The iWhisk Guide
Improve your cooking with the things you already have.
Short, practical articles. Start by photographing one shelf to start one recipe creation, and iWhisk builds your experience from there.
Contents
Guide and Support Documents. While we review every copy and changes with AI, one or both of us will make mistakes.
01
Start here
What iWhisk is, what the setup questions change, and the fastest route to your first useful suggestion.
1.01Welcome to iWhiskMost cooking apps ask you to keep a database. iWhisk asks you to take a photo.
1.02Your first fifteen minutesAnswer a few questions, photograph your kitchen, and let iWhisk suggest dinner.
1.03What the setup questions changeThe setup questions tune your starting point, not your permissions.
02
Your Kitchen
Capturing what you have, reviewing before it saves, use-by dates you can trust, and keeping it accurate without it becoming a chore.
2.01Capture your first shelfPhotograph everything at once, or start with one shelf, then correct anything wrong before you save.
2.02What to photograph, and what to skipOne area per photo beats one photo of everything.
2.03Reviewing before you saveNothing enters your Kitchen until you say so.
2.04Use-by dates, and where they come fromEvery date carries its source, and you can change any of them.
2.05Add a whole grocery trip from the receiptPhotograph the receipt instead of unpacking into the app.
2.06Use first, on hand, expiredKitchen sorts your food by what needs your attention.
03
Your Cookbook
Four ways to save a recipe, how collections work, and exactly who can see what.
3.01Four ways to add a recipePhotograph it, paste a link, paste the text, or write it yourself.
3.02Saving a recipe from a linkPaste a full https link, add a note, and review the draft.
3.03Saving a recipe from a photoIf a human can read it, photograph it.
3.04CollectionsUp to five collections, named however you like.
3.05Privacy and sharingPrivate by default. One read-only link, revocable at any time.
04
Photograph food well
The single highest-leverage skill in the product. Works with any camera, and makes everything downstream better.
4.01Good light is the whole trickFind a window, and turn your back to the kitchen lights.
4.02Angle and distanceFlat things from straight above, tall things from the side.
4.03Shadows and glareIf you can see a bright white patch or your own outline, move.
4.04Photographing cookbook pagesFlatten the book, shoot straight down, one page at a time.
4.05The pre-flight checklistFour seconds, and it accounts for most of the difference.
05
Cook and plan
Recording what you cooked, turning a recipe into a grocery list, and the habits that make both easier.
5.01Cook Mode, one step at a timeThe step you are on, large enough to read from across the counter, with the ingredients still in view.
5.02Cooking Lanes, and who decides themChef Cooper proposes how the work splits. Nothing runs until you have confirmed it.
5.03Reviewing the plan before you cookEvery lane, dependency and time estimate is yours to change before anything starts.
5.04The lane map, and the independent clocksEvery lane keeps its own clock, and not one of them starts itself.
5.05Cooking with your voiceTurn it on and Cooper reads the step aloud, so you can keep both hands in the food.
5.06Recording a cookOne tap that updates your kitchen, your history, and every future suggestion.
5.07The Grocery ListWhat your kitchen is missing, and nothing is ordered without you.
5.08Six quick habits worth havingSix habits that pay back the same evening, and none of them need the app.
06
Your Journey
What the points mean, how rank actually moves, and why nothing you do here is ever held against you.
6.01What Journey shows youFour things: what to do next, how far you have come, whether you are in a rhythm, and what your kitchen saved.
6.02Skill Points, and what earns themEvery point comes from something you did, and nothing ever takes them away.
6.03Brigade rank, and the capability gateSeven ranks. Points alone will not move you up one.
6.04Rhythm, and the day you are allowed to missCook, rescue or capture on a day and it counts. Miss one day in a week and nothing breaks.
6.05Goals, and why this oneOne focus at a time, with its reasoning shown and a swap if it does not suit you.
6.06Kitchen impact, and the money numberWhat you used, rescued and tossed over thirty days, and an estimate of what that was worth.
07
Account and help
Privacy, starting over, deleting, and what to do when something is not working.
7.01Privacy: what is private, and what is notEverything is private by default. Sharing is a deliberate act, and it is reversible.
7.02Resetting or deletingTwo different things. Read both before choosing.
7.03TroubleshootingThe handful of things that actually go wrong, and what to do about each.
7.04Frequently asked questionsShort answers, limited to what the app actually does today.