# A Fish in the Kitchen: Recipes — Family cookbook & meal planner > Family cookbook & meal planner (iPhone/iPad app by Dylan Coppard.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/a-fish-in-the-kitchen-recipes/id6780944935 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Dylan Coppard](https://appshunter.io/developer/1876640522) - Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 52 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-27 - Data updated: 2026-08-24 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/a-fish-in-the-kitchen-recipes/id6780944935/reviews.md ## What is A Fish in the Kitchen? Cooking together is one of the most human things we do — and phones at the table are quietly pulling us away from it. A Fish in the Kitchen is the cookbook your whole family shares — the place every treasured recipe finally lives together, on every phone and tablet in the house. Built for the way families actually cook: someone's at the stove, someone's planning the week, and someone's trying to write down Granny's recipe before it's lost for good. COOK HANDS-FREE • A full-screen Cook Mode made for the stove — big text, swipeable steps, and the screen stays awake. • Per-step timers that keep going and alarm you even when your phone is locked or you've switched apps. • Tick off ingredients as you go, and pick up right where you left off if you step away. KEEP EVERY RECIPE • Add recipes by hand, or snap a photo of a page — even a handwritten card — and let it read the recipe in for you. • Photos, ingredients, method, timings, heat level, the story behind the dish — all in one place. • Search and filter by category, meat, season, difficulty, or how quick it is. PLAN THE WEEK, SHOP ONCE • Plan the week's meals and see what the rest of the family is making. • Build a shopping list automatically from your planned meals — it syncs to everyone, with a share button for whoever's at the shop. • Mark what's already in the cupboard so you only shop for what's missing. COOK TOGETHER • Create event menus for gatherings, set the date, and assign who's making what. • Leave notes, mark the keepers, and see who loved which dish. • Pin kitchen tips to a recipe so they turn up while you're cooking it, not buried in a note somewhere. SHARE BEYOND YOUR KITCHEN • Share any recipe with anyone — they get a beautiful page, and if they have the app they can save it straight into their own cookbook, credit included. • Invite other families to help plan an event menu: they claim dishes and comment from their own phones, and you see it all live. GIFT A COOKBOOK • Gift someone a year of their own private cookbook — a wedding, a kitchen tea, a first flat, Christmas. • It's theirs outright, with room to invite their own family in. • Send a copy of your whole cookbook with it, so they start with every recipe they grew up on rather than an empty shelf. • We email them a card, on the day you choose. A COOKBOOK PER FAMILY (OR FRIEND GROUP) • One owner sets up the cookbook and invites everyone in — members join free, up to five of them. • Make it yours: your own hero photo, your own tagline, and wording that fits a family, a friend group, or just you. • Everyone's changes stay in sync across all their devices. PRIVATE AND AD-FREE, ALWAYS Nothing is public and nothing is searchable. Only the people you invite can see your recipes. No ads, no selling your data, no algorithm deciding what your family should eat. WHY THIS EXISTS A few years ago I moved away from my parents. My daughter asked her grandfather to write his recipes down for her — and he did, a paperback he made himself called the Kookbook. That's where this app started. Subscription required to own a cookbook (invited members are always free). New owners get a 14-day free trial. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | A Fish in the Kitchen — Monthly | $5.99 | per month | | A Fish in the Kitchen — Annual | $59.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5 — 2026-08-21 You can now gift the app. Buy someone a year of their own cookbook — for a wedding, a kitchen tea, a first flat — and choose to send a copy of your whole recipe book with it. Their cookbook is theirs outright, with room to invite their own family in, and there is nothing more to pay when the year is up. Tips & Tricks now sits beside your recipes instead of behind a menu, and Help & FAQ has moved into More — every question we get asked, searchable, without leaving the app. And the polish: a second Start Cooking button at the foot of the method, so you don't scroll back up when you've finished reading. Kitchen tips sit with the method they apply to. Family Notes has its own card. On the meal planner, "What's cooking today?" stays put while you scroll the week. ### 1.4 — 2026-08-10 Section headings like "For the sauce" no longer turn up as things to buy on your shopping list, or as ingredients to tick off on a recipe. Cook Mode's step counter now matches the steps you're actually cooking. On the Recipes tab: one search bar instead of two, an add button that follows you down the list, and the tab bar stays put while you read a recipe. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-06 Cook Mode now shows what each step needs: • Every step lists its own ingredients, with the amounts — no more paging back mid-stir • Finish a cook and you'll see a photo of the dish; if the recipe hasn't got one, you can take it right there • A way back out of a filtered or searched recipe list, and tapping Recipes returns you to the top • Various fixes and polish ### 1.2 — 2026-08-03 Fixes and polish across the app: • Much faster recipe saving — photos now upload together, not one at a time • Sharing a recipe now always includes the link, however you send it • After editing a recipe you've shared, choose to update the shared copy • Photo enhance preview: your original shown first, clearer buttons • Housekeeping now flags recipes that need tags • Stability fix for a rare crash on launch ### 1.1 — 2026-08-01 • Invited by family? Sign up with the email your invitation was sent to and the cookbook opens automatically — no link needed. • See and manage your subscription in Account — plan, renewal date, and Apple's manage page. • Resend or remove pending invitations. • Photos and videos now have location data removed before upload. • Deleting your account now removes your personal data too, not just the sign-in. ## More apps by Dylan Coppard - [Daily-Bread](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-bread/id6759064059) - [Jersey Beach App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jersey-beach-app/id6789768744) All apps by Dylan Coppard: https://appshunter.io/developer/1876640522 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-24.*