Library & Editing

The Library

The Library shows every recipe you've saved as a grid of cards, most recently updated first. Each card shows the photo, title, total time, servings and first tag, with a heart for favourites and a people icon for recipes shared with you.

Filters

The row of chips at the top narrows the list:

Search

Use the search field to look through your recipes. Sprig matches your search against titles, descriptions, tags and ingredient names, so searching "lemon" finds recipes with lemon in them even when it isn't in the title. Closing the search clears it.

Quick actions

Press and hold a recipe card (or right-click it on a Mac) for shortcuts:

• Favorite or Unfavorite
• Start Cooking
• Add to Collection
• Delete

Collections

Collections group recipes however you like: weeknight dinners, baking, a family cookbook.

• Create one: on iPad and Mac, click New Collection in the sidebar. On iPhone, open Browse and tap New Collection.
• Add recipes: press and hold a recipe card and choose Add to Collection.
• Open one: click it in the sidebar, or tap it in Browse on iPhone.
• Delete one: press and hold (or right-click) the collection and choose Delete. The recipes inside it stay in your library.

The recipe page

Open a recipe to see its photo, description, times and how many times you've cooked it, followed by:

• Ingredients. Use the servings stepper to scale the recipe up or down. Quantities recalculate and round to sensible kitchen amounts. Tap an ingredient to tick it off as you measure it out.
• Steps. Numbered, with any times in the step shown as timer pills.
• Notes, nutrition (when the recipe has it) and a link back to the original source.
• Journal. Your ratings and notes from past cooks. See Cooking Journal.

At the bottom of the page:

• the cart button adds the ingredients, at the current serving size, to your shopping list
• Start Cooking opens Cook Mode

In the toolbar you'll find the heart to favourite the recipe, Share, and a More menu with Edit, Log a Cook and Delete.

Creating a recipe by hand

Tap + in the Library and choose New Recipe.

Editing a recipe

Open the recipe and choose More > Edit. The editor has these sections:

Writing ingredients

Type or paste one ingredient per line, the way you'd write it on a card:

2 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
2-3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
parsley (optional)

Sprig understands fractions like ½ and 1 1/2, ranges like 2-3, and metric and imperial units. It separates the amount, the ingredient and the preparation ("finely chopped"), which is what lets it scale recipes and combine shopping lists properly.

To split ingredients into groups, start a line with the group name followed by a colon:

For the sauce:
1 tin chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp olive oil

Writing steps

Put each step in its own paragraph. If you paste numbered steps, the numbers are removed and Sprig numbers them for you. Any time in a step, like "simmer for 20 minutes", automatically becomes a timer you can start in Cook Mode.

Handoff

A recipe you have open on one device can be picked up on another with Handoff, so you can find a recipe on your Mac and carry on reading it on your iPad in the kitchen.