--- canonical: https://cheffeye.com/en/about.html title: "About CheffEye: The AI Recipe App for iPhone & Android" description: "CheffEye is an AI recipe app for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. Snap a dish to get the full recipe, generate meals from pantry ingredients, import recipes from TikTok or Instagram, and cook hands-free with voice and timers. Free with optional credit packs." language: en --- # About CheffEye CheffEye is an AI recipe app for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. It turns any meal photo into a complete, step-by-step recipe in under five seconds, generates recipes from the ingredients already in your kitchen, extracts cookable recipes from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, and runs a hands-free Cooking Mode with voice and timers. ## What CheffEye does CheffEye replaces the old recipe-blog workflow with something more direct. Instead of searching for a recipe, scrolling past a life story and converting cup measurements, you start from what you actually have: a photo of the dish you want, a fridge full of half-used vegetables, or a viral cooking video. The app has four core entry points: - **Photo to recipe.** Take a photo of any cooked dish, at a restaurant, on social media, or at home. CheffEye identifies the dish and writes a full recipe with ingredients, amounts, step-by-step instructions, prep and cook times, servings, nutrition and chef tips, usually in under five seconds. - **Pantry mode.** Add the ingredients you already have, manually or by photographing the fridge. CheffEye returns three suggestions cookable right now, filtered by diet, allergens and time available. - **Social import.** Share a TikTok, Instagram Reel or YouTube link from the iOS share sheet. The AI extracts the ingredients and steps and writes a clean, structured recipe you can actually cook from. - **AI chef chat.** Edit any recipe with one prompt: "make it spicier", "swap chicken for tofu", "scale to four people", "drop the dairy". The recipe rewrites itself. ## How the photo-to-recipe AI works Photo-to-recipe is a multimodal pipeline. When you snap a dish, CheffEye sends the image to an image-understanding model that produces a description: the dish name, the cuisine, the visible ingredients and the cooking method clues (grilled, fried, baked, raw). That description then feeds a recipe model along with your profile (diet, allergens, skill level, cuisine preferences) and your pantry constraints. The recipe model writes the final, personalized recipe. The result is not a lookup against a recipe database. Every recipe is generated for your context, so a vegan user asking about a meat dish gets a credible plant-based version, and a beginner gets longer, more explicit steps than an advanced cook. Nutrition (calories, macronutrients, allergen flags) is calculated for every generated recipe. The numbers are estimates derived from the ingredient list and serving size; they are useful for tracking, not medical advice. ## Cooking Mode Once a recipe is generated, you can open Cooking Mode. It is designed for the moment you actually start cooking, when your hands are busy. - Each step is shown in large, glanceable typography. - Steps can be read aloud with text-to-speech, so you do not have to look at the screen. - Timers are built into the steps. Tap once to start one, or use voice in supported languages. - The screen stays awake while Cooking Mode is open. - Swipe between steps without scrolling; the next step is always visible in a preview. ## Personalization CheffEye personalizes every recipe to your profile, which you set during onboarding and can change anytime in settings: - **Diet:** vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, halal, gluten-free, keto, or no restriction. - **Allergens:** any allergen you flag is avoided in generated recipes. - **Cuisine preferences:** Italian, Turkish, Mediterranean, East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Mexican and more. - **Skill level:** beginner, intermediate or advanced. Step language and assumed equipment scale accordingly. ## Who CheffEye is for CheffEye is built for people who already think about food but lose time to bad tools: - The home cook who screenshots dishes on Instagram and never cooks them, because pulling a recipe from a 60-second clip is too painful. - The household with a fridge full of half-used vegetables and no plan for dinner. - The person on a specific diet (vegan, halal, gluten-free, keto) who wants every recipe automatically adjusted. - Anyone who has tried cooking from a recipe blog with one hand while flipping pages with the other. ## Privacy CheffEye asks for camera and photo-library access only when you actively snap a dish or scan a pantry, and microphone access only when you activate voice features in Cooking Mode. The app does not sell personal data or share it with advertisers. Photos sent for AI processing are used solely to produce the requested recipe. Full details are in the [privacy policy](https://cheffeye.com/en/privacy.html). ## Pricing CheffEye is free to download. New users get a starter pack of recipe credits. Additional recipes are unlocked with one-time in-app credit packs, priced per pack and shown inside the app at the moment of purchase. There is no recurring subscription. ## Platforms and languages CheffEye is available on the Apple App Store for iPhone (iOS 15 and newer) and on Google Play for Android. There is also an Apple Watch companion app for following Cooking Mode from your wrist. The app and the website ship in English and Turkish today, with full content parity. ## Where to go next If you want to try CheffEye in action, the fastest path is the App Store or Google Play. If you want to see what kind of recipes the app generates, browse the [sample recipes](https://cheffeye.com/en/recipes/). If you have a question that is not answered here, the [FAQ on the home page](https://cheffeye.com/en/#faq) covers the most common ones, and you can always reach the team at hello@cheffeye.com. [Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/cheffeye/id6502579584)