi uses that to build a full recipe.
• Video analysis: If the description doesn't contain a recipe, KiKi watches the video and tries to create a recipe from what it sees and hears.
• Bookmark: If none of the above produce a recipe, you can still save it as a bookmark in the app. You'll need to add your own ingredients and steps.

Video analysis works best when:

• It's clearly one recipe being made
• The steps and ingredients are explained or shown clearly
• The video isn't a compilation or montage of multiple dishes

Think of it like having a friend watch a cooking video and write down the recipe for you. It's usually good, but may not be perfect for complex or fast-paced videos.

There are several ways to get recipes into Kiwi Recipes:

• Discover: Search across tens of thousands of recipes from hundreds of websites, food blogs, and cooking magazines, all from within the app. Find what you're looking for, tap to save, and it's instantly optimized with allergen tags, dietary info, scaling, and all of Kiwi's features.
• Share from your browser: Found a recipe on a website? On your phone, tap "Share" and select Kiwi Recipes. We'll read the recipe from the page and import it for you.
• Share from social media: Share an Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook post directly to Kiwi Recipes. KiKi will extract the recipe from the post description or video.
• Paste a URL: Open Kiwi Recipes, tap the import button, and paste any recipe link.
• Browser extension: Install our Chrome, Firefox, or Safari extension. It detects recipes on any webpage and lets you save them with one click from your computer.
• Photo import: Take a photo of a recipe from a cookbook or magazine, and KiKi will extract it for you.
• Type it in: Paste or type a recipe from memory, a family recipe card, or a message. KiKi will structure it into a full recipe.

When you share a recipe URL, KiKi reads the publicly available recipe on that page and optimizes it for display in the app. This means structured ingredients (with quantities, units, and names separated), tagged allergens and dietary info, categorized steps, and more.

The original recipe stays untouched on the website. We just make it easier to cook from, scale, translate, and shop with.

Every imported recipe has two tabs:

• Kiwi tab: The optimized version with structured ingredients, dietary tags, allergen info, scaling, unit conversion, and all the smart features. This is where you cook from, plan meals, and build shopping lists.
• Original tab: This shows the original recipe page from the author's website, right inside the app.

We include the original tab because we want you to stay connected to the recipe creators you love. Check out the original for the author's notes, photos, story, and other recipes. Kiwi Recipes is a tool that makes recipes more useful, not a replacement for the websites and people who create them.

It works with most recipe websites that have a single recipe on the page. It does not work with:

• Recipe collections or index pages (like "Top 20 Pasta Recipes")
• How-to guides or articles that aren't actual recipes
• Pages behind a login wall or paywall (we can't access what you can't share publicly)

If a page has multiple recipes, KiKi will try to extract the primary one, but results may vary. For best results, import from a page with one clear recipe.

Common reasons:

• The page requires a login (paywalled content)
• The page doesn't contain a recognizable recipe (it might be an article or a collection)
• The website blocks automated access
• The social media post is private or has been removed

If an import comes through partly, you can always fix it by hand: editing a recipe's ingredients, steps and details is free. If nothing came through at all, Manual Recipe lets you paste or type the recipe and Photo to Recipe reads it from a picture or screenshot. Both of those are KiKi features and are included with Kiwi Pro.

Our recipe images are AI-generated based on the recipe description. They're an artistic approximation of what the dish looks like, not a copy of the original photo. We do this to respect the copyright of recipe authors and food photographers.

Sometimes the images are spot-on, sometimes they're a creative interpretation. Think of them as an illustration rather than a photograph. The important thing is what's inside: the ingredients, steps, and all the smart features that help you cook.

Nutritional data in Kiwi Recipes is calculated per ingredient using official government food databases (USDA, NEVO, Ciqual and others). For the large majority of recipes, the ingredients map directly to a validated database entry. For a long tail of less common or ambiguous ingredients, we fall back to a best estimate.

We go further than a straight lookup where we can. Nutrients lost to heat or to cooking water are discounted according to how the ingredient is cooked, raw and cooked forms of the same food are matched to each other, and a tin of something packed in liquid is discounted for the liquid you pour away.

Accuracy is lower when:

• Ingredients are uncommon or very specific, such as a regional specialty product
• No amounts are given in the original recipe, so we have to estimate
• The recipe author lists ingredients unclearly, for example "salad dressing" without saying which kind or how much, or combines several items into one line like "salt, pepper and oil to taste"
• The recipe's stated number of servings is inaccurate

Use nutritional information as a helpful guide, but not as a medical or dietary guarantee.

Yes. Tap any nutrient on a saved recipe and you get the recipe's ingredients ranked by how much of that one nutrient each contributes, with a bar and a per serving figure for each. It answers the question a total never can, which is where the iron or the sodium in this dish is really coming from. The nutrition summary is free on every saved recipe. The per ingredient contribution lines and the full nutrient screens are part of Kiwi Pro beyond the five recipes a free account keeps fully active.

Around thirty two values per recipe where the data supports it: calories, the macros, saturated and trans fat, fibre, sugar, sodium and cholesterol, plus the full micronutrient set from vitamins A, C, D, E and K through the B vitamins and folate to calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper and manganese. Six of those, including vitamins A, D, K, B12, folate and selenium, are shown in micrograms because that is the unit the daily values are written in. What you see is what the recipe's ingredients can be matched to, so a recipe with an unmatched ingredient will show gaps rather than a full set. The exhaustive list is part of Kiwi Pro beyond your five active recipes.

Yes. Nutrients that are lost to heat or to cooking water are discounted, and the recipe's figures already have that reduction folded in. In the per ingredient breakdown an ingredient can carry a small cooking method marker with the percentage that was taken off, and you can tap it to change the cooking method we assumed and watch the numbers recalculate. This needs a saved recipe: on a preview you have not saved yet there is no marker and no picker.

Yes. When a recipe contains a sweetener we know about, the sugar row splits in two: natural sugars, shown for context with no daily value, and added sugars, measured against the FDA's 50 g daily value and marked as something to watch. We follow the FDA's boundary, so fresh fruit, dried fruit, 100 percent juice and all dairy count as natural, while syrups, molasses, juice concentrates and sweetened processed foods count as added. Recipes with no sweetener simply show one sugar figure rather than a zero. Daily totals are not split, because added sugar data is not complete enough across every food for a day figure to be honest.

We do our best to read and extract recipe information accurately. However, recipe websites structure their data in many different ways, and sometimes sources are structured in a way that creates challenges for extraction. Occasionally an ingredient quantity, a step, or a piece of metadata may not come through perfectly.

We recommend always giving the recipe a quick scan after importing, especially for ingredient quantities and allergen information. If something looks off, you can edit the recipe directly or ask KiKi to help fix it.

Yes. Tap Log Consumption to add any meal to today's log, set how much you actually ate (half a serving, two servings, or a custom amount), and KiWi tallies your calories and nutrients for the day. Open Nutrition Trends to see your averages and daily calories over time.

Yes. Scan a product's barcode to pull up its nutrition, then add it straight to today's food log or to a meal. If we don't have the facts yet, you can photograph the nutrition label to fill them in.

Yes. Your daily nutrition shows as a ring on your Apple Watch or Android Wear OS watch face, and on your home-screen widget. Pick which nutrients you want front and center in Settings → Watch & Widgets.

Yes, and it goes both ways from one switch. Turn on health sync in Settings, under your nutrition preferences, and the meals you log are written to Apple Health on iOS or Health Connect on Android, one entry per meal with its own type and time, so your calories and nutrients sit alongside your activity, workouts and weight. On days where you have logged nothing in KiWi, nutrition recorded by your other apps is read back in and shown in your KiWi totals and trends, with our own entries filtered out so nothing is counted twice. It is free, your device asks permission first, and the switch appears on iPhone and Android only.

Yes. Every number tells you where it came from, whether that's the USDA, another government database, a product label you scanned, or an estimate for the rare ingredient we can't match, and the source is free to see on every saved recipe. Tap a nutrient and you can go one step further, into a per ingredient breakdown showing how much of that nutrient each ingredient contributes. That deeper view, and the full nutrient screens behind it, are part of Kiwi Pro beyond the five recipes a free account keeps fully active.

You can photograph the product's Nutrition Facts panel (and its ingredients list if it's nearby) and KiWi reads the values off the label for you, no barcode required.

One entry per meal rather than one lump for the day, tagged as breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner at the time you ate it, carrying calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre, sugar and sodium. If you change something, KiWi replaces its own earlier entries for that day and leaves everything written by other apps alone, so nothing is counted twice. It mirrors the day you are looking at as it changes rather than backfilling your whole history, and it is free.

Yes, with KiWi Pro. Photograph the meal and KiWi works out what is likely on the plate and roughly how much, then calculates the nutrition from those ingredients the same way it does for a recipe. Useful for a restaurant dish, someone else's cooking, or a plate you put together without a recipe.

You see everything it worked out before anything is saved, and you can correct any of it. Afterwards it lives in your library like any other item, and you can still edit it.

Treat it as an estimate, because that is what it is. A recipe you saved lists its ingredients and their amounts; a photograph does not, so KiWi is reading a picture rather than a list.

Yes, on iPhone and Android, in four groups. Shopping widgets show a store's progress, its items with tappable checkboxes, or an overview of every trip. Meal plan widgets show the next meal and when to start cooking it, today's meals with their start times, or today and tomorrow together. Nutrition widgets show your chosen nutrient as a ring with the rest below it, and on iPhone there are Lock Screen versions too. A cooking widget shows the step you are on with its timer counting down. They read a snapshot the app keeps up to date, so they stay current without you opening it.

Yes for shopping and meal plans: you can tick a shopping item straight from the widget and mark a planned meal as cooked, and both are free. The cooking widget is a little different. Everyone sees the current step and its live countdown, but the Next step and Start timer buttons on it are for Kiwi Pro members.

KiWi reads every ingredient in a recipe and flags allergens for you automatically. It goes deeper than spotting a word on a list: it knows that Worcestershire sauce contains fish, that ghee is dairy, and that marzipan contains tree nuts.

When an allergen turns up, you'll see a tag on the recipe. Tap the tag to see exactly which ingredient triggered it.

Detection reads the actual ingredients in a recipe rather than scanning for words, which is why it knows that Worcestershire sauce contains fish and that ghee is dairy. It covers the EU's 14 named allergens and the US FDA's Big 9, along with derived and compound ingredients that a keyword list would miss. No automated system is perfect: unusual or highly regional ingredients can be missed, coverage is strongest in the languages we have worked through most thoroughly, and we can only analyse what the recipe lists, not what a manufacturer added to a packaged product. Always check the ingredients yourself if you have a serious allergy or intolerance. KiWi is a helpful tool, not a medical device.

We cover all major international allergen lists:

• EU Big 14: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, fish, crustaceans, molluscs, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, mustard, celery, lupin, sulphites
• US FDA Big 9: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame
• Additional: lactose (separate from dairy allergy), alcohol, caffeine, honey

KiWi automatically tags recipes with dietary information based on their ingredients:

• Dietary patterns: vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, keto, paleo, low-carb, low-fat, low-sodium, diabetic-friendly, halal, kosher, jain
• Free-from tags: gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free, soy-free, pork-free, alcohol-free, and many more
• Contains tags: detailed ingredient presence tags (contains chicken, contains garlic, contains mushrooms, etc.) so you can filter recipes by what's in them

All tags are computed from the actual ingredients. Not entered manually, not guessed by AI.

Yes. In your profile, you can mark ingredients you dislike or want to avoid. KiWi supports dozens of categories: specific proteins (lamb, duck, liver), vegetables (eggplant, okra, bitter melon), herbs and spices (cilantro, fennel, star anise), condiments (fish sauce, mayo, miso), and more.

Recipes containing disliked ingredients are clearly marked so you can skip them, and you can filter them out entirely when browsing or searching.

It can add a warning and it can never remove one. Allergen tags on a photo estimate are inferred from what KiWi believes it can see, so they are advisory rather than declared, and the app is built so that this path can only ever flag something as present.

A photo estimate will never tell you a dish is free from anything. An empty allergen list means KiWi inferred nothing, not that the dish is safe, which is why nothing is shown rather than an empty may contain row.

If you or someone at your table has a serious allergy, a photograph is not a source. Ask whoever cooked it.

In My Recipes, search matches against recipe titles. Start typing and results filter instantly.

In Discover, search uses intelligent matching that goes beyond exact titles. It understands related terms and can find recipes even if you don't remember the exact name. The Discover search reaches an index of tens of thousands of recipes from across the web. If there are domains you want to exclude from the search, you can do so in Settings.

The filter panel lives in My Recipes and narrows your saved collection by:

• Cooking time: set a maximum (great for weeknight cooking)
• Proteins: chicken, beef, fish, tofu, shrimp, and more
• Starches: rice, pasta, potato, bread, quinoa, etc.
• Vegetables: broccoli, spinach, mushroom, carrot, and more
• Meal type: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert
• Cuisine: Italian, Mexican, Thai, Japanese, and many more
• Cooking method: baking, grilling, stovetop, slow-cooker, etc.
• Season: spring, summer, fall, winter dishes
• Dietary: vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, halal, kosher, etc.
• Difficulty and budget-friendly options

Filters only show options that actually exist in your collection. If you haven't saved any Thai recipes yet, "Thai" won't appear as a cuisine filter.

In Discover, you find new recipes by search rather than the filter panel.

Two ways, depending on what you want. KiWi tags every recipe with the ingredients it contains, so you can filter your own collection by what you have on hand and find something you can make right now without a shopping trip. That filtering is free; switch on "fridge" ingredient matching in Settings. If you would rather be given ideas, Fridge Suggest lets you pick or type what you have, add pantry staples and say anything else you want (quick, no oven, use up the spinach), and suggests dishes built around it, including ones you have not saved. Fridge Suggest is part of Kiwi Pro.

You can create collections to organize your recipes however you like. Think of them as folders or playlists for your recipes. For example: "Weeknight Dinners", "Meal Prep", "Holiday Baking", or "Mom's Recipes".

A single recipe can belong to multiple collections. We automatically create a Favorites collection for you to get started. Collections sync across all your devices and are shared with your family.

Between collections and the powerful filter system (by protein, cuisine, cooking time, and more), you can always find exactly what you're looking for, even as your recipe library grows into the hundreds.

No, and this is intentional. Kiwi Recipes is not meant to replace your favorite recipe websites. We love recipe creators and want you to keep visiting their sites, browsing their collections, and discovering new recipes there.

Kiwi Recipes is your personal recipe toolkit. Import the recipes you love and then use our features to:

• View allergen and dietary information at a glance
• Scale servings up or down with automatic ingredient conversion
• Plan meals for the week
• Generate smart shopping lists grouped by store aisle
• Translate recipes into ~50 languages
• Convert between metric and imperial units
• Modify recipes with KiKi ("make this dairy-free")
• Ask KiKi questions ("can I substitute the cream?")

The value isn't in collecting recipes. It's in what you can do with them.

KiKi is your AI cooking assistant. On any recipe, you can:

• Ask questions: "Can I make this ahead of time?", "What's a good substitute for heavy cream?", "Is this safe for someone with a tree nut allergy?"
• Modify recipes: "Make this gluten-free", "Make it spicier", "Remove the dairy". KiKi creates a new version with the changes.
• Translate recipes: "Translate to Spanish". Generates a fully translated version with localized ingredient names and measurements.
• Scale recipes: Adjust servings and all quantities recalculate automatically.

• KiKi only answers food and recipe-related questions. Don't ask it to write your emails.
• KiKi provides suggestions, not medical advice. If you have severe allergies, always verify ingredients yourself.
• KiKi's recipe modifications are AI-generated. For complex baking chemistry (like removing eggs from a soufflé), use your judgment.
• KiKi can't access recipes behind paywalls or private accounts.

The meal planner shows a 7-day view starting from today, and you can extend it further out when you plan ahead. Each day has four slots: breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner. Tap any slot to add a recipe from your collection, or a custom meal like "Takeout" or "Leftovers". You can adjust servings per meal, which is handy when you're cooking for 2 on Tuesday but 6 on Saturday. Days that have passed stay available in your meal plan history, so you can look back at what you actually cooked.

Yes! This is one of the most powerful features. Add recipes to your shopping list and Kiwi Recipes will:

• Combine duplicate ingredients across recipes (2 recipes that each need 100g butter → 200g butter)
• Group items by store category (produce, dairy, meat, pantry, etc.)
• Handle unit conversions automatically (grams to kilograms when quantities get large)
• Let you create separate trips for different stores (grocery store, farmers market, butcher)

Yes. In cooking mode each step has a speaker button, and tapping it reads that step aloud in a high quality cloud voice. It reads the step you are on, one tap at a time, rather than narrating the whole recipe from top to bottom. Audio you have already heard is kept on the device, so a step you replay later works without a connection. Narration is a Kiwi Pro feature: free users see the speaker button and get an upgrade sheet when they tap it.

Steps are read in the recipe's own language, not your phone's, so a Japanese recipe is read in Japanese even if your phone is set to English. Read aloud works on recipes from KiWi's own recipe index. On a recipe you typed, imported, generated with KiKi or bulk imported, the speaker button is not shown at all. It also disappears on any step whose text you have edited, because the audio is matched to the original wording.

On iPhone and Apple Watch, yes. While a cook is running, say "Kiwi, next step" and the assistant shows the step, reads it out and moves your cooking progress forward on all your devices. "Kiwi, current step", "Kiwi, previous step" and "Kiwi, repeat the step" read a step back to you without changing where you are. Asking by voice is free. Which voice you hear depends on your plan: Kiwi Pro members hear KiWi's own recipe language narration on recipes from our index, and everyone else hears the assistant's own voice.

Not yet. The Android and Wear OS versions are built, but the voice phrases for stepping through a recipe are custom Assistant actions that need Google's review before they work for everyone, and that review is still outstanding. Until then, asking on an Android phone or a Wear OS watch opens the cooking screen rather than reading the step out or advancing it. On iPhone and Apple Watch it works today.

On iPhone you get a Live Activity: the dish, the step you are on out of how many, a step progress bar, the countdown when a step timer is running and the time the dish should be ready. On iPhone 14 Pro and later the same session also appears in the Dynamic Island, showing the finish time when collapsed and the full step and timer when you press and hold. On Android it is an ongoing notification on the lock screen and in the shade with the same information, and on Android 16 it can also appear as a Live Update in the status bar. Both carry a Next step button so you can move on without opening the app.

Yes. The countdown on your lock screen is drawn by the operating system, not by the app, so it keeps ticking whether or not KiWi is open or awake, and it stops at zero rather than counting past it. You can turn the whole lock screen surface off with the single Live Activity switch in your notification settings; it is on by default. One thing to know on the free plan: step timers themselves are part of what stays available on your five active recipes, so on a recipe beyond those you will see the step and the progress, but not a running timer.

Shopping lists are organized into trips (one per store visit). Each trip shows your items grouped by store aisle/category. Check items off as you shop. If you're sharing with family, everyone sees items checked off in real-time.

You can also add custom items that aren't from recipes (like "Paper towels" or "Dog food").

Yes! Shopping trips are shared with your entire family. One person can plan meals and create the shopping list, and another can do the shopping. Checking off items updates for everyone instantly.

Open a recipe and tap the Share button. You can:

• Share a link: Generates a link that opens the recipe in the other person's Kiwi Recipes app (if they have it) or shows a web preview.
• Share as text: Copies a formatted text version of the recipe. Great for messaging apps.

Yes! Open a recipe and tap the Print button (or use Share > Print). This generates a clean, printer-friendly layout with ingredients and steps. No ads, no popups, no scrolling past a life story. Just the recipe.

Kiwi Recipes supports families of up to 5 members. When you create or join a family:

• Meal plans are shared. Everyone sees the same weekly plan.
• Shopping lists are shared. Check off items at the store and everyone's list updates in real-time.
• Recipes sync across the family.

To start: go to Settings > Family, create a family, and share the invite code or QR code with your household. Others scan it to join.

No. Family sharing is free with any KiWi account. There is no family plan to buy and no Pro requirement. The only thing you need is an account, because a family has to know who its members are.

One thing worth knowing: a free household shares one allowance rather than getting one each. The weekly saved-recipe limit and the active-recipe limit belong to the family, not to each person in it.

No, and this is enforced in the database rather than by a setting. What you log is stored under your own account, and the security rules only allow it to be read by you. Nobody else in the family can read it, including whoever created the family.

There is deliberately no household nutrition view and no way to query across members. A shared meal records who was there, not how much anybody ate.

To be precise about what this is: it is per-person access control, not end-to-end encryption. We are telling you that other members cannot see it, not that the data is unreadable to anyone.

Five, including you. That limit is enforced on the server, so an invite beyond it will not go through.

Share a link or let them scan a QR code. They tap it, and they are in. There is no email invitation to wait for and nothing to type in.

The saved recipe library, collections, the meal plan, the shopping list and the trip you are currently on, notes and any ingredient or step corrections you make, scanned products and photo estimates, best-before dates, recipe photos, and aisle corrections for your stores. Fix an ingredient once and it is fixed for everyone.

What stays yours: what you personally ate, your own cooking session and its timers, your settings, and your own daily nutrition on your watch. Starting a cook on your phone does not take over anyone else's screen.

Yes. Each item on the list is its own record, so two people ticking things off at the same time do not overwrite each other. If one of you is in a basement with no signal, the ticks are kept on the device and merged when the signal comes back.

The phone and desktop apps update as changes arrive. The watch apps check periodically rather than instantly, so a watch can be a few seconds behind.

Yes. Marking a meal cooked credits it to you. If someone else actually cooked it you can hand it over, and you can credit anyone who helped. Over time you can see how the cooking has been shared out.

This is about credit rather than surveillance: it records who cooked a meal, not what anyone ate.

They take a copy of their own recipes, collections, plans and lists with them into their own space, and the household keeps its history. Nothing is stranded on either side.

The Kiwi Recipes desktop browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari makes importing recipes from your computer effortless.

When you're browsing a recipe website, the extension automatically detects the recipe and shows a checkmark on its icon. Click the icon to see a preview (title, image, cooking time, servings), then tap Save to Kiwi to add it to your collection instantly.

It also works on social media pages (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube). It'll detect video content and let you save it directly.

No, the extension is a convenience for desktop browsing. You can always import recipes by sharing URLs from your phone's browser, pasting links in the app, or using any of the other import methods.

Yes. Accessibility is a priority, not an afterthought. Kiwi Recipes is designed to work fully with VoiceOver on iOS and TalkBack on Android. Every screen, button, recipe card, ingredient, and cooking step is labeled so screen readers can describe what's on screen clearly and completely.

We also support Dynamic Type (iOS) and system font scaling (Android), so text adjusts to whatever size you've set in your device settings. Touch targets meet or exceed recommended minimums throughout the app.

If you encounter anything that doesn't work well with assistive technology, please let us know at feedback@kiwirecipes.app. We treat accessibility bugs with the same urgency as any other bug.

Kiwi Recipes is available on iOS and Android, on both phones and tablets, and on your wrist with Apple Watch and Android Wear OS. There's a Mac app too, and browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari let you save recipes straight from your computer. Everything syncs automatically across all your devices: save a recipe on your phone and it's waiting on your iPad, your Mac, or your watch when you get to the kitchen.

A lot of what makes Kiwi Recipes special is available for free:

• Discover thousands of recipes from hundreds of websites, food blogs and cooking magazines. Search recipes from across the web, completely free.
• Nutrition on every recipe from official government food databases: calories, the nutrition grade, the standout nutrients and where every number came from. Free.
• Allergen and dietary warnings that read your real ingredients, not just keywords. Always free.
• Ingredient-aware unit conversion between metric and imperial, using real density data so "1 cup of flour" correctly converts to 125 g, not 240 g. Free.
• Family sharing for up to five people: plans, lists and recipes updating in real time, free.
• Save 6 new recipes a week, and keep 5 of your saved recipes fully active at a time.

That second number is the one worth understanding. Five of your saved recipes stay fully usable at once, with cooking mode, shopping lists, pin for today and the full nutrient detail. A recipe beyond those five stays saved and readable, but those extras move behind Kiwi Pro until you make it active again.

Kiwi Pro removes both limits and adds all of KiKi (ask about a recipe, modify one, generate one from a description, import from a photo or pasted text), step-by-step cooking mode, shopping lists on every recipe, the full per ingredient nutrient breakdown, Fridge Suggest and voice narration while you cook.

Yes! Your saved recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists are stored on your device. You can view and use them without an internet connection. Changes sync automatically when you're back online.

Kiwi Recipes can display recipes in metric, imperial, or both at the same time. Set your preference in Settings and every recipe instantly shows quantities in your preferred system. No manual conversion needed. You can switch on the fly within a recipe too.

Here's the part that matters when you're actually cooking: converting between volume and weight only works if you know the ingredient. A cup of flour and a cup of honey weigh very different amounts, so a one-size-fits-all "1 cup = 240 g" gets it wrong. KiWi uses real ingredient density data from government food databases (like the USDA), so "1 cup of flour" becomes about 125 g, and "200 g butter" becomes about 14 tablespoons: numbers that make sense for the ingredient in front of you.

This means conversions are ingredient-aware:

• 1 cup of all-purpose flour → 125 g (not 240 g)
• 1 cup of honey → 340 g (not 240 g)
• 1 cup of rolled oats → 80 g (not 240 g)
• 200 g of butter → ~14 tbsp (not a generic "0.8 cups")

This applies everywhere: ingredient lists, step-by-step instructions, shopping lists, and scaling. Whether you're converting a French recipe from grams to cups, or an American recipe from cups to grams, the numbers actually make sense for the ingredient you're working with.

Yes. Open Menu and then Appearance. There are three colour themes: Kiwi green, which is free, plus Pink and Golden, which are part of Kiwi Pro. Separately from the colour, you choose light, dark or follow your system, and dark mode adds two free extras, an OLED mode that goes pure black and a high contrast mode. Choosing Pink or Golden also changes the app icon on your home screen on iPhone, iPad and Android; on Android the new icon appears the next time you leave the app. The Mac app takes the theme but its Dock icon does not change.

No. Your recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists are yours. See our Privacy Policy for full details.

Yes. Go to Settings > Account > Delete Account. This permanently removes all your data from our servers.

Your data is protected at every layer:

• Encrypted in transit. All communication between your device and our servers uses TLS encryption. Nothing travels in plain text.
• Encrypted at rest. Your recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists are stored on Google Cloud infrastructure with encryption at rest enabled by default.
• Secure authentication. We support Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google. We never see or store your password for these methods.
• Minimal data collection. We only store what's needed to make the app work: your recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, and preferences. No tracking profiles, no ad data, no selling to third parties.
• Server-side security rules. Every database request is validated server-side. Your data is only accessible to you and your family members. No one else, not even other Kiwi users.

For the full picture, see our Privacy Policy.