Speakeater vs SuperCook, which cooking app that reads your fridge fits you?

SuperCook is the dominant pantry-based recipe search engine. It's been around since 2008 and indexes millions of recipes. If you've ever searched "what to cook with chicken and broccoli," you've probably landed on it. So if you're considering Speakeater, the obvious question is: how is this different?

Honest answer: Speakeater and SuperCook solve the same general problem (cook with what you have) but make four very different design choices. Here's the side-by-side.

Side-by-side

Feature	Speakeater	SuperCook
Pantry input	Photograph your fridge or pantry, vision OCR pulls every ingredient automatically.	Type each ingredient by hand from a long checklist.
Recipe count	~24,000 (food + drinks)	~11 million (web-aggregated)
Cocktails	4,000+ vintage and modern drinks. Half are period bartender's manuals.	Limited; food-focused.
Recipe quality control	Every recipe ranked on real cook performance. Failures go to an editorial review queue.	Web-scraped quality varies wildly. No central editorial.
Expiration awareness	Recipes ranked by what's about to spoil first.	No expiration tracking.
Hands-free cook mode	Voice walkthrough (Pro). "Next step." "How long?"	None.
Mobile	Native Android (June 10, 2026). iOS later.	Web + iOS + Android.
Pricing	Free with unlimited swipes + 5 fridge scans/month. Pro $5/mo or $45/yr for 60 scans a month.	Free with ads. Pro removes ads.
Visual design	Vintage warm aesthetic, cuisine-tinted recipe cards.	Spartan / functional.

When SuperCook is the better choice

If you want the biggest possible recipe database without caring much about consistency, SuperCook wins. 11 million recipes vs 28k is a real gap. SuperCook scrapes the web continuously, so for any niche cuisine or ultra-specific dietary need, you'll find something.

SuperCook is also better if you don't mind typing your ingredient list manually every time. The interface assumes you're going to scroll through hundreds of checkboxes. For some people that's relaxing.

And SuperCook works on iOS today, which Speakeater won't until late summer 2026.

When Speakeater is the better choice

If the friction is "I can't be bothered to type 30 ingredients into a checklist every time," Speakeater wins immediately. One photo, every ingredient extracted, no typing. That's the wedge.

If you cook with perishables and the real problem is throwing away spinach because you forgot you had it, Speakeater's expiration ranking is unique. SuperCook gives you "recipes you can make"; Speakeater gives you "recipes you should make tonight before food spoils."

If you also want cocktails alongside food (especially the pre-prohibition vintage corpus), no other app spans both.

And if you want a curated catalog with ranking on actual cook performance instead of a giant pile of web-scraped recipes of variable quality, Speakeater is curated; SuperCook is exhaustive.

The 60-second test

Open your fridge right now. Count the items you can see. If the answer is more than 12, the type-it-all-in friction of SuperCook is real. Speakeater's photo scan turns that into a 3-second action. If the answer is "I have 4 things and I want to find every possible thing to make from them, including obscure recipes," SuperCook's database depth wins.

Most home cooks don't have 4 things; they have 30. That's the slot Speakeater fits.

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