TongsEvery recipe, as a paced lesson
Paste a link to a recipe page. Tongs turns it into one step per screen, with a timer on every wait and the prep folded in where it fits. On your phone, your iPad and your Mac, with no app store in between.
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35 seconds. Tap the speaker for the narration.
How it works
- 1Paste a link. Any recipe page, or a photo of a cookbook page. Tongs reads the ingredients and steps and keeps a copy, so the recipe is yours even if the page goes away.
- 2Cook one step at a time. Each step gets its own screen with the ingredients it uses and a cue for what done looks like. Every wait gets a timer and a Meanwhile list sized to fit it: mince the garlic while the onions soften.
- 3Change the servings. Every amount rescales, down to kitchen fractions, in the ingredients and in the directions.
- 4Keep it in the kitchen. Install Tongs on your Home Screen or Dock. It opens full screen, stays awake while you cook, rings when a timer ends even with the screen locked, and works through bad Wi‑Fi.
Plans
Free
$0
- 3 recipe imports a month
- Cook your saved recipes as often as you like
- Timers, Meanwhile lists, servings, the chime
- Installs on every device
Plus
$4.99 a month
or $39 a year
- Unlimited imports
- Import from a photo or a PDF
- Lo‑fi music while you cook
- Everything in Free
Household
$7.99 a month
or $59 a year
- Plus for up to 5 people
- One shared recipe library
- One subscription per kitchen
Plus and Household open after the beta. Until then every beta account cooks free.