Snap the dish, Cook it tonight.

MealMimic turns a photo of any restaurant plate into a complete recipe — ingredients, steps, prep time, grocery cost. Built for people who eat well and want to cook well.

MealMimic app — recipe view
How it works

Three taps. One real dinner.

From plate-spotted-in-the-wild to a working recipe in your kitchen, with no typing and no second-guessing.

01

Point and shoot.

Open MealMimic, tap the scan button, snap the dish. Works at the table, from a menu photo, even from Instagram.

02

AI does the work.

MealMimic identifies the dish, reverse-engineers the ingredients, and writes the recipe in seconds. Confidence is shown — never faked.

03

Cook it tonight.

Step-by-step Cook Mode keeps your screen awake and your hands free. Save it to your library, tweak it for next time.

Built for the way you actually cook

Less app. More dinner.

MealMimic is small on screen and quiet in your kitchen. Four features that earn their keep.

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✕Cook mode · keep awake⏱
Step 3 of 7

Sear pork belly, fat-side down, until deeply golden.

Place in a cold cast-iron pan. Bring the heat up slowly — about 8 minutes — so the fat renders before the crust forms.
Timer
08:00
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Cook Mode keeps up with your hands.

Large type, screen stays awake, one step at a time. No more pinching a greasy phone. Tap-to-advance, or set a timer per step and forget about it.

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Library

Your kitchen log

34 recipes · 12 cooked this month
All
Cooked
Saved
Weeknight
Baking
Tonkotsu Ramen
Cooked Tue
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Margherita di Bufala
Cooked Sun
★
Tarte Tatin
Cooked last week
★
Kimchi Jjigae
Saved Mon
★
Castelvetrano focaccia
Saved
★
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A library that quietly learns you.

Star a recipe and MealMimic remembers what you like — heat tolerance, weeknight time budget, the cuisines you keep coming back to. Your cooking history is a quiet little log of wins.

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Discover

Cooked right now

From home cooks who opted to share
Spicy rigatoni
@maeve · NYC
Banh mi
@trang · LA
Smashburger
@dan · Austin
Green shakshuka
@noor · Tel Aviv
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Discover what other cooks are recreating.

See what home cooks are making right now, across cities and seasons. Opt-in only — your scans stay private unless you choose to share. No follows, no feed algorithms, just dinners.

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‹Recipe☆
Japanese · Noodle

Tonkotsu Ramen

Scanned at Ippudo · NYC
12 ingredients·35 min·$8 to make
Ingredients
  • Pork belly400 g
  • Pork bones1 kg
  • Fresh ramen noodles4 portions
  • Soft-boiled egg4
  • Spring onion1 bunch
  • Garlic6 cloves
  • Ginger30 g
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Honest grocery costs, every time.

Every recipe shows an estimated total based on supermarket pricing in your region — so "let’s cook tonight" doesn’t blow up the week. Swap ingredients, watch the number move.

FAQ

Questions, before you cook.

For dishes in our trained set — over two million plates across 80+ cuisines — MealMimic reproduces the published recipe within a few ingredients. For one-off restaurant dishes, it reverse-engineers from visual cues plus cuisine knowledge, and shows a confidence score for every guess.
You’ll get MealMimic’s best-guess reconstruction with a low-confidence badge and an honest "this is a draft" note. You can edit, save, and re-train it on your tweaks.
Yes, for finished bakes — focaccia, sourdough, tarts, cookies. MealMimic weights its baker’s percentages on hydrated dough cues and crumb structure. Wedding cakes, no. Not yet.
Your scans are private by default. Discover is opt-in per recipe. We never sell data, we don’t serve ads, and you can delete your library in one tap from Settings.
Edit anything — ingredients, quantities, steps, notes. MealMimic learns from your edits and improves its next scan of a similar dish.
Generating a recipe runs a real model on a real server. The free tier lets you try MealMimic for a full scan; Pro keeps the lights on and pays for the next plate.

Your next favorite recipe
is on the next plate.

MealMimic is free to try. Three seconds from photo to recipe — no signup, no clutter, no recipe-blog preamble.