Recipe Finder

Turn whatever's in your kitchen into a chef-grade recipe, hands-free.

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What it does

Everything inside Recipe Finder.

Cook With What You Have

Describe a craving, tap ingredient chips across protein, produce, dairy, grains, and pantry categories, or snap up to 5 photos of your ingredients, the AI vision model reads them and builds the recipe around what you actually own.

Smart Pantry

Keep a cloud-synced pantry of up to 50 staples; every generation automatically prioritizes what you already have at home so you buy less and waste less.

Complete Recipe Dossier

Every recipe streams in with US and metric measurements, 8-point nutrition facts, allergen breakdown (contains, may contain, free of), per-ingredient cost estimates, beverage pairings, equipment list, storage and make-ahead guidance.

Hands-Free Cooking Mode

A full-screen step-by-step mode keeps your display awake and responds to spoken commands, next, repeat, start timer, time left, recognized in 20 languages via Whisper speech-to-text, so you never touch the screen with messy hands.

Built-In Named Timers

Recipe steps ship with AI-suggested timer durations; run up to 5 simultaneous named timers with haptic alerts, started by tap or voice.

One-Tap Ingredient Swaps

Every ingredient carries 2-4 ranked substitutions with flavor notes and dietary tags, plus on-demand AI alternatives for anything else, swaps update the whole recipe, your shopping list, and even the read-aloud audio.

Aisle-Organized Shopping List

Ingredients auto-group by store aisle (produce, protein, dairy, pantry, spices) with to-buy vs. have-it filters, live cost totals per serving, and one-tap copy to clipboard.

Ask the AI Chef

Chat with an in-context culinary advisor about the exact recipe on screen, troubleshoot mistakes, ask about technique, or attach a photo of your dish for feedback, with streaming answers.

Scale and Convert Instantly

Flip servings between 0.5x, 1x, 2x, and 3x with fraction-aware math (1 1/2 cups scales correctly), toggle imperial/metric, and watch nutrition and costs rescale in real time.

Saved Recipes, Notes and Ratings

Searchable history and saved collections with time filters, plus per-recipe personal notes, 5-star ratings, and checked-off ingredients that all sync to the cloud and restore exactly where you left off.

How it works

From idea to done in seconds.

  1. 01

    Tell the app what you're craving, type it, dictate it, tap quick-idea chips, or photograph the ingredients on your counter, then set dietary, cuisine, and meal-type filters.

  2. 02

    The AI asks a few streaming clarifying questions (skippable), then writes the full recipe live on screen while a food photo is generated in the background and pops in automatically.

  3. 03

    Review the overview, ingredients, and steps tabs, swap ingredients, scale servings, and build your aisle-sorted shopping list.

  4. 04

    When it's time to cook, enter hands-free Cooking Mode: the screen stays awake, voice commands drive the steps and timers, and finishing earns you a congrats screen where you can rate and save the dish.

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