Features

What Sofra does

Everything in the first version of the app, grouped by the job it does. Premium features are marked. The rest is free.

Saving recipes

Save recipes from blogs, cookbooks, PDFs and videos.

Share a recipe to Sofra or paste its link. Sofra saves the ingredients, steps and a link to the original. The AI can misread amounts or miss steps, so compare the import with the source before cooking.

Recipe websites and food blogs
Photos of cookbook pages and recipe cards, up to 5 pages at a time
PDFs, pasted text, and audio or video files
YouTube cooking videosPremium
Collections and favorites to keep things organized
Filter by cuisine, meal type or diet, and sort by rating or cook time

Pantry and shopping

A pantry that stays current as you cook and shop.

Every ingredient is either in stock or needed. You set it up by tapping the things you usually have. After that, two things keep it current: when you finish cooking, Sofra asks what you used up, and when you tap Done Shopping, everything you checked off goes back into stock.

Tap any ingredient in a recipe to mark it in stock or needed
Basics like salt, oil and eggs are assumed, and you can change which
Add ingredients from any recipe to your shopping list
Pull everything marked Need onto the list with one tap
A shopping list grouped by category
Tap Done Shopping and everything you checked off is back in stock

What Can I Cook?

Dinner ideas from recipes you already trust.

Sofra compares every recipe you've saved with your pantry and sorts them into ready to cook, almost ready and worth considering. Each one shows what's missing, a swap from what you have if there's a good one, and a short note on why it's a good pick tonight.

Filter by meal type, difficulty or cuisine
An optional 6pm reminder to check what you can make
3 checks a day on the free plan, unlimited with Premium
Smart Search: search your saved recipes by describing them, like “easy vegetarian dinner under 30 minutes”Premium

Changing a recipe

Make a recipe work with what you've got.

If you're out of something, Sofra suggests substitutes rated Excellent, Good, Acceptable or Poor, says how much to use, and lists the ones already in your pantry first. For bigger changes, tell Sofra what you need: “make it dairy-free”, “less spicy”, “no mushrooms”. The AI can miss allergens or suggest unsuitable swaps. Check labels and review the changes before cooking.

Ingredient swaps with a rating and an amount, free and unlimited (saving them as a new version counts as a change)
Scale servings up or down
Metric or US measurements, set once in your profile
Changes you ask for are previewed before you save (3 every 30 days free, unlimited with Premium)
Every saved change is a new version, and the original is never overwritten
Simplified steps, or a prep-first order that gets the chopping done before the pan goes on
Set your dietary restrictions once, and swaps and changes are checked against them

Cooking

Made to be read from the counter.

Cooking mode puts one step on the screen at a time in large type, and keeps your phone awake until you're done. Steps with a time in them get a timer, and your phone alerts you when it's up, even if Sofra isn't open.

Four text sizes, up to extra large
Timers that alert you even when your phone is locked
Switch to simplified or prep-first steps mid-cook
Picks up where you left off if the app closes, timers included
Cooking Companion: ask questions about the recipe as you cook, up to 20 per sessionPremium

And some smaller things that help

Offline copies

Recipes you opened recently and your shopping list are saved on your phone, so they load without a signal.

Nutrition

Calories, protein, carbs and fat per serving, when the original recipe lists them.

Dark mode

Light, dark, or whatever your phone is set to.

Export

Download your recipes as Markdown or JSON whenever you like.

Sign-in

With email, with Google, or with Apple on iPhone.

Undo

If you delete a recipe by mistake, tap Undo and it comes back.

What it doesn't do yet

A few things people ask about that aren't in the first version. Better you hear it here than find out after you've downloaded it.

Meal planning: There's no weekly planner yet.
Shared households: Each person has their own account and pantry for now.
Tablets and the web: Sofra is a phone app. It runs on an iPad as an iPhone app, but there's no tablet or web layout.
Hands-free cooking: You tap to move between steps, and there's no voice control.
Grocery delivery: The shopping list doesn't connect to delivery services.

Sofra is in final testing.

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