Recipes and cook mode
Your recipes, readable from across the kitchen.
Everything you cook, in one library your household shares — clean, searchable and scaled to however many people are coming. Then a cook mode built for messy hands.
The library
Find any recipe in a keystroke.
Search titles, ingredients, tags and cuisines as you type. Filter by course, cuisine, rating, time, favorites or “never cooked”; sort by anything; switch between a photo grid, a list and a compact view. Libraries of thousands of recipes stay fast.
- Bulk actions: file in binders or trash many at once, with undo
- A trash that keeps deleted recipes until you empty it
- ⌘K to jump to any recipe, binder or action
Binders
Binders, like the ones on your shelf.
Make collections for the way you actually cook — Weeknight, Holidays, Grandma's, Things to try — each with a color, an emoji and course dividers inside. A recipe can live in as many binders as you like.
My kitchen
Recipes that fit the tools you own.
Hang your tools on a pegboard — the Dutch oven, the blender, the scale — and Coena shows the equipment every recipe needs and what you're missing. One filter keeps the library to what you can make with your kitchen.
- Every tool drawn with its own illustration; missing ones greyed out
- Each recipe lists the equipment it needs
- “Can make with my tools” as a library filter
- Dutch oven
- Blender
- Kitchen scale
- Chef's knife
- Probe thermometer
- Microwave
- Pizza stone (not in your kitchen)
- Grill pan (not in your kitchen)
- Coffee grinder (not in your kitchen)
The recipe page
Scaled, converted and checked off.
The details that make a recipe easy to follow.
Cook mode
Built for flour on your hands.
Tap Cook and the recipe becomes a calm, full-screen guide. On a tablet or laptop, the ingredient checklist stays beside the steps.
- One step at a timeLarge type you can read from the stove, with the step's ingredients right under it.
- Mise en place firstA checklist of everything to get out before you start.
- Timers from the text“Simmer 15 minutes” becomes a button. Run several at once; they chime and notify.
- Hands-freeSwipe, use the keyboard, or say “next”, “back” and “start timer”. It can read steps aloud.
- The screen stays awakeNo more tapping the phone with a floury knuckle.
- Picks up where you left offLeave mid-recipe and come back to the same step.
Cook a meal
Three dishes. One serve time. No panic.
Pick the recipes for dinner and when you want to eat. Coena schedules every step backwards from that time, fits the hands-on work into the oven and simmer gaps, and coaches you through it: what to do now, what's next, and what you're waiting on.
- A big NOW / NEXT coach you can read from across the kitchen
- “Waiting on” shows what's in the oven or on the stove, and how long is left
- Split screen on a tablet or laptop: the coach beside the full plan
- Rosemary focaccia
- Lemon-garlic chicken
- Summer panzanella
Writing recipes
Type it the way you'd write it.
Write “2 Tbsp olive oil, divided” or “1 (14 oz) can tomatoes” and Coena understands the amount, the unit and the ingredient as you type — so scaling, shopping and pantry matching just work. Headings like “For the sauce:” become sections.
- Times, servings, cuisine, course and tags
- Notes and nutrition
- Your own photo, or a generated one
Dinner, sorted.
Start with the recipes you already love. Coena is free to use — bring your household, your favorite sites and your Paprika library.