CookIt: Recipes by Ingredients

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About this app

What can you cook with what's already in your kitchen? CookIt tells you in seconds.

Add the ingredients in your fridge and cupboards, and CookIt shows three lists: what you can cook right now, what you're one ingredient away from, and what you're two away from, with the missing items named. No more scrolling past recipes you can't make.

BUY ONE THING, UNLOCK MORE MEALS
CookIt works out which single ingredient opens up the most new recipes. "Buy eggs, unlock 7 recipes." Add it to your shopping list in one tap, then tick items off as you shop and they go straight into your pantry.

23,000+ RECIPES, ALL ON YOUR PHONE
Every recipe is stored on your device, so CookIt works with no signal and no account. Cook Italian, Indian, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, French, Spanish, Greek, American, Pakistani, Turkish, Lebanese and Moroccan dishes. No recipe contains pork or alcohol.

COOK MODE
• Big, clear steps you can read from across the counter
• Keeps your screen awake while you cook
• Can read each step aloud and tell you when a timer starts and ends
• Start a timer straight from the step that needs it

FIND THE RIGHT RECIPE
• Can make now, one away and two away, always in that order
• Smart matching: spring onion, scallion and green onion count as one ingredient
• Ingredient swaps are clearly marked, so you know when a recipe works with what you have instead
• Filter by vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free or no beef
• Filter by cooking time, meal type and difficulty
• Search every recipe by name, ingredient or cuisine
• Surprise me: one random pick you can cook tonight

KITCHEN TOOLS
• Run several kitchen timers at once, with alerts even when the app is closed
• Unit and oven temperature converter, including cups to grams for common ingredients
• Weekly meal planner that adds what you're missing to your shopping list
• Mark ingredients to use soon, and recipes that use them come first
• Save favourites to come back to
• A plain-English glossary of 70 cooking terms
• Metric or US units, light or dark theme

GOOD FOR
• Deciding what's for dinner without another trip to the shop
• Using up ingredients before they go off, and wasting less food
• Quick weeknight meals from the staples you always have
• Planning the week's meals and the shopping that goes with them

A PANTRY THAT TAKES SECONDS
CookIt asks what you have, never how much, so keeping it up to date is quick. Tick your everyday staples once and they stay.

No account. No sign-up. Open it and start cooking.

PLEASE NOTE
Most recipes come from a publicly available collection shared by home cooks, sorted automatically and not individually tested. Dietary filters are a guide, not a guarantee. Always check the ingredients, and the labels on what you buy, before you cook, especially if you have a food allergy.

What’s new

Small Improvements