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About Sofra

The story behind the sofra.

Sofra began with one too many weeknights staring at a fridge full of ingredients and a phone full of blog posts.

sofra (n.)— from Turkish & Arabic: the cloth or table laid for a shared meal; an invitation, not a table.

Recipe apps had become search engines for content marketing. Pantries lived in our heads. The moment a pan was hot, every app on the phone became useless — a rectangle of text you couldn't touch with wet hands.

We chose the name Sofra deliberately. It's a Turkish and Arabic word for the spread of food on a table — the gathering of dishes, ingredients, and people that makes up a meal. One sofra, not fifty scattered browser tabs.

So we built the thing we wanted: one place that imports any recipe, remembers what's in your kitchen, and stands next to you at the hob. No ads. No selling your data. Premium when you're ready.

Sofra is in active development with a planned App Store and Google Play launch in the coming months. The core app is built — recipe import, pantry management, cooking sessions, What Can I Cook?, and AI substitutions are all working. We're in the final polish and testing phase.

The only people we answer to are the cooks who pay for Premium, and we'd like to keep it that way.

Four house rules

How we cook the app.

AI should assist, not decide
Every AI suggestion in Sofra is a recommendation, not an action. You always stay in control of your recipes, your pantry, and your plate.
Your data, yours
Your recipes are yours. We don't share or sell them. No ads, ever. A subscription-only model means we answer to you, not advertisers.
The free tier earns trust
We give away a genuinely useful product for free because if Sofra is valuable, you'll want to upgrade. No dark patterns, no fake urgency.
Cooking is the feature
A recipe app that's hard to use while cooking isn't a cooking app. Every design decision starts with one hand on the fridge door.

Cook with us.

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