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What's new in Madmakker

The current release is Madmakker 1.6.10, published on Google Play on 26 September 2026. This page is updated every time a new version arrives, so you can see what changed and when.

1.6.2 — 4 September 2026

One fix, and it only affected the German version: the timer button under the recipe steps was not there at all.

  • When a step mentions a time, a button appears that sets your phone's timer. It could only recognise the Danish words for minutes, so where a German step said "6-8 Minuten" no button appeared — 437 steps without a timer. The English version only worked by chance, because "min" is the start of "minutes"
  • The button now finds the time in all three languages. If the step gives a range, it takes the higher number, so it will not go off before the food is done

The Danish and English versions of the app are unchanged.

1.6.1 — 3 September 2026

Four fixes, all of them found by using the app on a phone rather than by any test.

  • Calm mode could be switched on without doing anything. If you had turned it off by switching off the five parts under »Customise it yourself«, the main switch was dead afterwards: the app looked the same whichever way it was set. The switch now turns the parts on with it when they are all off
  • Settings brought back the tips you had dismissed every time you saved — and handed out points for it, as though you had found them again
  • The note on a day in a plan made before 1.6 stayed in Danish in the English and German app. The old notes are now carried over when the plan is loaded
  • The card telling you that you had unlocked an achievement was drawn behind the recipe dialogue and switched itself off after four seconds. The points were counted, but you never saw the receipt. The card now waits until the dialogue is closed

1.6 — 3 September 2026

Madmakker gained English and German. The app follows your phone's language, and from Android 13 the language can be set for the app on its own, under Settings → Apps → Madmakker → Language.

  • The whole interface is translated, and all 212 recipes come with it: names, descriptions and methods
  • The shopping list is translated too, but the ingredients keep the names the products carry on the shelf in a Danish shop. The list has to work while you are standing in the shop
  • Prices stay in kroner and the shops stay Danish, whichever language the app is in
  • Your current weekly plan comes along. Change the language, and the same days and the same ticks are still on the shopping list

1.5 — 2 September 2026

Two things, both about correcting the week after it has been laid out: moving a meal to where it fits, and releasing a lock that is no longer helping.

  • Move a meal to the day you point at. The dialogue now shows the days of the week rather than the portions, and the meal settles on the day you chose
  • A day that is done can be seen on the plan
  • If you have cooked all of the week's food and ask for a new plan, the app asks whether the locked meals may be replaced too. A lock on a meal you have already eaten otherwise gives you the same food again
  • The padlocks give a short wave when the plan changes, so you can see it was the lock and not a fault. With »reduce visual stimuli« switched on they stay completely still

1.4 — 1 September 2026

The prices were checked against the shops' own online stores, and you can now choose where you shop.

  • Choose between discount (Netto, Rema, Lidl, Aldi) and supermarket (SuperBrugsen, Meny, Føtex, Kvickly). The price list has always been calculated on discount prices, and a budget can now match the shop you actually go to
  • The five items you have to visit a butcher for — beef heart, calf's liver, marrow bones, minced lamb and bone broth — can be excluded
  • Over twenty prices were corrected after checking the shops' own online stores

1.3.1 — 31 August 2026

Two corrections to what the week costs.

  • The prices are now fetched from a server instead of being fixed in the app. A wrong price can therefore be corrected without an update on Play
  • Store cupboard basics — salt, pepper, butter, flour, sugar, vinegar and oil — no longer count towards the week's price. The screen has always shown the right figure; it was the engine that counted them

1.3 — 31 August 2026

An ingredient you could not buy was swapped out.

  • Beef tallow was swapped for butter in 18 meals. Tallow is not on the shelf in a Danish supermarket, and a meal you cannot shop for on a Wednesday is not a meal. Same quantities, same steps, same price
  • The meals fried in butter count as lactose-free again. 30-40 g of butter across four portions is about 0.01 g of lactose per serving, while cream, cheese and milk still make a meal contain lactose
  • Nutrition per serving is now exported to the recipe pages on this website, calculated by the app's own code

1.2 — 30 August 2026

A release about sharing. The household code can now be sent as a link, the weekly plan and the shopping list can be sent as plain text, and the offer of help arrives at a smarter moment than before.

  • The household code can be sent as a link. The person you live with taps it, and the app opens with the code already filled in
  • The weekly plan and the shopping list can be shared as text, in a text message for instance. The list includes only what is still left to buy
  • The offer of help when dinner did not happen now comes early if the meal takes a long time, and later if it is quick. It does not come on leftover days, and not if you have been in the app yourself

1.1 — 29 August 2026

A release that added no buttons but rewrote the food. Every recipe was rewritten so it reads like a meal rather than a list of ingredients, and the steps now say when something is done, not merely how long to wait.

  • 60 meals that were called something along the lines of »chicken with carrots and cream« got their real names back: kyllingefrikassé, skipperlabskovs, boller i karry, brunede kartofler
  • Every meal has its own description
  • The timings were corrected where they were wrong — carrots now get the time they need
  • Animal-based food no longer fills the weekly plan unless you have chosen that diet
  • Twelve meals were removed and five new ones added. The app now has 212 recipes

1.0 — 28 August 2026

The first public release. Madmakker became freely available on Google Play with the whole app free: no subscriptions, no in-app purchases and no ads.

Included in 1.0:

  • A weekly plan for lunch and dinner, built from the household and a weekly budget, with leftovers taken into account
  • A shopping list gathered from the week's meals, sorted by your own shop order
  • 219 Danish recipes, with a focus mode and a timer on every step
  • »Not today« — with one suggestion at a time, and bought food as a valid choice
  • Household sharing of the plan and the list between two phones through a short code, without accounts
  • Diets (everything, vegetarian, vegan, mostly animal-based) and exclusion of gluten, lactose and fish
  • Reminders about defrosting and about getting started, at times you set yourself
  • A widget showing today's dinner
  • Price estimates adjusted by the food consumer price index from Statistics Denmark
  • 96 achievements and a points layer that can be switched off entirely
  • A light and a dark theme, and a setting that reduces motion

Before 1.0

Madmakker was tested through the summer of 2026 by a group of testers who wrote back through the feedback button in the app. Much of what is described above was fixed because of what they wrote. The feedback button is still there for the same reason.

The language of the app

Madmakker is available in Danish, English and German from 1.6. The interface, all 212 recipes and the shopping list are translated, and the app follows your phone's language.

How updates reach you

Through Google Play like every other app, usually on their own. Your weekly plan, your shopping list and your settings survive an update — the data is carried across, and that is tested before a version is released.

The numbers mean what you would expect: 1.0.x is fixes, 1.x is something new. If you have a wish for what should go into the next one, write in — the wishes largely decide the order.

Get Madmakker

Get it free on Google Play Android 7.0 and later · no account · no ads

This page was last reviewed on 3 September 2026 against Madmakker 1.2. If something here is wrong, write to kontakt@nixio.dk.