Momasort Guide

1 How to sign in to the app

Open your browser and go to the site's address. If you've added the app to your home screen (see section 21), you can just tap its icon.

• 1 Type in the username and password you chose
• 2 Tap "Sign in"
• 3 That's it, you're in. Next time it will remember you automatically, even after weeks away

2 The home screen: finding a recipe

At the top of the screen there's a search bar, and below it a button showing the category you're currently viewing (for example "🍗 Meat") with a small arrow next to it.

• 1 Tapping the category button opens a list of every category to choose from, including all the holidays
• 2 Tap the category you want (dairy, meat, pareve, Passover, etc.)
• 3 The filter button opens sorting options (newest first, A-Z) and lets you filter by who added the recipe
• 4 To search for a specific recipe, type in the search bar at the top. It also searches inside ingredients and tags

📸 Family stories

At the top of the home screen there's a row of round bubbles. It's a place to share a moment from the cooking - a photo with a short caption - that disappears on its own after 24 hours. It isn't a recipe: it's never saved to the cookbook, never appears in search, and never counts against your recipe quota.

• 1 Tap the first bubble ("My story") or the + on it, choose a photo, and add a caption if you like
• 2 Everyone in the family sees it right away and gets a bell notification (section 14)
• 3 Tapping someone else's bubble opens a full-screen view. Tap the side of the screen to move to the next or previous story
• 4 A row of emoji at the bottom lets you react in one tap. You can switch your reaction, or tap the same emoji again to remove it

A bubble with a gold ring means there's something there you haven't seen yet. The ring turns off once you've viewed it.

📅 "On this day, in previous years"

When today's date matches a recipe added on the same date in a previous year, a small banner appears at the top of the home screen with a reminder of who added it and what it was. Tapping it opens the recipe. You can turn it off in your profile.

🕯️ Shabbat times

Thursday through Saturday a "Shabbat Shalom!" banner appears with candle-lighting and havdalah times and the weekly Torah portion - on the home screen, and also on the entry screen before you sign in.

By default it rotates between a few major Israeli cities. In your profile you can pick a specific country instead, or turn the banner off. Turning it off only affects the home screen; on the entry screen the times are always shown.

🤖 When a search finds nothing

A "Get an AI recipe" button appears. Tapping it writes an authentic traditional recipe for whatever you searched for and opens the add-recipe screen with the name, ingredients and steps already filled in - just like after scanning a photo (section 8), ready to edit and save.

This tool counts against your smart-tools quota (section 19).

3 "What's in my kitchen?" 👩‍🍳

A button that appears under the search bar on the home screen. It helps you decide what to cook based on what's already in your fridge, instead of searching for recipes one by one.

• 1 Tap "What's in my kitchen?" and type an ingredient (for example "tomatoes"), then another, and another
• 2 A list of family recipes appears immediately, ordered from the closest match to what you entered to the least
• 3 Next to each recipe it shows how many of the ingredients you entered it uses, and if something's missing - exactly what

4 Opening and reading a recipe

• 1 Tap any recipe card in the list
• 2 The full recipe opens: a photo (if there is one), the ingredient list, and the instructions
• 3 You can tap any instruction step to mark it as done (it gets a strikethrough)
• 4 There's a "Copy" button that copies the ingredient list - handy for sending over WhatsApp

5 Scaling ingredient quantities

Above the ingredient list in every recipe there's a row of buttons: Half · Original · 1.5x · 2x · 3x. Tapping any of them instantly recalculates every quantity at once.

• 1 Choose how many portions you want relative to the original recipe
• 2 The quantities on screen update immediately: "2 cups flour" becomes "4 cups" at 2x, and so on
• 3 The updated quantity automatically carries over to copying, to the shopping list, and to cooking mode

6 Cooking mode and timers

Inside every recipe there's a big gold "Cooking mode" button. It opens a clean screen with large text, easy to read from across the kitchen, and the screen won't turn off while you're cooking.

• 1 Tap "Cooking mode"
• 2 First you'll see the full ingredient list (at the quantity you chose in the previous section)
• 3 Tap "Start cooking" and move step by step with "Next" and "Previous" buttons
• 4 Tap the numbered circle next to a step to mark it done - it turns into a green ✓
• 5 At the end you'll see "Enjoy! 🎉". "Exit" at the top returns you to the regular recipe view at any point

⏱ Automatic timers

If a step mentions a duration ("40 minutes", "half an hour", "20-25 minutes"), a timer button appears below it. Tapping it starts a countdown that stays visible at the top of the screen as you move through later steps - so you can put something in the oven, keep preparing the rest of the dish, and know exactly when to go back.

You can run several timers at once. When one finishes it beeps, vibrates, and turns red with "Ready!". Tapping it removes it.

7 Adding a new recipe

• 1 On the home screen, tap the gold "Add recipe" button at the bottom
• 2 Fill in a name for the recipe and choose a category
• 3 Add ingredients one by one (tapping "Add line" adds another)
• 4 Add the instructions, also line by line
• 5 You can add free-form tags (section 12), a photo of the dish, and a link to an explanation video if there is one
• 6 Tap "Save recipe" at the end

8 Smart add: photo or recording

If you have a handwritten recipe page, or you'd rather talk than type, the app can read or listen for you and fill in the fields automatically.

• 1 Inside the add-recipe screen, there's a box called "Smart tools"
• 2 Scan a written recipe: tap, then photograph or choose a photo of the recipe page. The fields fill in on their own
• 3 Smart recording: tap "Record", explain the recipe out loud, tap "Stop". The recording is not sent right away - you can listen back to it first, and only if it's clear tap "Send for smart transcription". Only then do the fields fill in on their own
• 4 Either way, it's worth reviewing the fields that were filled in and fixing anything inaccurate before saving

What happens if it isn't really a recipe

The smart tools extract only what is actually in the photo or recording, and try to keep the original wording - they won't fill in ingredients or amounts that were never stated. And if what you sent isn't a recipe at all (a microphone test, random talking, some other photo), you'll get a message saying no recipe was detected - instead of an invented recipe. A use like that isn't counted against your quota, and you can simply try again.

A recipe that continues on another page

When scanning a written recipe you can photograph or choose up to two photos - for example when the ingredients are on one page and the instructions on the next. After the first photo, tap the + to add the second. Both are sent together and detected as one complete recipe, not two separate ones.

The recording, for its part, is used only to transcribe and fill in the fields - it isn't kept on the server after saving.

📋 Paste an existing recipe - no AI, available to everyone

Already have a recipe written out in WhatsApp or somewhere else? Below "Smart tools" there's a text box for pasting. Paste the recipe as-is and tap "Split automatically into fields", and the system will place each line under ingredients or instructions based on keywords (quantities, units of measure, preparation verbs).

Unlike scanning and recording, this isn't an AI feature and doesn't count against any quota - it's available to everyone with no limit, including on the regular plan. Detection isn't always accurate, so review the fields before saving.

9 Editing an existing recipe

• 1 Open the recipe you want to change
• 2 Tap "Edit" at the top
• 3 Change whatever you want: name, ingredients, steps, photo, tags
• 4 Tap "Save changes"

10 Favorite recipes ⭐

You can star any recipe you love, both from the list and from inside the recipe itself. Tapping the star ⭐ button next to the search bar shows only the recipes you've starred.

11 Shopping list 🛒

• 1 Inside a recipe, next to "Ingredients", there's a "To shopping list" button. Tapping it adds every ingredient at once (at the quantity you chose, if you changed it - section 5)
• 2 Tap the cart icon 🛒 at the top of the header to open the full list
• 3 You can also add items manually, check them off as you buy, and clear what's been bought
• 4 At the top of the shopping list screen there's a "👨‍👩‍👧 Family" / "👤 Personal" toggle - each person chooses independently, regardless of what anyone else in the family picked. In "Personal" mode, items you add are saved only for you; in "Family" mode (the default) everyone sees and adds to the same shared list

A "Clear all" button at the top of the screen (it appears only when there are items) deletes the whole list at once instead of item by item, with a confirmation first.

12 Tags and notes

When adding or editing a recipe you can add free-form tags like "quick" or "for the holiday". They help you find a recipe in search. At the bottom of every recipe there's also a place to write a note, for example "I changed it slightly and it came out great". The whole family will see it.

13 Sharing a recipe outside the family

Inside every recipe there's a "Share" button that opens a small menu with two very different options - it's worth knowing the difference between them.

🔗 Copy link - for anyone, no account needed

• 1 Choose "Copy link" from the share menu
• 2 Your phone's regular share menu opens (WhatsApp, Messages, etc.), or the link is copied directly
• 3 Whoever gets the link can view this one recipe only, without signing in to the app at all

🎁 Share with an app user - requires approval

This is different: not a one-time viewing link, but a personal share with someone who already has a Momasort account - a friend, say, or a relative in a different family.

• 1 Choose "Share with a user" and type their username (not their family name, and you don't need their password)
• 2 A share request is sent. The recipe does not appear for them right away - they have to approve it first
• 3 They'll see the request under "Shared with me" (reachable from their profile), and can approve or decline it
• 4 After approval, the recipe appears automatically in their cookbook (tagged 🎁 Shared) - only for them, not for the rest of their family. It's not a copy: if the person who shared it updates or deletes the recipe, it updates for them automatically too

📨 Ongoing sharing

Your profile also has "Ongoing sharing": instead of sharing one recipe at a time, you set it up so all recipes - of the whole family, or just one person - are always available to someone else, including recipes added in the future.

This also requires approval from the other side, and can be canceled any time. The same screen lists every individual recipe you've shared, with an option to remove each one.

How many people you can share with

Personal sharing (single or ongoing) is limited to 2 different recipients on the free plan and 10 with a subscription. The limit does not apply to a viewing link - that's always unlimited.

If your plan drops (a subscription expires, say) and you have more recipients than allowed, no share is deleted - some are just temporarily frozen, and you choose manually who stays active on the "📨 Ongoing sharing" screen.

14 Family tree, invites and notifications 🔔

Tap the tree icon 🌳 in the header to see everyone in the family.

• 1 Go into the family tree and tap "My place in the tree"
• 2 Choose a role (optional, for example "mom" or "grandpa")
• 3 Choose a first parent and a second parent (optional) from the list of family members
• 4 Tap "Save"

If both parents are marked for the same child, they'll be shown together as a couple at the top, with their shared children below them.

➕ Inviting a family member

The invite lives inside the family tree screen, under "Invite a family member", and there are two ways to do it - depending on whether the person already has an account.

If they don't have an account yet: the "🔗 Send invite link" button, and they join in one tap (the family name is already included in the message). Below it are the family code and the family name, each with a copy button, if you'd rather send them manually. Joining requires both - a security layer, so a code that leaked in a forwarded screenshot isn't enough on its own.

If they already have an account: enter their username and they'll get a request to approve. Since you can only be in one family, approving moves them over to you - and they choose which of their recipes to bring along.

🔔 Notifications

There's a bell in the header, with a small red number when you have unread notifications. Tap it to see what's new. You get a notification when:

• 1 🍽️ Someone in the family added a new recipe (and for a bulk import - a single summary notification, not one per recipe)
• 2 💬 Someone commented on a recipe you added (this one goes only to you, not to the whole family)
• 3 👋 Someone joined the family
• 4 👥 A member of a group shared a new recipe in a shared book you belong to (section 17) - even if they're from a completely different family
• 5 💳 A plan was updated or 🎁 credits were added for someone in the family (section 20)

Tapping a notification takes you to the thing itself - the recipe, the shared book, or the plans screen, depending on the notification type. The bell resets the moment you open it.

15 Your profile

Tap your round profile picture at the top of the header (or the name and logo) to open your profile.

• 1 Profile picture: tap the circle and choose a photo from your phone
• 2 Short display name: how you'd like to be called in the app
• 3 Email address: used for password recovery. You can add or change it - changing an existing address requires entering your current password
• 4 Change password: enter your current password and the new one twice
• 5 Tap "Save"

There are three quick buttons at the top of the screen: ⭐ My plan (section 20), 📲 Shared with me, and 📨 Ongoing sharing (section 13).

📖 A copy of your recipes

The "A cookbook to print and share" button leads to the cookbook (section 16) - a nicely formatted file you can print, save as a PDF, or send to someone. That's how you take a copy of your recipes with you.

🗑️ Deleted recipes

Deleted a recipe by mistake? Your profile has a "Deleted recipes" button that shows everything deleted in the last 30 days, with one-tap restore. After 30 days the recipe is permanently deleted.

🕯️ Home screen display

A section with personal switches (they affect only you, not the rest of the family) to turn off "Shabbat times" and the "On this day, in previous years" banner. While Shabbat times are on you can also pick a specific country instead of the default rotation. Changes are saved with the regular "Save" button.

🌓 Display mode

Three buttons - ☀️ Light, 🌙 Dark, ⚙️ Automatic (follows your device's own setting). Dark mode is easier on the eyes for cooking in the evening or in a dimly lit kitchen.

Unlike "App color", this setting is open to everyone regardless of plan, and is saved on this device only - each device you log in from picks its own.

🗑️ Delete account

At the bottom of your profile there's also a "Delete account" option - permanently deletes your user, with a choice to also delete the recipes you added or leave them for the rest of the family. If you're the only member, this deletes the whole family. It requires your password and can't be undone.

At the bottom of the screen there's also a link back to this guide, and a "Have feedback or a problem" button that opens a ready-made WhatsApp message.

16 A printable cookbook 📖

• 1 On the home screen, tap "📖 A family cookbook to print" (the button is also in your personal area)
• 2 Choose which recipes to include: everything, favorites only, or selected categories
• 3 Tap "Print / save as PDF", and from the window that opens you can choose a printer, or "Save as PDF" to get a file

17 Shared books 👥

A group that isn't family - coworkers, cousins, a sports team - want a shared recipe book together, without their recipes "mixing in" with your family cookbook (or the other way around)? That's exactly what shared books are for.

The key idea: a recipe you see inside a shared book doesn't automatically enter your own personal recipe book. It stays "view only" until someone explicitly taps "Copy to my book". That way you can be a member of several shared books at once, without any of them affecting your family's search, categories, or printable cookbook.

📖 Opening a new shared book

• 1 On the home screen, tap "👥 Shared books"
• 2 Tap "Open a new shared book", give it a name (e.g. "The office kitchen") and pick an emoji
• 3 You're taken straight into the new book - empty for now, with just you in it

➕ Inviting people to the book

• 1 Inside the book there's an "Invite members" box with a 6-character code and a share button
• 2 Send the link (or the code) over WhatsApp, email - whatever's convenient
• 3 Everyone who joins needs their own Momasort account (if they don't have one yet - signing up takes a few seconds, exactly like signing up for a family)
• 4 You can also join manually: "Shared books" → "Have a code to join a book?" → type in the code

🍲 Adding a recipe to the book, and viewing one

• 1 Open a recipe you already have, tap "Share", then "👥 Add to a shared book"
• 2 Choose which shared book to add it to - it's added instantly, and every member of the book will see it
• 3 Inside the shared book, tap a recipe's name to open and read it (ingredients and steps)
• 4 Loved a recipe and want it to stay with you for good? Tap "Copy to my book" - an independent copy is created in your own personal recipe book

Quotas: what counts and what doesn't

Copying a recipe from a shared book into your own book counts against your regular recipe quota (150 on the free plan, section 20), exactly like adding a new recipe. Viewing a shared book is never limited.

On the free plan you can open one shared book, and paid plans get up to 10. There's no limit at all on joining books other people opened - you can be a member of as many as you like.

18 Bulk import: WhatsApp or photos 📥

Do you have a whole history of recipes in a family WhatsApp group, or a stack of scanned recipe page photos? You can import everything at once instead of copying each recipe separately. It's the same button for both cases - the app detects on its own what it received.

💬 WhatsApp file (text)

• 1 In WhatsApp: open the chat, three dots, More, Export chat, Without media
• 2 Under "Family members", tap "Bulk import" and choose the exported ZIP file
• 3 The app figures out on its own which messages are actual recipes

🖼️ A ZIP file with photos

Compress up to 500 recipe page photos (scanned or photographed) into a single ZIP file, and upload it via the same button. The server processes them in batches in the background - you can follow the progress on screen. If you accidentally leave in the middle, the server keeps processing more slowly, and you can come back and see the finished results.

In both cases, before the recipes are actually added you'll see a review list: you can mark what to include and fix the name or category there.

19 Smart tools and the family subscription

🎁 What's free, and for how long

Every family member gets one free use of each smart tool separately: one photo scan, one voice transcription, and one "Get an AI recipe". That way you can try each tool on its own instead of spending every trial on the same one. Once you've used a particular tool, only that one is grayed out - the rest stay available.

Bulk import (section 18) is available only on paid plans, with no free trial. Pasting an existing recipe with automatic splitting (section 8) doesn't count here at all - it isn't an AI tool, and it's available with no limit to everyone.

👤 A personal AI allowance - and you choose whether to share it

The allowance you buy belongs to you, not automatically to the whole family. On the "⭐ My plan" screen there's a simple toggle:

• 👨‍👩‍👧 Shared - everyone in the family can use the allowance you bought, and you can use theirs.
• 👤 Private - your allowance is reserved for you alone. Even then you can still use the allowance of anyone who did choose to share. "Not sharing" means not giving - not giving up what others have given.

When several family members share, the allowances add up: a monthly subscription (100 a month) alongside a one-time plan (500), both sharing, gives the family 600 in practice. You can change your choice whenever you like.

What is always shared by the whole family

Recipe storage (one person buying a plan gives the entire family its storage allowance), the app colour choice, the sharing-recipient allowance, and shared books.

These unlock for everyone even if the plan holder chose "Private" - that choice governs who you share AI credits with, not which capabilities the family cookbook unlocked.

The rest of the app (search, the shopping list, the family tree, the printable cookbook, sharing with other users, and more) is available to everyone with no limit, even on the regular (free) plan.

📖 How many recipes you can keep

• • Regular (free) plan - up to 150 recipes in the family cookbook
• • One-time plan - unlimited recipes
• • Monthly or yearly subscription - unlimited

A deleted recipe waits in the "Deleted recipes" archive for up to 30 days (section 15) and doesn't count toward the limit, so deleting one frees up room immediately.

Note: if you delete a recipe to free up room and add a new one in its place, that slot is taken again - restoring the old recipe from the archive will show a "cookbook full" message. The recipe isn't lost; it keeps waiting in the archive until you free up room or upgrade.

🤖 "Get an AI recipe" - the daily limit

This tool (section 2) has its own free use on the regular plan, separate from scanning and recording.

If you have paid credits - your own, or from someone who chose to share - it has its own gentle limit: up to 3 recipes a day per family member, completely separate from your regular smart-tools quota (which stays fully available for scanning, recording and bulk import). The limit is personal and resets automatically every day.

20 Plans and payment ⭐

Tap "⭐ My plan" in your profile (section 15) to see all the options and choose.

• 1 Monthly subscription: billed every month, cancel any time. Includes unlimited recipe storage, smart tools and WhatsApp import, according to the monthly quota
• 2 Yearly subscription: one payment for a full year, significantly cheaper than monthly - unlimited storage, the same AI quota, resetting every month for the year
• 3 One-time plan: a single payment, forever. Unlimited recipes in the cookbook, plus a total quota (not monthly) of 500 AI tool uses, including bulk photo import

Anyone on the one-time plan who has used up their 500-recipe quota can add 500 more recipes to their existing quota (not a new plan, just an add-on) - available directly on the "⭐ My plan" screen.

The screen clearly shows which plan you're currently on (including if you're still on the regular/free plan), and an expiration date if there is one. There's also a usage meter there - how much of your current plan's allowance has been used (free AI attempts, the monthly smart-tools/WhatsApp quota, or the cumulative recipe quota on the one-time plan), shown as a percentage.

🎨 Choosing an app color: once anyone in the family has bought a subscription or the one-time plan, every family member can choose a color for the app (red/orange/yellow/green/blue) in their profile - and the choice is personal to each person: different family members can each have a different color. The free plan keeps the default color (gold).

If your one-time recipe quota has run out, or you have frozen shares (section 13), a message will appear on the home page that you can dismiss, with a direct link to resolve it.

A separate page with full details on the differences between plans →

21 Adding the app to your home screen

This makes the app open like any other app, with no browser address bar:

📱 On iPhone (Safari)

• 1 Open the site in Safari
• 2 Tap the share button (the square with an arrow) at the bottom of the screen
• 3 Scroll down and tap "Add to Home Screen"
• 4 Tap "Add". The Momasort icon will appear on your home screen

🤖 On Android

On most Android phones the default browser is Chrome. If you're not sure which browser is open, check the name at the top of the page itself.

• 1 Tap the three dots ⋮ in the top corner
• 2 Tap "Install app" or "Add to Home screen"
• 3 Tap "Install" / "Add". The icon will appear on your home screen

22 FAQ