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Food tech

Hands-free cooking, guided by voice.

We designed and built Napkin Recipes' voice-enabled cooking app, with recipes, timers and shopping lists that work while your hands are busy.

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Hands-free cooking, guided by voice.

Why this stack

Built to keep up in the kitchen.

  • Voice interfaceCommands that work hands-free, mid-recipe.
  • Resilient sessionsPause, repeat or change course without losing your place.
  • React NativeOne codebase for iOS and Android, on phones and tablets.

Clients

Napkin Recipes

Sector

Food tech

Delivered on

iOS, Android, Voice AI

Average time to launch

Around 4 months

The brief.

Napkin Recipes wanted cooking guidance people could follow without touching their phone. Voice instructions had to keep pace when people paused, repeated a step or went off-recipe.

Our involvement

  1. DiscoveryGoals, users and constraints mapped.
  2. DesignJourneys and interfaces designed and tested.
  3. BuildApps and platform built, reviewed and tested.
  4. LaunchReleased for real-world use.

What we built.

Voice guidance

Step-by-step instructions you control by voice.

Timers

Timers running alongside the recipe.

Shopping lists

Ingredients ready to shop for.

iOS and Android

One experience on phones and tablets.

The result

A cooking app that keeps up with real kitchens: pause, repeat or change course without losing your place.

Hands-free from start to finish
Sessions that survive pauses and repeats
Built for iOS and Android

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