Wokmate (鑊氣)

Wokmate (鑊氣) helps you plan your meals and share recipes and menus with your domestic helper in several languages, so cooking instructions are clear for everyone — no matter which language you each speak best.

Every recipe is presented in four languages — English, Traditional Chinese, Tagalog, and Bahasa Indonesia — so you and your helper can each read it in the language you're most comfortable with.

The free version is complete and works fully on its own — all the recipes in four languages, search and filters, favourites, the meal planner and shopping list, and full sharing with your helper. You can run your whole kitchen on the free version.

The paid Family subscription adds one thing: automatic cloud sync. Up to 3 phones in your household share one live menu — when you pick tonight's dishes, your helper's phone updates instantly and she gets a notification in her own language, with no copying or pasting. It also removes ads. That's the whole difference — it's the same app, plus the convenience of live sync. On the free version you simply share the menu manually (see the next question), which works just as well.

A single recipe — open the recipe and tap Share. It sends plain, readable text (the dish name, its number, and step-by-step instructions) in your helper's language, straight to WhatsApp. She just reads it.

A whole day's menu — open the Planner, build the day, and tap Share. This produces a short menu code: a few readable lines followed by a block in { } brackets. That { } block is NOT an error code — it's the menu itself, packaged so the app can read it. Send the whole message (including the { }) to your helper on WhatsApp. She then opens Wokmate → the Planner tab → taps Import → pastes the entire code (brackets and all) → and the whole menu drops into her planner in one tap, translated into her language.

So if you see the { } code, that's working exactly as intended — it's how the free version moves a full menu between phones without cloud sync.

No — you can browse all the recipes and share them right away, without an account. Creating an account is only needed if you want the paid Family version's cloud sync across your household's phones.

We keep improving Wokmate for everyone — new recipes and features arrive as free updates. There will only ever be one price tier; we won't introduce higher or additional paid tiers.

Instead, we'll keep adding useful features to this single Family subscription, and it's this one tier that lets us recover our running costs (mainly the cloud servers behind live sync). So the free app stays rich and keeps getting better, while the one subscription steadily grows in value.

Wokmate is available on both iPhone (iOS) and Android phones. You can download it from the App Store or Google Play.

We'd love to hear from you. Email us any time at chrisandangela2025@gmail.com and we'll get back to you.