Pantry Pal vs SuperCook: cook from your recipes, not a database.
SuperCook is a genuinely clever free tool. Build a pantry of what's in your kitchen and it digs through millions of web recipes for something you can make. Pantry Pal answers the same question from the other end, with your own saved recipes matched against a pantry that keeps counts and best-by dates. Here's the honest head-to-head.
Free to start. No ads. No credit card.
Both remember your shelf. SuperCook searches strangers' recipes for what fits it. Pantry Pal searches yours.
| Feature | Pantry Pal | SuperCook |
|---|---|---|
| Where the recipes come from | Your own — cookbooks, sites, a photo of a page, even an EPUB or a PDF | A shared database of ~11 million web recipes |
| Tells you what you can cook right now | Yes — from your real shelf | Yes — from the ingredients in your SuperCook pantry |
| Keeps a pantry list you don't retype | Yes — a saved list with counts, by shelf, fridge, and freezer | Yes — a saved list of ingredient names, with no counts |
| Tracks best-by dates | Yes | No |
| Saves a recipe from your own cookbook | Paste a link or the text, type it, photograph a page, or upload an EPUB or PDF | No — it works from its database, not your books |
| Grocery list | Yes — only what you're missing, sorted by aisle | A basic shopping list |
| What it costs | Free to start. No ads. No card. | Free (as of September 2026) |
| Where it runs | Web today; iOS and Android on the way | Web, iOS, and Android |
SuperCook details checked September 2026 from its App Store and Google Play listings and supercook.com. Features move — if we've got something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.
Three things change when the recipes are your own
Dinner comes from books you trust.
The recipe you actually want is in Salt Fat Acid Heat, or a blog you bookmarked, or your mum's handwriting — not a stock database. Pantry Pal keeps each one, with its source, and matches those against your shelf. Cook from what you have, from the recipes you chose.
Not just "have it" — how much.
SuperCook's pantry records that you have tomatoes. The Pantry Pal pantry inventory keeps a count and a best-by date on each item, so you can see you've got two tomatoes going soft and one can of chickpeas too many.
The closest date, first.
Pantry Pal keeps the dates on the items and opens sorted by them, with the recipes that use up what's about to turn one tap away, so you waste less of what you bought. SuperCook's pantry holds no dates, so it can't put what's about to turn first.
When SuperCook is the better pick
We're not going to pretend otherwise. If you want the biggest pool of recipes to cook from and you don't keep your own, SuperCook is great at exactly that. It's free, it remembers your pantry, and it runs on every platform, including a phone today. Pantry Pal asks a little more of you up front, because you bring your recipes, and pays it back when dinner comes from dishes you already chose. Different tools for different nights.
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Try the version that knows your kitchen.
Bring a few recipes you love and the pantry you've already got. Pantry Pal does the matching.
Free to start. No ads. No credit card.
More on the idea: cooking from what you already have.