Apple built a $299 screen whose whole job is helping you not ruin dinner.
HomeView, the company's new tabletop and wall-mounted kitchen device, launches November 13 in the U.S. at $299 for either version. Tap 'Start Cooking' on any recipe open in Safari and HomeView switches it into a step-by-step layout with hands-free timers you can start, pause, or check without touching a greasy screen. It handles multiple timers at once, keeping them visible as Live Activities even when you switch to another app, and it offers ingredient tracking alongside the instructions. Handoff lets you start reading a recipe on your iPhone and pick it up on the countertop display once you're actually in the kitchen, the same mechanism Apple already uses for calls, music, and video.
This is less about the hardware than about Apple giving Safari's reader mode an actual job: most recipe sites bury the ingredient list under ads and a life story, and HomeView's whole pitch is subtracting that friction. It also plants Apple's flag in a kitchen smart-display category that Amazon's Echo Show and Google's Nest Hub have had mostly to themselves for years.
Whether that's worth $299 depends on how much you value not smearing flour on your phone, a problem a $10 cookbook stand solves for free.