Changelog
What's new
Coena updates itself: the installed app picks up a new version the next time you open it, never in the middle of cooking.
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Coena 2: the planner
Coena becomes a product anyone can use, with an AI planner at the center.
- The AI planner: ask for a week of dinners, a budget or a way to use up the spinach, and approve the plan and list it proposes.
- My stores: pick the grocery stores you shop at and see prices per item, per store and for the week.
- Reminders and notifications: thaw the night before, start cooking, shopping day, use it up — in the app, as push notifications and by email.
- Import from more apps: Mela, Crouton, Recipe Keeper, MasterCook, Plan to Eat, Mealie, Tandoor, Cooklang and more.
- Import from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest links: the recipe in the description or caption, or the page it links to.
- Open sign-up: anyone can create a kitchen; invites still bring people into yours.
- Turn off AI: one switch in Settings hides the planner and every AI feature, for you only. Everything else keeps working.
- Cook a meal: cook several recipes at once and Coena tells you what to do next, so everything is ready together. Split screen on tablets, a second phone can help.
- My kitchen: a pegboard of your tools and appliances. Recipes show what they need and warn when your slow cooker is too small.
- Email recipes to your own private Coena address.
- Your own prices: note what you paid, or snap a receipt, and see “your last price” on the list — for any store, even ones with no price feed. The plan shows planned vs. spent.
- Nutrition from ingredients, using USDA data: a nutrition label for any recipe, daily goals and day totals on the plan.
- Works offline: the shopping list, this week's plan and your recipes open without a signal, and items you check off sync when you're back.
- Calendar feed for Google or Apple Calendar, Siri Shortcuts (What's for dinner?, add to the list), reusable menus, leftovers that scale the original, and a kitchen display for a wall tablet.
- Export everything — Paprika format, web pages, Markdown or JSON — always free. Plus weekly backups by email, version history with restore, and finding and merging duplicates.
- Nested binders, advanced search with include and exclude, and saved searches as smart binders.
- Print layouts (full page, two columns, index cards), bigger text, bold, italic and links in steps, recipes that link to each other, and sending a recipe as a file.
- Scan recipes of up to six pages, or fill one in by hand from pasted text — no AI needed.
- Shopping: move or copy items between lists, search the list, keep an item exactly as typed, and barcode scanning. The pantry check now counts amounts and expiry dates.
- Import reports and a check that flags a recipe that came in incomplete; What's new and a way to message us in Settings › Help.
- A new home at app.coena.app, and a website at coena.app. Old links redirect.
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Faster with big libraries, safer connections
A review round across the app before opening it up.
- Libraries of thousands of recipes scroll smoothly; Today, the planner and the shopping side panel load only the recipes they show.
- Claude can only connect through Claude's own sign-in callbacks, and Coena's sign-in endpoints are rate limited.
- Longer invite codes, and resetting a member's password also signs out their API tokens and Claude connections.
- Paprika imports show which recipes you already have before importing.
- App updates install in the background and switch over when you're not cooking or editing.
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Coena 1.0
The first release: a recipe box, planner, shopping list and pantry for one household, with a Claude connector.
- Recipe library with instant search, filters, binders, trash and undo.
- Recipe pages with scaling in real fractions, US ↔ metric, tappable timers and a cook log.
- Cook mode: one step at a time, with swipe, keyboard and voice control.
- Meal planner: a week board with drag and drop, a month view, and “Shop for this week”.
- Shopping lists grouped by aisle that merge amounts and sync in real time, with a store mode.
- Pantry by location with expiry dates, and “What can I make?”.
- Import from websites, pasted text, photos and Paprika; AI photos for recipes without one.
- The Claude connector, personal API tokens, an iOS Shortcut, a bookmarklet and the Android share sheet.
Dinner, sorted.
Start with the recipes you already love. Coena is free to use — bring your household, your favorite sites and your Paprika library.