# Queso: Recipes & Friends — Endless recipes, cooked well

> Endless recipes, cooked well (iPhone/iPad app by Craig Cargill.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/queso-recipes-and-friends/id6795244127 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Craig Cargill](https://appshunter.io/developer/1036402060)
- Category: Food & Drink
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-18
- Data updated: 2026-09-17
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/queso-recipes-and-friends/id6795244127/reviews.md

## What is Queso?

Stuck cooking the same six dinners? There's a whole world in here.

Queso is recipe discovery with a real kitchen brain. Flick through an endless deck of real recipes from all over, keep what looks good — full method, ingredients and photos included — and cook it with a companion built for actual stoves. The more you browse, the better the deck knows your taste.

DISCOVER FOOD YOU'LL ACTUALLY COOK
Real recipes from open sources, ranked by your taste — what you love, what you avoid, what equipment you own, and how much effort you're up for. Every card links back to where the recipe came from.

COOK IT, DON'T JUST SAVE IT
Step-by-step cook-along with the ingredients each step needs, as many timers as your stove has burners (they ring out loud), smart substitutions that read the actual recipe, ingredient-true metric conversion, and sticky notes that stay for next time.

DINNER, DECIDED TOGETHER
Add your household and everyone browses their own deck — when your tastes land on the same meal, that's dinner sorted. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert are decided separately, so pinning dessert never costs you tonight's main.

THROW A DINNER PARTY
Pick a theme, invite friends, and everyone swipes on the shortlist — dishes two people agree on land on the menu, with a peek at who already has the ingredients. There's a party chat so the trash talk stays with the food.

FRIENDS WHO FEED YOU
Add friends with a QR code, chat with recipes as cards you can open and cook, react to messages, and follow cooks whose profiles show what they've been making. Ratings only count if you've actually cooked the dish — so the stars mean something.

USE WHAT YOU HAVE
Type your cupboard contents in one messy sentence; the pantry sorts itself and shows what you could cook right now — and the shopping list moves what you bought straight into it.

No ads. No tracking. No passwords — your sign-in code (or Apple/Google) is your key.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 0.40.0 — 2026-08-24

Two ways to say no, and clearer everything:
• New in Food preferences: "Prefer not" — hides dishes that are mainly a thing (mushroom soup) while keeping ones that just use a little of it (beef wellington)
• Measurements now converts any recipe to your units automatically — it never hides recipes
• Discover deals more reliably when the deck runs low

### 0.39.0 — 2026-08-22

A big one, cooked from tester feedback:
• Tap any technique word in a recipe step — "blanch", "fold", "sear" — for a quick explainer
• Ingredient lists tick off what's already in your pantry
• Your meal roster is now a browsable photo grid, with a tight list a tap away
• Parts get photo cards, and their ingredients now scale and convert like any recipe
• Food preferences show your picks up front, removable with a tap
• The lock-screen cook card is readable again, and imported recipes lose their stray checkboxes

### 0.38.0 — 2026-08-22

Faster to trust, easier to eat your way:
• The Friends badge clears the moment you read your messages
• New diet shortcuts — go vegan or vegetarian with one tap in Food preferences
• The app automatically finds a second route to our servers if your network blocks the first

### 0.37.0 — 2026-08-21

Friends are people now: requests come from a person, with their face and @username, and your friendships are yours — not your household’s. Plus: friend suggestions that actually know your circle, and every tab now opens instantly with what you saw last.

### 0.36.0 — 2026-08-20

Fixed: swiping while browsing without an account now shows each recipe’s own photo. Plus small polish under the hood.

## More apps by Craig Cargill

- [Octartic](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/octartic/id1036402061)

All apps by Craig Cargill: https://appshunter.io/developer/1036402060

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