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Zeste 1.6: import without leaving Instagram, and six languages

Share a reel to Zeste and keep scrolling: the recipe shows up on its own, with a notification. And Zeste now speaks English, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese, right down to the widgets.

  • •Share › Zeste, and keep scrolling
  • •Zeste speaks six languages
  • •A new welcome screen, and a sturdier app
  • •How to get it
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Zeste goes cooking robot, and Facebook

A cooking robot mode that weighs everything in grams and rewrites the steps for your Thermomix, Monsieur Cuisine, Companion or Cookeo, Facebook sign-in, cookbooks you can rename, and the small things from late October.

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October 2026: what's changing in Zeste

A new bottom bar, a single field to import, cleaner recipes, filters, allergies, cooking mode and shopping. A look at version 1.4, and at what stays free.

Version history

  1. Zeste in your language, without leaving Instagram

    • •Share › Zeste from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Safari: the import runs in the background, and a notification tells you when the recipe is ready (app 1.6.1)
    • •Zeste in English (app 1.6), then in Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese (app 1.6.1)
    • •Imported recipes, Chef Zeste, Magic Fridge and wine pairings in your account's language
    • •Widgets translated into all six languages
    • •Website and Chrome extension in six languages
    • •New welcome screen in video: a reel that turns into a recipe card
    • •Offline cookbook, check marks without signal and pending shares saved more safely, cookbook refreshed as soon as you come back to the app

  2. Cooking robots arrive in Zeste

    • •Cooking robot mode: ml, cl and spoons weighed in grams, and a version of the steps with your robot's settings
    • •Six robots to choose from: Thermomix TM7, TM6 and TM5, Monsieur Cuisine, Moulinex Companion and Cookeo, with settings checked against their user manuals
    • •Recipe scaled up beyond what the bowl holds: Zeste splits it into batches
    • •Sign in with Facebook, on the web and in the app
    • •Cookbooks you can rename or delete (the recipes stay), on the web and in the app
    • •"Clear all" to start over with an empty shopping list
    • •Reminders, seasonal recipe and year in review on your own time zone
    • •Clearer "Your imports this week" counter, free referral imports counted separately
    • •Scanned PDFs read page by page, calories and macros editable in the app, Profile organized into sections

  3. Zeste steps outside the app

    • •"Tonight's menu" and "My shopping list" widgets on iPhone and Android, items checked off without opening the app (app 1.5)
    • •Store mode: one aisle at a time, screen kept on, check marks saved offline and sent when the connection comes back
    • •My pantry: what you always have at home is set aside under "Already at home", shared with the household
    • •Products grouped in the list: "garlic cloves" and "crushed garlic cloves" on a single line
    • •After cooking, what's left of an opened package and two recipes from your cookbook to use it up
    • •A reminder the day before a marinade, a soak or a dough that needs to rise
    • •A seasonal recipe suggested twice a week, to add to your cookbook or dismiss
    • •Recipe card printable as PDF, wine cellar (beta), sturdier Facebook import and ChatGPT links

  4. The big tidy-up

    • •New app bar: Recipes, Week, +, Share, Profile, and everything two taps away at most
    • •A single field to import a link, several links or a text, and up to 10 photos for a recipe spread over several pages
    • •Units written like in a cookbook, quantities rounded the way cooks do, a photo of the dish generated when the source has none
    • •Dish type and tags on every recipe, quick filters, four sort orders, saved filters as cookbooks
    • •Orange banner on the recipe when it contains one of your allergens
    • •Timer that keeps running outside the app: lock screen and Dynamic Island on iPhone, notifications on Android (app 1.4)
    • •A single shopping list sorted by aisle and shared with the household, in kg and liters when needed
    • •Weekly meal plan shared with the household, a recipe sent to several friends at once

  5. A month of fuller imports

    • •Import a recipe from several photos, up to 10 pages or screenshots
    • •A post with several recipes: they are all added to your cookbook
    • •Every ingredient is picked up in the steps, and steps missing from the source are written for you
    • •TikTok photo carousels read in full, steps found on screen in videos
    • •Private messages, friends and shared cookbooks
    • •Chef Zeste, the chef who invents recipes made to measure for you (Pro)
    • •Calories and macros on every recipe, number of people remembered per recipe and per meal

  6. A week of new features

    • •Sign in with Google and Apple (web and mobile)
    • •Shared household, favorites and a richer meal plan
    • •Dish type: starter, main or dessert on every recipe
    • •Mobile app redesign (My kitchen, import, preferences, onboarding)
    • •New web dashboard with sidebar and cookbooks
    • •Profile photo, diets, allergies, units and meal reminders
    • •Cookbook export and cooked-recipes counter
    • •Automatic app updates and more stable Instagram imports

  7. iPhone app on the App Store

    • •Zeste app released on the App Store
    • •Import from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook
    • •Cooking mode with timers and screen always on

  8. Android app on Google Play

    • •Zeste app released on Google Play
    • •Import from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook
    • •Cooking mode with timers and screen always on

  9. Meal planning and shopping list

    • •Weekly calendar to organize your meals
    • •Automatic shopping list generation
    • •Smart grouping of ingredients

  10. Multi-source import

    • •Import by photo (cookbook, handwritten recipe)
    • •PDF and text file import
    • •Automatic recipe translation
    • •Recipe sharing via public link

  11. Zeste launches

    • •AI recipe import from Instagram and TikTok
    • •Personal recipe cookbook
    • •Generous free plan and Zeste Pro at €2.99/month