Recipe history

Every time you save a change to a recipe’s text, Mirepoix records that version. You can look back through earlier versions, see what changed, and bring an old version back. (A Done that changes nothing records nothing, and neither does swapping the photo — a version holds the written recipe, not the picture.)

History starts fresh

Mirepoix changed how it stores recipes, and the old version records didn’t come with it. History begins at that changeover. A version saved before it can’t be viewed and can’t be restored. A recipe you deleted before it has left Recently deleted for good — an old link to that recipe now lands on a plain not-found page. Every recipe you already had opens its history with a single entry from the changeover, credited to nobody and noted History begins here. Everything saved since is recorded the way it always was.

Open the history

Open a recipe, then tap History in the second row of actions below the recipe header. It’s always there — even a recipe you’ve never edited has its first version to show.

The history page lists every recorded version, oldest first. Each row carries:

When it was saved, and who saved it.
What happened — Original for the first version, updated for a save, restored for a restore. A change that came from Mirabel adds · via Mirabel.
The note, when that version has one.

Tap View to read a version, or Restore to bring it back. ← Back to recipe returns you to the recipe.

See one version

Tap View on a row. Mirepoix renders that whole version — every step and every ingredient — with the differences from the recipe as it stands now marked. Highlighted text is what this version said; struck-through text is what the recipe says now instead. So a step the recipe has gained since shows struck through, and a step it has lost shows highlighted. The title, the tags, and the rest of the recipe’s details sit at the top, marked the same way.

Above the version, a label tells you how far back you’re looking — N edits behind current, or Current version for the newest one. The newest version has nothing to differ from, so it shows without marks. When the version carries a note, it appears just below that label.

Step to the version before or after with the ◄ and ► arrows, or jump straight to one from the dropdown — no need to go back to the list first.

Tap × close to leave the version and return to the recipe.

Restore an earlier version

Tap Restore on a row in the history list, or Restore this version while you’re reading one. Mirepoix writes that version’s exact content back to the recipe, through the same save the editor uses.

Restoring never erases anything. The restored content becomes the newest version, recorded as restored and noted with the date of the version it came from — so a restore can itself be undone by restoring the version before it.

The newest version offers no Restore. It’s already what the recipe says.

Notes about your changes

A version is recorded with or without a note. You don’t write these notes yourself — Mirepoix adds one when it changes a recipe on your behalf.

When you rename a recipe, any other recipe that mentions it is updated to match, and each of those saves is noted with the old and new title. Renaming or deleting a tag does the same to every recipe carrying it; so does renaming a category, and deleting one moves its recipes to Miscellaneous with a note saying so.

Fixing an ingredient from a recipe’s Review ingredients list — rewriting its name to match your catalog, or giving it a weight — edits the recipe, so it’s saved as a version too, noted with what changed.

An edit you apply from Mirabel is recorded like any other save and marked via Mirabel, so you can tell her changes from your own. Read it, compare it, and restore it just like any other version.

Restore or permanently delete a deleted recipe

A deleted recipe isn’t gone for good. At the bottom of the recipe list, Recently deleted lists the recipes you’ve removed since the changeover.

Tap Restore to bring a recipe back. Tap Delete forever to remove it from Recently deleted and from recipe history. Mirepoix asks you to confirm before deleting it forever; once confirmed, it can’t be undone.