SousChefAI

SousChefAI is an iPhone app that generates recipes and meal plans with AI from the user's dietary preferences, favourite cuisines and food sensitivities. It covers vegetarian, vegan, omnivore and pescatarian diets and cuisines including Italian, Japanese, French, Chinese, Indian, American and Mexican. It is aimed at home cooks who want meal ideas matched to what they can and want to eat, including those with allergies to nuts, gluten or other foods.

In the Create Recipe tab the user prompts SousChefAI with the ingredients they have, a specific need such as diabetes-friendly options, or a wish to eat more healthily, and the AI returns a recipe to match. The Explore tab mixes diets, preferences, cuisines and meal types from breakfast to cocktails, with adjustable preparation time. Recipes can be scaled to the number of servings and shown in metric or imperial measurements.

SousChefAI builds daily or weekly meal plans, each with a tailored shopping list. The recipe generator takes food allergies into account when composing each meal. Every added or generated recipe is saved in the My Recipes section, which works as a personal cookbook. Nothing generated is stored on a server: SousChefAI keeps all data on the user's device, though identifiers, usage data and diagnostics may be collected without being linked to identity.

SousChefAI is free to start with three recipe generations. A Premium Access subscription allows up to 50 new recipe generations a day and is sold weekly at ₹199 or monthly at ₹499 on the Indian App Store. The app is only for iPhone, requires iOS 16.0 or later, is available in English, is a 23.8 MB download and carries a 4+ age rating.

Use cases

• Cooking with the ingredients already in the kitchen
• Diabetes-friendly or healthier meal ideas
• Planning a week of meals with one shopping list
• Safe recipes for nut or gluten allergies
• Trying a new cuisine such as Italian, Japanese or French