| SuperCook | Mealody | |
|---|---|---|
| The question it answers | What can I make with what I have? | What should I cook tonight? |
| How it works | You open it, pick your ingredients, and read a list of matches | It notifies you at breakfast, lunch and dinner with one meal |
| Who makes the decision | You | The app |
| Recipe catalog | ~11 million, scraped from 18,000 recipe sites | 1,248 across 22 cuisines, hand-checked |
| Allergy & diet filtering | No allergy filtering | Every suggestion is filtered against each household member's allergies, diet and dislikes |
| Knows what's about to expire | No | Yes — it front-loads food that is about to turn |
| Works without opening it | No | Yes — that is the entire product |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | iOS only |
| Price | Free, no account | Free core loop, ad-free. Pro $3.99/mo adds weekly meal plans; Pro+ $7.99/mo adds family profiles |
Mealody vs SuperCook
Short version: these two apps answer different questions, and one of them is probably not the question you are asking. SuperCook answers “what can I make with this?” Mealody answers “what should I make tonight?”
We build Mealody, so here is the least flattering true sentence we can write: SuperCook matches against roughly 11 million recipes and we have 1,248. It is free, it needs no account, and it works in any browser on any device, while we are iPhone-only. If catalog size or platform coverage is what you are shopping for, this comparison is already over — go use SuperCook, it is genuinely excellent at what it does.
The rest of this page is about the specific case where a smaller, curated app beats a bigger one: when the problem was never finding options, but having to choose between them.
Side by side
Choose SuperCook if…
- You are not on an iPhone. Mealody does not exist on Android or the web.
- You want the biggest possible catalog. 11 million recipes beats 1,248, and no amount of curation closes that gap.
- You enjoy browsing. If scrolling recipes is the fun part of cooking for you, do not let an app take it away.
- You want to spend nothing, ever, and sign up for nothing.
- You cook for yourself and nobody at your table has an allergy.
Choose Mealody if…
- The decision is the thing that defeats you — you have a full fridge and still order takeout.
- You cook for other people, and someone has an allergy or a diet you have to work around every single night.
- You keep throwing food away because you forgot it was in there.
- You want to be told, not to search. A notification at 6pm beats a search box you never open.
- You would rather have 1,248 recipes that were actually checked than 11 million that were scraped.
The honest verdict
Most “X vs Y” pages exist to tell you the author's product wins. This one does not, because for a large number of people SuperCook is the correct choice and pretending otherwise would just make everything else here less believable.
The honest test is this: open your fridge right now. If your reaction is “I have no idea what I could even make,” you have a discovery problem, and SuperCook solves it better than we do, for free. If your reaction is “I could make five things and I don't want to think about any of them,” you have a decision problem — and that is the one we built for.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Mealody better than SuperCook?
Not in general — they do different jobs. SuperCook is better at discovery: it has roughly 11 million recipes, it is free, and it runs anywhere. Mealody is better at deciding: it pushes you one meal at mealtime from what is already in your fridge, filtered to your household's allergies and diets. If you want options, use SuperCook. If you want fewer decisions, use Mealody.
How many recipes does Mealody have compared to SuperCook?
Mealody has 1,248 recipes across 22 cuisines. SuperCook matches against roughly 11 million recipes gathered from 18,000 recipe websites. SuperCook's catalog is vastly larger. Mealody's is deliberately small and hand-checked, because every recipe has to be safely filterable against allergies and diets — which is not something you can guarantee across 11 million scraped pages.
Is Mealody free like SuperCook?
The part that matters is. Your fridge, the full recipe catalog and the mealtime notifications are free and ad-free on iOS, so you can use Mealody indefinitely without paying. SuperCook is free too, and it is free across web, iOS and Android, where Mealody is iPhone-only. Mealody sells optional Pro ($3.99/month) for weekly meal planning and Pro+ ($7.99/month) for family profiles.
Does SuperCook filter for allergies?
No. SuperCook matches recipes to the ingredients you say you have; it does not screen suggestions against a household allergy list. This is the single biggest functional difference between the two apps, and it is the reason Mealody keeps a small, hand-checked catalog rather than a scraped one.
Can I use both?
Plenty of people do, and it is a reasonable setup. Let Mealody handle the weeknight “just tell me what to cook” problem, and open SuperCook on a weekend when you actually want to browse and cook something ambitious.
Stop choosing. Start cooking.
Mealody sends you one meal at mealtime, built from what is already in your fridge and safe for everyone at your table. Free on iPhone, no ads.