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Recipes from what you already have
What's for dinner, tonight?
Type the ingredients sitting in your pantry. PantryPal hands back a real, cookable recipe — tuned to your diet, your tools, and your appetite — in about ten seconds.
- 4.8 ★ App Store rating
- 50k+ recipes generated
- Privacy-first — ingredients never sold
The flow
Three taps from "I don't know"
to a plate on the table.
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Tell us what's there.
Tomatoes, half a lemon, a sad bag of spinach. Snap a photo of your shelf or just type the words. Forget nothing.
tomato spinach garlic eggs lemon + -
02
Set the rules.
Time available, who you're feeding, any allergies, what you can't be bothered to wash. PantryPal cooks around all of it.
Time≤ 30 minDietPescatarianCookwareOne panServes4 -
03
Cook the thing.
A real recipe — tested cadence, sensible substitutions, kitchen-mode big text. Save the keepers to your library.
Lemon-Garlic Spinach Skillet Eggs
84% match for your pantry
Recipe engine
Not a search engine.
An actual cook in your pocket.
PantryPal doesn't return ten Google results. It writes you one recipe — sized, scaled, and seasoned for what's actually on your counter. Need a substitute? Ask. Want it bolder, faster, fancier? Tweak it. Don't like the result? Hit regenerate and it learns.
- Smart substitutions for missing ingredients
- Live re-scaling from 1 serving to 12
- Allergy-aware — peanuts, gluten, shellfish, dairy
- Cuisine and technique controls (braise, sear, no-cook)
Your input
"I've got chicken thighs, half a lemon, some day-old rice, and twenty minutes."
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PantryPal's reply
Crispy Lemon Chicken over Charred Rice. Sear the thighs skin-down for 8 minutes, flip, finish with lemon and butter. Push aside, crisp the rice in the fat. Twenty-one minutes, one pan.
Everything inside
A small app that does a lot.
Built around how people actually cook — not how recipe sites think people should.
Smart grocery list
Drop any recipe and PantryPal builds the shop — already-have items quietly removed.
Kitchen mode
Massive type, screen-on, hands-free steps. Designed for greasy fingers and steamy windows.
Inspiration
Curated drops every week — cuisines, techniques, seasonal ingredients to expand the rotation.
Ingredient dictionary
What's tahini? How do you store it? PantryPal explains, in plain English.
Share & export
Send recipes to a friend, save as PDF, or sync straight to your notes app.
A few it cooked yesterday
Real recipes,
not template salad.
Mediterranean
Charred Tomato & White Bean Tartine
Born from: 4 tomatoes, white beans, stale bread, basil.
Korean-ish
Crispy Rice Bowl with Soft Egg & Greens
Born from: leftover rice, 2 eggs, spinach, soy, sesame.
Quick lunch
Lemon-Pepper Tuna & Bean Bowl
Born from: canned tuna, white beans, lemon, parsley.
Comfort
Slow-Braised Chickpea & Tomato Stew
Born from: chickpeas, onion, paprika, canned tomato.
Plans
Start free.
Upgrade if you cook a lot.
No ads — ever. Cancel anytime. Apple & Google handle the billing.
Free
£0forever
For seeing what the fuss is about.
- 5 recipe generations / month
- Save up to 10 favorites
- Basic dietary filters
- Ingredient dictionary
Premium
£3.99/ month
For the weeknight rotation.
- 100 generations / month
- Unlimited saved recipes
- Photo-to-pantry scan
- Kitchen mode & share/export
- All dietary & cuisine filters
Unlimited
£7.99/ month
For households & serious cooks.
- Unlimited generations
- Everything in Premium
- Priority recipe quality
- Multi-cook household sync
- Early access to new features
Prices in GBP. Local currency & VAT applied at checkout via the App Store / Google Play.
The early reviews
Cooks, talking.
It finally killed the 6 p.m. "what do we even eat" spiral.
The substitution feature alone is worth the subscription. No more abandoning a recipe because I'm out of one spice.
Cleaner than every other recipe app I've tried. It doesn't make me scroll through someone's life story.
FAQ
A few things people ask.
Are the recipes any good, or is it just AI noise?
PantryPal uses a tuned recipe model with sanity checks for cooking times, temperatures, and ingredient ratios. We tested every category across hundreds of pantries before launch — and if a recipe ever flops, hit regenerate and tell it what went wrong.
Does it handle allergies and dietary restrictions?
Yes — set them once in your profile and PantryPal enforces them across every generation. Built-in support for vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, low-carb, and custom lists. Always double-check labels — we're an AI, not a doctor.
What about my data? Where do my ingredients go?
Your ingredient lists and saved recipes are stored on your device and in a private Firebase account tied to your sign-in. We do not sell or share any of it. Full details on the privacy page.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Subscriptions are managed by the App Store or Google Play. You can cancel from your phone's subscription settings in two taps — no email required.
Is there an Android version? An iPad version?
iOS and Android are both live. iPad works via the iOS build with a tablet-optimized layout. A web version is on the roadmap for 2026.
What if I run out of generations on the free plan?
You'll still have full access to everything you've saved, plus the ingredient dictionary and curated inspiration. Free generations reset on the first of each month.
Cook tonight
Stop staring
at the fridge.
Free to download. No ads. Your next dinner is about ninety seconds away.
★★★★★ 4.8 average across 1,200+ reviews