The Cook'n Elves are making so many wonderful improvements to Cook'n that it's hard to keep track of them all!

For example, in the last week, the Elves increased the size of the font in the weekly newsletter. The larger font makes it much easier to read newsletter articles...especially on your mobile phone! These poor old eyes needed it. Thank you Elves!!

The Cook'n Elves also added a Share Cook'n tab to make it easier for you to share Cook'n with family & friends.

As you can see in the following screen recording, to use the new feature, simply launch Cook'n on your mobile device, tap More on the bottom navigation bar, and tap Share.

One of the reasons we added this Share Cook'n option is in preparation for the release of the new Family Plan. When you sign up for the Family Plan, this Share option will make it easy for you to share Cook'n with your family & friends.

The other reason we added the new Share Cook'n option is because we want to make it super easy for you to share Cook'n. We NEED you to share Cook'n!

You see...most software companies like ours spend gobs of money promoting their app. That's the name of the game! But, at DVO, we take all that advertising money and funnel it right back into app development with the hope that if we continue to make Cook'n better and better, Cook'n will spread by word-of-mouth.

We hope that if we put our entire advertising budget into R&D (Research & Development) and make Cook'n amazing you will tell your family & friends. We believe that if we do this well, over time, we will get MORE app installs by word-of-mouth than we would if we had put that money into advertising.

What do you think of our strategy?

Compared to other apps that you use, have you noticed that Cook'n seems to be constantly improving at a faster rate? Does it seem like we listen to you more than other companies listen to you? Do we seem more reachable and responsive to your requests?

Have you noticed that Cook'n just keeps getting better and better?

The truth is, this may not actually be the most effective way to run a software company in terms of growing the business and generating lots of revenue. In fact, if we were a publicly traded company with a Board of Directors and investors and so forth, we would probably be forced to pursue a traditional business strategy and spend more money promoting Cook'n and less money improving Cook'n.

But, we're not a public company. I own the company so I get to call the shots and I love the Cook'n Family...and I believe in you!! But, right now, we're falling a little short. We get some referrals each day but we are not getting as many app installs because of word-of-mouth that we need.

Please take a moment to use this new feature and share Cook'n! Tap the Share tab and post a quick message on Facebook letting your family & friends know why you like Cook'n. Tell them how it has helped you. And, tell them to Get Cook'n Good Look'n!!

About 5,000 people will read this newsletter article today. If those 5,000 Cook'n users took 2 minutes to share Cook'n right now and if each one were to reach out to 10 people, we could introduce Cook'n to 50,000 new people today! I think this is achievable, don't you? I mean...one post on Facebook might be seen by 50 people or more!

Rather than spending a bunch of money to get 50,000 new app installs, I would rather give that money to the Cook'n Elves to make Cook'n better. Doesn't that seem to make more sense to you too? If so, let's do it!

Actually, we've already done our part!! Check out some of the improvements we've made to Cook'n for iOS over the past year (see below...note: this is the iOS list only and does not include improvements made to the Cook'n Desktop App). Now we just need you to do your part! Please take 2 minutes right now and share Cook'n with your family & friends!!

Version 35.1.2 (posted on 9/20/24)

• Behind-the-scenes maintenance

Version 35.1.1 (posted on 9/18/24)

• New Feature! - Added "Share Cook'n" tab to make it easy to share Cook'n with your friends and family.

Version 35.1.0 (posted on 9/17/24)

• Behind-the-scenes maintenance

Version 35.0.5 (posted on 9/8/24)

• New Feature! - Recipes that have been made using "I Made This" will now be shared as the "I Made This" version when sharing to Facebook or other social media using the share button on the Recipe Detail View.

Version 35.0.4 (posted on 8/27/24)

• Behind-the-scenes maintenance

Version 35.0.3 (posted on 8/20/24)

• Behind-the-scenes maintenance

Version 35.0.2 (posted on 7/27/24)

• Behind-the-scenes maintenance

Version 35.0.1 (posted on 7/23/24)

• Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the app to close when viewing an internet recipe

Version 35.0.0 (posted on 7/17/24)

• New Feature!! - Added Capture Preview for web recipes which displays next to the recipe webpage. Now you won't have to dig through recipe webpages to find the recipe, woohoo!

Version 34.2.2 (posted on 6/28/24)

• New Feature! - Added view counts to recipes in the "Recently Made" section on the Discover View

Version 34.2.1 (posted on 6/20/24)

• Fixed: Entering a URL into the Search Internet field did not work correctly

Version 34.2.0 (posted on 6/6/24)

• Completely re-designed the notification center from scratch, and added notifications back to the Discover View

Version 34.1.0 (posted on 6/4/24)

• Improved image loading in the 'Live Recipe Feed' so that scrolling is smoother
• Fixed: Sometimes the Discover View would hang after app launch
• Fixed: Sometimes the Scoreboard would grow and shrink while loading
• Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the app to close

Version 34.0.4 (posted on 5/31/24)

• Fixed an issue where web recipes did not correctly open in Cook'n when Cook'n was closed
• Fixed an issue where the ingredient selector sometimes selected the wrong ingredient
• Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the app to close

Version 34.0.3 (posted on 5/29/24)

• Added the ability to refresh the Discover View by pulling down
• Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the app to close

Version 34.0.2 (posted on 5/26/24)

• Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the app to close

Version 34.0.1 (posted on 5/25/24)

• Fixed an issue where shared recipes did not correctly open in Cook'n
• Fixed an issue with the Cook'n A.I. Recipe Recommender

Version 34.0.0 (posted on 5/23/24)

• New Feature!! - BRAND-NEW, SUPER-SLICK Discover View! Get ready to discover recipes like never before!

Version 33.0.3 (posted on 3/7/24)

• New! Added "I Made This" Button to Recipe Detail View

Version 33.0.2 (posted on 3/4/24)

• Add "Sort By" filter to Recently Made recipes
• Add "Show" filter to Recently Made recipes

Version 33.0.1 (posted on 2/23/24)

• Fixed Capture for Many Websites

Version 33.0.0 (posted on 2/8/24)

• NEW FEATURE!! - When you finish making a delicious recipe, you can now post it using the all new "I Made This" feature so that other Cook'n users can see and appreciate your hard work in the kitchen!
• NEW FEATURE!! - View recipes that other Cook'n users are making on the all new "Recently Made" ticker, the all new "Recently Made" page, and the all new "Made By" page!
• NEW FEATURE!! - Spread the love by liking Recently Made recipes! If you find an amazing recipe that someone just made, you can 'Like' it to show them you appreciate their hard work and encourage them to share more amazing recipes!
• NEW FEATURE!! - Brand new leaderboards to see statistics on likes, recipes made, and more!

Version 32.4 (posted on 1/29/24)

• Fixed an issue where the app could close under certain conditions when editing the account information
• Under-the-hood improvements

Version 32.3 (posted on 1/25/24)

• Workaround for an apparent recent iOS bug in the handling of web page videos
• Under-the-hood improvements

Version 32.0 (posted on 10/20/23)

• Restored the features that were temporarily removed (mainly watchOS related support) in the 31.0 end-of-life maintenance release for older devices. This release and future updates will require iOS/iPadOS 15.0 or higher, and watchOS 9.0 or higher for Cook'n watch app support.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Version 31.0 (posted on 10/19/23)

• Fixed a crashing issue for older devices.
• This is the last release with support for older devices. Future updates will require iOS/iPadOS 15.0 or higher.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Version 30.1 (posted on 10/16/23)

• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, making additional changes to work around some remaining watch sleep/wake issues.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to better handle the smallest watch display that we support (40mm), to render the watch recipe view content without the left and right edges overflowing the display.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, improving the rendering logic for the recipe image in the watch recipe view, to scale as well as crop the image data while preserving the aspect ratio, filling the frame, and using all of the image data.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to check for new received data while the image data was being loaded, and if so continue refreshing with the new data to avoid a double UI refresh cycle.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to detect when a watch recipe data update would update to the same data, and if so skip the update to avoid a double UI refresh cycle.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, attempting to delay the watch sleep when the app is in the foreground, when the device allows it (not supported in newer watchOS releases).
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to simplify the UI by removing extra refresh and reset buttons.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Version 30.0 (posted on 10/10/23)

• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to work around some data connectivity issues.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Version 29.9 (posted on 10/8/23)

• Improved the data syncing for the Cook'n Apple Watch app, for watch app sleep/wake and close/open in certain cases.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to detect data sync failures and allow for a manual refresh of the recipe data in such cases.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, with better handling for larger custom font sizes for the welcome screen.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, with optimized loading for the recipe image data.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, adding a shorter timeout for the recipe image data load process, for more consistent behavior.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to show a spinner view while the recipe data is being refreshed.
• Enhanced the Cook'n Apple Watch app, to allow for a manual refresh of the recipe data from the recipe view.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Version 29.8 (posted on 10/4/23)

• Improved the recipe data refreshing for the Cook'n Apple Watch app, for cases where the watch app sleeps and then wakes up or is closed and then reopened.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Version 29.7 (posted on 9/25/23)

• Fixed an issue where the app startup process could pause on the first launch after an upgrade, needing the app to be closed and restarted.
• Improved the look and feel and usability of the Cook'n Apple Watch app.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Version 29.6 (posted on 9/17/23)

• Fixed a rare issue where viewing a recipe could cause the app to close.
• Under-the-hood improvements.

Wow! That's a lot of improvements and new features in one year. Way to go Cook'n Elves!!

Now it's your turn to save an Elf!

Tap More and then tap Share and let's get 50,000 new app installs today!!