Photograph your fridge.
Get dinner ideas.

Open RecipeScan, tap Scan Pantry, and photograph your fridge, pantry, or cabinet shelves. AI identifies every item with quantities and storage locations, then loads them all to your inventory in one tap. You can immediately get recipe ideas from what you have and a grocery list for what's missing.

Yes. Pick the dishes and the time you want to eat, and RecipeScan works backwards to interleave every step across every recipe into a single timeline. It tells you what to start when, so the sides aren't sitting cold while the main finishes.

With Premium, tap any ingredient in a recipe and RecipeScan's AI suggests substitutions with the correct ratio and a note on how the swap changes the dish — so one missing item doesn't cost you the whole recipe.

Not as a spending tracker. Grocery lists show an estimated price for each item and a running total (US average prices, shown when your iPhone's region uses US dollars). With Premium, the Budget Saver template has AI meal-plan Auto-Fill build your week around cheap staples, and the AI Assistant suggests budget meals.

Only in part. A limited free plan lets you browse, favorite, plan and cook all 1,300+ recipes in the catalogue, use Cooking Mode, grocery and pantry lists and manual calorie logging, and keep up to 3 recipes of your own (from a website link or typed in). Scans, social-video imports, AI recipes and remixes, the AI Assistant, calorie photos, AI meal-plan Auto-Fill, voice control, adding restock predictions to your grocery list and iCloud backup are Premium: $29.99/year or $4.99/month, with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers.

Yes. RecipeScan is optimized for iPhone and iPad. The iPad version uses multi-column layouts to take advantage of the larger screen, supports multiple windows side by side, and lets you drag a recipe straight onto a cookbook to organize your collection.

Yes, with Premium. Paste a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, or Facebook link into Add Recipe and RecipeScan imports it as a full, structured recipe. You can also scan a cookbook page with the camera (Premium), import from any recipe website, paste plain text, bring in a Paprika/JSON/CSV export, or share a link or screenshot straight into the app from anywhere with the share sheet. On the free plan, website links and typed recipes are free up to 3 recipes of your own.

Yes. Trending Now on the Discover tab is a hand-picked set of popular recipes from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube creators, each with the full ingredient list and steps written out — so you can cook it without pausing and scrubbing a video twenty times. YouTube videos play inside RecipeScan; TikTok and Instagram ones open the original post.

The Skill Tree turns learning to cook into a game. Every recipe you cook earns XP toward your chef rank, and you collect badges and complete challenges like "cook a recipe featuring vegetables" or "cook 5 different recipes this week." It's a fun way to build real kitchen skills — and it pairs with your cooking streak on the widget.

Yes. Deleted recipes move to Recently Deleted (My Recipes → the ••• menu → Recently Deleted) and are kept for 30 days, so you can restore them any time within that window. You can also adjust servings with quick ½×–3× multipliers and attach private notes to individual ingredients or steps.

We make RecipeScan, so weigh this accordingly. RecipeScan starts from what is already in your kitchen: photograph your fridge or pantry for recipe ideas, get a grocery list of only what is missing, and save recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or any website. It is not the only app that turns a fridge photo into recipes (Fridge Guru and ChefApp on the App Store do too). SideChef is the better pick if you want a much bigger library (about 18,000 recipes), a video at every step and cooking classes, checkout at online grocers, smart-oven control or an Android app. RecipeScan Premium is $29.99/year or $4.99/month; SideChef Premium is $49.99/year or $4.99/month. Mealime shuts down on 21 October 2026 and has stopped charging for Pro.

Yes. The Kitchen tab's use-before-they-expire list highlights items about to spoil, and the Leftover Wizard turns what you already have into dinner (AI recipes with Premium, matching recipes on the free plan). Pantry Scan (Premium) keeps your inventory current. The app tracks how many dollars of food waste you've avoided over time.

With Premium, snap a photo of your meal and AI estimates the calories, protein, carbs, and fat — with a per-item breakdown, an estimate range, and a confidence level so you know how sure it is. Premium also scans barcodes and estimates a meal you describe in a sentence. On any plan you can log by hand or log a recipe you cooked in one tap using its real calculated nutrition, and track it all against your daily goal with a calorie ring, macros and a streak. Because RecipeScan is a full cooking app, it also gives you "fits your remaining calories" recipe suggestions — not just a number.

Yes. AI photo estimates (Premium) are approximate, so before you save you can edit the identified items, adjust portions, and refine the estimate in plain language — for example, "add a tablespoon of olive oil" or "this was a large serving." The most accurate option of all is logging a recipe you actually cooked in RecipeScan, which uses its real calculated nutrition instead of guessing from a photo.

Yes. Turn on Sync to Apple Health at the bottom of the Calorie Tracker and RecipeScan sends your logged calories and macros to Apple Health, so your nutrition stays consistent with the rest of your health and fitness apps. You can also set a daily calorie goal and get "fits your remaining calories" recipe suggestions; with Premium, the AI can plan a whole week around your target.

Yes. With Premium, Recipe Backup saves your recipes, favorites, cookbooks, and meal data to your private iCloud automatically once a day, and you can restore them on any iPhone or iPad signed in to the same Apple Account. Restoring merges: it adds the recipes that device doesn't have instead of replacing the ones it does.

Your saved recipes, meal plan, pantry and grocery list open without a connection. Anything that uses AI (scans, AI recipes, the AI Assistant, calorie photos, social-video imports) needs the internet, as do recipe photos and videos.

Yes, with Cook Together. In Cooking Mode, tap ••• → Cook together, start a session and send the 6-letter code. The other person opens the same recipe in Cooking Mode, taps Cook together and enters the code. Each of you follows your own step and can see the other's progress. Both of you need to be signed in to iCloud.

Yes. Open your grocery list, tap the share icon and send the share code. Everyone who joins can add items and check them off, and the list updates for all of you through iCloud.

Only alerts for cooking you started: when a cooking timer finishes, or when a step in a Multi-Dish session is due, so you hear it with your phone locked. RecipeScan sends no reminders, recaps or promotional notifications.

Open iPhone Settings, tap your name (Apple ID), then Subscriptions. Find RecipeScan and tap Cancel. You'll keep Premium access until the end of the current billing period.