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Snap your fridge — we'll find what you can cook

Open the camera inside the Ingredients filter, snap a few photos of your fridge or pantry, and we'll identify what's there and surface recipes you can cook from your library. Photos aren't kept.

The camera turns your fridge or pantry into a recipe filter. Snap a few photos, tap Identify, and we add what we recognize as ingredient chips. Whatever lands in the chip set narrows your library to recipes you can actually cook tonight.

It's the part of recipes.im people show their friends. Your call, your photos, your library — the matching is local-first and the photos are deleted the moment we're done with them.

How to use it

  1. On the Recipes tab, tap the Ingredients filter chip below the title bar.
  2. Tap the camera button to the right of the search field.
  3. Snap photos. Whole-shelf shots, drawer contents, single items — mix and match. 3–6 photos is plenty for most fridges.
  4. Tap Identify when ready. We send the photos to Google Gemini for ingredient identification, then drop what we find into your chip set.
  5. Remove anything we got wrong by tapping the × on a chip. Type to add anything we missed.
  6. Tap Apply. Your recipe library filters to recipes that use every selected ingredient.

Privacy: photos aren't kept

Photos go to Google Gemini for one purpose — identifying ingredients. They're deleted from our storage the moment Gemini responds. We don't keep the photos, we don't keep the items list, we don't train on your kitchen.

Tips for good results

  • Mix angles — a wide shot of a shelf plus a close-up of that bunch of herbs both work. Combine them in one scan.
  • Open the door fully — back shelves matter.
  • Pull crisper / freezer drawers out if you want what's inside identified.
  • Use the flash button (top-right of the camera) for dim shelves.
  • Tap a thumbnail to remove a blurry photo before identifying.
  • Typing is faster for things you already know you have. Mix with the camera freely — both feed the same chip set.

What happens if we miss something?

Type the missing ingredient into the Ingredients sheet — it becomes a chip alongside the camera-identified ones. Free-form text is supported, even for things not in any recipe (it just won't match anything until you add a recipe that uses it).

Synonyms and categories handled

We won't make you remember exact wording. Pantry pasta matches recipe spaghetti. Cheese matches parmesan. Courgette matches zucchini. Cilantro matches coriander. Even minor typos like *spagetti* match *spaghetti*. Full details in the ingredient filter guide.

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