Recipe Keeper: WhatsCook

The import is the reason most people install WhatsCook. It's the fastest way to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok and food blogs in one place. Share a link from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest or any cooking site and the AI extracts the ingredients and the method. A photo of a cookbook page works the same way, which is the part that saves real time if your shelf is full of old paperbacks. You can also describe what you want, like a quick chickpea curry with what's in the cupboard, and get a written recipe back. Imported recipes need a read through before you cook: user-written social captions often leave out times and quantities, and the app can't invent what isn't there.

Two views, one plan. The calendar shows the week at a glance. The list lets you drag meals between days, and anything you haven't scheduled waits at the top until you find a slot. The toggle at the top right remembers which view you used last. This sounds small, and it is, but it's the difference between a planner you open and one you abandon after a week. Changes to a meal carry through to the shopping list without a second pass.

Every meal in the plan feeds one list, and the list sorts items for the shop instead of dumping them in recipe order. Move a meal to Thursday and the list follows. Tick items off in the aisle, and the list keeps its state between trips. It doesn't order groceries for delivery or compare prices at different stores, so it replaces your notes app and not your supermarket.

You can invite the people you live with into the same kitchen. Everyone sees and edits the same recipes, the same weekly meal plan and the same list. That's a real fix for the household problem where one person plans and everyone else eats. Two people editing the list at once can overwrite each other's tick marks, so it works better when one person owns the shop.

This is the feature that separates WhatsCook from the usual cookbook app. You follow friends and family by @username, their recipes show up in a Following feed, and nothing is public until they approve you. Followers read your recipes, they can't change them. Copy one into your own collection and you keep your own notes on it.

When you copy a friend's recipe and they later change the original, you get a notification and one tap brings your copy up to date. Your own edits and notes stay put. It's a small piece of plumbing that solves an old problem: two versions of the same family recipe drifting apart for years.