Built for families
who cook together

Before building SousChef, we genuinely tried to find something that already existed. We downloaded every recipe app we could find — the popular ones, the niche ones, the ones with great reviews. Some were good at storing recipes. Some had decent meal planning. A few had shopping lists. But none of them did the whole thing.

The recipe-only apps left us copying ingredients into a separate shopping list by hand. The meal planners had tiny recipe libraries and no way to import our own. The ones with AI bolted a generic chatbot onto the side that knew nothing about what we actually cook. And not a single one could tell us what was on special at the supermarket this week.

That last part kept bugging us. We’re a family of five — groceries are a real line item. We’d plan meals, write the shopping list, then get to the supermarket and discover half the ingredients were twice the price they were last month. Meanwhile, the things that were on special sat there unnoticed because we’d already committed to a plan. It felt backwards.

What we wanted was simple: one app where our family recipes, the weekly meal plan, the shopping list, and supermarket prices all talk to each other. Where you could ask “what should I cook this week?” and get an answer based on your own recipes, what you haven’t cooked recently, and what’s actually on sale. Where photographing a page from a cookbook or pasting a URL was enough to add a recipe — no typing out ingredients one by one.

That app didn’t exist, so we built it. SousChef is the app we wanted to use as a family, and now we use it every single week.