4 October 2026
Fill my week asks first, and the shopping list merges what you need
- Fill my week no longer repeats a dinner. It used to suggest the dish you cooked the night before the week started, put the same recipe on two nights, and Swap, after you removed a dinner, could hand the same one straight back. A dish is now kept off the nights either side of itself, including the Sunday before and the Monday after the week you're filling, and Swap skips what you just removed. If you ask for your own recipes only and there aren't enough to go round, the night is still filled and says why, so you can change it. On Android, closing the sheet no longer leaves a result behind that pops up the next time you open it.
- A cook in progress survives Android closing the app. If the phone shut The Saucery down in the background while you cooked, reopening it started you from nothing. It now picks up on your step, with the servings you chose, the ingredients you ticked and your timers. A timer that ran out in the meantime comes back as finished.
- Cook mode keeps listening when you come back, and its timers say how long they have left. On Android, leaving the app for a moment turned voice commands off, though Narrate stayed on. They now pause while you're away, start listening again when you return, and stop when you finish cooking. The button under a step read Running · 2 min for as long as its timer ran. It now counts down, and says Paused when you pause it. Tapping Finish with a timer still going used to stop it without a word. You're now told which timer and how long it has left, and can keep cooking or finish anyway. On iPhone, a timer stopped by finishing could still go off afterwards, and no longer does.
- Pasting a link a site won't share now still imports. Some recipe sites refuse The Saucery's server, and pasting their link used to end at This site blocked the import, even though sharing the same page from your browser worked. The app now fetches the page itself when that happens and hands it to Whisp, so the recipe imports without you doing anything more. If that fails too, a blocked site still says so, and a link that simply took too long says That took too long, with a nudge to try again or share the page, instead of calling it a block.
- The meal plan and the favourites count update without a pull to refresh. After Whisp put meals on the plan, the nights still read Add meal until you pulled the screen down, and tapping a heart on Recipes filled the heart but left the favourites count where it was. The plan now refreshes when you close Whisp and when you come back to the app, and the favourites count moves the moment you tap.
- A night planned for 2 opens at 2. Opening a recipe or Cook mode from the meal plan used to start at the recipe's own servings, so a night planned for 2 showed 4 and the amounts were for twice the people. View Recipe and Cook from a planned night now open at that night's servings, and the ingredients are scaled to match. Opening a recipe from your library still starts at the recipe's own.
- Amounts read like a kitchen, not a calculator. Add to shopping list could show 500 g of mince scaled down as 3.3e+02 g, and Garlic as 1.3 clove. Weights and volumes now round to what a scale or jug can show (335 g, 67 ml), and spoons, cups and counts use fractions: ⅔ onion, 1 ⅓ tbsp. The shopping list and recipes use the same rules, so a scaled recipe no longer shows 333.33 g.
- The website's shopping list and recipes read like a kitchen too. The shopping list on the website showed what it had stored, such as 266.67 g of tinned tomatoes, 2.67 tbsp of tomato paste and 0.33 of a cucumber. It now says 265 g, 2 ⅔ tbsp and ⅓, the same as the apps, and recipes and Cook mode on the website follow the same rules when you change the servings.
- The meal plan knows what day it is where you are. On a Monday morning in New Zealand the plan could open on last week, because the server was still on Sunday. It now goes by your own day, and so does the shopping list when it reads this week's meals. On the website, The rest of the week lists only the days still to come, and the days already gone sit below them under Earlier this week. Tapping an empty day under Coming up on the Recipes screen now opens the plan on that day's week, which on a Sunday is next week.
- A new family is asked which supermarket it shops at. Creating a family now ends with an optional step to pick your Woolworths, Pak'nSave or New World, so the shopping list can mark what's on special there. Skip it if you like. Until your family has a store, the shopping list and Add to shopping list say so, with a button to choose one, and the welcome pages no longer promise prices you can't see yet.
- Pasting an invite link into Join Family works. The field used to answer "Not found" to the whole link and only accept the code at the end of it. It now takes either one, says "Invite link or code", and a link that isn't valid says so in plain words and tells you to ask for a fresh one. The sign-in and sign-up screens now mention the link too.
- A new family opens with the right controls. After you created a family or joined one on iPhone, the plan and Recipes showed only what a viewer sees, with no Add buttons and no way to postpone, remove or cook a meal, until you closed and reopened the app. They now show your real role straight away, whether you're the admin or an editor.
- The shopping list puts each ingredient on one line, under its aisle. Adding the week's plan could list garlic three times, as cloves, large cloves and plain garlic, and coriander as cilantro on one line and coriander leaves on another. Each ingredient now gets one line with its amounts added up. An amount that can't be added to the rest, such as a thumb of ginger beside tablespoons of it, sits under that line next to its recipe. Lines are filed by supermarket aisle instead of under a recipe's own headings like Red Curry Paste, and flaked almonds are in Baking, not Snacks. Ingredients go on with their New Zealand names (coriander, capsicum, spring onions, prawns, cream), and Whisp now writes new recipes with those names too.
- A recipe line with two ingredients makes two lines on the list. A line such as thumb-sized piece ginger and 4 garlic cloves used to go on as one odd item called Ginger and 4 garlic. It now adds the ginger and the four cloves separately, so the garlic joins the rest of your garlic, and Add to shopping list lets you tick each one. Ground ginger, ground coriander and dried herbs now get their own lines instead of being added to the fresh ones, and typing an ingredient the list already has under another name, such as cilantro or garlic cloves, finds the line that's there.
- Postpone tells you where the meal went. Postponing a meal moves it to the same night next week, and it used to vanish from the week without a word. You now see where it landed, such as Moved to Mon 12 Oct, with a button that takes you to that week. To move a meal within the week, hold it and drag it to another night.
- Move a meal to any night, in any week. Postpone only ever moves a meal on by a week, and a meal you picked up to drag let go when you changed weeks, so moving Monday's dinner to Friday of next week meant asking Whisp. The meal's menu now has Move to…, which shows a week of nights at a time from today on, says which are free and which have a meal on them, and lets you page to any week. Picking a night that's taken swaps the two meals. If the night is in another week, you're told where it went, with a button to take you there. On Android, changing weeks while holding a meal no longer leaves the plan stuck until your next tap.
- Whisp moves and swaps nights when you ask. Asking Whisp to swap Tuesday and Friday could get a reply asking for recipe IDs. Whisp now moves a meal to another night, or swaps two nights, from the days you name. A meal Whisp puts on a night also no longer shows Moved from with the date of the meal it replaced, and its ingredients are on the shopping list again.
- Whisp knows that Tuesday means the coming Tuesday. On a Sunday, asking Whisp what was planned this week, or to swap Tuesday and Friday, could get a reply that the week was empty, because it was reading the week that ended that night. This week now means tonight and the six days after it, the same days as Coming up, and a day named on its own means the next one. When Whisp moves or swaps a meal, it now tells you beforehand where each meal will land, and afterwards names the date it actually used.
- Asking Whisp about prices and specials gets an answer. A question like whether butter is a good price, or a week planned around the specials, could end in Whisp ran into a problem finishing that reply, most often for a family that hadn't picked a store yet. Whisp now answers, and tells you a family admin can pick your supermarket in Settings > Price Lookup if you haven't. And when a reply really does fail, you see that message, where before Whisp sometimes stopped thinking and wrote nothing.
- Asking Whisp to add to the shopping list works again. A request like add oat milk and coffee beans came back with the list isn't taking the request. Whisp now adds each item, whether you name one or several. The same fix covers the recipe, staples and meal plan changes you ask Whisp to make.
- You can tick off and add to the shopping list on the website. Clicking an item on the web list used to do nothing. Now a click ticks it off, strikes it through and moves it to a Checked section at the bottom, and another click puts it back. Editors and admins also get a box to add an item, with an amount and unit if you want them. Phones in the family update as you go. Viewers can tick but not add, and the page says so.
- An invitation link asks you to sign in if your email already has an account. It used to add the account and sign it in on the strength of the email address alone. Now you sign in the way you normally do, with your password or an emailed link, and come straight back to the invitation to accept it.
- Cooking from the meal plan on Android shows the recipe's steps. Choosing Cook with Whisp on a planned meal opened an empty cook screen that read Step 1 of 0. It now opens the full recipe, the same as starting from the recipe page. If the steps can't be loaded, the plan tells you instead of opening an empty screen.
- Coming back to the app mid-cook takes you back to the step you were on. On Android, leaving Cook Mode on a step and reopening the app showed the prep checklist with nothing ticked, and you had to tap Start cooking to get back. It now opens on your step, with your timers, the ingredients you ticked and the servings you chose. On iPhone, ingredients ticked during prep are now kept if the phone closes the app in the background.
- Narrate steps aloud stays on once you turn it on. It used to switch itself off for every new cook. Cook Mode now remembers it, on iPhone and Android.
- Voice commands on Android work on more phones, and say what's wrong when they can't. If your phone doesn't have English speech recognition downloaded, voice commands now try the phone's speech service and other English voices before giving up, and then tell you how to download it. They no longer show a message like Speech error (13).
- Recipes saved from a link come in tidier. Ingredients no longer carry stray brackets, or pointers like Note 1 to notes on the original page. When a recipe offers a choice, such as bought or homemade curry paste, it comes in as one ingredient with the other option in its note, so the cook checklist asks for it once. A range like 5 to 6 tbsp keeps both numbers, a weight given in grams and ounces keeps both, the recipe's own ingredient sections come across, and the description no longer opens with Recipe VIDEO above. Recipes you have already saved stay as they are.
- Meals you plan are for your family's default servings. Adding a recipe to the meal plan used to take the recipe's own number, so a lasagne that serves 6 was planned for 6 even when your family is set to 2, and meals Whisp planned showed no servings at all. New meals now use the default servings in your family settings, and the shopping list scales their ingredients to match. Meals already on the plan keep the servings they have, and changing the setting later doesn't change them.
- Changing the servings scales every amount in an ingredient. Halving a recipe turned 5 to 6 tbsp of curry paste into 2 ½ to 6 tbsp, and 400 ml / 14 oz of coconut milk into 200 ml / 14 oz. The top of a range and the second measure now change with the first number, on recipes you have already saved too. On Android, the Cook Mode prep list also shows each ingredient's note, as iPhone and the web do.
- Fill my week asks you first. Tapping it used to open Whisp and send a message for you straight away, before you could say that Monday needs to be quick, and a small recipe collection left Whisp asking what to do. It now opens on the week you're looking at: tick the nights you want filled, mark any that need dinner in 30 minutes, and choose your own recipes only or new ideas as well. Each night gets one dinner you haven't cooked lately, with no repeats. Swap it, choose another or leave the night empty, then add them all at once. A new idea goes on the plan by name straight away and Whisp writes the full recipe into your collection within a minute or so. Suggesting from your own recipes uses no AI credits.
- Family settings lists the invite links still waiting to be used. A link you made on iPhone or Android disappeared once you left the screen, with no sign it was still live. Each one now shows who it admits and how long it has left, such as Joins as Editor · expires in 7 days, with Copy, Share and Revoke, as the account page on the web already did.
- Subscription settings shows when your free trial ends. On Android it used to show the same card as a paid Saucery Pass, with no mention of a trial. It now says Free trial with the day it ends, such as Ends Sun 11 Oct · 7 days left, and a button to subscribe before then. iPhone showed the days left and now shows the date too.
- If you've been invited to a family, the sign-in screens say how to join it. On iPhone and Android, the sign-in and sign-up screens now say to create your account first, then join with the code from your invite, and Set up your family tells you to join below rather than create a family of your own. The web sign-in page points you to the link in your invitation, and joining from that link now says how you'll sign in later: with an emailed link on the web, or on your phone by setting a password from Forgot password, or with Google or Apple on the same email.