Pricing.
Three ways to use RecipeGen. The free tier covers a household cooking from saved recipes. Pantry Pro lifts every cap for the cooks who reach for AI weekly. Credit packs sit in the middle for the occasional burst.
Free
Quiet kitchen.
$0 · forever
- Up to 50 personal recipes
- Full pantry, meal plan, and shopping list
- Snap-to-pantry and URL import — 5 AI ops a month
- Browse Discover; save public recipes into your library
- Account deletion + full data export, no questions asked
No card. No trial gimmicks.
Pantry Pro · annual
Save 35%Best value.
$30.99 · per year
≈ $2.58 / month, billed yearly
- Unlimited recipes, pantry items, Discover saves
- Unlimited AI — generation, URL import, snap-to-pantry
- Multi-week meal planning
- Waste-risk warnings on shopping lists
- Priority moderation review
7 days free, then $30.99 / year.
Pantry Pro · monthly
Month to month.
$3.99 · per month
- Same Pantry Pro features as the annual plan
- Cancel anytime in Settings
- Apple Family Sharing — unlocks Pro for each family member's own account
- Apple In-App Purchase, no card details to us
7 days free, then $3.99 / month.
One AI op is a single call to one of these features: generating a recipe from a one-line craving, importing a recipe from a URL, or extracting items from a pantry photo or a printed receipt. Display-name moderation and ingredient normalization run on the same backend but don’t count against your quota.
The free tier is five ops a month. Five is enough to cover a weekly URL-import habit; if you cook from a craving every other day, you’ll be over the line in about a week and a half. Either pick up a credit pack or move to Pantry Pro.
The first time you start a Pantry Pro subscription, Apple offers a 7-day free trial. The first charge happens at the end of day seven; cancel before then in iPhone Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions and you’re not billed.
Apple grants the trial once per Apple ID. Switching between monthly and annual within the same subscription group keeps the trial intact; cancelling and resubscribing later generally doesn’t.
Cancel anytime — Settings → Subscription → Manage subscription in the app, or iPhone Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Cancellation stops future renewals; you keep Pantry Pro until the period you’ve already paid for ends.
Refunds go through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com — Apple’s standard window is 90 days from purchase. If something we did broke your subscription, we can also escalate to Apple on your behalf. See Refunds for the full framework.
Subscriptions and credit packs are processed by Apple under the standard In-App Purchase system. We don’t handle your card details directly — purchases use the payment method on file with your Apple ID.
Apple Family Sharing is enabled on both Pantry Pro tiers, so one subscription unlocks Pro for every member of your Apple Family Sharing group — each on their own private RecipeGen account. The subscription is shared; the pantry, recipes, and meal plans stay with each person’s own account. Credit packs are consumables and don’t share.
You can use RecipeGen without an account in guest mode. Guest mode is free, capped at ten saved recipes, and excludes AI features and the public community library — those open up when you save your account. Upgrading preserves everything you created as a guest, with the same user identifier on the server.
We don’t take a cut of grocery purchases, push affiliate links, or sell ad slots. The app has zero third-party analytics today and no third-party advertising at any point. The only money flowing through RecipeGen is the subscription fee for Pantry Pro and the optional credit pack — both visible and cancellable through Apple.
You must be at least 13 years old to use RecipeGen, paid or free. Minors under the local age of majority need a parent or legal guardian to have reviewed and agreed to the Terms of use on their behalf. Full language in Terms section 3.