Shelfcook

Pantry-first recipes

Cook from what you have.

Point your camera at the shelf. Shelfcook finds dishes from around the world you can make right now. Scaled to your household, with a grocery list for whatever is missing.

Join the waitlistSee how it works
  • App Store: coming soon
  • Google Play: coming soon

iOS and Android. 7-day free trial on every plan.

Cook now

  • Cuisine
  • 30 min
  • Diet
  • 4 servings
  • One pan

You can make now

  • Chicken adoboFilipino, 35 minHave 9 of 9
  • Jollof riceWest African, 45 minHave 7 of 7
  • Mapo tofuSichuan, 25 minHave 8 of 8

Missing one or two

  • PhoMissing lime, cilantroAdd to list

Show different ones

Three dishes you can make now, one dish missing two items, with filters for cuisine, time, diet, servings, and appliance.

The loop

Capture, cook, restock.

Shelfcook starts from the shelf, not the recipe. The pantry persists, so the app knows when staples run low or food is about to expire.

Every feature, in detail

Household

Who are you cooking for?

Set a profile for each person at the table: the nine major allergens, vegetarian, vegan, halal, kosher, gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, keto, and a kid-friendly flag. Every dish is filtered for the whole household and portions scale with the servings stepper.

  • Families: weeknight dinners from what is in the fridge, with per-person diets and portions that scale.
  • Individuals: cook the cuisines you grew up with or want to learn, without a full shopping trip.
  • Sharing one pantry and one list across a household's phones arrives in a later release.

Allergen flags are best effort and say so on every recipe. Shelfcook makes no health claims.

Two adults and a child cooking together at a kitchen counter, with a third person nearby.

Pricing

One plan. Everything in it.

One free scan preview: scan once and see the dish names, then start the trial to open the recipes. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.

40 photo scans and 200 recipe generations a month. When a subscription ends, your pantry, saved recipes, and grocery list stay readable. Scanning and recipe generation lock until you subscribe again.

Plan details and what is included

Questions

The short answers

What is Shelfcook?

A pantry-first recipe app. You log what is in your kitchen by photo, barcode, or typing, and Shelfcook suggests dishes from 30 cuisines that you can cook right now, scaled to your household, with a grocery list for whatever is missing.

Does Shelfcook keep photos of my kitchen?

No. Photos are resized and stripped of location data on your phone, sent once to build your pantry, processed, and not stored on our servers.

What does it cost?

One plan, called member: $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year, both with a 7-day free trial. Yearly works out to $3.33 a month. Prices are in US dollars; the App Store and Google Play show local pricing.

Is there a free version?

You get one free scan preview: scan once and see the dish names. Opening the recipes needs the trial or a subscription. After a subscription ends, your pantry, saved recipes, and grocery list stay readable.

All questions

Waitlist

Be first to cook from your shelf.

The apps are in the works. Leave your email and we tell you the day they are in the App Store and Google Play.

We email you once when Shelfcook is in the stores. Nothing else unless you tick the box.

What you get as a member

  • Photo, barcode, or type it in
  • Dishes from 30 cuisines, scaled to your household
  • A grocery list for only what is missing
  • Expiry and staple reminders, on your terms
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