Cooking Genie

Cooking Genie, listed on the App Store as "Cooking Genie: AI Recipe Maker", is an iPhone app that works as an AI chef. A user tells it what ingredients are in the fridge, or takes a photo of them, and gets a complete recipe in seconds. It sits in the Food & Drink category and is meant for home cooks who have ingredients but no idea what to make with them.

Cooking Genie offers four ways to cook. With My ingredients, the user types what is on hand and picks a meal type and the number of servings. Snap & Cook recognizes ingredients from a photo. The Genie+ modes add From my pantry, which saves a virtual fridge for one-tap cooking, and Specific recipe, which adapts a named dish such as lasagna or curry to the user's diet.

Each recipe lists ingredient amounts that scale to the servings, clear steps and a cooking mode with timers that keeps the screen on. Nutrition per serving covers calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium, alongside chef tips, swaps and storage advice. Recipes follow diets such as vegan, keto or gluten-free and leave out set allergens, and they can be saved in folders, exported as PDF or shared.

Cooking Genie is free with 5 recipes a day. Genie+, a monthly subscription at $4.99 with a free trial, adds unlimited recipes, Pantry mode, Specific recipe, unlimited Snap & Cook and priority support. The app is only for iPhone, requires iOS 26.0 or later, syncs recipes and pantry across devices and is available in English, Spanish, French and Italian. Users are told to double-check allergens, temperatures and cooking times.

Use cases

• Deciding what to cook from the ingredients already in the fridge
• Cooking for a vegan, keto, gluten-free or other diet
• Avoiding allergens such as nuts, dairy or shellfish when planning meals
• Tracking calories and protein per serving of a home-cooked meal
• Adapting a favourite dish such as lasagna or curry to a diet