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Kidge.

What should I cook tonight? Kidge answers from what's already in your kitchen — snap a receipt, pick a diet mode, and follow a step-by-step guide built for people who aren't chefs.

/ Status
In Development
/ Platform
iOS + Android
/ Diet Modes
6 presets
/ Default Cook Time
≤ 30 minutes

THE PROBLEM

You have food. You just don't know what to make.

Recipe apps assume you already know what you want to cook. You don't — that's the problem. And pantry apps assume you'll log every grocery item by hand. You won't.

Kidge starts from the other end. Snap your receipt after shopping or photograph your fridge, and AI figures out what you have. Tell it how you want to eat tonight. It shows you what you can actually make — right now, with zero extra shopping.

And when you start cooking, it doesn't hand you a wall of text. It walks you through one step at a time — like a patient friend standing next to you in the kitchen.

BUILT FOR REAL KITCHENS

/ 01Small apartment kitchen, basic equipment
/ 02No pantry logging — snap a photo, done
/ 03Recipes under 30 minutes by default
/ 048 ingredients or fewer
/ 05One pan where possible
/ 06Supermarket ingredients only — no specialty stores
/ 07Terms explained when you need them, not up front

COOK TONIGHT

Three tiers. Zero guesswork.

Kidge doesn't show you every recipe — it shows you the ones that make sense for tonight, ranked by how ready you already are.

You have everything

Cook Now

Recipes you can start immediately with what's already in your pantry. No trip to the shops.

Almost there

1–2 More Ingredients

Recipes that need just one or two more items — worth grabbing if you're passing a supermarket.

Something different

Stretch Picks

Recipes outside your current stock, surfaced for when you want to plan ahead or try something new.

FEATURES

What's inside.

01

AI Pantry Tracking

Snap a photo of your receipt or open fridge. Gemini Flash reads every item, maps it to a canonical ingredient dictionary, and populates your pantry. You confirm in seconds — no manual logging.

02

6 Diet Modes

Normal, High-Protein / Low-Fat, Low-Calorie, Low-Carb, Vegetarian, Vegan. Switch from a persistent chip in the top bar — every recommendation updates instantly to match how you're eating tonight.

03

"Cook Tonight" Recommendations

Recipes bucketed into three tiers: what you can make right now, what you can make with one or two more ingredients, and stretch picks for when you feel adventurous. No guessing, no scrolling.

04

Citymapper-Style Cook Mode

One instruction per page. Screen stays awake. Built-in timers. Tap any cooking term to get a plain-English explanation. Every step has a "looks off?" button that generates recovery hints on the spot via Claude.

05

Beginner-Aware Defaults

Every recipe is filtered to 30 minutes or less, 8 ingredients or fewer, one pan where possible, and common supermarket ingredients only. The app assumes a small kitchen and no chef vocabulary — on purpose.

06

Step-by-Step Jargon Glossary

"Fold", "deglaze", "bloom" — tap any term mid-cook and get a short, jargon-free explanation without leaving the step. No more pausing to Google what something means while the pan is hot.

HOW IT WORKS

Snap. Pick. Cook.

Four steps from empty stomach to first bite. No prep work, no recipe hunting, no mid-cook Googling.

/ 01

Snap your receipt or fridge

Take a photo after shopping or open the fridge and photograph it. AI reads every item and builds your pantry list in seconds.

/ 02

Set your diet mode

Pick how you're eating tonight from the six presets. Kidge filters every recommendation to match — no extra configuration.

/ 03

Pick a recipe

Browse what you can actually make right now, sorted by effort and time. Filter by cuisine, protein, or cooking method.

/ 04

Follow the guide

Cook Mode walks you through one step at a time. Screen stays on. Timers fire automatically. Tap anything you don't understand.

APP SCREENS

See it in action.

Kidge · receipt scan and pantry auto-populate
Kidge · cook tonight recommendations
Kidge · cook mode — one step per page
Kidge · diet mode selector and recipe filter

COMING SOON

Be first to cook with Kidge.

Kidge is in active development with a TestFlight and Play Store internal track releasing soon. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out when early access opens.