ChefBot
Weloka Service GmbH · AI Assistant
ChefBot is an AI cooking assistant from Weloka Service GmbH that builds recipes from ingredients you already have, with filters for vegetarian, gluten-free, and low-carb diets.
About ChefBot
What Is ChefBot
ChefBot is a recipe app for iOS and Android with an AI recipe generator inside, built by Weloka Service GmbH. You list the food sitting in your fridge or cupboard, say how you eat, and the app returns a dish with quantities and cooking steps. It has been in the App Store since April 2023 and targets people who cook at home without a fixed plan.
Most recipe apps start with a catalog. You search for "chicken thighs" and scroll through results written for somebody else's pantry. ChefBot reverses the order. The ingredients you already own are the input, and the recipe is the output. That makes it useful for the last two days before a grocery run, when the shelf holds three vegetables and half a jar of something.
The limits are worth knowing before you install. Recipe generation needs an internet connection, and the free tier only covers a limited number of recipes. Everything else sits behind a subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play. There is no web version, and the last App Store update landed in April 2024, so the app is not moving fast.
Getting Started
- Install ChefBot from the App Store on iOS 13.0 or later, or from Google Play on Android.
- Type in the ingredients you have, including amounts if you know them.
- Pick your dietary preferences, such as vegetarian, gluten-free, or low-carb.
- Generate a recipe, read the steps, and save the ones you want to cook again.
Product Information
A quick look at ChefBot's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Home cooks with a full fridge and no plan
- Vegetarians and people on medical or fitness diets
- Beginners who never learned to cook without a book
Tasks
- Clearing leftovers before they spoil
- Planning a week of meals
- Adapting a familiar dish to a diet
- Finding dinner in twenty minutes
Scenarios
- A weeknight after work when the fridge has odds and ends and nobody wants to shop.
- The day before grocery delivery, when you want to use up vegetables instead of binning them.
- Cooking for a guest with a restricted diet, where you need a workable recipe rather than a list of warnings.
Key features
Recipes From Whatever Is in the Kitchen
The core of the app is a generator that takes your ingredient list and writes a recipe around it. You type "eggs, spinach, feta, half a lemon" and get a dish with amounts and a method. This is where ChefBot differs from a normal recipe app, since the output depends on your shelf rather than a fixed catalog.
Diet Filters That Change the Output
You can set preferences such as vegetarian, gluten-free, or low-carb before generating. The filter affects the recipe itself, not just the search results, so a vegetarian request returns a dish without meat rather than a suggestion to leave it out. For anyone who keeps a vegetarian recipe app on their phone, that saves the manual rewriting step.
A Free Recipe Library for Browsing
Beyond generation, ChefBot includes a library of recipes you can read without spending a request. It helps when you have no strong idea and want to see what the app can do before committing to a subscription. The library is also the cheapest way to test whether the writing style and measurements match how you cook.
Saved Favorites You Can Open Offline
Recipes you save stay available without a connection, which matters in a kitchen with weak Wi-Fi or a phone on airplane mode. The app needs the internet to create a new recipe, but your saved list keeps working, so a planned dinner does not depend on a signal.
Subscription Unlocks Unlimited Generation
The free tier covers a limited number of recipes. A subscription, sold as monthly or yearly plans through the app store, raises that cap and opens the wider feature set. Prices run from about $2.99 to $9.99 per month and $24.99 to $89.99 per year depending on the plan and your region, so check the local rate before you buy.
A Simple Interface for Any Skill Level
The flow is short: ingredients, preferences, result. There are no equipment profiles to fill in and no technique quiz. That simplicity helps beginners, and it also means experienced cooks get less control over method, timing, and plating than a specialist cooking app would offer.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Turns ingredients you already own into a usable recipe, which cuts food waste and extra shopping.
- Diet filters work on the generated dish, so vegetarian and gluten-free requests come back as real recipes.
- The free tier is enough to judge output quality before paying.
- Saved recipes stay readable offline, which suits a kitchen with poor reception.
- Plain-language steps keep the app usable for people who rarely cook.
Cons
- Recipe generation needs a live internet connection, so it fails at the worst moment if your signal drops.
- The free tier runs out quickly, and the subscription has several price points that vary by region, which makes the real cost hard to predict.
- No web app and no public API, so you cannot use it from a laptop or plug it into your own tools.
- The last App Store update was in April 2024, so newer features and fixes are unlikely to arrive soon.
Frequently asked questions
ChefBot writes recipes from the ingredients you list. You enter what you have, choose a diet if needed, and the app returns a dish with quantities and steps. It is a generator first and a browsable recipe library second.
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