Sorrel started on Android. Since October it has been in the App Store too: a native iPhone app, not a web page in a wrapper, and the same calm home for your recipes that Android cooks have been using all year.
What’s in it
Everything you’d expect from Sorrel is there on day one:
- Your recipe library, with no cap on recipes, collections, tags and search.
- Import from any website by sharing the link to Sorrel from Safari or any other app — the share sheet has a Sorrel button.
- Cook mode, one step at a time in big type, with timers you start by tapping the time in a step. On iPhone a running timer sits on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island as a Live Activity, so you can see the countdown without unlocking the phone.
- A home-screen widget with tonight’s dinner on it.
- The weekly planner, including auto-fill, and an aisle-sorted grocery list.
- The Kitchen and Tonight: keep track of what’s on your shelves, and see what you can cook with it right now.
- Backup and export, so your recipes are never stuck inside the app.
The things that need Sorrel’s servers to do the work — importing from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook videos, scanning recipe cards and cookbook pages, letting Sorrel arrange your week, writing a new recipe from what’s in your kitchen, sync and household sharing — are part of Sorrel Pro, exactly as on Android. On iPhone, Pro is an App Store subscription, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan.
Android and iPhone, together
Plenty of households have one of each. Sorrel’s sync doesn’t care: sign in on both and your library, your plan and your grocery list are the same on every phone. On iPhone you can sign in with Apple or Google; Android signs in with Google, or with a link code from the iPhone if you used Apple.
Households work across both, too. One person starts a household, sends the invite, and everyone shares one cookbook and one live grocery list — whichever phone they carry. Only the person who started the household needs Pro; joining is free.
One thing to know: a subscription belongs to the store you bought it from. Pro bought on Google Play unlocks Sorrel on Android, and Pro bought in the App Store unlocks it on iPhone. A household is the way to share across the two.
What’s new since launch
The 1.2 update added scanning recipe cards and cookbook pages, your own photos for any recipe, importing recipes from Facebook posts and videos, a smarter “Something new” that knows what a normal kitchen keeps, and a list of the links that didn’t come through so you can retry them. The next update, being tested now, brings importing from X, translation of recipes written in another language, a Library filter by creator, and flow-chart export.
Not there yet
A few Android features haven’t reached iPhone yet — the biggest is saving a photo of your plate when you finish cooking. It’s on the list.