Cooklist: Pantry & Cooking App is an Android app for managing pantry inventory, finding recipes you can make from ingredients you already have, creating shopping lists, and comparing food prices. Its features are connected, so what is in your kitchen can guide both what you cook and what you buy next.
Planning meals from what is already at home
When you want to decide what to cook without starting from an empty list, the pantry inventory is the starting point. You can keep track of the ingredients you have on hand by scanning barcodes and adding items to a digital pantry. The description also says the ingredient scanner can add pantry and fridge food items and show nutrition facts for over 1 million products. Recipe Match compares more than 1 million recipes with the groceries in your pantry and filters the results to show what you can cook with those ingredients. The Meal Planner lets you add diet filters to your pantry and fridge foods, and it suggests healthy recipes based on that inventory. The listing presents this pantry check as a way to make weekly meal planning simpler.
Building a shopping list for chosen recipes
Once you have picked the recipes you want to make, the Smart Grocery Shopping List generates a list with only the ingredients you need to buy. The source says that the list is automatically categorized by grocery aisle. Recipe suggestions can also be based on your past grocery purchases. The conclusion describes searching thousands of recipes by adding specific ingredients to a recipe box, and seeing how much time a recipe takes to cook.
Reducing food waste with expiration tracking
For items that could go unused, the app helps you track how old each item in your pantry or fridge is. It provides food and pantry inventory expiration notifications and suggests recipes that use ingredients expiring soon. The description presents this combination as a way to reduce food waste.
Shopping with grocery loyalty cards and receipts
The benefits section says the app works with Walmart, Kroger, Safeway, Wegmans, and 75 more grocery stores. It states that grocery loyalty cards can be connected to automatically import past and future purchases, and that grocery receipts can be kept in one place. The store names are those given in the app description, and the supplied source does not provide further detail on how each store connection works. The overview also names price comparison as one of the app's purposes, but the supplied description does not explain how that comparison is performed.
Cooking together and syncing across devices
The app can be shared with everyone in a household, which the description presents as a way to collaborate on meal planning. The grocery shopping list, pantry inventory, and recipes are shared with the household. According to the source, these items can be synced between iOS and Android devices. The benefits section also says data syncs automatically between all devices and is backed up in the cloud. The description does not state how many household members can join or how the cloud backup is configured.