August 26, 2026
Add a week, add its groceries
Adding a week to your planner now lets you pick its recipes and pull their ingredients straight into your grocery list, from one screen.
What's new
The latest features, fixes, and improvements we've shipped to belly.
August 26, 2026
Cook mode, step by step
Recipes now have a cook mode: a screen that walks you through a recipe one step at a time, keeps your phone from dimming mid-stir, and on iPad no longer stacks a new screen for every step.
August 26, 2026
Shared links open right in the app
Recipe links shared to you now open directly in the belly app on iOS and Android, instead of a browser tab.
July 4, 2026
Playlists, tidied up
Playlists got tidied up this week: renaming, reordering, and adding recipes all take fewer taps now, so building one feels a little less like admin.
August 24, 2026
belly got a redesign!
We've rebuilt belly to be much easier to use on mobile devices. When we first launched we built belly to be our perfect companion, and we liked cooking with an old laptop (weird I know). This meant belly UI was not the easiest to use on small screens. Fonts were very small, buttons were hard to press, forms were overly detailed. With this new design, belly has been rebuilt from the ground up for a mobile first experience. Big tappable buttons, big icons, simple forms, and much more.
July 1, 2026
Your grocery list, built in
Grocery lists have landed: add ingredients as you go, and bring the list with you when you shop.
June 13, 2026
No more passwords, and a better planner
Passwords are gone, one less thing between you and dinner. The planner got quicker too: adding a recipe on mobile takes fewer steps, and you can now upload a new one straight from your week.
May 28, 2026
Planner notes, and meals without recipes
The weekly planner can now hold a quick note, and you can log a meal without a recipe attached, for the nights that are more takeout than cooking.
May 27, 2026
The changelog, the journal, and a tidier sidebar
The site now has a proper changelog and journal, and the app sidebar finally stays out of your way while you work.
May 18, 2026
Add a recipe from a photo
You can now add a recipe by snapping a picture or pasting a link, whichever one's already in your hand.
May 11, 2026
Recipe playlists
You can now organize recipes into playlists: a week of meals, a themed collection, or the dinners you keep coming back to.
May 6, 2026
Shareable recipe links
You can now share any recipe with a link, and it lands straight in a friend's belly, ready for them to make their own.
May 4, 2026
belly has a website
belly now has a home on the web, alongside a few planning and cooking touches, one of them a gift from a user who asked, kindly, for exactly this.
April 25, 2026
Import from a URL
You can now paste a link to import a recipe, so belly does the retyping and you get straight to cooking.
April 24, 2026
First build
belly is live, and it's been a real labour of love to get here. There's a long list of what's coming next, but for now we're sitting with the joy of having made something early users already love.