First-minute onboarding

Duolingo

You can tap Get started with no account. Duo says the questions are short, then the first lesson. Each step is one choice, not a form.

The account is not on these first screens. The public frames here stop at the setup questions. A practice question comes after this, in the same recording, but it is not one of the six pictures below.

Gallery badge in the corner is from ScreensDesign. It is on the real capture. Left out: a “how did you hear about us” screen in the same set. It is not the product.

Canva

Canva asks you to sign up before you make anything. Apple, Google, Facebook, or email. The design tool is not on these first screens.

After the account, it asks what you will use Canva for. The mail list has a clear Not now. That part is worth copying. The login wall is not.

Between signup and the purpose screen, the same walkthrough has email and a code. Those frames show a gallery test inbox, so they are not on this page. An iPhone tracking prompt also sits after the splash. It is the phone, not Canva’s product.

Headspace

The first seconds are a breath, not a form. You feel the app before you read a list of features.

This public capture still asks for an account before the goal question. After that, one question: what’s on your mind. Then it shows what you will get. It does not teach every button.

A later frame in the same gallery is an Apple sign-in sheet with a person’s email. It is left off this page. These shots are from an older public capture, not a 2026 recording.

Paprika

The public pictures are the app you use, not a quiz. Recipes, a browser, groceries, and scale sit up front.

Sync is a row in the menu, called Set up sync. It is not the first screen in the help shot. No public first-open wizard was found.

Gap: these are the official help and the store listing. They show the product, inside a phone frame on the store shots. They are not a filmed first launch.

Mela

The public site shows the wow on one screen. The blog is on the left. The clean recipe is on the right, with Add this recipe.

Next to the recipe are Cook, Groceries, and Adjust. You see scale and the basket without a tour. No public first-open wizard was found.

Gap: these are iPad pictures from Mela’s own site. They are the product, not a first-launch sequence. A signup screen was not in the public set.

Crouton

Swap. Samsung Food’s public App Store shots are posters, not a first-run. Crouton is a recipe app with a real first minute on record.

One welcome, then an empty cookbook. No account on these screens. Add is a short menu: website, camera, image, or text.

Paste a link, wait a moment, and the ingredients are already filled in. The wow is the parsed recipe, not a tour.

Samsung Food (formerly Whisk) was checked on the App Store. The listing is marketing art: a chef poster, meal-plan mockups, and a shopping-list card. No public step-by-step first launch was found, so it is not shown as if it were one.

What CookBank could copy

Ideas only. Not a build. CookBank scans or pastes a recipe, then converts, scales, and builds a grocery basket.

1. Open on the scan, like Crouton. Crouton lands on an empty cookbook and an Add menu. CookBank can open on Scan or Paste. Login can wait until the person wants to keep the recipe.
2. One real result before an account, like Duolingo. Duolingo starts the path with Get started, not a form. CookBank can run one scan or one pasted link first. Ask for an account when they tap Save.
3. Show the recipe next to the source, like Mela. Mela puts the web page and the clean recipe on one screen, with Add. CookBank’s wow is that same moment: the parsed recipe, the scale, and the basket.
4. Put scale and the basket on the recipe, like Paprika. Paprika’s store shots show Scale and Convert on the recipe, then the grocery list. Do not make people hunt for those after a tour.
5. A two-second taste, like Headspace. Headspace breathes before it explains. CookBank can show a sample card turning into a basket, then the real Scan button. Skip a feature carousel.
6. Do not copy Canva’s front door. Canva signs you up before you design. CookBank already does that with login before scan. Copy Canva’s later move only: optional mail, with a clear Not now.