5 October 2026
The plan says who’s cooking
- Monday's email starts with your week. It was a list of specials, with the week's dinners halfway down and around thirty products after them, some of them twice. It's now called Your week and opens with the next seven days: each meal with its picture, who's cooking it, and whether it's on special. Below that it names a The Lab badge one of your meals would earn you, the recipes of yours that are cheap this week, how many of last week's planned meals got cooked and any badges you earned, and the five biggest savings on things you buy. The subject line names your meals, and recipes open in the app on iPhone and on the web anywhere else. It now comes to every family with something planned, not only families that picked a store, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe. Its switch, Weekly email, has moved from Price Lookup to Settings → Account, so you can turn it off whether or not you've picked a store.
- Each night on the plan can say who's cooking. Families with more than one cook had nowhere to put it, so the plan showed the dish and the servings and nothing about whose night it was. Tap ••• on a meal and choose Who's cooking? to pick someone in your family, or Nobody. Their name shows under the meal on the plan, on Tonight and in Coming up, and on the web, where editors can set it too. The cook goes with the meal, so moving or swapping Mum's chop suey to Thursday makes Thursday Mum's night. Ask Whisp "which nights does Mum cook?" or tell it "Mele's cooking Monday" and it reads or sets it for you. Someone who leaves the family comes off the nights they were cooking.
- Who's cooking can be someone without the app. Who's cooking only offered the people already in the family, so a mum who cooks on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or a flatmate who hadn't joined yet, couldn't be put on their nights. It now lists anyone you've invited and not yet heard from, and Someone else… lets you type a name, such as Mum, which is kept for next time. Give an invite link a name when you make it and that person can have nights before they join; once they do, those nights are theirs. Names you no longer need can be forgotten in Settings → Family, under Cooks not in the app. Whisp takes these names too: "Mum's cooking Thursday".
- Your shopping list shows prices, specials and about what the shop will cost. Picking your supermarket promised a list that marks what's on special, but the list showed nothing until you had linked each ingredient to a product by hand, and even then it showed no price. Each line now shows a price from your store, such as from $5.22 for the cheapest milk that is plainly milk, with a SPECIAL stamp and the deal (2 for $5, Was $5.40) when it's on special. The top of the list says About $143.20 for 41 of 54 items. Tap a price to pick the exact product you buy; the line then shows that product's price, and later lists and your recipes use it too. On Special on the home screen now finds your recipes from the store's own specials, and Pak'nSave's multibuys count towards the saving, so it is no longer empty until you link things. Whisp sees the same specials, and when you ask what the shop will cost it quotes the list's estimate instead of a guess.
- The shopping list says how much to buy. A recipe for six planned for four put ⅔ Lemon, 1 ⅓ Egg, 7 ⅓ Onions and 1.33 kg Chicken on the list, which is not something you can pick up in a supermarket. The list now rounds up to what you can buy: 1 lemon, 2 eggs, 8 onions, 3.7 kg of potatoes, and oil or stock by the millilitre instead of 11 tablespoons. A whole chicken the recipe weighs shows as a number of chickens when the recipe says how big each one is. Prices and the shop's estimated total use the same amounts. Recipes and Cook mode still show the exact amount for your servings, and anything you typed onto the list yourself stays as you typed it.
- One row for each thing you buy. The list kept Flour beside Plain flour, Canned tomatoes beside Tinned tomatoes, Parsley beside Flat-leaf parsley and Ground turmeric beside Turmeric powder, because two recipes named them differently. Each pair is now one row, called what a New Zealand shelf calls it: plain flour, tinned tomatoes, parsley, ground turmeric. A recipe's plain oil goes on the vegetable oil row, and olive oil keeps its own. Ounces and pounds show in grams, so 12 oz of lamb shoulder reads 340 g. Four medium potatoes in one recipe now count towards another recipe's kilos, so the row reads 2.1 kg instead of 1.5 kg plus 2 ⅔. And a row two recipes share says how much each one needs, so 50 g of butter shows 20 g for the lasagne and 30 g for the fish.
- Searching prices finds the thing you typed first. Searching mince in Browse Prices listed pies, simmer sauces and recipe mixes before any mince, and butter mixed peanut butter, biscuits, dog treats and throat lozenges in with the butter. The plain product now comes first, so mince opens with beef, pork and lamb mince and butter with butter, and pet food, cleaning products and alcohol go to the bottom unless you searched for them. The same goes for linking an ingredient to a product, and for Whisp when you ask about a price.
- Prices by weight say they're per kilo. Mince, chicken and fruit and vegetables sold by weight showed a price like $18.99 with no size, so it read like the price of a pack. They now read $18.99/kg in Browse Prices, on product pages and wherever you link a product, and Whisp only calls a price "a kilo" when it is one.
- Joining a family that has picked its store brings its prices with it. If your phone is set to another country, Price Lookup showed the family's store and its prices, then said price lookup wasn't supported in your region and asked you to change it. A family's store now decides which stores you see, whatever your phone says, so its list opens with the store ticked and nothing to fix. Your own region still sets the words and measurements Whisp uses.
- Sharing a recipe from Android sends a link to it. Share Recipe on Android used to send the title, the source link and the description as plain text, so a recipe you wrote yourself arrived as a name and a blurb. It now sends the same link iPhone does: anyone can read the recipe on the web, and someone with The Saucery on Android can tap it to add a copy to their own recipes, which opens straight away. A link that has expired says so.
- The pricing page shows your own currency, and says what the card is charged. It guessed the currency from your phone's language, so someone in New Zealand with an English (UK) phone saw £2.49 a month next to a line about New Zealand GST. It now goes by the country you're browsing from, shows New Zealand dollars when it can't tell, and has Currency buttons above the prices to pick another, which it remembers while you browse. The tax line matches: GST for New Zealand and Australian dollars, VAT for pounds and euros, and sales tax added at checkout for US and Canadian dollars. A card subscription on the web is billed in New Zealand dollars for now, and the pricing and account pages say so, with the amount, when you're shown another currency.
- Add to shopping list leaves out meals you've already eaten. After cooking Monday's curry and logging it, the sheet still had Monday ticked at the full four servings, and so did the nights before today and a leftovers night, so you had to untick them one by one. A meal you've cooked, any night before today (by your own clock) and a night labelled Leftovers now show in the sheet unticked, and you can tick one if you do want it. Regenerating the list from the plan skips them too.
- Ticks on the shopping list stay ticked, and rows stay put. Ticking things off in the trolley on Android, a row could move a moment after you ticked it, so your next tap landed on a different item and opened its details, and a tick could come undone a little later, when someone else in the family ticked something. Items now sit alphabetically in each aisle and stay where they are when you tick them, and a tick stays ticked. On iPhone a ticked item moves to Checked as you tap it, where before it waited for the server. If a tick can't be saved, say with no signal, it goes back and tells you, so you know to tap it again.
- Postpone asks which night, and a taken night can push its meal later. Postpone used to send a meal to the same night next week without asking, and in Move to… every taken night could only swap, so moving tonight's bolognese to Wednesday put Wednesday's pork chops on tonight, when nobody would be home. Postpone now opens the list of nights, starting the night after the meal. Picking a night that's taken asks what to do with the meal there: Swap trades the two, as before, and Push later moves that meal to the next night, and the meals after it on a night each until a night is free, into next week if need be. Ask Whisp to "put the bolognese on Wednesday and push the rest back" and it does the same.
- Change how many a planned meal is for. Every night on the plan said 4 servings for a family of six, or two, and nothing on the plan could change it: the way out was to remove the meal and plan it again. Tap ••• on a meal and choose Servings… to set the number for that night, and the plan, Tonight and the shopping list follow. On the web, click the servings line under the meal. Changing Default servings in Settings now asks whether to change the meals already planned as well, from today on, leaving anything you've cooked alone.
- Whisp can change servings, and only says it has when it has. Asked to make the week's dinners for 6, Whisp replied that they were already set to 6 when every night still said 4: it had mixed up what each recipe was written for with what the plan said, after its change had failed. It now changes each night's servings and tells you what each one was and is now, and if nothing changed it says so.
- Moving a cooked meal to a night still to come no longer marks it eaten. Swapping Monday's curry, already cooked, with Wednesday's fish put the curry on Wednesday crossed out with a tick, as if it had been eaten on a day that hadn't happened, and you had to tap Mark as Not Cooked. A cooked meal moved or swapped onto a later night now comes off as not cooked, and your cooking history and any The Lab badge it earned keep the night you really made it. Moved to today or an earlier night, it stays cooked. Putting a different meal on a night that was marked cooked, yourself or through Whisp, starts the new one not cooked as well.
- A recipe or Cook opened from the plan starts at that night's servings. Tuesday's stew said 4 servings on the plan, then opened at 6 with 1.5 kg of beef while the shopping list said 1 kg, and you had to work out which number was yours. On the web, the recipe and Cook now open at the servings the night is planned for, with the amounts to match and a Planned for 4 servings line beside the stepper. Change the number there and it changes for that visit only; a recipe you open from your library still starts at its own servings. iPhone and Android already did this.
- Whisp keeps to what you asked for when it picks a dinner. Asked for something rich for Saturday, no chicken, under an hour, it planned a two-hour lasagne that was already on Thursday and Sunday, then offered a katsu curry made with chicken, then wrote a lamb curry it said took forty minutes over a recipe card that said 55. It now checks every recipe's ingredients for what you've ruled out, so a dish with chicken in it is left out whatever it's called, and "no meat" or "no fish" covers the lot. It keeps to your time limit using the time on the recipe card, prep and cooking together, and that is the time it tells you. A dinner already planned that week isn't offered again unless you ask for it, and if nothing you have fits, it says so and offers to write one.
- Words you didn't send to Whisp stop turning up in front of your next question. A few words typed into a new chat and left there came back in the box the next time you started one, days later if need be, so What's on special? went off as Yes go aheadWhat's on special?. On iPhone, anything typed while Whisp's first reply was still arriving was kept the same way, even after you'd sent it. Unsent words in a new chat are now kept for an hour, so they're still there if the chat or the app closes by accident, and words in a chat you've already started stay with that chat.
- Imported ingredients keep their prep out of the name. BBC Good Food's chicken katsu curry came in as 2 garlic cloves finely choppeds and 2 spring onions finely sliceds, because the website writes the prep straight after the name and the app treated it all as the name. Prep such as finely chopped now goes in the ingredient's note, so the line reads 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped. A step that sent you to the website's video, such as "see video for Sauce thickness", now leaves that part out and keeps the instruction, since the video isn't in the app. And the katsu came in as Chinese, which is what the website says, while its The Lab section called it Japanese. An imported recipe now takes the cuisine The Lab finds in the dish, unless you've already changed it.
- The two recipes a new book starts with say they're from The Saucery. A new family found Granny's Lasagne and Olive's Chocolate Chip Cookies among their recipes and had never added them, and Fill my week then offered the lasagne as one of their own. Both now read From The Saucery under the name, on the recipe, the recipe cards, the meal plan's recipe list and in Fill my week, and Whisp calls them The Saucery's rather than yours. They're still yours to cook, change or delete. Fill my week's first choice is now called From your book.
- Settings → Subscription shows the price. During the free trial the Subscription screen said when the trial ends and offered Subscribe to keep Saucery Pass, but not what it costs, so you had to tap through to find out. The price now sits under the button, such as $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, in the currency the App Store or Google Play will charge you. The list of what Saucery Pass includes now comes from the plan itself, so it no longer counts Cook mode, which is free, as something you'd lose.