The app reads your kitchen from a few photographs. Hold the phone up to the fridge, snap. The cupboard, snap. The freezer if you want. The app stitches the labels, the jars, the produce drawer into one pantry list. Then ranks recipes by what you already own. The dish that uses nine of your ingredients lands at the top. The one that needs a five-store grocery run doesn't.
Behind the kitchen is a bar. Four thousand drinks, with half of them typed in by hand from bartender's manuscripts published before Prohibition. Jerry Thomas in 1862. Harry Johnson in 1882. Hugo Ensslin in 1917. The original page is one tap away.
If you cook three nights a week and would rather make a real Old Pal than pour something fast, Speakeater is for you.
Speakeater is a free Android cooking app and AI recipe generator. Open the camera, point it at your fridge or your cupboard, snap a few photos, and Speakeater's computer vision reads your labels, jars, and produce drawer in seconds. Then it ranks every recipe in its 23,000-recipe catalog by how many of your ingredients each dish uses — so the bucatini that uses nine of your pantry items lands on top, and the dish that wants you to drive to three stores doesn't.
Behind the kitchen is a 4,000-bottle cocktail bar. The Mixology section ships with nearly 4,000 cocktail recipes — half of them transcribed by hand from pre-prohibition manuscripts that almost no modern bar uses. The five spine manuscripts: Jerry Thomas in 1862, Leo Engel in 1878, Harry Johnson in 1882, William T. Boothby in 1908, and Hugo Ensslin in 1917 (the last bartender's manual published before American Prohibition began in 1920). Each cocktail card shows the manuscript page and the modern measured build side by side.
How Speakeater compares to other AI recipe apps: SuperCook makes you type every ingredient by hand. Yummly serves a feed but doesn't track expiration. Paprika is a good recipe library but doesn't generate. Cooklist scans receipts but ignores cocktails. Speakeater unifies the four — single-photo pantry scan, expiration-aware recipe matching, an AI-powered substitution engine, and a 4,000-cocktail cellar with the original manuscript pages. Read the head-to-head pages: vs SuperCook · vs Cooklist · vs Yummly · vs Paprika.
Pricing: Speakeater is free forever (supported by light banner ads). Speakeater Pro is $4.99/month, $29.99/year, or $59.99 lifetime — Pro removes ads, unlocks unlimited pantry scans, recipe versioning, automatic dinner-and-drink pairings, the AI substitution engine, and the reconciled shopping list.
Launch: Speakeater launches on the Google Play Store on May 10, 2026. Internal testing is open now — join the beta from the form above. iOS follows about 60 days after Android.
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Open the camera. Point at the open fridge. Snap. The cupboard. Snap. The freezer if you keep one going. Speakeater stitches the labels, the jars, the produce drawer into one pantry list.
One photo or ten — as many as it takes. No barcodes. No checklists. The app tracks what's about to go off so you stop forgetting about the half fennel bulb in the back.
Every recipe gets a match score against your pantry. The dish that uses nine of your ingredients lands at the top. The one that needs you to stop at three stores doesn't.
Tap any recipe to see ingredients, reviews from other cooks, and a one-tap button to send the missing pieces straight to your shopping list.
Hit Plan it for me on a Sunday. Speakeater picks seven meals that use what's in your kitchen, prioritizes the ingredients about to turn, and varies the cuisine so you aren't eating Italian five nights running.
Don't like a pick? Swap it in two taps for something with similar cuisine and similar time.
Mixology has two modes. Bootlegger opens the original manuscript page in the bartender's own words: Thomas 1862, Engel 1878, Johnson 1882, Boothby 1908, Ensslin 1917. Mixologist gives you the modern build with measurements you can read.
Same drink. Two centuries apart. Flip between them with one tap.
Working bartenders, working bars. The books that taught a country to drink before the lights went out in 1920.
Imperial Fizz, Old Pal, Whiskey Cocktail, Ramos Gin Fizz. Each card has the ingredient list with measurements, the right glass, the ABV, and a button to send the missing bottles to your shopping list.
Snap bar reads what you already own from a few photos of the back-bar. A Sazerac that needs four bottles you don't have stops getting suggested.
Pull a recipe in, tap Shop. Anything already in your pantry gets stripped out. Anything you tagged as low gets added. Items group by aisle so you walk the store once.
Bar gets its own aisle. The cellar's pour list goes there.
Android first, iOS to follow. Currently in closed beta. Want in early, or want a heads-up at launch?