Find recipes by the ingredients you already have.
Type in what you've got — or keep a pantry Pantry Pal already knows — and it tells you what you can make with those ingredients tonight. It looks at the recipes you brought it first: cookbooks, NYT, the blog you bookmarked at 1am. When nothing you've saved fits the shelf, AI writes you three Recipe Ideas from what's actually on it. Runs in your browser — nothing to install.
Free to start. No ads. No credit card.
A recipe app for what you have — not what some database thinks you should make. It works backwards from your kitchen: it keeps the recipes you already cook from — books, sites, photographed pages — and matches them against what's actually on your shelf, so dinner is a choice you make from the food you already own.
You have plenty of recipes. You just can't cook any of them right now.
Open any recipe app and you get a stock database — thousands of dishes you didn't choose, by people you've never met, calling for ingredients that aren't in your kitchen. It's a catalogue, not an answer. You wanted dinner; you got homework.
Even a recipe finder by ingredient is working from a stranger's pantry, not yours — meanwhile the recipes you actually trust live somewhere else entirely: a shelf of cookbooks, a folder of screenshots, the blog post you swore you'd remember. They're yours, they're good, and they're completely disconnected from the one fact that matters at 6pm — what's on your shelf tonight.
The gap was never a shortage of recipes. It's that no app holds your recipes and your pantry in the same hand. Close that gap and dinner stops being a search and starts being a short list.
A recipe app that starts with the food you already own
Every recipe you trust, in one place.
Paste a link. Paste a TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube video and it listens and reads. Photograph a cookbook page, upload an EPUB or a PDF, or type it in. The recipes you already cook from — wherever they live now — become a library Pantry Pal can actually reason about.
Cross-referenced against your pantry.
Pantry Pal checks each recipe against the pantry inventory you already gave it — is this on your shelf, not is this probably in most kitchens. Keep the shelf honest and the answer stays honest.
What's ready, and what's one thing short.
You don't get a wall of maybes. You get the recipes you can make right now — badged “All in pantry” — and the near-misses, badged “Need 1”, that you're a single ingredient away from. Decide in seconds. Here's a closer look at what you can make with what you have.
The book, the page, the blog — intact.
Pantry Pal never swaps your recipe for a generic version. It keeps the source it came from — "Six Seasons, p.214" — so you can flip to the real thing whenever you want the headnote, the photo, the marginalia.
However you keep your recipes, they come straight in.
Paste a URL. Paste a TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube video link and Pantry Pal listens to it and reads the caption. Photograph a page from a real cookbook, drop in an EPUB or a PDF, or type it by hand. It reads the ingredients whichever way the recipe turns up — then checks them against your shelf. Six real ways in — EPUB and PDF share the one upload button, so that's six sources behind five buttons. The screen has a sixth tile, at the top, that isn't an import at all: it's Recipe Ideas, for the night nothing you've saved fits. No app-store download required.
Works right in your browser, on the phone already on your counter.
From a shelf of recipes to tonight's dinner in three steps
Bring your recipes.
Paste a link. Paste a video — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. Photograph a page, upload an EPUB or a PDF, or type one in. The recipes you trust become a library, not a pile.
Point it at your pantry.
Tell Pantry Pal what's on your shelf — or let your pantry inventory keep it current. It checks every recipe against what you actually have, so you use up what you have before it's forgotten.
Cook what's ready.
Open it hungry. It shows what you can make right now, and what you're one ingredient short on — straight from your own recipes.
When nothing you've saved fits the shelf.
Every other way into your library starts somewhere else — a site, a book, a video — and works back towards your kitchen. This one starts in it. Your saved recipes get matched first, always; Ideas are for the night when none of them want anything to do with half a cabbage, a tin of chickpeas, and some rice. So you cook, instead of shopping.
Point it at your whole pantry, at a few things you pick, or at the one thing that has to go tonight — the coriander going limp, the half tub of ricotta. You get 3 Recipe Ideas back, built from exactly what you pointed at.
They're checked, not just written. Your household's allergies and the way you eat get re-applied to every Idea after it's written, and again after every refinement — anything that breaks them is dropped, and you're told what got dropped. Every Idea still carries the line “AI-generated — use your judgment”, because it was.
Don't like what came back? Say what to change — no oven, less faff, make it lunch — and it reworks them, up to 10 turns in one sitting. Refining never costs you another Idea. And it stays an Idea until you save it: your cookbook only ever holds the recipes you chose.
Working from the whole pantry needs at least 3 things on your shelf — under that it says so rather than guessing. The free plan covers 5 Recipe Ideas a month; Pro is unlimited.
Cook from your own recipes.
Dinner is already in your kitchen.
Bring the recipes you love and the pantry you have. Pantry Pal does the matching — and hands you tonight's short list.
Free to start. No ads. No credit card.