Cookest
User Guide

User Guide

How to use the Cookest app — from registration to cooking

User Guide

This guide walks you through every feature of the Cookest app as an end user — from creating your account to cooking your first AI-planned meal.

What you can do with Cookest

  • Plan your week — Generate an AI-scored 7-day meal plan tailored to your taste preferences, dietary restrictions, and household size
  • Browse recipes — Search and filter a curated recipe library; bookmark favourites and filter by what's already in your pantry
  • Manage your pantry — Track what you have, get alerts before items expire, and let the app deduct ingredients automatically when you cook
  • Build a shopping list — Auto-generate a grocery list from your meal plan, compare prices across local supermarkets (Pro), and check items off as you shop
  • Cook step-by-step — Follow recipes in a distraction-free cooking mode with a step counter, timers, and an AI cooking assistant
  • Get AI help — Ask the built-in AI assistant anything about cooking — substitutions, timing, techniques — contextualised to your current recipe

Subscription tiers

FeatureFreeProFamily
Recipes, pantry, basic shopping list
AI meal plan generation
AI chat (unlimited)10/day
Price comparison & optimizer
Create your own recipes
Multiple household profiles

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