IFTTT Renames Its Recipes to Applets and Merges All Its Mobile Apps Into One
If This Then That , one of the best automation tools, is undergoing a major overhaul today that changes some of the fundamental ways the service works. The biggest change is the rebranding of its recipe system, it now allows one trigger to connect to multiple services.
On the branding side, the recipes have been replaced with applets. These applets can now be much more powerful than recipes. If recipes have always been limited in the sense that you could only connect one single service to one other (if this, then then), applets can now connect multiple services together (if this, then this, then that). For example, if you wanted to compose a recipe that would send an email to one service that would cause the Wi-Fi light to turn yellow and the Nest thermostat to drop to 30 degrees, you would need to use two separate recipes. … This is now possible in one applet.
However, there is a big catch: right now, only service providers can create these feature-rich applets. This means you have to wait for companies like Nest , Amazon, or Lifx to create applets if you want these many features. In 2017, there will presumably be a new layer for individual users that will allow users to create these applets, although we’ll have to wait to see exactly how this works. You can still create your own if-this-then-that recipes that tie the two services together, but they are now called applets.
In addition to the new applet system, the three Do, Do Camera, Do Button and Do Notebook apps are merged back into the main IFTTT apps on Android and iPhone .
Meet the new IFTTT | IFTTT