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Thymer

A cook-along app that walks you through a recipe one step at a time.

One Step at a Thyme.

What it is

Instead of scrolling up and down a recipe with flour-covered hands, Thymer paste-parses a recipe from a link or raw text and shows just one step on screen at a time, with timers built in for anything that needs waiting — “simmer for 10 minutes” becomes an actual countdown, not a sentence you have to remember.

How it works

  1. Paste a recipe link or the recipe text directly.
  2. Thymer looks for structured recipe data (schema.org JSON-LD) embedded in the page — the reliable extraction target regardless of a site's layout.
  3. If nothing's found automatically, a simple manual-entry form fills the gap — same result either way.
  4. Tap “Cook along” to step through the recipe one instruction at a time, with automatic timers for any waiting step.

Why it exists

The problem

Recipe websites are a nightmare to actually cook from — walls of text, life stories before the ingredients, and constant scrolling with messy hands. Thymer strips all of that away and leaves just the next thing you need to do.

Under the hood

The entire parsing pipeline was ported from a Python/FastAPI backend into TypeScript so the app runs fully on-device — no server required at all.

React Native / Expo JSON-LD recipe parsing (TypeScript) PDF export Tag/search/filter/sort
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