MealVue Chef
MealLens Inc. Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
MealVue Chef is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by MealLens Inc. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated September 29, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 54 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Sep 29
- 2026 · v1.0
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About MealVue Chef
MealVue Chef is your kitchen companion: know what's in your fridge and pantry, cook from what you already have, and waste less food. SCAN ANYTHING INTO YOUR KITCHEN • Snap a photo of your fridge or pantry and let AI identify what's inside • Scan a grocery receipt to add everything you bought in one go • Scan barcodes to add packaged products in seconds • Type, paste or dictate a list ("3 pomegranates, a dozen eggs") TRACK WHAT YOU HAVE • Fridge, freezer and pantry spaces, with quantities and units • Automatic expiry dates from a shelf-life database, and reminders before food goes off • A quick daily check-in to log what you used, so your kitchen stays accurate COOK FROM WHAT YOU HAVE • Thousands of recipes with filters for cuisine, diet, occasion, time and calories • Every ingredient shows whether it's in stock, running low or missing • Chef AI recommends what to cook from your kitchen and preferences • Photograph a dish and we'll find the recipe — or write one for you • Fantasy Chef invents fusion recipes from a quick chat • Import a recipe from a web link COOK HANDS-FREE • Step-by-step cooking mode with timers and serving scaling • Read-aloud steps and voice commands ("next", "repeat") for messy hands PLAN AND SHOP • Weekly meal planner with your own meal types • A shopping list that fills itself from missing ingredients and meal plans • Restock suggestions learned from what you actually buy and use COMMUNITY • Share recipes, ask questions and swap tips with other home cooks • Follow people you like; report or block anyone you don't AI ASSISTANT • Ask how anything in the app works and get an answer from our own guides MealVue Chef is free. Community features require an account and are for users 18 and over. Privacy Policy: https://legal.mealvue.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://legal.mealvue.com/terms-of-use.html
App privacy
The developer, MealLens Inc., reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Search History: Search History
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Sensitive Info: Sensitive Info
- Other Data: Other Data Types
- Health & Fitness: Health
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Health & Fitness: Health
- Sensitive Info: Sensitive Info
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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