ChefAI
Photo to recipe, instantly.
Upload a photo of any dish. ChefAI identifies it and generates a complete recipe — ingredients, steps, prep time, difficulty, and a calorie estimate. No searching, no manual entry, no friction between seeing food you want and knowing how to make it.
Features
Photo to recipe
Upload a photo of any dish or food item. ChefAI identifies what it is and generates a full recipe — ingredients, steps, and all. No manual searching.
Dish identification
The AI names the dish before generating the recipe, so you know exactly what you're working with. Useful when you photograph something unfamiliar and want to understand it first.
Practical metadata
Every recipe includes an estimated prep time, difficulty rating, and calorie count. Estimates — not guarantees — but accurate enough to plan with.
Saved recipe library
Save any generated recipe to your personal list. Return to it later without regenerating. Your library grows with you rather than resetting every session.
Shopping list generation
Select multiple saved meals and get a combined shopping list. Ingredients across recipes are merged and deduplicated so you only see what you actually need to buy.
Built for
The gap between seeing food and cooking it.
You see a dish at a restaurant, in a reel, at a friend's place. You want to make it. Normally that means searching, sifting through recipes that half-match, and guessing at ingredients.
ChefAI shortens that to one step. Take a photo, get a recipe you can actually follow. No account required to try it, no recipe social network to sign up for.
Best suited for
- Busy individualsWho want quick meal inspiration without a long search
- Home cooksWho discover meals visually and want to recreate them
- Weekly plannersWho want to select several meals and generate one shopping list
- FamiliesWho need practical recipes fast, not curated editorial content
Product principles
Speed first
From upload to recipe in seconds. Every decision in the product is filtered through this.
Practical output
Generated recipes follow home cooking — not aspirational restaurant technique. They should be usable.
Lightweight
No recipe feeds, no social layer, no algorithmic noise. The core loop is: photo → recipe → save → cook.
Repeat use
Saving and shopping list generation are built to make the app useful week after week, not just once.
Pricing
Free
€0
Limited generations
- Photo-to-recipe generation
- Dish identification
- Prep time, difficulty, calories
Premium
TBD
Pricing set at launch
- Unlimited recipe generation
- Saved recipe library
- Shopping list generation
- Everything in Free
ChefAI is currently in development. Pricing will be confirmed before launch. Free tier will always exist.
Under Review
ChefAI is in active development. Have a question, a suggestion, or want to be notified at launch?