mAIChef
CS CONTROLCOM Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
mAIChef is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by CS CONTROLCOM. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 55 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 1
- 2026 · v1.83.3
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About mAIChef
You know the feeling at six o'clock: the fridge is not empty, and there is still nothing to eat. mAIChef takes it from there. Say what you feel like — or photograph the fridge — and you get a recipe built around your diet, your equipment and the time you actually have. Not a recipe someone else wrote for someone else. ASK IN YOUR OWN WORDS Type it, dictate it, or take a photo. "Something with the chicken and the courgettes, thirty minutes, no dairy." The recipe arrives in about twenty seconds, with a photo of the dish. IT READS YOUR FRIDGE Up to five photos at once. It names what it sees — down to the butter next to the bread — and you cook from what is already there. NUTRITION THAT IS COUNTED, NOT GUESSED Calories and macros are computed from the ingredient list against a food database, with a breakdown per ingredient. Set calorie or macro targets and the plan is built to them. A WEEK OF MEALS, PLANNED Breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner, up to seven days, each with its time and its calories. One shopping list for the whole week, grouped by aisle, that knows what is already in your cupboard. BATCH PREP — COOK ONCE, EAT ALL WEEK Pick four dishes and mAIChef works out the order: which oven, which pan, which step goes while something else roasts. Then it runs the session with you — one step at a time, timers going, nothing forgotten. Four recipes in about an hour, instead of four evenings. COOK MODE Big type, hands-free voice, screen stays awake, timers per step. IT LEARNS WHAT YOU LIKE Rate what you cook. mAITaste picks up the cuisines, the ingredients and the effort level you keep coming back to, and the suggestions follow. NINE LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese — the recipes too, not only the buttons. FREE • 10 AI recipes a month • Save up to 100 recipes • One 3-day meal plan a month • One photo analysis a month • Nutrition on every recipe • Voice input, dark mode PREMIUM • 150 AI recipes a month • Save up to 10,000 • 7-day plans, up to six meals a day • 30 photo analyses a month, five photos each • Batch prep sessions • Shopping lists and pantry • Recipe tuning and cook mode • High-quality photos on every recipe Cancel any time. Your recipes stay yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.83.3 · Updated October 1, 2026
Better-balanced meal plans: when a day's dishes can't reach your targets, a simple side appears under the meal ("+ banana 120 g"), and you can remove it from the meal's menu. Swapping a recipe keeps the day on target, the calorie field accepts 10 to 6,000 kcal, and labels read more clearly. Batch weeks tell you what goes in the freezer: the cooking day says how many portions to freeze, the evening before reminds you to take one out, and the meal shows "From the freezer". Your plans follow what you write more closely (cooking days, light dinners, a special meal). Creating a plan is smoother: an empty request each time, your portions kept after signing in, clearer switches and choices, easier custom macros, and Back returns to your plans.
App privacy
The developer, CS CONTROLCOM, 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:
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Health & Fitness: Health
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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