Recipes, variants and cooking mode are live
Gathera pulls recipes in from wherever you found them, keeps them in a library you can scale and riff on, and walks you through the cooking with timers and temperatures where you need them.
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Step 3
Add the 400 g tomatoes and a splash of 150 ml red wine, then simmer for 90 min.
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Simmer
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No waitlist copy — this is the part that is built and working.
Drop in a URL, an Instagram reel, a TikTok, a photo of a cookbook page, or just pasted text. Sites with structured data import instantly; everything else is parsed with AI.
Recipes know what they are. Food carries prep and cook times; drinks carry glass, ice, method and garnish — so a cocktail doesn't pretend to be a casserole.
Instructions aren't flat text. Ingredient references, timers and oven or stovetop temperatures live inside each step, so the app can act on them while you cook.
Full-screen, one step at a time, swipe to advance. Start a countdown straight from a step and keep an eye on a heat readout that follows the recipe.
Change the servings and every amount re-scales — including the ones written inline in the instructions. Nothing is overwritten; the original recipe stays as it was.
Riff on a recipe — vegan, half batch, extra chilli — as a patch on top of the original. Only the differences are stored, so fixes to the base flow through.
Group recipes into folders that make sense to you: weeknights, the cocktail shelf, the things you actually cook twice.
Walk away mid-recipe and come back to the same step. Finished cooks land in a history list you can open again.
Recipes that arrived without a photo can get one generated, so your library doesn't look like a spreadsheet.
The loop
Paste the link or the caption. You get a filled-in recipe form to review before anything is saved.
Fix the amounts, tag the timers and temperatures, file it in a folder, and add variants for the way you actually make it.
Set your servings, hit cooking mode, and work through the steps with timers running and the heat in view.
Not built yet
These sections exist in the app but are still empty. Named here so nothing on this page oversells what you'll find after signing in.
Planned
Plan a dinner date, pin a menu to it, and track what still needs doing.
Planned
A guest list with allergies, dislikes and preferences that feed into the menu.
Planned
Roll a menu's scaled ingredients up into one list you can shop from.
Import the recipe you've had open in a tab for a week and cook it tonight.
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