Recipe managers and generators
Apps that import recipes from websites, social videos and photos into clean personal collections, suggest or generate recipes from ingredients on hand, and guide cooking with step-by-step modes, meal plans and grocery lists.
Built for: Home cooks and families
Projects since May 04
167
Different builders
154
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+2%
AI is the core
32%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (47%), web app (44%), browser extension (4.8%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- Recipe Card Creator — Turns recipes into printable recipe cards, including importing recipes from Paprika export files.“My recipe card creator can import recipes from Paprika”
- Lemme Cook — Extracts ingredients and steps from a recipe link or text and lets the user navigate them by voice, with timers and read-aloud.“I got tired of wiping chicken off my phone screen so I made a recipe site you control with your voice”
- Kitchen Mode — Displays recipes one large sentence at a time with ingredient lists, timers, and a screen that stays awake.“For people that cook 🧑🍳 I built a tool to make following recipes easier - no account or cost”
- Sauce Book — Stores and organizes hot sauce recipes that users create and record.“Sauce Book: A simple and intuitive hot sauce creation / recipe book app.”
- Generates recipes from fridge ingredients and a saved pantry list, and captures recipes from websites or images into a searchable library for follow-up questions.“Built myself a recipe/cooking app I actually use almost every day”
- TinyPlates — Provides an API that serves recipe data for apps and AI agents to use.“I built a Recipe API for your apps and agents”
- Grace — Turns recipes sent as text, photos, or voice notes into organized ingredient lists and steps in a shared family cookbook.“I built a simple recipe web app in my free time – would love your feedback”
- SnapMeal — Suggests recipes from a photo of the ingredients a user has on hand.“Je propose une solution si tu ne sais pas quoi faire à manger ce soir ( facilement, rapidement et gratuitement )”
- Plate: Recipe Keeper — Turns recipe videos, photos, pages and paper recipes into structured recipes with scaling, timers and calorie estimates.“I built Plate: Recipe Keeper iOS app that turns the recipe videos you save into recipes you actually cook”
- RecipeKit — Scales recipe quantities and organizes recipes offline from a single HTML file.“I built RecipeKit — an offline recipe scaler & organizer that runs from a single HTML file (no accounts, no ads, no subscriptions)”
- Cookify — Streams recipes from a cloud database into a mobile cooking app and blocks content when ad loading fails due to an ad blocker or offline state.“Built a smart cooking utility app with an active Anti-AdBlock Ad-Revenue Gate. Looking to exit the source code/IP rights.”
- Extracts just the recipe from cooking blog pages, stripping out the long personal stories.“I built an app that gives you the recipe without the 2,000-word life story”
- Hungry Shelf — Saves recipes from videos and links so they stop getting lost in the camera roll.“Day 1 on the App Store: 24 impressions, 4 downloads, and somehow 8 bucks”
- ChefMate — Suggests recipes from the ingredients a user has and manages pantry, recipes and meal plans.“I made an app to make cooking easier 🔥”
- PizzaChef — Calculates pizza dough recipes and turns them into timed bake plans with clock times, plus logs bakes with AI photo feedback.“Built a pizza dough calculator that actually tells you when to do things, not just how much flour . Looking for feedback + beta testers”
- Recipe card creator — Designs and prints recipe cards in standard sizes like 3x5, 4x6 and 5x8 inches.“Recipe card creator (free!)”
- Suggests what to cook based on ingredients or preferences the user provides.“I got tired of the “what should I cook?” problem, so I built an app for it”
- Snap Dish — Suggests recipes from photos of fridge and pantry contents, adjusted for family size and dietary preferences.“I built this web app simply for myself and my family. Wondering if there’s any value for actual users?”
- ReciApp — Organizes recipes saved from social media into a personal collection.“ReciApp: Manage Your Social Media Recipes”
- FrigoChef — Reads ingredients from a fridge photo and generates recipes from them, with user corrections before generation.“Built a fridge-photo-to-recipe app — had an Italian chef write the rules behind it!”
Most discussed
- Collects gluten-free and other allergy-friendly recipes from across the web and lets users sort and save them.“Created my first website and got plenty of not such cool comments”
- TastyGenie — Generates recipes from a user's preferences, pantry, and allergies to decide what to cook.“Cheap installs, users spend 10+ minutes in onboarding, then almost no one uses the core feature or starts a trial. Solo dev, genuinely stuck.”
- Explains the ingredients in food so users know what they are eating before they eat it.“We spent a year building an app that explains what's actually in your food before you eat it. Would you use something like this?”
- MiamBot — Imports recipes from links, photos, or PDFs into clean recipe cards with a screen-awake cook mode, meal planning, and grocery lists.“My wife and I used to spam each other with Instagram reels and TikToks of recipes we’d never cook. I spent the last few months building a solution.”
- ChefBook — Helps users store and organize recipes in an Android app.“How an accidental viral trend in Uzbekistan gave my side-project 1k+ downloads and its first paid user”
- Dish Genie — Suggests recipe ideas based on ingredients the user already has, plus meal type and prep time constraints.“I keep buying groceries, using half of them, then pretending the rest of the fridge does not exist”
- Speak2Cook — Suggests recipes based on the ingredients left in a user's fridge.“I built an app that tells you what to cook based on whatever is left in your fridge.”
- FridgeGenius — Turns fridge photos or typed ingredient lists into one step-by-step recipe.“Built an AI recipe app that turns fridge photos into dinner ideas — would love brutal feedback”
- Generates recipes from the ingredients a user already has, matching them by flavour profile with AI-based scoring.“Anyone interested in trying my new app?”
- Method & Matrix — Generates cooking recipes grounded in culinary science and a curated database of professional ratios.“Ex-Professional Chef turned Solo Dev: How do I market a niche AI SaaS against "free" but generic alternatives?”