Cooking isn’ta chore.It’s the bestpart of the day.
We live to enjoy life, and food is the best part of it. Smakly takes care of everything around it: finding the recipe, planning the week, writing the shopping list and working out the portions.
On Google Play now · App Store coming soon
Free to download
Five steps that keep coming round
Every week goes round the same five steps. Pick one to see it in the app.
Discover
Recipes from people who actually cook. Your feed shows what the people you follow post, cook and rate, with suggestions from other cooks in between.
- Enter the products you have and see recipes that use them
- Filters: meal type, prep time, difficulty, diet
- Ratings from people who cooked it, not from an editorial team
- Save the recipes you like and keep your own in your cookbook
Plan
Set your day template once: which meals you eat and what share of your daily calories each one gets. Then drop a recipe onto a day and a meal, for yourself or for the whole household.
- One planner, shared with the people you plan with
- A portion for each person, sized to their own daily needs
- Calories, protein, fat and carbs for every planned day
- Copy or move meals between days, or add a single food, like a yogurt
Shop
You don’t write the list. It writes itself from the meals you planned: quantities added up, scaled to your portions and sorted by store aisle.
- Ingredients from the whole week, added up and sorted by aisle
- Add a single recipe or planned meal, or your own items
- Share it with the people you plan with, or send it as text
- Tick things off in the store, even without signal
Cook
Cook mode is one step at a time, full screen, on a phone that doesn’t go dark halfway through the recipe.
- One step per screen, in type you can read from across the counter
- The screen stays on, so no touching it with wet hands
- Steps read aloud, amounts already scaled to what you’re making
- Cook in advance: the same recipe later in the week, cooked once for every portion
Share
Plan together with your partner, family or flatmates, up to 10 people in one planner. And when you cook something, rate it: reviews from people who made the dish carry a “Cooked it” badge.
- One shared planner: everyone sees the same week
- Invite with a link, even people who don’t have the app yet
- Reviews marked “Cooked it”, and how many times a recipe was made
- A comment in another language? Tap Translate
How do you want to use Smakly?
Pick the reason you’d open it, and we’ll show you exactly that part of the app.
Just tell me what to cook
Full fridge, empty head. Enter what you’ve got and get something you can actually cook tonight, scaled to however many are eating.
I cook to hit numbers
Set your day once. The plan does the arithmetic: every recipe, every day, every portion.
We run one kitchen
One planner, one plan, one answer to “so what are we eating?”, whether it’s the two of you or the whole house.
I’m here for the food
A feed of real home cooks, not a magazine front page. Follow the people whose food you’d actually eat.
I publish my own
Recipes you post get planned and cooked, not scrolled past.
Everyone owns one piece of this
Recipe apps organise what you already had. Calorie trackers measure what you already ate. Neither is somewhere you’d open on a Sunday evening with nothing particular in mind. Smakly is the overlap: a feed you browse, sitting on data you can plan against.
| Smakly | Recipe & planner apps | Calorie trackers | AI photo apps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A feed of people you follow | ||||
| Portions recalculated per person | ||||
| A private account: you approve every follower | ||||
| Shared household planner | paid tier | |||
| Ingredients from the whole week, added up | listed per recipe | listed per recipe | ||
| Cook from what’s in your fridge | rare | |||
| Hands-free cook mode | rare | |||
| Week planner with meal slots | sometimes | |||
| Full nutrition, counted from the recipe | macros only | you type it in | estimated | |
| Curated food database | ||||
| Weight and progress charts | ||||
| What you pay | free | subscription | subscription | subscription |
Columns describe the common shape of each category, not any single product. Compare against your own shortlist before you decide, and hold us to the same standard.
Six things you won’t get anywhere else
And the rest of the list done properly, just not by us alone.
Only here
- A feed of people you follow
- Portions recalculated per person
- A private account: you approve every follower
- Ingredients from the whole week, added up
- Full nutrition, counted from the recipe
- Free to download
Here too, and in one or two others
- Week planner with meal slots
- Shared household planner
- Cook from what’s in your fridge
- Hands-free cook mode
- A curated food database
Not here, on purpose
- Weight and progress charts: that’s a tracker’s job
What the others leave out
No feed to browse, macros only, and the shared planner sits behind a paid tier.
A good database and nothing to plan, shop or cook from, and you type every meal in.
Nutrition estimated off a photo, no shared planner, and a shopping list that never adds anything up.
Describing the common shape of each category, not any single product.
A food tracker,
running backwards
A tracker asks what you ate. By the time it can ask, the day is over and the only thing left to do about the answer is feel bad. Smakly asks what you’re going to cook, and once that’s in the planner, the counting has already happened.
Five steps after the fact. Every meal. Forever.
The numbers fall out of a plan you wanted anyway.
It isn’t about logging every meal perfectly. It’s about enjoying it – and leaving the counting to your phone.
You know what’s
cooking tonight.
Get Smakly free and plan your first week in five minutes.
On Google Play now · App Store coming soon