Free · iPhone and Android · English and Spanish
Cook what you already have
Cookeya answers "what do I cook tonight?" from the food already in your kitchen. Keep a pantry with expiry dates, and every recipe shows how much of it you can already make — sorted so the ones that use up what is about to go off come first.
Cookeya at a glance
- Free
- Price, with no subscription and no ads
- 400+
- Recipes in the catalog, browsable here without an account
- English and Spanish
- Fully translated, including every recipe
- iPhone and Android
- Built with React Native; no web app
- Works offline
- Your pantry, cookbook and plan live on the device
How it works
Three steps, and the third is dinner.
Put your kitchen in
Add what you have, where it lives, and when it turns. Typing a name suggests it from a catalog of thousands, so a week of shopping takes a couple of minutes rather than an evening.
See what you can already cook
Every recipe carries a match: how many of its ingredients you hold, and exactly which ones you do not. Nothing is hidden behind a paywall or a guess.
Cook the one that saves the most food
The ranking puts recipes that clear expiring stock at the top. The spinach gets used on Tuesday instead of found on Sunday.
What is in the app
Pantry with expiry dates
Track what you have, where it lives, and when it turns. Items about to expire surface first, so nothing gets lost at the back of the fridge.
Cook tonight
Every recipe shows how much of it you already have and exactly what is missing, sorted by what clears your expiring stock first.
Explore
Search and filter by mood, type, origin, time and equipment. Search works across both languages, so "sopa de miso" and "miso soup" find the same dish.
Your cookbook
Import a recipe from a link or write your own. Edits stay on your copy; the original is never touched.
Plan the week
Line up dinners and see at a glance which are ready to cook and which need a shop.
Shopping list
Built from your plan, grouped by aisle, with what your pantry already covers subtracted. Tick things off and they move straight into your pantry.
Cook mode
Step by step, one step at a time, with the ingredients for that step and a timer that keeps running when you put the phone down.
Local first
Your pantry, cookbook, plan and shopping list are stored on your device. Syncing them to an account is a switch you turn on, not a default.
Allergies are not a filter
If you list an allergy, recipes containing it are removed before anything is ranked. There is no toggle to turn that off and no way to see them by accident. Cookeya tells you how many it hid, and moves on. This is a deliberate difference from apps that grey out unsafe recipes and leave them tappable.
All recipes
The full Cookeya catalog, free to read without an account. Every recipe here is one the app can match against your pantry once you have the app installed.
Ackee and Saltfish
ackee, salt cod, onion, red pepper, tomato, spring onion, scotch bonnet, thyme
Ají de Gallina
chicken breast, chicken stock, aji amarillo, white bread, walnuts, onion, garlic, parmesan
Apple Crumble
apple, caster sugar, ground cinnamon, lemon, plain flour, butter, brown sugar, rolled oats
Apple Pie
shortcrust pastry, apple, caster sugar, ground cinnamon, cornflour, lemon, butter, egg
Apple Tarte Tatin
apple, caster sugar, butter, puff pastry, lemon, vanilla pod, creme fraiche
Arroz con Pollo
chicken thigh, paella rice, onion, red pepper, garlic, smoked paprika, saffron, passata
Asparagus Risotto
asparagus, vegetable stock, butter, shallot, arborio rice, white wine, parmesan, lemon
Aubergine Parmigiana
aubergine, olive oil, tinned tomatoes, garlic, basil, mozzarella, parmesan, salt
Common questions
Is Cookeya free?
Yes. Cookeya is free on iPhone and Android, with no subscription, no advertising and no paid tier. The full recipe catalog, the pantry, the weekly plan and the shopping list are all included.
What does Cookeya actually do?
Cookeya keeps a list of the food in your kitchen along with expiry dates, then ranks recipes by how much of each one you can already make. Recipes that use up food about to go off are ranked first, so the app is as much about wasting less as it is about deciding dinner.
Do I need an account?
You need an account to use the app, because your pantry and cookbook are tied to it. You do not need one to read the recipes on this website. Deleting the account deletes the data; the option is in the app under You, and there is a web form as well.
Does Cookeya work offline?
Yes. Your pantry, cookbook, weekly plan and shopping list are stored on the device in a local database and are readable and editable with no connection. Syncing that data to your account is optional and off until you turn it on.
How does Cookeya handle food allergies?
Recipes containing an allergen you have listed are removed from results entirely, before ranking, rather than being shown greyed out. There is no setting to disable this. Cookeya reports how many recipes it hid so the count is never silent.
What languages does Cookeya support?
English and Spanish, including every recipe, ingredient and filter — not just the interface. Search matches across both, so searching an ingredient in Spanish finds recipes whose English titles never mention it.
Can I add my own recipes?
Yes. You can write a recipe from scratch or import one from a link, and photograph a page if the recipe is on paper. Your edits live on your copy of the recipe; the catalog original is never modified.
How is Cookeya different from a normal recipe app?
A normal recipe app starts from a dish and tells you what to buy. Cookeya starts from what you already own and tells you what you can cook, ordered by what is closest to spoiling. The shopping list is the last step rather than the first.
Get Cookeya
Free on iPhone and Android. No account needed to browse recipes here; the app needs one to keep your pantry.