The idea

Meal-kit cards are written for a standard serving, and almost nobody eats a standard serving. Cooking Daddy starts from your own body stats and appetite, so a recipe that serves four tells you it makes 2.5 of your meals, with calories and protein per meal set against your day.

Every ingredient shows two quantities side by side: the standard amount and yours. In the steps, ingredients are printed in green and tools in amber, so you can scan what each step needs.

Screens

Cooking Daddy sample card for salmon temaki: a large photo of the hand rolls next to an ingredient grid with standard and personal quantities
The no-account demo: a full sample card, sized for a sample cook.
Cooking Daddy demo on a phone, with print and free-trial buttons above the salmon temaki card
On a phone the card reflows; print it or keep cooking from the screen.
Cooking Daddy Cook mode on a phone: one step at a time with the ingredients for that step
Cook mode keeps the screen awake while you cook.
Cook mode step 1, Cook rice: a photo of rice in a strainer beside a saucepan, the instructions with sushi rice in green and strainer and saucepan in amber, a 15-minute timer and a step progress bar
Cook mode: big type, ingredients in green, tools in amber, a timer for each step.
Cooking Daddy landing page: the headline Cards sized to your appetite, a Start 7-day free trial button and a printed card preview
The app's own landing and pricing page.

What's in it

  • Cook: describe a mood or name a dish; a bar shows how one of your meals compares with your day.
  • Library: every card you've made, with filters by cuisine, time and protein.
  • Plan: this week's cards and one combined shopping list.
  • Cook mode: one step at a time, a checklist for each step, timers, and the screen kept awake.
  • Print: exactly three landscape pages (Front, Method and Numbers) for the fridge.

Plans

Free: 5 cards a month; Print-ready PDF; Nutrition sized to you.

Sous-chef: $4.99 a month or $39 a year (save 35%). 40 cards a month; AI dish and ingredient photos; Cook mode; Library on every device.

Every new Sous-chef subscription starts with a 7-day free trial. Compare every plan, and the All-Access bundle, on the pricing page.