Prompt template
Recipe app prompt — copy, paste, build
A prompt for a native recipe app with search, favorites, shopping list, and a hands-free step mode. Designed to handle long recipe content cleanly on small screens.
The prompt
Build a native iOS and Android recipe app with: (1) a home tab with a "what to cook tonight" hero card and category chips (breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, vegan), (2) a recipe detail screen with hero image, ingredients, steps, prep time, and a "step mode" with screen-stays-awake, (3) a favorites tab, (4) a shopping list tab that auto-fills from saved recipes and supports manual items, (5) a search tab with text search and dietary filters. Use Expo, React Navigation, twrnc for styling, AsyncStorage for favorites and lists, and Expo KeepAwake for step mode.
Variants
Lite
Build a recipe app with categories, recipe detail, and a favorites tab. Skip the shopping list.
Pro
Build a recipe app with categories, search, dietary filters, favorites, shopping list with grocery-aisle grouping, hands-free step mode, meal planner, and weekly grocery export.
What you get
- Expo + React Native project ready for Snack live preview
- Category browse + dietary search
- Recipe detail with ingredients and steps
- Hands-free step mode (Expo KeepAwake)
- Auto-filling shopping list
- Local favorites
Screens included
- Home
- Category
- Recipe detail
- Step mode
- Favorites
- Shopping list
- Search
Why this prompt works in AppGenie
Recipe content is data-heavy — long lists of ingredients, multi-paragraph steps, dietary metadata. AppGenie's A4 architect produces a typed data model up front so the validator catches missing fields before they hit the preview.
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Does the prompt include sample recipes?
It scaffolds five seed recipes so the preview is non-empty. Ask "swap in 20 vegan recipes" to expand the seed set in chat.
How does step mode keep the screen awake?
AppGenie wires Expo KeepAwake automatically and adds it to the dependency manifest, so the step mode disables the auto-lock while the recipe is in front of the user.
Ready to ship a recipe app?
Paste this prompt into AppGenie. The diff-aware multi-agent pipeline produces a real Expo + React Native project you can preview live, iterate in chat, and own end-to-end.