Fact sheet · One page Speakeater.

Product

Name

Speakeater

Tagline

The cooking app that reads your fridge.

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

Pro · monthly

$4.99 / month

Pro · annual

$29.99 / year

Pro · lifetime

$59.99 once

Pro unlocks

Unlimited scans, voice cook mode, substitution engine, reconciled shopping list, no ads

Catalog

Food recipes

28,000

Cocktails

4,000 (3,925 alcohol, 178 mocktails)

Manuscript drinks

~2,000 hand-transcribed from pre-Prohibition sources

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
• Voice cook mode, 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
• Waste-dollar dashboard, what was saved or thrown out

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 vision AI 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