Question 1

What is Sofra?

Accepted Answer

Sofra (from the Turkish/Arabic word for a spread of food) is an AI-powered cooking companion for iOS and Android. It lets you import recipes from any website, track your pantry, discover what you can cook from what you have, and cook with step-by-step AI assistance. It's one app that connects your recipe collection to your fridge.

Question 2

Is it really free?

Accepted Answer

Yes — the free tier is genuinely useful, not a crippled demo. You get unlimited recipes, cooking sessions, pantry tracking, AI substitutions, and serving scaling, plus 5 imports per month, 3 modifications, and 3 "What Can I Cook?" queries per day. Premium unlocks unlimited everything, plus AI Smart Search, Cooking Companion chat, and YouTube import.

Question 3

Which devices does Sofra support?

Accepted Answer

Sofra is a native mobile app for iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android. We're launching on both platforms simultaneously. A web companion for browsing your recipe library is planned for after launch.

Question 4

How does recipe import work?

Accepted Answer

Paste any recipe URL into Sofra and it extracts the title, ingredients, steps, timing, and hero image. We use a five-tier pipeline: structured schema data first, then site-specific parsers for the top recipe sites, then AI extraction as a fallback. The result is a clean, ad-free recipe card you can cook from immediately. Import success rate is >90%.

Question 5

What AI features are included?

Accepted Answer

Free tier includes: AI ingredient substitutions (ranked by culinary fit), simplified view (shorter clearer steps), and prep-first view (mise en place ordering). Premium adds: AI Smart Search (natural language queries like "quick pasta with what I have"), Cooking Companion (contextual chat during cooking sessions), and YouTube recipe import (extract recipes from cooking video transcripts).

Question 6

How does "What Can I Cook?" work?

Accepted Answer

You mark your pantry with a simple in-stock / need-more toggle. Sofra matches your pantry against your entire recipe library and ranks results by how many ingredients you already have. It shows you exactly what's missing from each recipe and gives a friendly one-line AI explanation for each suggestion. 3 queries/day on free, unlimited on Premium.

Question 7

Is my recipe data private?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Your recipes are private to your account — we don't share or sell your data. Recipes you import are stored securely and only accessible by you. We use Anthropic's Claude for AI features; your content is sent to their API to generate responses but is not used to train models. See our Privacy Policy for full details.

Question 8

When is Sofra launching?

Accepted Answer

We're in final development with a planned App Store and Google Play launch in the coming months. Join the waitlist to be notified the moment it's available and to lock in early-adopter pricing.

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Stop losing recipes.Start cookingfrom what you have.

A cookbook thattalks back.