Speakeater is a cooking app for Android that reads your fridge from a few photos. The camera extracts every visible ingredient, the app ranks 23,743 food recipes and 6,539 drinks by what you already have, and you cook the closest match. Free, ad-supported. Pro is $5/month.
Open the camera.
Tap the camera icon on the home screen. Speakeater asks for camera permission once. After that, the lens opens directly to multi-photo capture mode.
Take a few photos.
Point the phone at your shelves. Snap. Move to the produce drawer. Snap. The door. Snap. The freezer if you keep one going.
You aren't trying for a magazine shot. Speakeater works with normal phone photos taken in fridge light. Take as many as you need; the free tier is 5 fridge scans per month (resets monthly, top up $2 for 20 more), and Pro is unlimited.
Tip: scan the bar shelf separately if you're going to mix cocktails. The Mixology side runs a dedicated bottle-detection pass for that surface.
Review the ingredient list.
Speakeater shows you what it extracted. Confidence scores ride next to each ingredient (parmesan · 96%, eggs · 99%, etc).
- If something's wrong, swipe it off.
- If something's missing, tap to add manually.
- If you scanned the same thing twice, the dedup screen catches it (3 jars of pickles = 1 jar with quantity 3).
Hit Analyze.
The app ranks every recipe in its catalog by how much of it is already in your kitchen. The match-percentage is calculated against your real pantry, not a generic taste profile.
The Tonight deck loads ranked by match × expiring × cuisine taste × novelty × adventure slider × photo bonus. Adventure slider is your call: low = comfort dishes you've cooked before, high = something you've never tried.
Pick a recipe.
Card 1 is the closest match (often 100%). Card 2 is one quick substitution away. Card 3 needs a single grocery grab.
Tap any recipe to read it. Each shows: pantry-match percentage, allergen bar (red / yellow / none), expiring-soon flag, cost-per-serving, ingredient list with substitutions inline, and a Cook button.
Cook in cook mode.
Tap Cook. Screen stays awake for the full duration of the recipe. Per-step timers run. Audible alarm fires whether the screen is on or off, locked or unlocked. Hands-free. Wave to advance to the next step.
Substitutions are click-and-hold: long-press any ingredient and Speakeater suggests a swap with ratio and a flavor note about what changes in the final dish.
Common questions.
How is this different from typing ingredients into SuperCook or Yummly?
You don't type. You photograph. The app reads the labels, the jars, the produce drawer in seconds. The other apps want you to maintain an ingredient checklist; Speakeater extracts it from a few photos. Three differences in total: photo-scan input, a 6,539-drink cocktail bar built in, and TikTok or YouTube link to recipe import. Full Speakeater vs SuperCook · vs Cooklist
What happens to my fridge photos after the scan?
Photos are deleted from our servers within 24 hours of upload, unless you saved a recipe match (which we keep so you can revisit the scan). The 24-hour TTL is the default, not opt-in. Account deletion at /delete-account purges everything within 30 days.
Does the cocktail side use the same photo-scan?
Yes. There's a separate "Snap bar" mode that runs bottle-detection on a back-bar photo. Speakeater extracts the bottles, matches against the cocktail catalog, and ranks 6,539 drinks (2,848 of them pre-Prohibition). Same workflow, different camera mode.
What if Speakeater misreads an ingredient?
You can swipe it off the list before hitting Analyze. The dedup screen catches duplicates. Confidence scores show next to each ingredient so you can spot low-confidence reads. The vision model gets retrained quarterly on misreads users flag.
What does Pro unlock that Free doesn't?
Free is unlimited recipe swipes, 5 fridge-photo scans per month (resets monthly), and the full cocktail bar with ads. Need more scans on Free? Top up: $2 for 20 extra. Pro is $5/month or $45/year, and unlocks 60 fridge scans a month, TikTok or YouTube recipe imports, photo-to-recipe (extract a recipe from a handwritten or printed page), submit-your-own recipes, shareable cookbook links, and removes ads. Mystery Nights and Party Menus are pay-per-thing — see games and menus.
When can I download it?
June 10, 2026 on Google Play (Android). iOS follows about 60 days later in late summer 2026. Save your seat at the homepage form to get the install link the moment it goes live.