Widgets and shortcuts.
Put the four charts, or any page you use, one tap from the Home Screen or the Lock Screen. Pin a page, or a single tab of a chart, to the app icon's press-and-hold menu, or give it a phrase for Siri.
Free, like the charts. Widgets need iOS 17 or later.
Conversions
Cooking
Substitutions
Shelf life
My RecipesKitchen Tools
Shopping ListKitchen Tools
Meal PlannerEleven widgets, each a door into the app.
A widget opens Kitchen Tools on its page. They always use the app's light colours, and they share no data with the app.
| Widget | Where and what size | What it opens |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen charts | Home Screen, medium | Conversions, Cooking, Substitutions and Shelf life side by side, one tap each |
| Any page | Home Screen, small · Lock Screen, round or rectangular | The page you choose in Edit Widget |
| One per page | Home Screen, small · Lock Screen, round or rectangular | Conversion Charts, Cooking Charts, Substitution Charts, Shelf Life Charts, My Recipes, Recipe Reader, Recipe Creator, Meal Planner, Shopping List |
On the Home Screen or the Lock Screen.
Home Screen
Touch and hold an empty part of the Home Screen until the apps jiggle.
Tap Edit, then Add Widget. On iOS 17, tap the + button instead.
Search for Kitchen Tools, choose a widget, and tap Add Widget.
For Any page, touch and hold the widget, choose Edit Widget and pick the page.
Lock Screen
Touch and hold the Lock Screen, then tap Customize.
Choose Lock Screen, then tap the widget area under the clock.
Scroll to Kitchen Tools and tap the page you want, round or rectangular.
Any page, or one tab, a tap away.
Every chart, My Recipes, the Recipe Reader, the Recipe Creator, the Meal Planner, the Shopping List and each of your recipes has a pin at the top right. On a chart, the pin takes the tab you are on, so Baking Weights can have a shortcut of its own.
- App icon menu
- Touch and hold the Kitchen Tools icon and the pinned pages are there. Conversions, Cooking, Shelf life and My Recipes are on it to start with.
- Siri
- Give the page a phrase, then say it to open the app on that page.
- Home Screen
- The pin explains how to add the page's widget.
- Settings
- Under "Open the app on", choose the page the app starts on, such as the chart you use most.
Shortcuts are free.
Widgets, the pin and Siri phrases work for every page, with or without a subscription.