# Cook Coach: Recipe Steps — Coco turns recipes into steps

> Coco turns recipes into steps (iPhone/iPad app by 家淳 吕.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cook-coach-recipe-steps/id6805297980 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [家淳 吕](https://appshunter.io/developer/6780511397)
- Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-10-13
- Data updated: 2026-11-01

## What is Cook Coach?

Meet Coco, a hopping chef's hat named after Cook Coach. Coco has no hands, yet insists on walking you through every recipe, hand in hand. How? Trade secret.

Cook Coach turns a recipe screenshot, a photo or a cooking video into a step-by-step guide you can follow with messy hands.

HAND IT TO COCO
Screenshot a recipe from the web, or photograph one from a book. AI breaks it into clear steps: what to do, which ingredients, how hot, and how long to wait.

PASTE A VIDEO LINK
Found a cooking video on Xiaohongshu, Douyin or Bilibili? Copy the link and paste it in. AI turns the narration and on-screen text into steps, each with a picture from the video. Public videos only.

COOK WITHOUT STARING AT YOUR PHONE
• Big, readable steps with the ingredients, heat level and tips for each one
• Steps that need waiting start a timer, with a countdown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island and an alarm when it's done
• Say "next step" or "how long left" and keep your greasy fingers off the screen
• Works in landscape, propped up against the wall; with Apple Watch you can hand the whole recipe to your wrist. It keeps time and taps you when it's done, so your iPhone can stay anywhere
• Poke Coco for useful reminders, like prepping the next ingredients while you wait. Poke it too many times and it gets grumpy. Don't ask how we know.

BUILT-IN RECIPES
Home-style dishes, soups, staples and desserts, ready to cook. In English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

KEEP TRACK
• Cooking calendar: see what you cooked and when
• Photo wall: pin your finished dishes, write a note on the back, and tidy them up by date with one tap
• Dish photos are cut out automatically so you can spot them in your list

SHARE TO COOK COACH
See a recipe in another app? Tap Share → Cook Coach and it becomes steps without leaving that app. Recipe web pages work too: just paste the link. You can even set a double tap on the back of your phone to hand the screen to Coco.

BEFORE YOU COOK
• Weekly menu: plan the next seven days and get a reminder at 8 pm the night before, including what to thaw
• Shopping list: add what you haven't ticked off in one tap, or everything on your menu at once
• Scale servings: switch 2 servings to 4 and the ingredients follow

SHARE
Send recipes to friends with a link or share code, or share a whole menu. Sign in to publish your best dishes to the community, which you can also browse on the web at cookcoach.rokajun.com.

No sign-up needed: everything except publishing to the community works without an account. Screenshots are read by our own text-recognition service first, and only the text goes to an AI service to write the steps (the image goes only if the text can't be read); we don't keep them. Videos are deleted once processed; the extracted text and pictures are kept for 30 days so the same video imports instantly next time.

COOK COACH PREMIUM
AI recipe import (3 free tries, plus extras for finishing the getting-started tasks), video import (3 free tries; 30 every 30 days with Premium), full methods and one-tap adding from the community, publishing to the community, the weekly menu, recipe translation and custom voice commands need Premium; cooking, timers, Apple Watch, the built-in recipes, share codes, the shopping list and serving scaling are free. Premium is monthly or yearly; yearly starts with a 7-day free trial, and we remind you two days before it ends. Subscriptions renew automatically; cancel anytime in Settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://cookcoach.rokajun.com/privacy

Coco has no hands, so the dishes are still on you.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium · Yearly | $9.99 | per year |
| Premium · Monthly | $1.49 | per month |


## Is Cook Coach safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Cook Coach.

## Is Cook Coach legit?

Cook Coach: Recipe Steps appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cook Coach is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-29

New in 1.1.1
• Import from a video link: paste a cooking video from Xiaohongshu, Douyin or Bilibili and get step-by-step instructions, each with a picture taken from the video
• "Add a recipe" now has "Paste a link" for videos and recipe pages; share codes have their own entry
• Stop a video import midway: stop before the steps are being written and it doesn't count
• 日本語: the app, Coco's lines and voice prompts now come in Japanese
• Tap 简 / 繁 / EN on a recipe to cook it in that language; voice prompts and commands follow. Switching between Simplified and Traditional Chinese works offline
• Landscape cooking: Back / Next now sit in a full-width row at the bottom
• Photo wall: smoother page peeling; Tidy and zoom stay in the top-right corner
• A new opening animation, and while you wait, Coco turns into a spinning cloud

### 1.1 — 2026-10-17

New in 1.1
• Three languages: Simplified Chinese joins Traditional Chinese and English. Tap 简 / 繁 / EN at the top to switch
• Recipes switch with you: the built-in library comes in all three
• Recipe translation (Premium): turn a recipe in another language into yours in one tap, and flip back to the original anytime
• Import PDFs: share a PDF recipe to Cook Coach; text PDFs are read directly, scanned ones work too
• Coco now keeps you company in the expanded Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen card
• Coco has twice as much to say, and a soft new "boop" when you poke it
• Share to Cook Coach: in any app, tap Share → Cook Coach and a screenshot or link becomes steps, without leaving that app
• "Send Screenshot to Cook Coach" shortcut: set it to a double tap on the back of your phone
• Import from a link: paste a recipe page's address and Coco does the rest
• Paste text: drop in a recipe from a chat or note, no screenshot needed, and it's faster
• The timer ring is now a dial: turn it to adjust the time, let go and it starts from there
• Steadier voice commands: pause before saying "next", so mentioning it mid-sentence won't turn the page; said "back" after a slip? The timer carries on
• Cook from your Apple Watch: choose Watch when you start and it keeps time, taps your wrist and reminds you to stir on its own, so your iPhone can stay put. Tick off ingredients on the watch first, hand off mid-recipe, and take it back to your iPhone anytime
• Imports show real progress and retry on their own if the connection drops
• Weekly menu (Premium): plan the next seven days, get a reminder the night before to thaw things, and a nudge the next day
• Shopping list: add everything you haven't ticked off in one tap, or everything on your menu at once
• Scale servings: switch 4 servings to 6 and the ingredients follow
• Share a whole menu: one link; friends see the full menu and can add it all in the app
• Community: anyone can browse; Premium members see full methods and add dishes in one tap
• On the web at cookcoach.rokajun.com: browse the community; Premium members sign in with the app
• Getting started: each task you finish earns an extra AI import

### 1.0 — 2026-10-13

No release notes.

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