The 7pm Problem
It's evening. You're hungry and tired. You open the fridge, look at what's in it, and see nothing. There is food in there, you just can't see a meal. So you order out, and the food quietly goes off.
CookLens AI solves exactly that moment. Point your camera at your shelves and it tells you what you can cook, right now, with nothing else.
What CookLens Does
๐ฅ Ingredient Scanner
Point your camera at your fridge, counter or pantry. CookLens identifies every ingredient it can see and builds your virtual pantry in seconds.
๐ณ AI Meal Generator
From what you actually have, CookLens creates five complete meals with quantities, ordered steps, prep times and full nutrition using only your ingredients, never inventing what you don't own.
๐ฝ๏ธ Meal Nutrition Scanner
Point at any plate to get calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sugar, broken down component by component with a confidence rating.
๐ธ Recreate Any Dish
Saw something you loved at a restaurant? Snap it and CookLens works out the recipe in two versions, the classic one and a lighter one, with calories for both.
๐ฆ Barcode Scanning
Scan any packaged product and its ingredients drop straight into your pantry, instantly opening up new meal combinations.
๐จ๐ฝโ๐ณ Chef Henry
A cooking companion who walks you through each step as you go. Tell him what's happening in the pan and he adapts including when things go wrong.
๐ฐ Pantry Value
See roughly what the food in your kitchen is worth, using real grocery pricing. A quiet reminder of what you're about to let expire.
๐ Fridge Score
Your kitchen gets a score out of 100 and a place on a global leaderboard. See how your fridge stacks up against everyone else's today.
๐จ Meal Styles
Balanced, healthy, quick, gourmet or budget, pick how you want to eat and every meal CookLens generates follows it.
๐ฅ Calorie Tracking
Every meal you scan is logged automatically, so your daily intake is always there without a food diary to maintain.
๐ Scan History
Every saved scan keeps its photo, ingredients and nutrition, synced across your devices so nothing is lost when you change phone.
๐ Ten Languages
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, German, Italian, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa with recipes and ingredients in your own language, not a rough translation.
Cook in Your Own Language
Most cooking apps assume you cook in English. CookLens doesn't. Switch language and everything changes with it, detected ingredients, meal names, cooking steps, nutrition tips and Chef Henry himself.
That includes Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa, which almost no food app supports. If you cook with egusi, ogbono or efo, CookLens knows what it's looking at.
๐บ๐ธ English ยท ๐ซ๐ท French ยท ๐ช๐ธ Spanish ยท ๐ง๐ท Portuguese ยท ๐ธ๐ฆ Arabic ยท ๐ฉ๐ช German ยท ๐ฎ๐น Italian ยท ๐ณ๐ฌ Yoruba ยท ๐ณ๐ฌ Igbo ยท ๐ณ๐ฌ Hausa
Meet Chef Henry
Chef Henry is CookLens AI's cooking companion. Open any recipe, tap to start cooking, and he guides you one step at a time telling you what to do next rather than waiting to be asked.
Say "done" and he moves on. Say "it looks a bit burnt" and he talks you through recovering it. He remembers what you've told him and adapts if you swap an ingredient.
Chef Henry requires an internet connection. Response quality may vary with connection speed. Hands-free voice conversation is in development.
How It Works
Scan Your Ingredients
Open the app, tap Scan, choose Ingredients and point at your fridge. Watch each item appear as CookLens spots it.
Get Meal Ideas
Five complete meals appear in seconds, built only from what you actually have, with full nutrition on every one.
Cook With Chef Henry
Pick a meal and he walks you through it step by step, adapting as you go.
Track What You Ate
Switch to Meal mode, scan your plate, and get a full breakdown that logs itself to your daily total.
Free and Premium
CookLens AI is free to use, permanently. Free accounts get one fridge scan a day and three manual pantry additions, enough to cook from your kitchen most evenings.
Premium unlocks unlimited scanning, barcode mode, recreate mode, full nutrition breakdowns and the fridge leaderboard. It comes with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel any time.
- Free : 1 scan a day, 3 pantry adds a day, meal generation, Chef Henry
- Premium Monthly : $7.99/month
- Premium Yearly : $44.99/year, a 53% saving
Subscriptions are billed through the App Store or Google Play and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your device's subscription settings.
Privacy & Data
- The camera is only accessed when you start a scan. There is no background access.
- Photos you scan are sent for AI analysis and are not used to train any model.
- Your pantry, meals, scan history and profile sync to your account so they follow you to a new device. They are visible only to you.
- Saved scan photos are stored in your own private folder and deleted when you delete them.
- Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, pantry, meals, stats, scan history and every photo you uploaded.
- Your food data is never sold or shared with advertisers.
Read the full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. CookLens AI is a culinary assistance tool and does not replace professional dietary or medical advice.
Download CookLens AI
Free on iOS and Android. Your fridge already has dinner in it.
Requires iOS 15 or later, or Android 8 or later.