SuperCook Alternatives: 5 Apps That Tell You What to Cook (2026)

SuperCook Alternatives: 5 Apps That Tell You What to Cook

Start with the part most “alternatives” lists leave out: if what you want is the longest possible list of things you could cook right now, for free, on any device, SuperCook is still the best tool for the job and you should keep using it. It matches your ingredients against roughly 11 million recipes pulled from 18,000 recipe sites, it costs nothing, it needs no account, and it runs in a browser. Nothing on this page beats SuperCook at SuperCook's own game.

People still go looking for an alternative, and it is almost always for one of four reasons. SuperCook hands you a list, so you are still the one deciding. It does not know your allergies or who else is eating. It never tells you anything unless you remember to open it. And it does not care that the chicken expires tomorrow. Those four gaps are what the apps below are actually competing over.

We make one of these apps, so read the table rather than our adjectives — and note that we have written down who each app is wrong for, including ours.

Side by side

	SuperCook	MyFridgeFood	Cooklist	Pantry Pic	Mealody
How your pantry gets filled	Tap from 2,000+ ingredients, or dictate them	Tick a grid of common ingredients	Auto-synced from grocery loyalty cards	Photograph your fridge	Add manually, or photograph your fridge
What you get back	Every recipe you can make, as a list	Recipes you can make, as a list	A feed matched to what you actually bought	Recipes built from what it sees	One suggestion, pushed at mealtime
Who decides what's for dinner	You	You	You	You	The app
Recipe catalog	~11M, scraped from 18,000 sites	Not published	1M+	Not published	1,248, hand-checked
Allergy & household filtering	No	Basic dietary filters	No	Dietary filters	Yes — per household member
Tells you without being opened	No	No	No	No	Yes — breakfast, lunch and dinner
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android	Web, iOS, Android	iOS, Android	Web, iOS, Android	iOS only
Price	Free	Free	Subscription	Free trial, then subscription	Free core; Pro $3.99/mo, Pro+ $7.99/mo

The apps, one by one

SuperCook

The one to beat. You tap everything in your kitchen — there are over 2,000 ingredients to choose from, and you can dictate them out loud — and it returns every recipe you can make right now, drawn from about 11 million recipes across 18,000 sites. It is free, it needs no account, and it works on the web as well as on both app stores.

Best if: You want maximum options at zero cost, on any device, with no sign-up.

Skip it if: The list is the problem. If 200 results makes you close the tab and order takeout, a bigger list will not fix that.

MyFridgeFood

The simplest free version of the same idea. Tick what you have on a grid of common ingredients, hit find, and get matches back. It is the closest thing to a plain, free clone of the core SuperCook loop, on web, iOS and Android.

Best if: SuperCook's 2,000-ingredient pantry feels like data entry and you want something you can fill in twenty seconds.

Skip it if: You want the app to learn who you are. It matches ingredients; it does not really personalize.

Cooklist

Your pantry, without the typing. Cooklist links to your grocery store loyalty cards and pulls your actual purchases into a digital pantry, then matches over a million recipes against it and builds a shopping list of only the things you are missing.

Best if: You shop at a chain with a loyalty card and never want to enter an ingredient by hand again.

Skip it if: You shop at markets, pay cash, or would rather not connect a store account. It also charges a subscription.

Pantry Pic

Point the camera at the fridge. Skip typing entirely: photograph what you have and it builds the inventory for you, then suggests recipes from it. Available on web, iOS and Android.

Best if: Manual inventory entry is the exact reason you have abandoned every app like this before.

Skip it if: You want it free — it is a free trial and then a subscription.

Mealodyour app

For when the list is the problem. Mealody is the only app here that decides for you. You stock your fridge once, and at breakfast, lunch and dinner your phone tells you one specific thing to cook from what you already have — filtered against every allergy, diet and dislike in your household, and weighted toward whatever is about to go off. You never open it to browse, because it opens itself. The catalog is 1,248 recipes across 22 cuisines, and a step-by-step cooking mode with a timer walks you through the dish. All of that is free and ad-free. Paid tiers add a 7-day plan built around your fridge with a grocery list of only what you are missing (Pro), and household profiles for up to 7 people plus an AI that invents new dishes (Pro+).

Best if: You do not want options. You want to be told one thing to cook tonight that is safe for everyone at the table.

Skip it if: You are on Android — it is iPhone only. Or you are shopping for catalog size: 1,248 curated recipes is a rounding error next to SuperCook's 11 million. Fewer, checked recipes is the deliberate trade, and it is the wrong trade for some people.

The honest verdict

There is a clean split here. SuperCook, MyFridgeFood and Cooklist are all pull apps: they widen your options and leave the decision with you. They are the right answer if you like cooking and the browsing is the fun part.

The reason people burn out on them is that the decision was the work all along. If you have ever stood in front of an open fridge, scrolled a list of forty things you could technically make, and ordered delivery anyway, then a longer list is not the fix — fewer decisions is. That is the only thing Mealody does differently, and it is the only reason to pick it over a free tool with ten thousand times the recipes.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best SuperCook alternative?

It depends on which part of SuperCook is failing you. If you want the same thing but simpler, MyFridgeFood is the closest free equivalent. If the data entry is the problem, Cooklist fills your pantry from grocery loyalty cards and Pantry Pic fills it from a photo. If the problem is that you still have to choose from the list, Mealody is the only one that pushes you a single decision at mealtime instead of returning results.

Is there a free alternative to SuperCook?

Yes. MyFridgeFood is free on web, iOS and Android. Mealody's core loop — fridge, recipe matching and the mealtime suggestion — is free and ad-free on iOS, with optional paid tiers for weekly meal planning and family profiles. Cooklist and Pantry Pic both charge a subscription.

Is SuperCook still worth using in 2026?

Yes, and for a lot of people it is still the right answer. It is free, it needs no account, it works in a browser, and its ingredient-to-recipe matching runs against a far larger catalog than any app on this list. If you are happy choosing from a list of options, there is no strong reason to switch away from it.

Why would I switch away from SuperCook?

Four common reasons: it gives you a list rather than a decision; it does not filter for allergies or for other people in your household; it only helps when you remember to open it; and it does not know which of your ingredients is about to go bad. If none of those bother you, stay.

Is there an app that just tells me what to cook without me choosing?

That is what Mealody does. Rather than returning search results, it sends a notification at breakfast, lunch and dinner with one specific meal you can cook right now from the ingredients you already have, filtered to your household's allergies and diets. It is free on iOS.