Tired of the 5pm "what's for dinner?" spiral? This app answers it in three taps.
WHAT CAN I MAKE?
Add what's in your pantry and we'll match it against your saved meals — including "almost there" meals where you're one ingredient short, with classic swap suggestions ("no eggs — ¼ cup applesauce works in baking"). Mint dots in your cookbook mark what your pantry covers tonight.
SURPRISE ME
Can't decide? Get a pick from meals you've actually cooked before, weighted to skip what you made this week — and it tells you why it picked ("you haven't made this in 3 weeks, and your spinach needs using").
MAKE ME SOMETHING NEW (AI)
Let AI riff on your actual pantry and suggest three fresh meal ideas you can save with one tap.
FILL YOUR COOKBOOK AND PANTRY FAST
• Paste a recipe link — most sites import instantly, free.
• Snap a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten recipe card (AI).
• Scan your fridge and AI identifies the ingredients (AI).
• Scan a product barcode to add packaged goods in seconds.
• Or just say "Hey Siri, add eggs and milk to my pantry."
THE APP PAYS ATTENTION WHEN YOU COOK
Tap "I made this" and a quick optional moment follows: jot a note ("double the sauce"), tap anything you used up so your pantry stays honest, and snap a photo of your plate — your cookbook finally has faces.
SHARE THE WIN
Turn tonight's dinner into a brag card for the group chat or your story — square for posts, tall for stories. And send any recipe to a friend as a link: it opens right in their app, or as a clean recipe page if they don't have it yet.
AT A GLANCE
A home-screen widget shows how many meals you can make right now and what to use soon, dressed in your theme.
WASTE LESS
Gentle "use soon" hints when fresh ingredients are about to turn — no dates to enter, ever.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your meals, pantry, and history live on your device and your own iCloud. No account, no ads, no tracking — and "Download my cookbook" exports everything to a file that's yours to keep.
FREE FOREVER, AI OPTIONAL
The deciding features are free. AI features (fridge scan, recipe photo import, meal ideas, swaps) are optional: subscribe for hosted AI — Standard $2.99/month or $19.99/year, Pro $9.99/month or $79.99/year — or bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini API key.
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