Questions about Speakeater.

Speakeater is a pantry-first cooking app for Android. You photograph your fridge or pantry, and the app extracts every ingredient using vision OCR. Then it surfaces 28,000 recipes that match what you have, ranked by what's about to expire. It also includes a vintage cocktail bar with 4,000+ drinks, half of which are pre-prohibition manuscripts (1860 to 1920).

Public launch on Google Play is May 10, 2026. iOS follows about 60 days after, in late summer 2026. Internal testing is open right now to anyone with the opt-in link.

Speakeater Free is $0 forever. It includes 20 swipes per day, the full pantry, basic cook mode, and the cocktail bar. Speakeater Pro is $4.99 per month, $29.99 per year, or $59.99 lifetime — and unlocks unlimited swipes, vision OCR pantry scanning, voice cook mode, family sharing, the meal planner, the waste-dollar dashboard, and recipe URL imports.

Speakeater uses a vision-language model (Anthropic Claude) to read every label, package, and produce item visible in a photo of your fridge or pantry. The output is a list of ingredients structured for matching against the recipe catalog. No typing required. Vision OCR is a Pro feature.

Android first, launching May 10, 2026 on Google Play. iOS follows in late summer 2026. No web app planned for the initial launch — Speakeater is built native using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for Android, with a SwiftUI port planned for iOS.

Three differences. First, Speakeater uses photo-based vision OCR for pantry input rather than manual checklists or grocery loyalty integrations. Second, Speakeater includes 4,000+ vintage cocktail recipes alongside food, including the largest pre-prohibition cocktail corpus on any consumer app. Third, every recipe in Speakeater is ranked on real cook performance, with failures sent to The Great Archive until they earn their way back. See Speakeater vs SuperCook and Speakeater vs Cooklist for full breakdowns.

Yes. The cocktail bar includes 4,000+ drinks. About half are pre-prohibition manuscripts transcribed from period bartender's manuals (Jerry Thomas 1862, Harry Johnson 1882, Leo Engel 1878, William Boothby 1908, Hugo Ensslin 1917). The other half is the modern craft cocktail scene with real measurement and glassware specs.

The Great Archive is where recipes go when they underperform. If a recipe gets enough downvotes, low cook completion, or poor ratings, it's pulled from active circulation and put in The Archive to be reviewed, tested, and improved. It only returns to the active catalog when it earns a spot back. The mechanism keeps recipe quality high without bloating the catalog with web-scraped junk.

The recipe catalog and your saved/cooked recipes work offline. The vision OCR (Pro feature) requires a connection because it runs on the backend. Most browsing and cooking flows work without data once the catalog is cached locally.

Account email, anonymous user ID, app interaction events (saves, cooks, swipes), optional review photos, and crash diagnostics. Speakeater does not collect your name, phone, contacts, calendar, SMS, microphone, location, or any files outside of voluntary review submissions. Full details on the Privacy page.

Visit brimmapp.com/delete-account.html and submit the form, or email [email protected]. Account deletion removes all account data within 30 days.

Speakeater is a solo project by Kyle Schulgen, built over six months in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose with a Cloudflare Workers backend. Bootstrapped, no investors, no VC. Direct contact at [email protected]. See the press kit for more.