# Cooklist: Pantry Meals Recipes — Grocery List & Dinner Planner

> Recipe discovery and smart grocery list generator based on pantry inventory. (iPhone/iPad app by Cooklist, Inc.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cooklist-pantry-meals-recipes/id1352600944 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cooklist, Inc](https://appshunter.io/developer/1352600943)
- Category: Food & Drink, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.73/5 from 11,177 App Store ratings · 259 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 78 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2018-07-02
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cooklist-pantry-meals-recipes/id1352600944/reviews.md

## What is Cooklist?

Cooklist introduces an entirely new way to think about your relationship with cooking and grocery shopping. It connects to your grocery store loyalty cards and automatically downloads all of your food purchases into a digital pantry. Over 1 million cooking recipes are then matched to the groceries you have in your fridge and pantry and filtered to show you a feed of recipes you can cook with the food you already have. 

When it’s time to buy more groceries, simply choose the recipes you want to cook and Cooklist generates a grocery shopping list with only the ingredients that you are missing in your pantry and need to buy. It’s a meal kit experience at grocery store prices.

CONNECT YOUR GROCERY LOYALTY CARDS
• Works with Walmart, Kroger, Safeway, Wegmans and 75 more of your favorite grocery stores
• Automatically import past and future purchases
• Keep all your grocery receipts stored in one place
• Just like Mint.com, except for groceries!

AUTOMATIC PANTRY INVENTORY & INGREDIENT SCANNER
• Always know what ingredients you have on hand with our pantry check 
• Add pantry and fridge food items with a barcode scanner
• Use the ingredient scanner to find nutrition facts and details for over 1 million pantry and fridge food products

MEAL PLANNER & RECIPE KEEPER
• Over 1 million recipes generated by your pantry inventory to show you healthy recipes you can cook now 
• Meal plan according to your diet by adding filters to your pantry inventory and fridge foods
• Pantry check helps find recipes based on ingredients on hand so weekly meal planning is a breeze

SMART GROCERY SHOPPING LIST
• Shop by choosing recipes and only the ingredients you need are added to your grocery shopping list
• Intelligent recipe suggestions based on your past grocery purchases
• The grocery shopping list is automatically categorized by grocery aisle

REDUCE FOOD WASTE
• Keep track of how old each item in your pantry or fridge is
• Food and pantry inventory expiration notifications
• Automatic cooking recipes with ingredients that is expiring soon

COOK BETTER, TOGETHER
• Use Cooklist for easy recipes to cook with everyone in your household
• The grocery shopping list, pantry inventory, and recipes are shared with the household
• Automatically syncs between all devices and backed up in the cloud

Terms of Service: https://www.cooklist.co/terms-of-use

## Key features

- Automatic pantry inventory from loyalty cards
- Recipe suggestions based on available ingredients
- Smart, aisle-categorized grocery lists
- Food waste reduction features
- Household sharing of lists and inventory
- Barcode scanner for pantry items

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cooklist Pro Monthly | $7.99 | per month |
| Cooklist Pro Yearly | $49.99 | per year |
| Cooklist Pro Monthly | $5.99 | per month |
| Cooklist Pro Yearly | $59.99 | per year |
| Yearly access to Cooklist Pro | $59.99 | per year |
| Cooklist Pro Monthly | $9.99 | per month |
| Cooklist Pro Yearly | $59.99 | per year |


## Chart rankings

- #24 in Top Grossing · Food & Drink (US App Store)

## What do users think of Cooklist?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Efficient pantry management
- 🔍 Helpful recipe suggestions based on pantry
- 🤑 Saves money by using what's on hand
- 🧠 Organizes meal planning and grocery shopping
- 🌟 Comprehensive set of features
- 👍 Easy to use and set up

**Cons**

- 🐛 Glitchy app performance and crashes
- 🔒 Subscription model limits free features
- 🤖 Tedious onboarding and tutorial process
- 🛒 Inaccurate grocery price comparisons
- 🕰️ Slow receipt import and pantry updates

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Duplicate item entries in pantry
- Inconsistent recipe import functionality
- Meal plan copying/sharing issues
- Unreliable grocery store connections

**Most requested features**

- Ability to manually add custom recipes
- Pantry inventory management improvements
- Dietary/allergy filters for recipes
- Sync with calendar and health apps
- Expanded grocery store integrations

## Recent user reviews (10 of 259)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cooklist-pantry-meals-recipes/id1352600944/reviews.md

### 4/5 — So far so good!

*2026-08-20, version 1.109.1*

I was looking all around for something that could help me with recipes in my pantry AND to keep track of what i actually have in my pantry still. I’ve used other ai outlets like chatgpt but those outlets don’t help much overtime as it does with this app. 4/5 cause I’m still working out the kinks with the app overall and also cause i wish this was a free app but go and get that bag!

### 5/5 — Awesome App!!

*2026-08-19, version 1.109.1*

I’m not one to get excited about an app…but this app is genuinely amazing!!! Think of it as an elevated version of Pinterest? It took me maybe 30-45 min to scan all of the items in my pantry, fridge and freezer… but it’s worth it!!! This app allows me to view recipes using ONLY the items I have on hand, create my grocery lists in app, fill my Walmart, Target shopping carts, plan out my weekly menus etc. I highly recommend this app!!! I am a busy wife, almost mom, full time Paraprofessional at a school who’s always running errands and being a chauffeur! This app saves SO much time and helps me build my grocery lists with items I ACTUALLY need and plan my weekly meals even in my busy schedule!!! Just download it!

### 2/5 — Good concept ruined by bugs and greed

*2026-08-18, version 1.109.1*

When I first heard about Cooklist, I thought it sounded great: being able to keep track of your pantry, find recipes, make a weekly list, and then place your order directly with your local grocery store. I was just starting to cook so it was an extremely helpful tool for a while. We were using it so often we upgraded and got a subscription. But as time went on, various bits of functionality stopped working correctly and for the last two years the app has not worked correctly with Kroger stores, which is the primary set of stores we use. This meant that we could no longer transfer our shopping list to the store app, and our pantry stopped being updatable because it required a receipt from the store and the interface was no longer working. After years of it not working correctly we decided to cancel our subscription and go back to just the regular service. Apparently, in that time they have changed the functionality even more so now the app is almost useless if you don’t have a subscription. I have subscriptions for lots of things and I’m more than willing to spend the money if the product is worth it, but you are now forcing people into a monthly subscription for a broken product that doesn’t even provide half of the features that you use for marketing the product. At this point, I don’t think we would stay or come back even if you do get that functionality working again due to how bad of an experience this has been. And a related note, I enjoy that you invested more time into AI garbage than you did making sure the core functionality worked correctly. Feels like whoever is in charge lost sight of the purpose of the app and who they were trying to serve.

### 2/5 — Who’s rating this?!

*2026-08-14, version 1.109.1*

This is the worst meal prep subscription I’ve used! The pantry entry is decent enough but the meals are terrible. It feels like they have a bot scrapping the internet for recipes then doing a horrible time transferring the ingredients and instructions to their format. The first three meals I tried to cook, all highly rated, had ingredients in the steps that weren’t in the list so I didn’t shop for them. The alternative suggestions were ok but skipped very obvious ones I had. Example I needed black pepper powder and it suggested lemon pepper when I had fine ground black pepper in the app’s pantry. If this is all you used I suggest try any other similar app so you can gauge for yourself. I have 5 others I would recommend before this one.

### 3/5 — Great idea, but needs improvements

*2026-08-13, version 1.109.1*

I downloaded this hoping it would do what I already do manually via notion which is track my pantry and suggest recipes that I can make with what is going bad.

I didn’t need the extra features of the self ordering system as we eat as clean as possible so I can’t speak to that.

What I can speak to is the fact that there desperately needs to be some regulation to this app. I love the open source everyone can add everything idea, but one database doesn’t need 100 entries for say garlic powder. This leads to the items that you input not being recognized for what they are unless you find the “cooklist default” entry.

The next big problem is that half of the recipes are not completed either with ingredients or directions. So for example: for medical reasons I have to eat keto, but when recipes aren’t imputed into the system correctly things that are not keto in the slightest pop up. I was being given recipes that were “keto” but there were missing ingredients tricking the system into thinking it’s a keto recipe when it’s a recipe for garlic breadsticks because someone didn’t input frozen dough…

If this app had a review protocol before anything was finalized and pushed to it would probably be amazing, but it is way too clunky and unreliable for my taste and especially not for $60 for the year. It might be amazing for people without restrictive eating, but make sure you’re checking that the recipes are complete and entered in correctly.

Incredible idea, but do away with the lazy self ordering system, add some checks and balances and then you’d have a killer app.

### 3/5 — It’s great when it’s great but terrible when it’s not

*2026-08-05, version 1.109.1*

The more time passed, the more the app would just glitch out or fail constantly. Can’t even upload a receipt now without it freezing up and booting me out of the app.

### 3/5 — Still needs some kinks worked out

*2026-08-04, version 1.109.1*

This app is really neat in theory! I can’t wait until some kinks are worked out, but for now it’s still not worth the money. There are some features I don’t like. I really hate that I can’t bulk import my recipes from another app. You can only do it one by one which alone makes me not want to switch over to Cooklist. I was going to do a free trial to see if it’s worth it to switch over from Paprika to Cooklist because I like the pantry features. However, clearing the pantry after cooking a meal seems to be a little glitchy which was one of the features I was most excited about. After I pick out all my ingredients and substitutions for a recipe, it should automatically remove those items from my pantry when I confirm that I cooked that meal. However instead it manually wants me to remove them and selects every item with the word salt - kosher salt, table salt, celery salt, sea salt… and so on. And then doesn’t even suggest all the items. It has crashed on me several times as well. Not to mention that the app offered me a 7 day free trial and charged me instead for a full year and 48 hours later, I still haven’t heard back from customer support.  I can’t pick multiple mealtimes in a week on the meal plan for one recipe. So if I want to make dinner one day and have the leftovers for lunch the next day, I can’t assign it for lunch. Has to be dinner any day that week. I don’t care for the recipe to default to the explore tab rather than my own recipes. It would be even better if you could use this in a web browser instead of just the app so you could use it on a computer when needed.
I just don’t think a buggy app like this is worth that much per year. Once these issues have been corrected, I will reconsider.

### 1/5 — Not free!

*2026-08-02, version 1.109.1*

I was really looking forward to using this app as an added tool for my budget but it’s not free.

### 1/5 — Cannot import recipes from Instagram

*2026-07-27, version 1.109.1*

Have not been able to upload recipes from Instagram for the last month. Reached out to support and did not get any responses.

### 2/5 — No Publix store link

*2026-07-25, version 1.109.1*

This would have been a great app but I live in Fl and they do not have a link with my (or any) Publix store … what a shame. I guess I am going to cancel during the trial period.

## Frequently asked questions about Cooklist

### What does Cooklist do?

Cooklist helps you manage your kitchen by automatically tracking your pantry and fridge contents. It connects to grocery store loyalty cards to import purchases, suggests recipes based on what you have, and creates smart grocery lists for missing ingredients.

### How does the pantry inventory work?

The app connects to your grocery store loyalty cards to automatically import your past and future food purchases, creating a digital pantry. You can also manually add items using a barcode scanner, which provides nutrition facts and details for over a million products.

### Is Cooklist free to use?

The app is free to download and use, offering core features for pantry management, recipe discovery, and grocery list generation. There are in-app purchases available for additional features or content.

### Can I use Cooklist with my family?

Yes, the app is designed for collaborative use. The grocery shopping list, pantry inventory, and recipes can be shared with everyone in your household, and all data syncs across devices.

### How does Cooklist help reduce food waste?

Cooklist helps reduce food waste by tracking the expiration of items in your pantry and fridge. It can also suggest recipes that use ingredients that are nearing their expiration date, ensuring you use what you have before it spoils.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.109.1 — 2026-06-29

[+] Fix login connections for Ralphs, Fred Meyer, King Soopers, and other regional stores

### 1.109.0 — 2026-04-27

[+] Fix the Kroger store connection

### 1.108.0 — 2025-02-20

[+] New AI Chef on the COOK tab can help you create a meal with items in your pantry

### 1.107.3 — 2025-02-18

[+] Save recipes from the AI Chef to your Recipe Collections so you can shop and plan them

### 1.107.2 — 2025-02-11

[+] Introducing PantryScan - use AI to quickly add items to your Cooklist pantry

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