I'm a chef with 30 years in kitchens. My co-founder is a home cook and together we built Cooks Intent because all meal planning apps solve the wrong problem. They start by assuming you have intentions—a plan, a budget, a dietary preference. But at 5pm on a Tuesday on your way home from work you don't have intentions. You have: what's in your fridge, 20 minutes, and the knowledge you're ordering another $75 takeout you didn't budget for. The distance between "I have ingredients X, Y, and Z" and "I can make real food" is enormous. Existing apps don't solve this. They provide you with: 100 recipes using cream (you don't have time to dig through that) 12 items to purchase for a single meal when you already have 8 of them sitting in your fridge Meal plans that ignore the actual items in your pantry So we built around the real moment: here's what you have. Here's what you can make. Here's what you need to buy (no more, no less). The Smart Shopping List is where this philosophy gets real. Using package sizes (6.7 fl oz, 1/2 quart, 1 quart for cream), density data (different foods take up different amounts of space by weight), and your current pantry, we automatically generate shopping lists of exactly what you're going to use. Average US household food waste is $1,500/year. We think that's wasteful and unnecessary. Where the density Data really shines is in our no scales mode for users who don't have scales. Converts weight to volume. Your Cookbook Vault digitizes family recipes by OCR imports as well as file/ URL imports so they're never lost. In testing the success rate with cursive writing of old recipes was well beyond expections. We are very proud of ourselves. The AI Pantry Generator handles your meal creation instantly. But the Smart Shopping component—this is what separates us from every competitor in the space. No one else actually understands grocery economics. There are many more features not listed here. Check it out. Looking forward to your feedback!

Cooks Intent

Your Cooking Companion, For Real Life

Your Cooking Companion, For Real Life