Welcome to Foodie Moiety
A moiety (pronounced moy-uh-tee) is a word frequently used in chemistry that loosely translates to "a portion of." We chose the word because one of the core features of the desktop application is reusing collections of steps across multiple recipes — making the creation and editing process more efficient and fun. Pie crusts, sauces, side dishes — anything that might be part of a recipe and useful in others. The concept of a moiety will save you a lot of time and effort if you choose to take advantage of it, and we make it easy to do so. But there is a lot more to Foodie Moiety than recipe step reuse.
A Full-Service Recipe Editor
The application's recipe editor constructs recipes in a stepwise fashion. Each step supports an image and/or video along with ingredients and directions. You can save your work as a "recipe" or a "moiety," and those items become content in your library. When creating recipes, a selection of your moieties and community moieties (more on that later) are just a click away, ready to insert. You can categorize your recipes with tags and cuisine types for search filtering in the app and on the website.
A Hands-Free Recipe Viewer
Foodie Moiety was designed to make the process of cooking as efficient and enjoyable as possible. The recipe viewer includes hands-free step navigation with voice commands. Each step has an ingredients view and a directions view so you can see exactly what you need without navigating away. Images, video, and text are optimized in a 16:9 aspect ratio window for viewing on a laptop or on a larger monitor in full screen. Font sizes are adjustable for reading directions from a distance. Wearing a headset while using Foodie Moiety hands-free completes the workflow by cutting ambient noise out of the voice control detection and allowing voice commands while viewing recipe videos.
A Smarter Video Player
Recipe videos often include repetitive tasks — kneading dough, stirring a sauce, chopping vegetables — where watching at normal speed doesn't add much value. The Foodie Moiety video player lets you select a time range on the video and adjust the playback speed for that section. Skip through the repetitive parts at 2x or 3x speed while keeping the important technique demonstrations at normal pace. It's a small feature that saves real time when you're following along in the kitchen.
A Book Editor
Want to create a cookbook out of your recipes? Foodie Moiety allows you to create beautiful digital books complete with a table of contents, images, and video.
An Article Editor
The recipe editor serves double duty as an article editor. When creating an article, your steps become paragraphs, and images and video naturally flow into the structure of the article you are writing — ready to publish to the community.
A Community
Everything you create in Foodie Moiety (other than articles) can be exported to a file that you can share directly with friends and family to be imported into the app. But the real power of the platform is its community features.
Right from inside the app, you can upload recipes, books, and articles to the community website. The website serves as a community repository where users can browse, download, and open content in the app for editing and viewing. Free users of the desktop app and website are welcome to download recipes from the community — from the website or right from the community view in the app.
Recipe Tips
One of the things that many internet recipe sites get right are recipe comment sections. They're not a perfect feature and they're a moderation nightmare, but among the comments are often very helpful tips on modifying a recipe for food intolerances or different tastes. We took a slightly different approach.
We built a recipe "tips" section into the app where users of your recipe can leave constructive tips that are viewable in a tips panel. Moderation of those tips is left to the creator of the recipe — just sign into your account and visit the account page to see tips users have left for your recipes, then approve or reject them. The focus should be on constructive tips that help users out. Spam or objectionable material is easily rejected from your account page.
Creator Accounts
Uploading a recipe to the community requires a free account, which gives you a profile page on the website where people can follow you and browse your recipes. If you upgrade from a free account to a Creator account, you get larger recipe upload counts and sizes — including video. Creator accounts can also upload books.
Sell Your Digital Books
As a Creator, you can upload a book to the community and set a price for it — or make it free. Payment processing for paid book downloads is built into the site, and you can set up payout accounts through Stripe right from your Foodie Moiety account page. We take care of the authoring tool with the free app, publish your book to the community, handle the payment and payout process, and you keep the majority of the proceeds:
- Creator Listing — $2/month — you keep 65% of proceeds
- Creator Subscription — $4/month — you keep 80% of proceeds
You won't get a deal that good trying to publish a hardcover recipe book through a traditional publisher, and your readers certainly won't have as easy a time navigating your book's recipes in the kitchen as they would with the Foodie Moiety app.
Foodie Moiety never sees your share of the proceeds. Our cut is deposited into our account and your cut is deposited into the payout account you set up through the website's Stripe integration.
Articles
Some foodies are creators, some are recipe consumers, and others like writing about food and all the related products, restaurants, and equipment that go along with creating and consuming it. If that last one is you, the article editor is a great way to engage the community and drive traffic to recipes and books you might wish to create. With a Creator account, you can include video in your articles and enjoy larger upload limits.
The Book of Moiety
Another great way to engage the community is to contribute to The Book of Moiety. Each time you choose to upload a collection of steps saved as a moiety, you're given the opportunity to submit it as a candidate for inclusion. Submissions are subject to the same review process as all recipes and books — to maintain quality and filter out objectionable material.
If your moiety is chosen for inclusion in a volume of The Book of Moiety, your display name and a link to your profile page will be included in the book, and you'll be contributing to the collection of moieties the community can draw from when creating their own recipes. The Book of Moiety is free to download through the website and the app — a great way to foster community engagement and raise awareness of your published content, whether free or for sale.
Utilities
The Foodie Moiety app is all about making your cooking experience easier, and we've included some utilities that simplify everyday tasks.
The Clipboard
If you don't want to save a selection of steps as a moiety for later use but still want to grab several steps from the recipe you're working on, you can select them and copy them to the internal clipboard. From the clipboard view, you can create recipes from its contents or leave steps there to use in a future recipe.
The Grocery List
Right from inside the recipe editor, you can generate an aggregated list of ingredients for your recipe with one click and store it on the recipe's introductory step. From there, you can copy those ingredients to the grocery list, then open the grocery list view to edit, add, or delete items before sending them to your phone using the Pushover app (pushover.net).
Foodie Moiety integrates the Pushover app setup so you can easily push your grocery list to your iOS or Android phone. There is only a one-time fee of $5 for the Pushover app, and if you're willing to spend it, collecting ingredients from your recipes — plus any other grocery items you need — and sending them to your phone becomes a breeze.