My recipes aren't in cooking apps. They aren't on a Pinterest board.

They're on napkins, index cards, sticky notes, and printouts.

They're in Notion and in my drive and on my computer and in old Facebook messages.

They're in text messages, on Instagram, on TikTok, and in my browser bookmarks.

My recipes are EVERYWHERE.

Every app I tried wanted me to type them in from scratch, and I wasn't about to do that for years' worth of notes.

Handwritten chili recipe card, front, with chili stains

So I built my own app.

215 recipes in, and still growing

Everything inside

Here's what you'll see if you keep scrolling.

Import recipes four ways. The end of typing recipes in manually. Paste a URL, snap a photo of a handwritten card, paste a list of links, or just talk to JJ (the sous chef who lives inside the app, you'll meet him below).
Cook Mode. Use while cooking in the kitchen. The screen stays awake so your phone doesn't lock. Instructions come one step at a time in big type you can read across the kitchen. Back and Next buttons are big enough to knuckle-tap with greasy hands.
Kitchen Stash. A running inventory of what's actually in your freezer, fridge, pantry, and garage. An Expiring Soon tab flags what needs using first. A "Want to use up" checkbox tells JJ to prioritize recipes that use that ingredient.
Flavor profiles for the weird bottles. Bought Chinese black vinegar for one recipe two years ago? Check "Want to use up" and JJ researches what it tastes like and how to use it, then remembers forever so the next recommendation can lean on it.
Train JJ. Tag each recipe by effort (Easy Breezy, Weeknight Ready, Plan Ahead), conditions (leftovers, one pot, kid-approved, pantry staples), rating, dietary and occasion tags, and a short note on why you love it. The more you tag, the more JJ's recommendations sound like you.
What's for dinner. Ask JJ "What can I make tonight?" and he answers with real recipes that use what's already in your stash, quotes your own notes back to you, and ends with a Spice it up! callout suggesting bottles from your spice inventory you haven't used lately.

Try the demo ↗

or keep scrolling to see it in action.

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Four ways in

Add a link, snap a card, paste a list, or just talk to JJ.

Paste a URL

A blog post you love. Paste the URL, tap Fetch and preview, and the app pulls in the ingredients and instructions. Works best with food blogs where the recipe lives in the body of the post.

You'll never have to type a recipe out from scratch again.

Add Recipe screen with the From URL tab active, a field for a recipe URL, and a Fetch and preview button

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The part that takes this over the top

Claude reads the card, talks it out with me, then gets it right.

This stained sticky note has four recipes on it. Three chili variations (bagged beans, canned beans, vegetarian with mushrooms) plus an unrelated oatmeal recipe. Most AI would merge it into one Frankenstein dish. Not this one.

📷 Snap the front. Snap the back. Up to four photos per recipe: a card, a magazine clipping, a scanned cookbook page. All read as one.

Claude →

Four clean recipes detected from the handwritten card

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The conversation, step by step

Claude guessed first. I corrected it in plain English. It adapted.

First guess

Claude's first pass found two recipes. I dictated a correction: "You're right, I forgot the oatmeal. There are three chili variations plus the oatmeal."

One message later, four clean recipe cards.

Initial AI guess showing 2 recipes with user dictating a correction

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And the photo

Claude picks a photo too. Sometimes hilariously.

The final photo

This is the finished product. Tortilla chips, cilantro, the works. This is what the auto-picker lands on when it gets it right.

Keep whichever one you want, or use it as a placeholder until you make the dish and take your own picture.

Recipe card showing a beautiful bowl of chili as the auto-picked photo

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The payoff

One stained sticky note. Four recipes in the library.

Each one has its own auto-picked photo.

Two of them still Amy's Organic Chili cans - because AI is consistent if nothing else. 😂

Hence, the Try Another Photo button was born...

My Recipes library showing Oatmeal, Canned Bean Chili, Vegetarian Chili, and Bagged Bean Chili as new recipe cards

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My favorite way of all

I just talk to it. And it gets to work.

I dictate

I open the chat and start rambling: "I made the best cilantro lime and maple syrup dressing. Quarter cup olive oil, two tiny limes juiced, fresh cilantro chopped super fine, a teaspoon of maple syrup I threw in because I'd heard about it on a different recipe, salt and pepper, a dash of ground coriander. Please save this so I don't forget."

JJ always replies like a sous chef who was paying attention.

JJ chat with a long voice-dictation message describing a cilantro lime maple syrup dressing

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My Kitchen Stash

193 items, grouped by where they're actually stored. And JJ knows what each one tastes like.

Kitchen stash

193 items across the places I actually store food. The Expiring Soon tab flags what's about to turn. Categories underneath, so I can scan without searching.

JJ studies the ingredient and remembers the flavor profile for future chats.

My Kitchen Stash landing screen showing 193 items

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Cook Mode

Out of everything this app does, this is the one that nails it when my hands are greasy.

Mise en place

Cook Mode always starts with mise en place. Every ingredient and measurement laid out before the first cooking step, so I'm set up before I touch a knife.

The Back and Next buttons at the bottom of the screen are big enough for a knuckle-tap. 👊

Cook Mode mise en place screen listing every ingredient with quantities

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Train JJ

The more you fill in, the more JJ sounds like you.

Tag with a reason

Under Easy Breezy I wrote: "super quick throw together with things I usually have in the house anyhow, and it makes me more excited about eating a salad." Three lines of my own voice, on one recipe.

A week later, JJ remembers...

Train JJ tab for a Cilantro Lime Dressing recipe, Easy Breezy pill selected, Your Reason field filled in

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What's for dinner

JJ reads the fridge. And the spice rack. And remembers what you love.

What can I make tonight?

JJ leads with my about-to-expire dairy: "With that heavy cream and sour cream both expiring soon, let's put them to good use." Three real options, each grounded in what's actually in the stash.

Now JJ, the sous chef, is training me on how to use what I have. 🥰 👨‍🍳

JJ chat responding to 'What can I make tonight?' with three recipes that use up heavy cream and sour cream about to expire

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Try it

It's a real app. Go cook something.

Open Recipe App ↗

Built with React, Vite, Convex, Claude API, and Tailwind.