Changelog

April 16, 2024

v 2024.2

• Guided weighing, use supported scales to conveniently measure ingredients using Crouton's new scale interface
• Meal plan sections, break up your day with section for breakfast, lunch & dinner
• Added fluid ounces, for when your ounces are fluid
• Now you can add recipes how ever you prefer from the folders view. nice.
• Fix for manual timers not starting a Live Activity
• Many tiny fixes
• Reduced app file size

Feb. 28, 2024

v 2024.1.6

• Fix for a crash when launching step by step mode for some recipes
• Fix for being unable to clear times on recipes

Feb. 22, 2024

v 2024.1.5

• Fix for a crash when opening certain recipes whilst weight conversion active

Jan. 31, 2024

v 2024.1.4

• Improved fixes for iCloud sharing

Apologies for the rapid fire fixes, the new iPad layout introduced some significant changes under the hood, that caused some unexpected behaviour on some devices, a little bit of juggling later and I think we're back on track.

Jan. 29, 2024

v 2024.1.2

• Fix for black screen on launch

Jan. 23, 2024

v 2024.1

• New layout for iPad, you can see way more of your recipes at once now.
• Added tags to folders view for quick access

Dec. 21, 2023

v 2023.12.7

• Added ability to open step by step mode for all recipes on a given day in the meal plan, good timing for the holidays!
• Improved loading speed of Discover recipes
• Added ability to disable auto detection of recipe feeds when importing recipes
• Updated ingredients to display parenthesis a lil smaller, it's cute.
• Fixed some other things that you won't really care about.

Nov. 22, 2023

v 2023.12.6

• Added centilitre as a measurement type (wooooooh!)
• Fix for when importing ingredients that use "and" in the measurement, like "1 and 1/2 cups"
• Fix for adding a new section that has a leading space

Oct. 31, 2023

v 2023.12.5

• Fix for crash when loading recipe feeds.
• Fix for not being able to remove a note in the meal plan by backspacing

Oct. 23, 2023

v 2023.12.3

• Fix for issue where wrong images would be loaded for a recipe
• Fix for some websites not loading recipes
• When adding a new folder via the new recipe flow, it is now sorted alphabetically
• Fix for not scaling ingredients shown on Apple Watch

Squint and you might notice changes:
• Yellow grocery button is ever so slightly darker in light mode
• Recipes with more than 9 steps now show a slightly less snug step count

Oct. 4, 2023

v 2023.12.2

• Added ability to create folders from the add recipe view
• Fix for adding photos to a recipe
• You can now long press on the website button to copy the URL to clipboard
• Tapping on a tag will now open up a list of all recipes that match that tag
• Improvements to ingredient highlighting within a recipe

Sept. 21, 2023

v 2023.12.1

• Fix for adding new recipes to smart folders
• Fix for importing bulk recipes from other sources
• Improvements importing from websites
• Fix for Discover screen not updating on a successful purchase

July 26, 2023

v 2023.5.1

• Fix for not being able to modify a timer when in step by step mode with the ingredients present
• Improved logging for support requests
• Fix for selected tags not being visible when modifying tags

July 6, 2023

v 2023.5

• Improved step by step mode, now you can view ingredients at the same time as the steps, without jumping back and forwards. Sometimes you wonder why it hasn't just always been this way.
• Fix for the weird bug where tapping in blank areas of the screen in step by step mode would show the timer pop ups, it doesn't do that anymore. Up next, world peace.

July 3, 2023

v 2023.4.3

• Fix for saving recipes via the share sheet

June 28, 2023

v 2023.4.2

• Fix for a brief delay before recipes appeared when opening a folder, I'm upset that no one sent me any angry emails about this. It was unacceptable and its fixed.

June 27, 2023

v 2023.4.1

• Fix for notes being hidden in dark mode

June 16, 2023

v 2023.3

• Improvements to onboarding, fun!

May 31, 2023

v 2023.2.1

• Added option for smart folders to show recipes with one or more of the selected tags
• Improvements to ingredient detection in recipes for German
• A few other things that I forgot to write down, but I think were good at the time

May 24, 2023

v 2023.1.4

• Improvements to reliability of AI importing
• Fix for crash when importing from some websites via Safari

April 6, 2023

v 2023.1.3

• A new companion Watch app. See ingredients, steps and start timers straight from your wrist. Handy when you pop into the pantry and have a mind blank on what you went there for.
• Bug fixes and typo shmixes.

March 15, 2023

v 2023.1.2

Just a sneaky little update this week, one small thing you could most consider a feature:
• Added ability to duplicate recipes
And then a list of bugs you may or may not know about:
• Fix for crash when saving some recipes
• Fix for AI import sometimes translating recipes into English. I told it to stop doing that and after a bit of back and forth it seems to have agreed.
• Fix for not being able to delete recipe feeds
• Fix for crash when searching (the highlighting has been temporarily removed, but it will return, I promise)
• Improved logging to help with resolving future issues
• Fixed issue where groceries with different capitalisation wouldn't merge correctly.
• Fixed issue where exporting recipes would do a weird mashup of metric and imperial if you weren't selected on the default. Sorry about the cheesecake.

Oh, I also added a three day free trial to Crouton Discover, so you can curb any curiosity about what you may or may not be missing before committing. While I have your attention just want to reiterate as well, I have no intention of bundling everything as a subscription going forward. Crouton Discover is a specific set of features and will stay that way (plus one or two other things). Everything else is for everyone!

March 9, 2023

v 2023.1.1

Introducing Crouton Discover! a new way to find and save recipes straight from Crouton.
• Recipe feeds, save feeds to your favourite blogs and see new recipes as they're added
• Shareable links, create URLs that can be shared with friends even if they don't have Crouton
• Smart importing, import recipes from cookbooks, photos and text without any manual tagging. This also greatly improves web importing for those tricky websites.
• Fix for crash when importing recipes from shared links

These new features are part of a new subscription called Crouton Discover, they're seperate to Crouton+ which is still a one off purchase. Discover can be disabled if you'd prefer to continue using Crouton in its purest form and rest assured you will still get new features and updates. These new features have recurring costs associated with them and so the subscription ensures I can keep things running well for you long into the future.

March 7, 2023

v 2023.1

Introducing Crouton Discover! a new way to find and save recipes straight from Crouton.
• Recipe feeds, save feeds to your favourite blogs and see new recipes as they're added
• Shareable links, create URLs that can be shared with friends even if they don't have Crouton
• Smart importing, import recipes from cookbooks, photos and text without any manual tagging. This also greatly improves web importing for those tricky websites.

These new features are part of a new subscription called Crouton Discover, they're seperate to Crouton+ which is still a one off purchase. Discover can be disabled if you'd prefer to continue using Crouton in its purest form and rest assured you will still get new features and updates. These new features have recurring costs associated with them and so the subscription ensures I can keep things running well for you long into the future.

Feb. 18, 2023

v 2022.14.1

• Improved speed of search, sorry I made the UI better in the last update but made the performance worse. Now both should be pretty good. Please let me know if it isn't!
• Fix for recipes imported via zip not being included in households
• Fix for Crouton not appearing in the share sheet for some URLs

Jan. 25, 2023

v 2022.14

• Tags, yes you read that right, tags. The most hotly requested feature since that one website that doesn't quite import properly
• Oh yeah, I fixed that website too, and a few others! they should work better now. Not all of them, but quite a few more!
• Sorry got distracted from tags, you can also create smart folders. Choose which tags should group together and huzzah! It's a smart folder, no AI here folks.
• Folder & Tag Organiser. Quickly add multiple recipes to folders and tags without the menu dismissing after every tap, that was pretty annoying.
• Fix for a crash when importing Crouton zip files
• Folders have a little bit of a gradient on them. *whispers* is this skeuomorphism? *ends whispering*. I don't think so, but hopefully it will still make Scott happy.
• That's it for this one! Plenty more coming soon though.
• Ooh the start recipe button is also a bit bigger now, give step by step mode a go, you might like it!

Also if you're wondering why the version number is still 2022, firstly don't you have somewhere better to be? Secondly, this was supposed to be released last year, but time got the better of things and here we are!

Jan. 23, 2023

v 2022.13.4

• Tags, yes you read that right, tags. The most hotly requested feature since that one website that doesn't quite import properly
• Oh yeah, I fixed that website too, and a few others! they should work better now. Not all of them, but quite a few more!
• Sorry got distracted from tags, you can also create smart folders. Choose which tags should group together and huzzah! It's a smart folder, no AI here folks.
• Folder & Tag Organiser. Quickly add multiple recipes to folders and tags without the menu dismissing after every tap, that was pretty annoying.
• Fix for a crash when importing Crouton zip files
• Folders have a little bit of a gradient on them. *whispers* is this skeuomorphism? *ends whispering*. I don't think so, but hopefully it will still make Scott happy.
• That's it for this one! Plenty more coming soon though.
• Ooh the start recipe button is also a bit bigger now, give step by step mode a go, you might like it!

Also if you're wondering why the version number is still 2022, firstly don't you have somewhere better to be? Secondly, this was supposed to be released last year, but time got the better of things and here we are!

Nov. 27, 2022

v 2022.13.3

• Improved clipboard detection to be less jarring on iOS 16
• Made search always visible
• Improvements to Paprika importing
• Some other minor things, I think

Oct. 31, 2022

v 2022.13.2

• Fix for a crash when starting step by step mode on a recipe with no photos.

Oct. 20, 2022

v 2022.13

• Added support for live activities. Now when you start a timer or step by step mode you can view your progress right from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island!

Oct. 10, 2022

v 2022.12.6

• Added support for conversion between metric and imperial. Not sure why you'd want to do that, but now you can.
• Improved contrast of unselected tab bar items
• Improvements to website importer for various sites
• Fix for exporting recipes replacing ingredient amounts with "Function"

Sept. 29, 2022

v 2022.12.3

• Minor fix for localisation

Sept. 28, 2022

v 2022.12.2

• Grid view, now you can see all of your recipes in a grid. I think it looks nice.
• Times now have spaces between the number and the unit
• Added option to make tapping a meal plan day present the notes rather than recipes
• Fix for a crash when ending timers
• Added a new print size

Sept. 22, 2022

v 2022.12.1

• Fix for folders on plus sized phones, they had a falling out. But I sat them down in a room and made them work it through. Now they're happier than ever.
• Fix for timer notifications reporting the wrong step number, a classic out by one. I hope your recipes still turned out okay.

Sept. 18, 2022

v 2022.12

• Easier way to resolve recipes that don't import correctly. Now you can select text from the website and assign it directly to fields!

Sept. 13, 2022

v 2022.11.3

iOS 16 Support!

• Weather in the Meal Plan
• Shortcuts integrations
• Lock Screen Widget

• A couple of small fixes along the way

Sept. 9, 2022

v 2022.11

• Added support for weather in the meal plan
• Shortcuts support

Sept. 3, 2022

v 2022.10.2

• Improvements to timer detection for German
• Fixes for household sharing

Aug. 31, 2022

v 2022.10.1

• Added support for timers

Fixes:
• Fixed timers not being shown in German
• Added support for fractions in timers as well as a few other formats
• Fix for timer actions not being visible sometimes

Aug. 24, 2022

v 2022.9.3

• A couple of fixes to Household sharing. They should be easier to delete now, as well as share. 

Aug. 15, 2022

v 2022.9.2

• Lots of improvements to website importing, this is an endless pursuit, but we're one step closer.

Aug. 9, 2022

v 2022.9.1

• Little fix for exporting PDFs in the black colour, turns out this didn't work. It works now.
• Fix for a crash on launch for some users

Aug. 5, 2022

v 2022.9

• New unsorted folder to view all recipes yet to be categorized
• French! Crouton is now localised in French

July 31, 2022

v 2022.8.2

• Minor fix for grocery prompts not appearing
• Fix for presenting Crouton+ alert to promptly, awkward.

• Don't forget recipe method sections!

July 28, 2022

v 2022.8.1

• Method sections, easily group recipe steps into sections!
• Fixed issue where Crouton would keep making a reminder for groceries

• Fix for edited recipes not syncing across devices

July 26, 2022

v 2022.7

• Improved website importing to more reliably include servings and cooks times.
• Fixed bug when opening multiple recipes in step by step mode

July 17, 2022

v 2022.6.2

• Meal plan notes! Now you can add simple notes to nights with no recipe (the best nights)
• Drag and drop meals between days (I rewrote the entire meal plan UI to make this work)
• New alternative icon, it's beige... oooh yeah!
• Added a what's new screen to surface new features

• Fix for exporting plain text & markdown
• Fix for ingredient popovers in French

July 14, 2022

v 2022.6

• Meal plan notes! Now you can add simple notes to nights with no recipe (the best nights)
• Drag and drop meals between days (I rewrote the entire meal plan UI to make this work)
• New alternative icon, it's beige... oooh yeah!

May 15, 2022

v 2022.5

• A few improvements to household syncing for the meal plan.
• Just a little fix for localisation.

April 8, 2022

v 2022.4

• Recipe scale now saves indefinitely so if you always cook butter chicken for 10, it's ready to go!
• Updated add to folder menus to allow easy removal as well.
• Fix for recipes not showing straight away after importing via Safari

March 21, 2022

v 2022.3

What's new:
• What isn't?
• Most things actually, it's mostly all the same.
• Added bulk step importing.
• Fixed import issue from websites where steps would be split weirdly. It doesn't do that now, it's much better.
• Added a check so when you accidentally bump the cancel button while creating a recipe, you don't loose the whole thing. Rejoice.

Jan. 25, 2022

v 2022.2

What's New:
• Added ability to merge steps after scanning, similar to ingredients
• Added bulk paste import for ingredients, simply paste a block of ingredients and Crouton will do the chopping.

Jan. 18, 2022

v 2022.1

First update of 2022! Welcome to the new year, lots on the menu this year (I hope)
What's New:
• Added FAQ section to answer simple questions about the app
• Added a black option for PDF export, colour ink is expensive!
• Made some corners rounder, they're a bit cuter now, I think.
• Fixed issue where recipe scale wasn't reflected in step by step mode

Dec. 25, 2021

v 2021.14

What's new:
• More minor changes to the scan feature, brought back the old style for devices not compatible with the new style.
• Merge button also now visible against all scanned ingredients not just some, turns out that was a bad assumption...

Dec. 13, 2021

v 2021.12

What's New:
• Improved scanning of recipes from recipe books
• Improved size choices for PDF export

Dec. 11, 2021

v 2021.11

What's New:
• Added ability to change font size on PDF export
• Improvements to recipe importing via web
• Fix for ingredients occasionally syncing incorrectly to Reminders

Oct. 24, 2021

v 2021.10

What's New:
• SharePlay! Cook recipes with your friends over FaceTime. Simply start step by step mode while in a FaceTime call to get started.
• Added nutrition field to recipes