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
| Feature | Free | Pro | Family |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipes, pantry, basic shopping list | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI meal plan generation | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI chat (unlimited) | 10/day | ✓ | ✓ |
| Price comparison & optimizer | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create your own recipes | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple household profiles | — | — | ✓ |