Cook what you already have.
Pipkin knows what is in your kitchen and what is about to go off, and ranks every recipe by how much of it you already own. The shopping list is what is left over, not where you start.
Coming to the App Store and Google Play
Use soon
Cook now
Tap an ingredient to take it out of the kitchen.
Three things, in order.
Most of what an app like this asks for is admin. Pipkin asks for the one thing it cannot work out on its own, and does the rest.
01
Say what you have
Type it, photograph a shelf, or scan a barcode. Where a best-before date is legible it is read off the packaging rather than guessed — and the app tells you which of the two it did.
02
See what you can cook
Every recipe carries how much of it you already own. “Have 7 of 9” is a more useful sort order than a rating from strangers, and the missing two become the shopping list.
03
Cook it
Tick what you finished. It leaves your kitchen, and the weight you kept out of the bin starts adding up. Cook the thing that was going to spoil and the app says so.
See it running.
The three screens you will spend your time in, drawn from the same design tokens the app is built from. They follow the appearance you picked in the corner, because the app does too.
What is actually in it.
Everything on this page exists in the app today. Nothing here is on a roadmap.
Use Soon
Everything with a date on it, ordered by how long it has left, and one reminder in the morning covering the lot — not a notification per carrot. Off until you turn it on.
Scan a shelf
Photograph what is in the fridge and it lists what it can see, with the dates it could read. You check the list before anything is written, because a model that reads a lemon as a lime should cost you one tap.
Scan a barcode
For packaged food the name printed on the label beats any guess. It uses Open Food Facts — the only thing sent is the number on the packet.
Recipes from people who cook
Submitting one is free and always will be: a catalogue grows from the people using it, not from the subset who subscribed. Approved recipes are translated into all six languages.
What you saved
Kilos kept out of the bin and roughly what they were worth, in the currency of the market you are in. Estimates, and labelled as estimates.
Six languages, recipes included
English, Čeština, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Slovenčina — the recipe method too, not only the buttons. Ingredients match across languages, so a Czech kitchen finds an English recipe.
What it costs.
The free tier is a usable app rather than a demonstration of the paid one.
Free
No account limits, no ads, no trial period
- 15 items in your kitchen
- 3 saved recipes
- The whole recipe catalogue, ranked
- Expiry reminders and the shopping list
- Submitting recipes and writing reviews
Pipkin+
€4.99 a month, 7 days free · or €39.99 a year, 33% less
- Unlimited kitchen items and saved recipes
- Scan a shelf by photograph
- Scan barcodes
- Scan a best-before date off the packaging
Prices are set per store, so you see your own currency in the app. Cancel any time in your store account — the subscription runs to the end of the period you paid for.
Built to know less about you.
This is the part most apps write and few can back. Each of these is a fact about the code, and the privacy policy states it in the same words.
No analytics. No ads. No trackers.
There is no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK and no third-party tracker in the app. We do not build a profile of you, follow you between apps, or sell anything about you.
Nothing we do not need
No location, no contacts, no calendar, no health data. The camera is used when you point it at food and at no other time.
Your data is in the EU
The database and file storage are hosted in the European Union. A photo you take to scan is identified and then discarded — it is never written to any storage of ours.
Leaving is one screen
Delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. No email, no form, no retention period we did not tell you about.
Where AI is used, and where it is not
Two features use a model: identifying food in a photograph, and translating community recipes. Both are named in the policy. Matching, ranking and the savings figures are arithmetic.
Ratings start empty
The catalogue ships with no reviews and no star ratings, because nobody has written any yet. Inventing them is the ordinary thing to do and we would rather the number meant something.