How to share recipes with friends and your household in Zuppi

Sending a recipe, browsing a friend’s cookbook and planning dinner together are different jobs. In Zuppi, Friends helps you find shared recipes, My Cookbook holds your personal collection, and Home brings household cooking into a shared space.

After a friendship is accepted and library sharing is enabled, shared recipes appear in Friends. The current iPhone screen below has an All friends view, individual friend filters, ingredient-category chips and Search friends’ recipes. It is useful when you remember who saved a dish but not its exact title.

The screen labels its search as “Search downloaded recipes”. If you cannot find a recipe, check whether more recipes need loading or whether the friend still shares it. A search result is not proof that you have searched every recipe in their account.

In the Android alpha, Friends & Home is available from More. Invite a friend starts the invitation flow. The invitation must be accepted; sending it does not automatically give access.

Open a shared recipe and save an independent copy: the Android action is Save to My Cookbook, while the iPhone recipe view uses Save to my recipes. That is useful for a version with your preferred spice level or notes for your own kitchen. Your edits to that copy do not rewrite your friend’s original.

Do not expect later changes to the original to flow into an independent saved copy. Keep the original source details so you can return to the creator’s instructions when you need to check something.

A shared Home brings a cookbook, meal plan, shopping list and pantry together. It is for coordinating a household, while Friends lets you browse recipes beyond that household. Home access and editing depend on the current testing build and the host’s entitlement.

1. In the Android alpha, open More, then Friends & Home.
2. If you do not already have a Home, enter a name and choose Create Home.
3. Use the Home’s Invite action and let the other person accept with their own Zuppi account.
4. Switch from My Cookbook to your named Home before adding household recipes or changing its plan, shopping list or pantry.
5. For a recipe already in your personal cookbook, use Copy to shared Home from its menu when that action is available.

Choose one recipe you both want to cook. Put a copy in Home and agree on the servings. Add it to the household plan, then review the shopping list and what is already in the pantry. Check that both people have selected the same Home.

Let one person shop and the other check the household list on their own device. Confirm that changes have synced before relying on them. If a connection or account error is shown, resolve it before assuming everyone has the latest version.

After cooking, add useful household notes to the shared recipe. Keep personal experiments in your own cookbook if you do not want to change the version the household uses.

The Android setting Share my library with friends covers current and future personal recipes, with individual recipes hidden through their menus. Personal notes, favourites and cooking history stay private in that friends-sharing flow. A Home copy has a separate household audience.

Stopping sharing does not recall independent copies someone already saved. Decide what you want to share before enabling library sharing, and check the audience again when copying a recipe into Home. These distinctions are more useful than treating every share action as the same thing.

Yes. Friends and Home serve different purposes. You can browse an accepted friend’s shared recipes without joining their household. A Home invitation is a separate action.

Zuppi is in testing. The screenshot shows the current iPhone beta; the labelled setup steps describe Android. Check the homepage for current testing availability. This guide does not promise identical screens or subscription terms across builds.