What Should I Eat vs SuperCook: Type Your Ingredients, or Just Photograph Them

Of all the recipe apps, SuperCook is the closest in spirit to What Should I Eat. Both start from the same smart idea: cook from what you already have, instead of shopping for something new. SuperCook does it by having you tick off or type in your ingredients; it then shows recipes you can make. It’s a genuinely useful tool.

What Should I Eat takes the same idea and removes the two friction points that make “cook from what I have” apps easy to abandon: the typing, and the deciding.

Photograph it, don’t type it

SuperCook’s first step is inventory: tell it what you have, ingredient by ingredient. That’s accurate, but it’s also a chore — and the moment you’re too tired to list twenty things is exactly the moment you needed the app most.

What Should I Eat reads your kitchen from a photo. Snap what’s on the counter or in the fridge and it works out what you’ve got. No list to maintain, no checkboxes — just point and shoot. And since people buy the same things on repeat, it remembers your usual ingredients so you can reuse them in a tap.

A list to browse vs. a decision to take

SuperCook gives you the recipes you could make — a list to scan. That’s better than a blank search box, but it still leaves the choosing to you.

What Should I Eat narrows it to five and serves them as a swipe deck: save what looks good, skip what doesn’t, one card at a time. A quick “why not?” teaches it what missed, so it gets better at picking for you over time. It’s less “here’s what’s possible” and more “here’s what you’re having.”

Allergies and tastes baked in

Your dietary restrictions, allergies, and cuisine preferences shape the shortlist, so the deck never suggests something you can’t or won’t eat. The more you swipe, the more it leans toward the flavors you actually reach for.

And a night-off button

SuperCook is for cooking. What Should I Eat keeps a second path for the nights you’re done — Order In matches you to dishes worth ordering nearby, so the same app covers “I’ll cook with what I have” and “I’m ordering.”

Which one to pick

If you like the control of listing your exact ingredients and browsing what’s possible, SuperCook is a smart, focused tool. If you want that same “use what I have” magic without the typing — and you’d rather the app just decide and learn your taste — that’s where What Should I Eat goes further.

What Should I Eat is on the App Store. Download it and let a photo do the work.