u/thekannenG

I'm the developer of Forked, the iOS app for deciding what to cook from your Mealie library. It's been a while since I posted here, and the latest update is the biggest one yet, so here's what changed, including the first paid feature, since I said I'd be upfront if that ever happened.

Households: cook from one plan together

The most-requested thing was "my partner and I both want the same plan and grocery list." Now you can create a Household and invite up to four people. Everyone edits the normal Plan and Shopping tabs, and changes sync between phones through iCloud.

• There's no Forked server. The Household lives in the organizer's own iCloud.
• Each person connects to Mealie with their own credentials. Forked never shares your server address or API token with the Household.
• Dietary preferences, Plan History, and your recipe cache stay on your own device.
• Only the organizer needs Pro. Joining is free.

Forked Pro: $9.99 once, no subscription

Pro is a one-time purchase with Family Sharing. It adds:

• Creating a Household
• Plan History and "Use This Plan Again"
• Reuse Ingredients, which favors meals that share ingredients so less goes to waste
• Avoid Recent Meals

Last time I said that if paid features ever showed up, they'd be new features, not things that were already free. That's what this is: everything that shipped free is still free, and nothing got moved behind Pro.

(If you updated last week and saw Pro as "unavailable," that was my mistake in the App Store submission. It's fixed now.)

Also new, for everyone:

• Nutrition at a glance: calories per serving plus a protein/fat/carb bar
• Quantities show as fractions (½ tsp, not 0.5 tsp) in recipes and Shopping
• Swipe between steps while cooking, and step timers start at the time the step calls for
• Shopping tells you when an item was merged, and combines duplicates like "garlic" and "fresh garlic"
• Setup accepts a pasted server URL and shows sync progress
• Saved recipes keep working when your server is slow or offline
• Emoji avatars for Chef Profiles
• Better layouts at the largest text sizes

Still true:

• iOS only
• Mealie only
• No ads, and no analytics tracking what you cook
• Shopping is still a local Forked list, not synced back to Mealie
• Needs API access to Mealie with a bearer token, so a browser login wall in front of the API (Authentik, Cloudflare Access) won't work

I'd especially like feedback from anyone who tries Households. That's the newest and least battle-tested part, and I'd rather hear about rough edges here than guess.

Thanks for reading!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760947117

A textile merchant's estate in a desert city: a gated courtyard with bougainvillea, a hedged garden with a reflecting pool, a dyer's workshop, and the street outside with a public fountain, a café and a rival dyer.

100 px per square, gridded. Gridless and higher-res versions are available on request.

I posted Forked here a little while back as an iOS app for deciding what to cook from a Mealie library. A lot of the useful feedback was less about "does another Mealie app need to exist?" and more about trust boundaries: what it costs, what it writes back to Mealie, whether the PWA is enough, Android, and how weird self-hosted setups behave.

Patch 4 is live now, so I wanted to follow up with what changed.

The biggest change is Shopping. Forked now has one persistent local Shopping tab instead of temporary lists tied to a meal plan. You can import from your current
plan or selected saved picks, add manual items quickly, paste multiple lines, collapse grocery sections, search, share, and keep checking items off without Forked trying to regenerate the list behind your back.

Other changes:
- Sync moved into Settings so the main tab bar is less admin-heavy
- Forked can read Mealie favorites and ratings for local filtering/ranking
- Prefer favorites and Ignore low ratings are opt-in per profile
- Add-a-Meal respects profile filters more consistently
- Meal plan imports account for changed serving counts
- Local/self-signed HTTPS handling is tighter and documented

Important boundaries:
- iOS only right now
- Mealie only right now
- No Mealie shopping-list sync yet
- No rating/favorite editing yet
- No interactive Authentik/Cloudflare Access browser login bypass
- Free, optional tip jar, tips unlock nothing

The app is still aimed at one job: deciding what to cook from the recipes you already have, then carrying that decision into planning and shopping. If the PWA or another client already solves your workflow, that is fine. I am mainly trying to make this specific workflow good.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forked-recipes/id6760947117
Compatibility notes: https://knownframe.com/support/forked/
Privacy: https://knownframe.com/privacy/forked/