Recipe Cooking View

Whether you’re making a dish for the first time or whipping up an old favorite, AnyList’s Cooking View has a variety of features to help you out in the kitchen.

Opening Cooking View

When it’s time to cook, just tap on Cook Recipe.

Cooking View on Phones

On phones, the Ingredients, Steps, and Recipe Info are separated into tabs. Quickly switch between tabs with a horizontal swipe. The app remembers your scroll position in each tab, so you won’t lose your place when jumping back and forth.

Cooking View on Tablets, Macs, and PCs

On large devices, such as tablets and laptops, the Ingredients and Steps are shown side-by-side.

Marking Off Ingredients and Highlighting Steps

As you’re cooking, you can mark off the ingredients you’ve already used by tapping on them.

And you can tap on your current step to highlight it.

Making Notes

After cooking, you can use the Recipe Info area to log any adjustments you made to the recipe or any tweaks you want to try next time. And if the recipe came from a website and you want to let the author know how it turned out, just tap on the Recipe Source URL to open the recipe website.

Switching Between Recipes

Cooking multiple dishes at once? Use the recipe switcher to quickly switch between them.

If you’re viewing a recipe from the meal planning calendar, all other recipes on the same day will automatically appear in the recipe switcher. You can tap Browse Recipes to open any other recipe.

Recipe Timers

While using Cooking View, AnyList can recognize durations in your recipe steps and turn them into built-in timers. You can have multiple timers running at the same time, and an alarm will notify you when a timer finishes, even if your device is locked.

Note: Recipe timers are currently only available in the mobile app for iOS and Android. They require iOS 26.2 or later, or Android 9 or later.

1. Select Steps at the top of Cooking View. Any recognized durations in your recipe steps will be highlighted.

2. Tap a highlighted duration to open the timer. You can tap Start Timer to start it immediately, or Edit Timer to make changes first.

If you tap Edit Timer, you can change the timer’s name to help identify what it’s for, quickly add more time, or tap any of the time fields to manually adjust the duration. When you’re done making changes, tap Start Timer.

3. Multiple recipe timers can run at the same time and will appear along the bottom of Cooking View. Tap a timer to view or make changes to it, or tap the timer icon in the bottom-right corner to see and manage all of your running timers in a larger view.