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The onboarding walkthrough explained

The first time you open Forktastic after signing up, the app walks you through a short questionnaire. It exists to personalize the app for your cooking style, surface the features that matter most to you, and give you a few recipes to get started with.

You can skip most steps if you want to — Forktastic uses whatever you tell it (and reasonable defaults for whatever you don’t) to set up your account. None of your answers are permanent; everything can be changed later from Options → Account settings.

The full sequence is about 12 short screens.

What you’ll be asked

1. Welcome

A short intro screen with the Forktastic logo and a brief explanation of what the app does. Tap Get started to continue.

2. Your cooking goal

Pick the single thing you most want to do with Forktastic:

  • Plan my meals — meal-plan-first user
  • Share recipes with family — family-sharing user
  • Save recipes I find online — bookmarker
  • Discover new recipes — explorer
  • Organize my existing recipes — organizer

Whichever you pick, Forktastic emphasizes that feature in later screens. You can change your mind any time — this doesn’t lock anything.

3. Pain points

A short multi-select asking what’s annoying about how you currently manage recipes — things like “I lose recipes I bookmark”, “I have recipes scattered across 10 different apps”, “Meal planning takes too long”. Pick the two or three that ring true.

4. Social proof

A screen with user reviews and app stats. Tap Continue to move on. (This is purely informational — no question to answer.)

5. Recipe discovery (Tinder-style)

Forktastic shows five recipe cards one at a time. Swipe right to save (or tap the heart), swipe left to skip (or tap the X). This gives Forktastic a quick sense of your taste, and the recipes you saved become the first five in your cookbook.

6. Your personalized solution

A summary screen explaining how Forktastic will help with the specific goal and pain points you picked. Tap Continue.

7. Voice control intro

Forktastic introduces Cook Mode and explains that you can navigate recipes hands-free with voice commands. You’ll see a sample of the commands (“next”, “previous”, “repeat”, “set timer for 10 minutes”). Tap Continue — no action required here.

8. Apple Health integration (iOS only)

If you’re on iOS, Forktastic offers to log meals to Apple Health so your nutrition shows up in the Health app. You can enable this now or later from Options → Account settings.

9. Dietary preferences

Tick any dietary restrictions or preferences that apply. Forktastic uses these to flag incompatible recipes and filter Explore tab suggestions. Leave everything unchecked if you don’t have any restrictions.

10. Microphone permission

If you said you might use Cook Mode, Forktastic asks for microphone permission so voice commands work. You can grant it now or later — Cook Mode will ask again the first time you start it.

11. Processing

A brief loading screen while Forktastic sets up your account, applies your preferences, and queues up the five recipes you swiped on.

12. App demo + paywall

A 3–4-slide carousel showing the headline features (import, meal planning, Cook Mode, family sharing). At the end you get one of two CTAs:

  • Pick 3 recipes to get started — drops you on the Explore tab to discover trending recipes
  • Skip for now — drops you on the Cookbook tab

You’ll also see Forktastic’s Pro subscription paywall once during this step. You can subscribe now to unlock Pro features immediately, or skip — most of the free tier is available without subscribing. See Free vs Pro for what each includes.

Skipping onboarding

You can tap Skip on most screens to fast-forward. The questions are useful for personalizing the app, but they’re not required. You can re-run any preference flow later from Options → Account settings.

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