Adding Recipes Manually

You can add any recipe by hand — great for family recipes, personal creations, or recipes from cookbooks.

Creating a new recipe

1. Tap the + button on the home screen.
2. Select Create Manually.
3. Fill in the recipe details:
   • Title — the recipe name
   • Ingredients — add one per line; MarinAid auto-parses quantities and units
   • Instructions — add each step; these are used in Cooking Mode
   • Servings, prep time, cook time — optional but helpful for meal planning
   • Photo — tap the camera icon to add a photo from your library or take a new one
4. Tap Save.

Tips for ingredients

• Write ingredients naturally: “2 cups all-purpose flour” or “1/2 tsp salt”
• MarinAid recognizes common units and will format them for your grocery list
• For items without quantities, just type the ingredient name: “fresh basil”

Tips for instructions

• Write one step per entry — this makes Cooking Mode easier to follow
• Keep steps concise and action-oriented
• You can reorder steps by dragging the handle on the left

Editing later

Tap any recipe to view it, then tap Edit to modify any field. Changes sync automatically to all your devices.