tapa: Cook What You Have
fortherestofus Food & Drink In-app purchases
Tell tapa what ingredients you've got. Get a recipe built around it, right now.
- Downloads
- 32+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Oct 5
- 2026 · v1.2.0
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About tapa: Cook What You Have
tapa works backward from what you already have. No endless recipe feed, no shopping list of things you'd need to go out and buy — you list your ingredients, tapa asks a question or two, and you get one recipe built around them.
WHAT IT DOES
• Start with your ingredients. Type them, dictate them with your keyboard's microphone, or snap a photo of the shelf and let tapa read it (Pro).
• One recipe, not fifty. tapa picks a direction and commits, so you can start cooking instead of comparing.
• A question first, when it matters. If "chips" could mean two different dinners, tapa asks before it cooks.
• Not what you fancied? Try another. Re-rolls are free and never spend your allowance — or edit your ingredients and go again.
• Say how long you have and how many you're feeding, and the recipe adjusts.
• Tell tapa your allergies and how you eat once — vegan, halal, gluten-free, nut allergy, low carb and more — and every recipe respects them.
• Cook Mode keeps the steps big enough to read from across the counter, with a timer built into the steps that need one.
• Save what worked. Saved recipes live on your phone, so they open with no signal.
• Share a recipe as a card anyone can read.
FREE AND PRO
Every account gets 10 recipe generations free. That's an allowance for the life of your account, not a weekly reset — and trying another version of a recipe never costs one.
tapa Pro is an optional subscription that adds:
• Unlimited recipes
• Photo ingredient scanning
• Higher-quality recipes from our most capable AI model
• Recipes that learn your taste — Pro leans toward what you rate highly, and never repeats a dish you turned down
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel any time in Google Play.
WHO IT'S FOR
The 6pm cook. The student with three things and a pan. Anyone who has stood in front of a full fridge and still thought there was nothing to eat.
No ads. No feed. No meal plan you'll abandon by Wednesday.
Questions: [email protected]
Privacy: https://fortherestofus.app/apps/tapa/privacy/
Terms: https://fortherestofus.app/apps/tapa/terms/
What’s new
Version 1.2.0 · Updated October 5, 2026
New: Your cooking. Tap Cooked on Home to see your meals cooked, week by week over the last 12 weeks. Reach milestones for meals cooked and weeks you cook in. They don't need to be in a row, so a missed week takes nothing away. Your staples shows the ingredients you list most. Tap one to start a recipe with it. Cook again puts your best-rated recipes one tap away.
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