Lume

Lume, by Joao Franco, is a recipe manager built around cooking from one calm place. Recipes can be imported from websites and links, then organised with folders, tags and favourites. A weekly planner shows what is coming up and lets you move meals around, and adding a recipe gathers its ingredients into a grocery list sorted by aisle.

In the kitchen, Cook Mode walks through a recipe step by step, keeps your place, shows ingredients when you need them and starts timers. An optional Hands-Free Cooking mode uses the TrueDepth camera to move between steps with a facial gesture when your hands are messy; the developer says it runs only on the device and saves no face data. Servings can be scaled and units converted, with every quantity updating at once, and recipes sync through iCloud and can be followed on Apple Watch.

Lume is free to start with room for 10 recipes. The optional Lume Pro purchase adds unlimited recipes, a shared household for recipes, plans and groceries, recipe scanning from the camera, files or photos, smart folders and a discovery feed of food blogs.

On iPhone Duo, version 1.0.1 (October 21, 2026) optimised the app for the device's displays.

Features

• Import recipes from websites and links
• Folders, tags and favourites
• Weekly meal planner
• Grocery list built from recipes, sorted by aisle
• Step-by-step Cook Mode with timers
• Optional hands-free step navigation (on-device)
• Scale servings and convert units
• iCloud sync and Apple Watch

According to the release notes for version 1.0.1 (October 21, 2026), "Lume is now optimized for iPhone Duo, so you can enjoy your recipes across both displays." The developer's image of the app on an unfolded iPhone Duo shows the recipe list on the left and the open recipe, with its ingredients and a side toolbar, on the right of the inner display. The notes do not describe a specific folded or half-open layout. DuoDiscover has not yet tested Lume on a device; the screenshot comes from the developer.

Lume is developed by Joao Franco.

Official website: lume.recipes