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Getting Started

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Welcome to Sprig

Sprig is a recipe manager for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It keeps your recipes, meal plans, shopping list, pantry and cooking notes in one place, and syncs them between your devices through your own iCloud account.

There is no Sprig account to create. If you're signed in to iCloud, your library shows up on every device where Sprig is installed.

Finding your way around

Sprig has the same sections everywhere, laid out to suit each device.

iPhone

Sprig uses a tab bar with five tabs:

TabWhat's in it
LibraryAll your recipes, with search and filters
Ideas"What can I cook?" suggestions from the ingredients you have
Meal PlanYour week, day by day
ShoppingYour shopping list, grouped by aisle
BrowsePantry, Journal, your collections, and recipes shared with you

iPad and Mac

A sidebar on the left lists Library, Ideas, Meal Plan, Shopping, Pantry and Journal, followed by your Collections and Shared with Me. The middle column shows the list for the section you picked, and the right column shows the selected recipe.

Your first recipe

  1. Open the Library and tap +, then Import from Link or Photo. On a Mac you can also choose File > Import Recipe… or press ⇧⌘I.
  2. Paste a link to a recipe page. If you copied a link before opening Sprig, it's already filled in.
  3. Tap Import Recipe. Sprig reads the page and opens a review screen.
  4. Check the ingredients and steps, then tap Save to Library.

Prefer to type it in yourself? Tap + and choose New Recipe instead. See Importing Recipes for every way to get recipes into Sprig.

Apple Intelligence

Several features use Apple Intelligence when it's available on your device: importing pages with no recipe data, reading photos, planning your week, suggesting ideas, and answering questions while you cook. Everything runs on your device.

Sprig still works without it. Imports fall back to reading the page text, the meal planner builds a simple rotation of your favourites, and Ideas matches ingredients directly. See Settings, Sync & Privacy for details.

Keyboard shortcuts (Mac)

ShortcutAction
⇧⌘IImport a recipe
⌘KStart cooking the selected recipe
← / →Previous / next step in Cook Mode
⌘,Open Settings

Next steps