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CLUSTER GENERATES-INGREDIENTS-IDEAS · 24 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-02-28

AI recipe generation apps

This cluster consists of mobile and web apps that generate recipes from user-provided ingredients, photos, or preferences, with variations like pantry management, meal planning, and niche use cases (baking, dog food, taco generation). The dated history before the index start shows a steady stream of new entries from late 2024 through mid-2026, with no clear acceleration pattern. Traction leaders whattocook, Foodii, and WeChef all show zero activity stars, indicating limited user engagement across the cluster.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2013: 1FEB 2025: 1JUL 2025: 1SEP 2025: 1FEB 2026: 2MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1JUL 2026: 2AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 8OCT 2026: 2
DEC 2013OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 12 hobby · 2 indie · 1 commercial · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01MEIRA0★2 days—hobbyAndroid app that identifies photographed ingredients with numbered markers, reads package labels, and suggests recipes from an on-device recipe book.
  2. 02zuocai-app0★23 days—hobbyLocal cooking app that randomly chooses a daily dish from a built-in recipe collection and displays ingredients, photos, and step-by-step directions.
  3. 03HackatonRobert0★5 days—hobbyWeb app that scans photos of food to identify ingredients and suggests matching recipes with available and missing items.
  4. 04recipe-rosetta0★24 dayslivehobbyWeb app that converts photographs of handwritten family recipe cards into exact digital recipes with gram measurements, timings, and ingredient substitutions.
  5. 05ai-recipe0★15 days—hand-codedhobbyWeb app that turns a list of ingredients into a full recipe with preparation steps and nutrition information using a language model.
  6. 06Ai-recipe-rescue0★22 days—ai-builthobbyApp that suggests a realistic recipe from whatever ingredients the user has, asks a follow-up when ingredients are too sparse, and refuses to invent fake meals.
  7. 07whattocook0★19 days—hobbyMobile app that turns pantry ingredients into recipe ideas with pantry management, recipe browsing, saved recipes, and cooking views.
  8. 08cookai0★2 moliveindieApp that generates recipes and nutrition information from a photo of available ingredients, tailored to fitness goals, with meal tracking and subscription plans.
  9. 09receitAi0★28 days—hobbyWeb app that generates recipe suggestions from a photo of available ingredients for home cooks.
  10. 10Family Recipes Vault FaReVa0★2 moliveMobile app that generates recipes from photos of meals or ingredients, digitizes handwritten recipes, and preserves family cooking stories and notes.
  11. 11CulinAI-RecipeGenerator2★2 moliveai-builthobbyWeb app that generates recipes from available ingredients or meal descriptions, with step-by-step cooking instructions.
  12. 12smart-meal-planner0★2 mo—ai-builthobbyWeb app that accepts a list of ingredients and generates recipes with instructions, cooking times, and suggested missing ingredients.
  13. 13RecipeMe - AI Recipe Planner0★4 moliveMobile app that generates personalized recipes and weekly meal plans from photos of ingredients already on hand.
  14. 14AI Cooking: Recipe Manager0★3 moliveMobile app that identifies a dish from a photo and generates a full recipe with ingredients and step-by-step cooking instructions.
  15. 15SnackLab0★7 mostale—hobbyMobile app that suggests or generates recipes from a handful of ingredients on hand, letting users save favorites and add their own.
  16. 16-project-20★1 yrabandoned—indieWeb app that recommends African recipes generated from entered pantry ingredients and displays them as saved, clickable recipe cards.
  17. 17Garden Plate0★1 yrabandonedlivecommercialRecipe app offering vegetarian and vegan dishes with photos, step-by-step instructions, favorites, and a built-in shopping list.
  18. 18cookapp0★1 yrabandoned—hobbyMobile app that generates recipe suggestions from a user-selected list of ingredients, helping with meal ideas.
  19. 19LETMECOOK0★unknownliveApp that generates recipes from a photo of available ingredients or food.
  20. 20Taco Randomizer0★unknownliveWeb app that generates random taco recipes and toppings for meal inspiration.

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