Souva
Cook with the ingredients you already have
17 followers
Cook with the ingredients you already have
17 followers
Souva turns the ingredients you already have into recipes. Snap a photo of your fridge, scan a barcode, or type them in, and Souva helps you find recipes you can make right now, or, if your ingredients form a particularly niche combo, it invents brand new ones with AI. You can also import any recipe from a URL. Free, no account, works offline. Built for the "full fridge, no idea what to make" problem and for wasting less food instead of shopping for one more recipe.
Hey Product Hunt, my name is Ryan, and I built Souva. 👋
The idea came to me when I looked back at a problem my mom and I faced growing up: we'd open a full fridge and a full pantry looking to cook something, and have absolutely no idea what to make. Almost every recipe app out today assumes you'll go buy a list of ingredients to make recipes, but we didn't have the time or the space to buy niche things that we'd only ever use once.
Souva works with what you already have:
🥫 Add your ingredients (photo scan them, scan a barcode, or type them in) and Souva finds recipes you can make with what you have right now.
🤖 If you're like me and always have a mix of niche ingredients, SouvAI will invent new recipes for you.
🔗 You can also import any recipe from a URL to save it in a safe place.
Souva is free, doesn't require an account, and works offline. I run ads to cover hosting + AI costs, but there are no subscriptions and no paywall.
I'd appreciate any feedback you have, and I am happy to answer any questions too!
How does the AI actually decide when an ingredient combo is niche enough to invent something versus pulling from an existing recipe?
@nebahatarleclb We actually let the user judge that! If it looks like the app is having trouble finding recipes you like, you can navigate to the SouvAI tab by clicking the little robot icon in the header!
How well does the AI handle weird leftover combos, like half a jar of olives and some random wilting herbs, and does the recipe it invents actually taste decent or just technically edible?
@hediyekkta61883 Great question! That’s actually the main reason I decided to build Souva: so that users can find recipes they can make with the niche leftover ingredients they have and reduce waste in the process. As for how good our invented recipes are, this is one of the areas we’d definitely want more feedback on! Each invented recipe is accompanied by a confidence score to show you how confident we are that it will be a recipe that works. We are always looking to improve the recipe generation!
How does the AI handle recipes when the photo is a bit blurry or partly hidden behind leftovers, and is the offline mode just stored recipes or does the new-recipe generation work without internet too?
@eyda9c3c If the photo is blurry or ingredients are obstructed, accuracy may waiver slightly, but we carefully selected our computer vision model to ensure results are as accurate as possible! When offline, the app maintains functionality aside from services that require external models, like photo scanning and AI recipe generation, or internet access such as additional recipe population.
How well does the AI actually handle super random ingredient combos, like the half jar of olives and leftover rotisserie chicken situation? Curious if it leans on real recipe logic or just makes something edible.
@smet1588346 Our primary goal behind AI recipe generation is to aid users when they find themselves in situations just like the one you describe! Each AI recipe comes with an accompanying confidence score meant to demonstrate how confident we are that the recipe will be great. We are always looking for feedback on our AI recipe generation, and are aiming to come as close to perfect as we can!
the no-account, works-offline design is the right call for something you open at 6pm hungry and annoyed. question about the flip side of no-account though: saved recipes and anything imported from a URL, are those stored only on-device, and if so is there any export or backup path if someone loses their phone or switches to a new one? seems like the tradeoff of skipping accounts is exactly that kind of loss.
@galdayan Thank you for the great question! At the current time, recipes are stored locally on the device, and so we do experience the trade off you describe. However, we would love to explore exporting local data in the future to allow for portability of that data across various devices!
Scanned my fridge photo and it actually pulled out the half-bag of lentils and sad celery I'd forgotten about. The AI-generated recipe for my weird leftover combo was genuinely usable, not just a gimmick.
@erdal217756 I’m so glad to hear this!