Shareable Recipes and Smarter Groceries
Share a recipe with a private link, sort groceries into aisles, and optionally let Smart Sort tidy the list for you.
Written by Simon Gravgaard · 2 min read
You can now share recipes!
Recipes are now shareable. Open one of yours, tap Share, copy the link, and send it to friends and family. They get a normal-looking recipe page they can use to try your recipe, and add it to their own library if they like it :)
A few things I cared about while building this:
- The link is anonymous. It carries that one recipe and nothing else: not your name, not your account, not any of your other recipes.
- Sharing stores nothing extra. Lyfify does not keep a record of the share or of who opened it.
- The shared recipe is a snapshot, not a live link to your recipe.
That means when you share a recipe, all they see is a copy of what you shared.
Because the whole recipe is packed into the URL itself, the links can get very long. It is not meant to be pretty. It is what keeps a share from needing an account, a lookup, or a record of who you sent it to.
Your grocery list is smarter!
Your grocery list has received a facelift in today's update as well. You can sort groceries into categories (aisles), and it's smart enough to remember which category you put an item in for next week's list.
Smart Sort has also been added. It's an optional AI feature that sorts, translates, and condenses your grocery list for you. As with every other AI feature in Lyfify, it only runs when you trigger it.
Little things
Lots of small fixes and changes are also part of today's update. Nothing major to list here, but you might notice a few things looking a little different :)
Give it a try
Open Cookbook, share a recipe, and check out your new grocery list! If something doesn't function right, email me at [email protected].