Fact sheet · One page Speakeater.

Last updated April 27, 2026

Embargo June 10, 2026 · 12:01 a.m. CT

Speakeater is Open your fridge. We'll figure out dinner. One photograph, a working pantry, recipes ranked by what is already in the kitchen. Built by one person, in Alabama, in six months.

Product

Name: Speakeater
Tagline: Open your fridge. We'll figure out dinner.
Category: Food & Drink, Cooking, Pantry, Mixology
One-liner: Photograph the fridge, get a working pantry, cook what you already own.
Site: speakeater.com

Launch

Launch date: Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Platform: Google Play (Android) iOS late summer 2026
Status: Closed Internal Testing on Android · public release June 10
Embargo: 12:01 a.m. CT, June 10, 2026
Beta: Embargoed early access on request

Pricing

Free tier: $0 forever, supported by light banner ads. Unlimited recipe swipes, 5 fridge scans per month (resets monthly, top up $2 for 20 more)
Pro · monthly: $5 a month
Pro · annual: $45 a year
Pro unlocks: 60 fridge scans a month, TikTok/YouTube link imports, Photo-to-Recipe, recipe submissions, shareable cookbooks, no ads
Mystery Nights: $9 per game (one-time) or $30 for the launch bundle of 5
Party Menus: $5 per menu (one-time) or $15 for a 5-pack

Catalog

Food recipes: 23,743
Drinks total: 3,696 (1,688 cocktails, 1,321 mocktails, 687 modern non-alcoholic)
Pre-Prohibition cocktails: 2,848 sourced from the 1862–1923 manuscripts
Hand-transcribed: 2,846 cocktails with original-source text preserved
Free Codex: 50-cocktail PDF at speakeater.com/codex
Modes: Bootlegger (manuscript page) · Mixologist (modern build)

Manuscript sources

Jerry Thomas, How to Mix Drinks (1862)
Leo Engel, American & Other Drinks (1878)
Harry Johnson, Bartenders' Manual (1882)
William Boothby, The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them (1908)
Hugo Ensslin, Recipes for Mixed Drinks (1917)

Technology

Client: Native Android · Kotlin · Jetpack Compose
Backend: Cloudflare Workers · D1 (SQLite) · R2 (object store)
Vision: Anthropic Claude · vision OCR for pantry scan
Auth: Email + passkey · no third-party social login
Privacy: Pantry photos processed and discarded · no resale of user data

Team & company

Team size: 1 (one)
Founder: Kyle S.
Role: Solo developer · Android, backend, vision, content, marketing
Build time: Six months full-time
Headquarters: Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Funding: Bootstrapped · no outside capital

Pro features (full list)

Unlimited photo-based pantry scans, no monthly cap
TikTok / YouTube link imports, hands-free instructions while cooking
Plan-it-for-me, seven dinners ranked by what is closest to spoiling
Substitution engine, ingredient swaps with reasoning
Reconciled shopping list, grouped by aisle and pantry-aware
Recipe URL importer, drop a link, get a clean recipe
Family sharing, one pantry across multiple devices
Library: build your own cookbooks, organize them into chapters, share by link

Press contact

Contact: Kyle S., founder
Email: [email protected]
Time zone: U.S. Central Time
Available for: Email, phone, video. Embargoed early access available.

Story angles

Solo developer, six months, full Android stack
Applied the camera in a consumer app, not a chatbot
Pre-Prohibition cocktail archive, transcribed by hand
Food-waste angle, the pantry sorted by what dies first
Anti-AI-slop, the model identifies, the cookbook cooks
Alabama tech, indie launch outside coastal hubs