6 October 2026
Today on the web is your today
- Removing a planned meal asks first, and you can undo it. Remove sat right under Mark as Cooked on a meal's menu, and one wrong tap sent Shepherd's Pie, with Mele cooking, off the plan with no question and no way back. Remove now has a section of its own, asks Remove from meal plan? before it goes, and after it goes offers Undo for a few seconds, which puts the meal back on its night with the same servings and the same cook.
- Push later says whose night moved. Pushing Wednesday's dinner later moved the meals after it a night each, and Shepherd's Pie, with Mele cooking, went from Saturday to Sunday without a word. A push, or a swap, now says so: Mele's Shepherd's Pie moves to Sun 11 Oct. It says it even when every meal stays on the week you're looking at, Whisp names the cooks it moved when you ask it to push a week back, and the night pickers for Postpone and Move to… show who is cooking each night. The cook still goes with the dish.
- Who's cooking? shows the person who is cooking. When Whisp planned Monday with Grace as the cook, Who's cooking? on your phone ticked Nobody, and a name Whisp gave a night could drop out of the list. The meal's own cook is now always there and ticked, and the list is read again when you open it. A name typed in, one Whisp used and an invite you send for the same person are now one person, so Mum or Grace is no longer listed twice, and their nights become theirs when they join.
- Baking is planned at what it makes, and setup asks how many you cook for. Every new meal on the plan came in at 4 servings, so a cake that serves 12 was cut down to 4 and a family of five had to change each dinner by hand. Setting up a family now asks how many you usually cook for, and meals start at that. A cake, a loaf, muffins or biscuits keep the recipe's own number, and changing your default servings later leaves them alone. Recipes already in your book have been sorted the same way; to change one, edit it and switch Scale to the household on or off.
- The shopping list counts what you buy by the piece. Carrots from four recipes, some counted and one weighed, came out as 540 g of carrots, and a couple of spoons of flour read as 5 tbsp Plain flour, as if that were something to buy. Carrots, onions, potatoes and the like now read as about 5, with 540 g altogether underneath, and a spoonful of flour, sugar or tomato paste, or a splash of oil, says you probably have it in the pantry. It stays on the list in case you don't. When you add a recipe and a line is already on your list, the sheet now says whether ticking it adds the amount on top.
- The shopping list says who added and who ticked. On a shared list, Weet-Bix could turn up with nothing to say who wanted it, and a ticked line didn't say who had picked it up. A line you type in, or ask Whisp for, now says Added by and your name, and a ticked line says who ticked it and when, like Ticked by Losana · 8:12 pm. Each recipe under a line now names its night, so Hearty Stew, Fri 9 Oct, rather than leaving you to look through the plan for it. On the web a ticked line strikes out only its name, so the lines under it stay easy to read. Items added before this update don't say who added them.
- Editors can choose the product for a shopping line. Tapping a product in the price sheet did nothing for an editor and said only an admin or editor could do it, which was never true of an editor. Editors can now pick the product a line is priced as and go back to the store's best match, and a viewer sees that viewers can't choose products. If your plan doesn't include prices, the sheet now says so instead of blaming your role.
- You can write a comment on the web. A recipe page showed your family's comments but gave you nowhere to add one, and a recipe with none had no Comments section at all. The section is always there now, with a box to leave a comment if you are an editor or admin, and a line saying so when nobody has yet.
- The web app's dates follow your clock. On the web, a morning in New Zealand still counted as yesterday: the plan put Today on Monday when it was Tuesday, Tonight's dinner showed Monday's, and a comment or a cook from Tuesday morning was dated Monday. The web now asks your browser for its time zone when you sign in or join, and until it knows yours it goes by the rest of your family's.
- Ask Whisp for a week from any night and you get every night. Asked on a Tuesday for seven dinners starting Wednesday, Whisp planned Wednesday to Sunday and stopped, because it only looked at one plan week. It now fills the nights you asked for, into the next week if that's where they run. A dish you name, like chop suey because Mum likes it, is looked up in your recipes or written for you and planned first, and when a night doesn't go on the plan Whisp says which one in plain words rather than talking about recipe IDs.
- Shopping prices pick the plain thing at the best value. At Pak'nSave, butter was priced from a 200g block because it was cheaper on the shelf than the 500g one, 1.5 kg of mince as five 340g packs instead of by the kilo, spaghetti as spaghetti in tomato sauce, peas as snow pea shoots and grated ginger as ginger ale, and a SPECIAL stamp could come from a different product, like ground ginger on a line priced as fresh. Each line is now priced from the product that covers its amount for the least money, by the kilo or litre rather than the shelf price, and a special only shows when it is on that product or the same thing in the same size. Browse Prices puts the plain product first too, and the better buy ahead of a product that is otherwise the same.
- Browse Prices shows the price per kilo or litre. A search for beef mince listed $8.99 and $18.99/kg side by side with nothing to compare them by. Each product now shows its price per kilo, litre or item beside its pack size, such as 340g · $26.44/kg, from the pack size or the store's own comparison price.
- Whisp knows everything on special at your store. Asked what meat was on special at Pak'nSave, Whisp could only see specials on things in your recipes and on your list, and suggested checking the mailer. Ask about the specials at your store, or about one aisle, like meat, chicken, seafood, fruit and veg or dairy, and Whisp now answers from the store's own prices, biggest saving first, with the price, the deal and the pack size. Fill my week now suggests recipes with ingredients on special at your store ahead of others, so planning a week around the specials starts from them.
- Cooking from a recipe ticks off tonight's dinner. Open a planned recipe, cook it with Whisp and tap Log & Close, and the recipe said you'd cooked it while the plan still offered Mark as cooked and the shopping list still held its ingredients. Logging a cook now marks tonight's planned meal for that recipe as cooked, as long as it is the only one planned for today.
- A recipe link tells you what it is before you sign up. Tapping a shared recipe while signed out showed the plain sign-in screen, with nothing about the recipe, and once you had signed up and set up your family it opened with no word that it had been saved. Sign-in, sign-up and Set up your family now say which recipe is waiting and who sent it, the link is remembered even if you close the app first, and after the recipe is saved you see Saved to your recipes.
- Opening a shared recipe twice keeps one copy. Tapping a recipe link you had already saved added it to your recipes a second time, without a word, and the recipe count could say 4 over three cards until you restarted the app. A link to a recipe you already have now opens the one you saved and says Already in your recipes, and the count and the cards agree straight away. If you deleted it since, the link saves it again.