How it works
The back of the packet is the recipe.
Every package lists exactly what's inside, in order of quantity. That's almost a recipe — it's only missing the amounts, the steps, and someone to write it out. That last part is us.
The wizard
Four choices and two photos
The whole wizard takes less time than putting the shopping away.
- 1
What are you copying?
A packaged meal with an ingredient list, or just a photo of a plate you had somewhere. The first gives the truest copy; the second works surprisingly well.
- 2
How close to the original?
Exactly as it was, or healthier: less salt, less sugar, fewer calories. Or type your own — “dairy-free please” works too.
- 3
In which voice?
Quick and minimal for confident cooks, or step by step with the why. There's a chef's card and a warm family style too. You see the same step in all four.
Then the photos
The list does the work, the photo does the rest
Photograph the ingredient list as straight-on as you can, with all of it in frame. A photo of the meal tells us what it should end up looking like — together they give the best copy.
- Photos stay on your device until you hit copy
- Unreadable? We say so, and it costs you no copy
- Unsure about something? The app asks instead of guessing
After that it's your recipe
Edit, save, cook
What comes out is a starting point. Change the quantities, drop an ingredient, add a note for next time. The moment you save it, it's in your own cookbook — and all of it works offline.
- Scale servings on the recipe itself
- Cooking mode with timers and screen-stays-awake
- Share as PDF, export as JSON
The honest answers
What you want to know up front
How accurate is it?
With a readable ingredient list: surprisingly accurate, because the order on the packaging tells you something about the amounts. With only a photo of a plate it's an educated guess — and the app says so.
Does it get healthier?
If you ask for that, yes. A factory uses salt, sugar and fat partly to make things keep; at home you don't need that. Pick “as healthy as possible” and the recipe is written for it, without turning bland.
Does it work for restaurant dishes?
Yes, from a photo of the plate. There's no ingredient list to lean on, so the app clearly marks what it filled in based on how such a dish is normally made.
Go get that packet from the cupboard.
You've definitely got one you think you could make yourself.