Save a custom recipe with structured steps, one-cook or two-cook assignments, and timers that can run together.
Welcome, Chef Guest!
Ready to create some culinary magic today?
Quickly matching recipes with what you have in stock.
Ingredients
Log your kitchen supplies to automatically match recipe requirements.
Choose a category and type an ingredient. Press Enter or → to complete a suggestion. Add ingredients to calculate recipe matches; pantry deduction is optional when you cook.
Recipe
Explore our recipes, create your own, and save personal versions.
Voice idle
Create with AI
Each provider's key is saved separately in this browser account and sent directly to that provider. API usage follows your provider's pricing and quota.
Describe a dish, cuisine, occasion, or meal idea. AI will search recipe websites for ingredients and methods, then build your cooking plan.
Include the primary process and each parallel process.
Independent actions can overlap with two cooks. Unattended waits free either cook for other work.
Searching recipe websites...
Finding ingredients and methods, then splitting actions with tags, prerequisites, cook assignments, and timers.
Play Recipe
Run your recipe like a live kitchen board with timed step movement.
1 portion serves 1 person.
Ingredients for selected portions
Choose a recipe to see its ingredients.
Meal Planner & Groceries
Schedule recipes into your weekly rotation and generate shopping lists.
Select a meal to add or edit it. Past days are dimmed. Scroll sideways to see every day.
Ingredients for all meals dated after today, across your saved weeks, minus what’s in your pantry. Meal plans are saved to your account when signed in, or on this device in device-only mode.
Kitchen Tip
Your automated shopping list intelligently omits items you already have inside your **Ingredients**. Check off items in your list to keep grocery trips minimal!
FAQ
Quick guide to all app features and workflows.
What is the fastest way to start?
Add your ingredients first, then open Recipe to explore or create. Use Play Recipe to execute with timers and board flow.
Ingredients
Track ingredient quantity/unit/category, auto-generate nutrition (with API key), and use stock for recipe matching. Cooking leaves pantry quantities unchanged by default; you can choose to deduct them.
Recipe
Create recipes via form or voice, optionally generate with AI, import JSON, export selected recipes, like/share, and browse explore filters.
Play Recipe Kanban
Actions move from Upcoming to a free cook after all prerequisites finish, then to Completed when their timer ends. Choose one or two cooks before or during playback. A departing cook finishes their current action first. Unattended waits run separately, so one cook can chop while poha softens. The timeline shows action dependencies and estimated elapsed time. Expert uses original hands-on times, Somewhat uses 1.5x, and Beginner uses 2x; unattended waits stay unchanged. Active timers remain visible on every app page. Reset stops the session. Timers are not restored after reload. Older saved recipes play sequentially until reviewed.
Profile Settings
Set your name, dietary preference, experience and optional OpenAI, Gemini, or Groq key. Email is read-only from cloud login. Choose a local music file, video playback preference. Silence Play Audio mutes announcements, countdown sounds, chimes and background music.
Recipe collection and personal versions
The collection adds 100 egg-free vegetarian recipes: 80 Indian and 20 international dishes. Dairy is allowed. The eight earlier defaults remain available, including the salmon recipe; choose Vegetarian in Profile to filter recipes. Open any recipe and choose Edit recipe. Save my version keeps your changes privately without changing the default. Your version is used for meal planning, shopping lists and future cooking. Revert to default removes your saved changes while keeping likes and meal assignments. Existing cooking sessions keep their starting instructions. Device-only versions stay on this device; signed-in versions sync to your account when connected. Imported personal versions become separate recipes. Standalone custom recipes have no default to restore. Soaking, fermentation and resting are included in recipe times; check doneness before continuing.
Meal Planner & Shopping
Assign recipes to day and meal slots, or select the empty option to remove a meal. The shopping list combines compatible units and subtracts available quantities. It does not convert weight to volume or match different foods by partial names. Previously assigned meals remain saved when you change diet; review those choices.
Login and offline data
Continue on This Device works without an account. Configured Google/email accounts sync profile, ingredients, recipes, likes and meal slots privately. Guest data and each account are separate. Sign-out retains local data; clear site data on a shared device when needed. Offline changes are saved locally and retried when connected. Export recipes for a portable backup.
Free AI and step videos
Manual recipes and timers do not require AI. Choose OpenAI, Gemini, or Groq for optional recipe generation and approximate nutrition, using your own API key. Requests send selected ingredients and recipe preferences to your selected provider. Each key stays in this browser account's storage, outside the app database. Usage follows the provider's pricing and quota; OpenAI requires API billing. Automatic AI video generation is disabled in this deployment.
Music, audio and local caching
A selected audio file under 50 MB is stored in this browser and can loop during Play Recipe. It survives reloads but does not sync to another device. Browser storage clearing or eviction removes local media. Spoken instructions are queued for both cooks; each final countdown second beeps once. Sound and dictation depend on browser permissions and device support.
Likes, sharing and nutrition
Recipe hearts are saved in your profile; Like shows the liked subset in Explore. Export selects individual recipes as JSON; Import skips existing IDs. Share sends the app link, not private recipes. Nutrition is an AI estimate for the stored quantity and scales when that quantity changes; it is not verified nutritional or medical advice. Dietary filters use recipe tags, so tag custom recipes accurately.