What Can I Cook Today?
Recipe ideas from your kitchen
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Stop wasting food and money. Tell us what's in your
kitchen and get real meal ideas in seconds, from
what you already have. First one's free.
You know that moment. The fridge is open, there’s chicken, half an onion, and something in a tub — and you have no idea what to make. You scroll through a recipe site, find forty options, and end up ordering in anyway.
This app answers one simple question: What can I cook for dinner right now, with what I actually have?
Tell it what’s in your fridge — or simply photograph the shelf and let it identify the ingredients — and you’ll get three meals you can cook tonight.
THREE IDEAS, NOT FORTY
Most recipe apps bury you in options and leave you to make the decision.
This one gives you three: the quickest thing you could make, the most filling, and one you’d never have thought of.
Each comes with the cooking time, estimated cost, and how much of the recipe you already have at home.
PHOTOGRAPH YOUR CUPBOARD
Point the camera at your fridge, pantry shelf, or counter. It reads what’s there and starts from that — no typing a list and no searching through hundreds of ingredients.
It’s useful when you can see the food but can’t be bothered to catalogue it. Leftovers work too: half a roast chicken and yesterday’s rice can be the start of something new.
COOKING MODE THAT READS TO YOU
When you’re ready to cook, the recipe opens one step at a time, with text large enough to read from across the kitchen.
Each step can be read aloud, so you’re not prodding your screen with wet or flour-covered hands. Tap once and it keeps reading as you move through the method.
It even ducks your music rather than stopping it.
IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE
Recipes are available in 55 languages, including all eleven of South Africa’s official languages — isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xitsonga, siSwati, Tshivenda, isiNdebele, Sepedi, and English.
The dish name, ingredients, and every step are written in your chosen language.
COOKS FOR WHERE YOU ARE
Set your country once and the app adapts to it.
Ingredients are ones you can buy, the cuisine leans local, and costs are shown in your own currency.
Mielie meal and wors in South Africa. Garri and plantain in Nigeria. Ugali and sukuma wiki in Kenya. Atta and dal in India.
A SHOPPING LIST FOR WHAT’S MISSING
Anything a recipe needs that you don’t have goes straight onto your shopping list, grouped so you’re not walking around the shop twice.
Tick things off as you buy them, and they move into your kitchen automatically.
SAVE WHAT WORKED, SKIP WHAT DIDN’T
Keep the dinners worth cooking again. Skip the ones that weren’t — and they won’t be put in front of you a second time.
What you’ve cooked recently drops down the list, so you’re not eating the same thing every Tuesday.
SHOW OFF YOUR PLATE
When you’re done, photograph what you made.
Your finished dish comes back stamped and ready to share with whoever needs to see it.
ABOUT THE RECIPES
Recipes are generated by AI, which allows them to be created around the exact contents of your fridge rather than pulled from a fixed recipe list.
Use your own judgement in the kitchen. Check that meat is cooked through and ingredients are suitable for everyone you’re feeding.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Ai Pots gives you 3 free AI meal generations. To keep going, choose a plan:
• Home Cook — R29.99/month — 60 AI meals every month
• AI Pots Pro — R59.99/month — 200 AI meals every month
Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current billing period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your Apple Account settings after purchase.
Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy:
https://smarthomethings.co.za/privacy.html
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Dinner sorted, from what you already have.
No more standing in front of the fridge wondering.
Tell us what's in your kitchen and get real meal
ideas in seconds — made from what's already there.
In this update:
• See exactly how many meal ideas each plan gives
you, at a glance
• A cleaner, sharper subscription screen that fits
every phone properly
• Smoother throughout
Your first meal idea is free. Try it tonight.
The developer, SMARTHOMETHINGS (PTY) LTD, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Search History
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- SMARTHOMETHINGS (PTY) LTD
- Size
- 68.2 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- AI Pots Pro R59.99
- Home Cook R29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 SmartHomeThings (Pty) Ltd