Starting next week, when you visit Cookpad on your cellphone, you’ll notice a few changes which will make it easier to find our most important features and improve your overall experience on Cookpad!

First, when you update and open Cookpad from* August 3rd (iOS and web) / August 5th (Android):

  • App users will see 5 navigation tabs instead of 3; Home, Search, Create, Activity, and You
  • Web users will see 2 new tabs; You and Activity

*Updates may take a couple of days to appear in the App store / on Google Play

To help you navigate the new layout, we’ve created these pop-ups (see below) which will appear when you open Cookpad for the first time.

(App pop-up)

(Web pop-up)

Second, the existing ‘Plan’ tab will be replaced by the ‘You’ tab and all of the recipes saved in your ‘Plan’ will appear in ‘You’. This change will enable us to support some exciting new features in the future.

Let’s look at each tab in more detail, starting with ‘You’ as it’s the biggest change

You - this is a space to organize all of your recipes going forward. Here you will find the recipes you’ve saved and published, the Cooksnaps you’ve sent, and your user profile, recipe reports and app settings. The layout for web users will be slightly different but the content will be the same.

Recipes currently saved in the ‘planning to cook’, ‘saved to cook’ and ‘recipes I cooked’ without a Cooksnap, will appear in the ‘Saved’ section of the ‘You’ tab

Published recipes currently found in ‘My Recipes’, will appear in the new ‘Your Recipes’ section of the ‘You’ tab.

Recipes currently saved in ‘Recipes I cooked’ with a Cooksnap, will appear in both the ‘Saved’ and the ‘Cooksnaps’ sections of the ‘You’ tab


Home - this is where you’ll find the recipe feed, showing recipes from the Cookpad Community.

You’ll no longer see the search bar at the top of the recipe feed. That’s because we’ve created a dedicated ‘Search’ tab.

Search - the new dedicated ‘Search’ tab will make it easier to search for recipes and people from anywhere within Cookpad, and offer inspiration by displaying ‘Popular search’ queries here too.

Create - the only change here is if you’re an Android user, you’ll now manage your draft recipes in the ‘Create’ tab instead of the ‘Plan. IOS users already manage their draft recipes in the ‘Create’ tab.

Stay tuned for some more exciting changes to this tab later this year!

Activity - here you’ll find the content that is currently displayed in the ‘Inbox’ of your user profile e.g. Cooksnap notifications, new followers and comments. This is also where you’ll access direct messaging (previously known as ‘chat’), via the arrow in the top right hand corner of the screen. Note that direct messaging is not supported on the web version of Cookpad.


By giving this content a dedicated tab, we want to bring the community spirit of Cookpad to life.