Home Cook Diary – Smart Recipe Discovery App

Find recipes with ingredients you already have, save your pantry, and explore dishes with nutrition insights and meal ideas.

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App Features

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Scan or Select Ingredients

Add ingredients in seconds — scan them with your camera or by selecting from the app’s or your pantry ingredient list.

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Smart Ingredient Selection

Easily choose/scan ingredients from the app or instantly pull from your saved pantry.

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Powerful Recipe Search

Find recipes your way—type a dish name, use smart filters, or get based on the ingredients you select.

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Ingredient Matching & Adjustable Servings

Instantly see which ingredients you already have, with real-time serving changes in user-friendly fractions.

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Save Ingredients to Your Pantry

Quickly add ingredients to your personal pantry with an easy-to-use input tool. Build your pantry once, and simplify recipe planning.

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Personal Pantry

Get your favorite ingredients organized in a smart pantry that syncs with recipe suggestions.

Why You’ll Love It

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From Pantry to Plate

Find recipes that match your ingredients in seconds—just scan or select your ingredients.

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Find the Right Recipe

Discover recipes faster with smart filters—from cuisines to nutrition, categories, and beyond.

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Cook More, Waste Less

Keep your pantry connected to recipes that use it best. Stay organized, waste less.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our app uses smart recognition to detect ingredients from your photos or selections. It then matches them with recipes you can cook instantly.

You can browse and try recipes without an account. Creating one unlocks extra features like saving favorites, unlimited ingredient scanning, syncing pantry, and personal recommendations.You can explore and scan ingredients up to five times without logging in. Logging in lets you save your pantry and access personalized recipes.

Yes, the app is free to download, you can enjoy core recipe discovery and pantry management at no cost.

Yes. You can filter recipes by diet type, cuisine, difficulty, ingredient count, and nutritional value.

You can add ingredients to your personal pantry manually or by scanning them. The app then remembers what you have, so recipe suggestions always match your available ingredients.

Yes! You can easily remove items at any time to keep your ingredient list accurate and up to date.

You can refine recipes by cuisine, meal type, nutrition info, cooking time, and more. Combine filters to get the most accurate and useful recipe matches.

Yes! You can search by a dish name or by ingredients you have. 'Search by ingredients' prioritizes recipes that use all your ingredients first, then partial matches below.

A Glimpse of Culinary Magic

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Download & Start Cooking

Unlock a world of flavors with thousands of recipes and smart search features—all in one app. Get started now! Download on Google Play or the App Store and bring your best dishes to life.

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