# PAIR: Food & Flavor Pairing — Where flavors find their match > Food and drink pairing encyclopedia based on aroma and taste data. (iPhone/iPad app by PAIR APP LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pair-food-and-flavor-pairing/id6792960783 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [PAIR APP LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792960785) - Category: Food & Drink, Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings - Age rating: +12 - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 13 MB - Released: 2026-09-14 - Data updated: 2026-10-23 - Monetization: freemium ## What is PAIR? PAIR is an encyclopedia of food and drink, and an engine that works out what goes with what. Put ingredients on a plate and PAIR draws the web between them, scoring every link on the aroma compounds they actually share. Point it at a dish and it ranks the wines, beers and cocktails against it, and tells you why. The scoring is deterministic and runs on your device — a documented heuristic over our own aroma and taste data, not a chatbot guessing. 1,771 ingredient pages and 747 beverage pages, every one written for this app and cited. FREE, AND NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Every ingredient and beverage page opens without an account: · What it is, where it came from, and how it got to a kitchen · Calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat · How it tastes — ripeness, preparation, taste and texture · Its varieties, where it has them — 27 kinds of apple, the grape behind a region And on fresh produce: · How to pick a good one, how to store it, and how long it keeps · When it is in season, and where No sign-up, no trial clock, and nothing expires. PAIR+ SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED These features are locked and need a paid subscription: · Pairings — what an ingredient goes with, scored, with the shared aroma chemistry behind every match · The full aroma wheel and flavour analysis · Deep nutrition — vitamins, minerals, amino acids and the fibre breakdown · The plate builder — combine ingredients and score the whole plate · Drink rankings — wine, beer, cocktails and zero-proof against your dish · Menu scanning — photograph a restaurant menu and get a pairing for each dish · Recipe scanning — photograph a recipe and pull its ingredients in · The wine cellar · Side-by-side compare · The in-season map for your region · Modernist technique data — dosage, temperature, pH and stability for hydrocolloids, starches and salts SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS PAIR+ — $8.99 per month, or $70.00 per year 15 menu scans and 15 recipe scans a month. PAIR Pro — $18.99 per month, or $150.00 per year Unlimited menu scans and 100 recipe scans a month. The two paid tiers unlock the same features; they differ only in how many photo scans a month you get. Prices are shown in your own currency at purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. WHO IT IS FOR Home cooks who want to know why something works. Professional kitchens building a menu. Anyone standing in front of a wine shelf with a dish already in mind. Sommeliers, recipe developers, and people who read cookbooks for pleasure. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Pairing advice is usually folklore, or a short list at the back of a book. PAIR computes it from the ingredients' own aroma and taste data and shows its reasoning, so you can disagree with it. Everything is authored. No scraped text, no generated filler, and sources on every page. Terms of Use: https://app.pair.support/terms Privacy Policy: https://app.pair.support/privacy ## Key features - Ingredient and beverage pairing suggestions - Aroma compound analysis for pairings - Detailed ingredient nutritional data - Taste profiles and texture descriptions - Menu and recipe scanning for pairings - In-season produce information ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | PAIR+ Monthly | $8.99 | per month | | PAIR+ Annual | $70.00 | per year | | PAIR Pro Monthly | $18.99 | per month | | PAIR Pro Annual | $150.00 | per year | ## Is PAIR safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess PAIR. ## Is PAIR legit? PAIR: Food & Flavor Pairing has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PAIR is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Frequently asked questions about PAIR ### What is PAIR's core function? PAIR acts as an encyclopedia for food and drink, analyzing ingredients to determine optimal pairings based on shared aroma compounds. It provides detailed information on taste, nutrition, and origin for a wide range of items. ### How does PAIR determine pairings? PAIR uses a deterministic heuristic based on shared aroma compounds and taste data, running directly on your device. This method provides a scientific reasoning behind each suggested pairing, allowing users to understand the 'why'. ### Is PAIR free to use? Yes, PAIR offers a free tier that provides access to ingredient and beverage pages with nutritional information and taste profiles. No account is needed to access these basic features. ### What features require a PAIR+ subscription? A PAIR+ subscription unlocks advanced features such as detailed pairing scores with aroma chemistry, full flavor analysis, deep nutrition data, plate building, drink rankings against dishes, menu scanning, and recipe scanning. ### What are the subscription options for PAIR+? PAIR+ offers monthly and annual plans, with two tiers: PAIR+ and PAIR Pro. These tiers differ in the number of photo scans (menu and recipe) allowed per month, with PAIR Pro offering more scans. ### How much does PAIR+ cost? PAIR+ subscriptions start at $8.99 per month or $70.00 per year for the PAIR+ tier, and $18.99 per month or $150.00 per year for the PAIR Pro tier. Prices are shown in your local currency at purchase. ### Can I cancel my PAIR+ subscription? Yes, subscriptions renew automatically but can be managed or canceled in your Apple Account settings. Auto-renewal must be turned off at least 24 hours before the current subscription period ends. ### What devices does PAIR support? Based on the provided data, PAIR currently supports iPhones. Further platform compatibility details may be available from the developer. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.06 — 2026-10-17 Ripeness has been added to more ingredients. • 29 more fruits can now be set from underripe to overripe, including watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, cherry, grape, pineapple, pomegranate, guava, mangosteen and dragon fruit. • On each of these fruits' pages, drag the picking guide from underripe to overripe and the fruit's picture changes colour. Thirteen guides, including raspberry, grape and pomegranate, were rewritten to run that way. • With PAIR+, a fruit's ripeness now changes your plate's score, in the builder and on your saved recipes, and what the builder suggests. Before, it changed only the nutrition. • With PAIR+, drink pairings follow ripeness too: a green mango leans to crisp whites and teas, a very ripe one to ice wine and apricot brandy. Bug and info fixes • Fixes on a few fruit pages: how durian is harvested and how long it takes to ripen at home, the order a blackberry changes colour, and that a nectarine softens on the counter but gets no sweeter. Also corrected: the sugar breakdown for guava, raspberry, cherry and blueberry. ### 1.05 — 2026-10-14 Choose your scoring balance (PAIR+) • A plate's score now comes in three parts that add up to it: aroma (how the aromas pair), taste (how the tastes balance) and familiarity (how familiar / used the pairing is). • Tap the score in the plate builder to choose your balance: set how much each part counts, or pick Classic, Aroma-led, Bold contrast, Tried and true or Discovery. Your plates, the ingredient picker and your saved recipes are then scored your way. Shared links stay on Classic, so friends see the standard score. Explanations for the pairings (PAIR+) • Under the score, a line says what it means, from "like a typical classic dish" to "better than most classic dishes". If one ingredient throws the plate off, for example by making it too salty, it says which. • With three or more ingredients, see what each one brings: the points the plate would lose, or gain, without it. Tap one to see its share of each part. • Every change shows on the score for a moment, like +4 or −3. • What pairs best is ranked for your plate, and each suggestion shows the exact change it would make to your score. Tap a suggestion to see why, or its round button to add it. • Before you pick a preparation, see what each method would do to the score. • Start a plate from something in season near you, your last plate, or Surprise me. More aid in adding ingredients (PAIR+) • Every ingredient in the picker shows what it would do to your plate before you add it, or, with one ingredient down, the score the pair would make. • Tick several ingredients and add them all at once. • Sort and filter: rank by aroma, taste or familiarity, or A to Z, and show only what is in season, what adds at least a few points or the discoveries, or hide clashes. Cooking • New ingredients, and scanned lines with no amount like "salt, to taste", start at a usual amount, like 2 g of salt or one tomato, instead of 100 g. • Meat, fish, seafood, eggs and potatoes start cooked, on your plate and on their ingredient pages. • More cooking methods now change an ingredient's aroma, and only methods that change the flavor are offered. Also • Scores are now calibrated on real classic dishes, so a saved recipe or a pairing may show a new number. • Rate how a saved recipe tasted, right on its page. • The builder now ends on Save: save a plate to see its drinks and nutrition on its recipe page. • In the full list of pours, drinks with your allergens are flagged and listed last. • The welcome tour now shows how to choose your balance. Replay it any time from Account. ### 1.04 — 2026-10-02 SHARE WHAT YOU COOK • Share a recipe, a plate or a drink pairing as a link. Anyone can open it in a browser, no account needed, and save the recipe to their own collection. • Links to PAIR pages now open straight in the app. ALLERGIES • Choose an allergen group, such as milk, egg, tree nuts or shellfish, and PAIR flags everything in it, from cheese to butter. SEASONS • Tap "Remind me when it's back" on anything out of season, and get a note when your favourites come into season. SCANNING • A scan that fails no longer counts against your month, and you can see how many scans you have left. • Try the menu and recipe scanners on a sample before you subscribe. THE APP • Share any ingredient from the share sheet, and rate PAIR from Account. • Text size follows your iPhone's setting. • Restore Purchases tells you exactly what it found. • A clear offline screen with Try again, plus pull to refresh. • Fewer camera prompts, and the status bar follows light and dark mode. • Spot a mistake on a page? 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