How Cobble works
Eight steps from download to your first home-cooked meal planned, shopped, and guided by Cobble.
Getting startedYour first session with Cobble
The whole setup from download to first recipe takes about five minutes.
Download and create your profile
Download Cobble from the App Store or Google Play and create your account with your name and email. Your profile is the foundation everything Cobble learns about you lives here and makes every suggestion more relevant over time.
Set your household size
Tell Cobble how many people you cook for. This sets the default serving size for all recipes and shopping list quantities. Cooking for yourself today? Feeding six this weekend? You can change it any time, on any recipe.
Choose your dietary preferences
Select any dietary requirements or preferences that apply to your household: vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, halal, kosher, or low-carb. You can select multiple. Cobble will only show recipes that meet every requirement you've set.
Pick your favourite cuisines
Choose the cuisines your household genuinely enjoys. Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, British, American, Thai, Mediterranean the more you tell Cobble, the more relevant your recipe feed becomes. You can always update this as your tastes change.
Scan or enter your ingredients
This is where the magic starts. Open your fridge and point your camera at the shelves Cobble scans labels and identifies what's there. Then do the same with your pantry cupboards. Add anything that was missed using manual search. In a few minutes, Cobble knows what you've got to work with.
Camera scan
Manual entry
Search ingredients
Discover recipes that match what you have
Your recipe feed now shows dishes ranked by ingredient match recipes you can cook right now appear first. Each card shows how many ingredients you already own and how many you'd need to buy. Filter by cuisine, dietary preference, cooking time, or hit Surprise Me for an instant random pick from your pantry matches.
Surprise Me
Add to your shopping list and plan your week
Save recipes to your weekly meal plan or add missing ingredients straight to your shopping list. Cobble only adds what you're actually missing no duplicates, no items you already have. The list is grouped by supermarket category so your shop is quick and logical. Open the list on your phone as you walk round.
Cook with step-by-step guided mode
When you're ready to cook, tap Start Cooking. Cobble walks you through every step one at a time on a clean, large-text screen you can glance at from the hob. Timers are built in. Ingredient quantities auto-scale to your chosen serving size. Measurements display in whichever unit you prefer.
Quick recapEight steps, one seamless experience
Create profile
Download the app and set up your account in under two minutes.
Add household
Set your household size for automatic serving calculations.
Dietary prefs
Select any dietary requirements set once, applied everywhere.
Pick cuisines
Tell Cobble the flavours your household loves most.
Scan ingredients
Camera scan your fridge and pantry or type items manually.
Discover recipes
Browse matched recipes or hit Surprise Me for instant inspiration.
Shop smart
Auto-generated grouped shopping list only what you're missing.
Cook with guidance
Step-by-step mode with timers and auto-scaled quantities.
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