Simmra · Independent
A recipe app
for home cooks
A cookbook that keeps pace with your kitchen — save recipes, cook from them, change them without losing the original. On iOS and Android, in twelve languages.
My own product. I designed it, built it, and shipped it, which mostly meant learning how many decisions there are between "this should exist" and something a stranger can install.
- 2
- platforms
- 12
- languages, incl. RTL
- 1
- person on it
One library instead of twelve places
Everyone I know keeps recipes the same way: a screenshot here, a link there, a note they'll never find again. The recipe isn't lost exactly, it's just never where you are when you need it.
Simmra saves any published recipe into a library that's actually yours — searchable, scalable to the number of people you're feeding, and there in a couple of seconds rather than a couple of minutes of scrolling.
Built for the moment you're cooking
A recipe app gets used in the worst possible conditions: hands wet, phone on the counter, three things happening at once. So cook mode is large text, timers built in, and a screen that refuses to go dark halfway through a step.
It's the part of the app I use most, and the part that took the most rewriting to get out of the way.
Your version, without losing theirs
People don't cook recipes as written. They halve the sugar, swap the herb, add the step the author left out. Simmra lets you change a saved recipe and share your version with a link.
The interesting problem is what happens when the original changes underneath you. You get told, and you decide — keep your version or take the update. Nobody's edits get silently overwritten, which is the kind of thing you only notice when it's done wrong.