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SideChef
SideChef helps home cooks find recipes, plan meals, shop for ingredients, and follow guided cooking instructions.
SideChef is a recipe and meal-planning platform for home cooks. It provides interactive recipes with step-by-step photos, videos, voice commands, timers, dietary filters, meal plans, shopping lists, and grocery ordering through partners such as Walmart.
Its AI features include generating shoppable recipes from food photos and suggesting ingredient substitutions. Basic recipes, meal planning, and grocery ordering are available without a subscription; SideChef Premium adds cooking classes and premium recipes.
Features
- Find recipes using dietary, ingredient, cuisine, and cook-time filters
- Follow recipes with step-by-step photos, videos, voice commands, and timers
- Create personalized meal plans
- Generate shopping lists and order ingredients for delivery or pickup
- Adjust serving sizes and swap grocery brands before checkout
- Generate shoppable recipes from food photos with RecipeGen AI
- Suggest ingredient substitutions for dietary needs and preferences
- Connect with compatible smart kitchen appliances
Use cases
- Find recipes that match available ingredients and dietary preferences
- Plan several meals and create a combined grocery list
- Order recipe ingredients for delivery or curbside pickup
- Cook hands-free using voice commands and guided instructions
- Generate a recipe from a photo of ingredients on hand
- Adapt recipes to fit allergies, health goals, or missing ingredients
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Latest updates
- SideChef Shoppable Recipes Takes the Spotlight on Yahoo Search
Shoppable Recipes takes the spotlight on Yahoo Search.
- Sunset Foods Taps SideChef To Launch New Digital Recipe Platform: Recipe Rack
Sunset Foods taps SideChef to launch new digital recipe platform: Recipe Rack.
- SideChef and Pathformance Partner To Elevate In-Recipe Campaign Performance Insights
SideChef and Pathformance partner to elevate In-Recipe Campaign Performance Insights.
- SideChef and Edamam Unite for Recipe & Nutrition Solutions
SideChef and Edamam unite for Recipe & Nutrition Solutions.
Capabilities
- Mobile app — “INSTALL APP” source
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Pricing
- Starting price
- $4.99/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-11-06
SideChef Premium
- $4.99/month
- $49.99/year
- 800+ exclusive on-demand cooking classes
- SideChef Premium recipes in your personalized meal plan
- Cooking tips & techniques
- Personalized recipe recommendations based on your diet & preferences
- Expert step-by-step guided videos
- Easy access to free recipes on home hub devices