Android app · version 4.1.0
Your kitchen, in your pocket.
Ask the chef, browse 412 recipes, scale servings at the table and swap what you're missing. Recipe searches and every kitchen tool run on your phone, even offline.
- Version
- 4.1.0
- Released
- 8 October 2026
- Needs
- Android 6.0+
- Ads
- None
What's new
Version 4.1.0: the app catches up with the website.
- Make your own pizza Pick Neapolitan, New York or pan, stretch the dough, paint on the sauce and cheese with your finger, drag any of 25 toppings onto the pizza, then bake it and take it out at golden. You get a pizzaiolo’s verdict and an order you can copy or share.
- Find a pizzeria Choose a country, city and district to see pizzerias on an OpenStreetMap map. Chains whose menus let you build your own pizza are marked, and you can get directions, call, or open the website with your order ready to copy.
- Same scoring as the website The app judges your pizza exactly like myroyalchef.com/tools/pizza-maker: soggy centres, overloaded bases, burnt rims and toppings that belong on after baking.
- No new permissions The finder never asks for your location: you pick the place yourself.
Install in about a minute
Three steps, once.
- Download the APKTap Download for Android above. Your browser may ask you to confirm the download.
- Allow the installOpen the file. If Android asks, allow Install unknown apps for your browser or file manager. You only do this once.
- Tap InstallAlready have an earlier website version? Install over it. Your chats and saved recipes stay.
Check the file (optional)
Every website release is signed with the same key, so Android only accepts it as an update to the app you already have. To confirm the download is intact, compare its SHA-256 checksum:
55cb4afe9c2ed77d0a581408e2b4eb373b2983684d570c3c4e7b95308a823b20 The app talks only to myroyalchef.com. Chef answers are written by a language model on our server (your API key never ships in the app); see the Privacy Policy.
Brand film
Watch it before you install.
Thirty-six seconds of the real product: type what you have, get a recipe, swap the missing ingredient and cook the pasta — on the web and in the Android app.
Download captions (.vtt)Read the full transcript
0:00 — The premise. On a red card, the words “two eggs. half a lemon. leftover rice.” appear beside the actual ingredients: two eggs, a bowl of rice and half a lemon on a cut.
0:05 — Ask the chef. “Ask the chef.” The homepage shows the promise — good food starts with what you have — with the chat composer and two “Tonight” recipe pins.
0:09 — Recipes, filtered. In the chat, “rice” and “lemon” are typed as filters and recipe cards come back, ranked, with on-device answers marked at zero tokens.
0:13 — Out of butter?. “Out of butter?” The substitution pages show swaps for butter, olive oil, mango and banana with the ratio, flavour, texture, moisture adjustment and what each one suits.
0:18 — Cooking for six?. “Cooking for six?” A Caprese salad recipe scales from four to six servings, and every ingredient quantity follows.
0:21 — Cook the method. The recipe page numbers the method, shows the nutrition split and keeps the ingredient list on screen while you cook.
0:24 — A real 3D kitchen. “A real 3D kitchen.” Pasta Perfetta: a real-time pot, eight guided steps and a clock that runs 24× faster.
0:30 — From pot to plate. The film ends on the My Royal Chef mark and a finished plate. The whole loop — ask, cook, swap, scale, plate — takes 36 seconds.
iPhone · iPad · computer
No Android? Put the website on your home screen.
The web app opens in its own window with the same chef, recipes and tools.
Try it in your browseriPhone or iPad
Open this website in Safari. Tap Share, choose Add to Home Screen, then tap Add.
Desktop browser
Use the Install web app button when it appears, or your browser menu’s Install app option.
The web app needs a connection for chef answers and recipe pages.
Earlier versions 3.0.1 → 2.5
What's new in 3.0.1
- Clearer chat recovery — guest mode no longer reports a server outage, and failed photo requests explain how to retry.
- Ad-free website edition — no ads, ad consent prompts or rewarded-ad offers. Your usual online chef allowance and account plan still apply.
- Portion, Swap and Fix — resize recipes, find ingredient alternatives and recover cooking mistakes with chat modes. Supported local answers use no chef credit.
- More dependable ingredient swaps and protected session storage with separate guest and account data.
What's new in 2.9.1
- Clearer daily-limit messages and consistent online chef allowances across web and Android.
What's new in 2.9.0
- Cook Tonight — a brand-new dashboard tool that plans dinner for you: pick servings, a maximum cooking time and a meal preference, and Royal Chef suggests exactly three meals. It can use only what's in your pantry and prioritize ingredients expiring soon, marks "Uses soon" on expiring-ingredient picks, and every suggestion opens a full recipe view with ingredients and steps.
- Replace or refresh your picks — swap any single suggestion for a new one, or refresh all three at once. Your last result is saved on your device, so reopening the same choices shows it instantly without using a daily AI credit.
- Same free tier and Premium rules — Cook Tonight uses the same daily chef-message quota as chat; free accounts can still watch a short ad to earn up to 3 extra messages a day.
- Fridge Rescue & dashboard polish — the Fridge Rescue back button now matches the rest of the app, and the dashboard's Royal Chef AI and Cook Tonight cards line up on one consistent grid.
What's new in 2.8.0
- Fridge Rescue — a brand-new dashboard tool: list what you have in your fridge or pantry (amount, unit, expiry date) and Royal Chef turns it into three recipes you can make right now, showing what's missing if anything. Your pantry lives on your device, and recipes are generated with the full chef brain and cached for reuse.
- Bonus messages with rewarded ads — when a free account runs out of daily chef messages, the chat now offers to watch a short ad to earn up to 3 extra messages a day. Premium and guest accounts are unaffected.
What's new in 2.7.3
- Redesigned dashboard — a hero card opens the chef chat in one tap, and the four kitchen tools are now clear cards with icons and descriptions, plus a Saved Recipes shortcut.
- Recipe Cost tool revamped — add ingredients as tidy rows (name, quantity, unit, price) with easy add/remove; the keyboard no longer covers the fields.
- Even more reliable chef chat — the server now retries a busy provider and falls back to a second model, so fresh answers come from the full chef brain more consistently (on top of the in-app retry from 2.7.2).
- Cleaner formatted answers — comparison tables now keep their alignment (monospace) on older devices.
What's new in 2.7.2
- More reliable chef chat — a momentary server hiccup no longer kicks your chat onto the offline engine. The app now quietly retries a failed request before falling back, so answers come from the full chef brain far more consistently.
- Tools always load their data — Substitution Smart and Flavor Pairing could previously show "no results" for everything if you opened them right after a fresh install; they now load their ingredient data reliably and recover automatically.
What's new in 2.7.1
- Premium shows up instantly — when an admin grants you Premium or your Gumroad purchase completes, the app now picks it up right away (on login and whenever you return to the dashboard) instead of keeping showing the old Free/Guest count until the next chat.
- Cleaner login/logout — switching account or logging out no longer leaves the previous account's plan lingering on screen.
What's new in 2.7.0
- A real chef brain — chat is now answered by a third-party culinary LLM (via OpenRouter) with clean formatting (tables, steps, timings). If the server is unreachable, the on-device engine takes over automatically.
- Free tier + Premium — everyone gets 15 chef messages a day free. Premium ($12.99/month, via Gumroad on the website) raises it to 90 and works with the same account on web and Android.
- Voice input — tap the mic next to the input and speak; your words appear as text ready to send.
- Image understanding — attach one photo per message (a fridge shelf, an ingredient label) and the chef understands it.
- Recipe PDFs — download any recipe as a clean PDF for printing or keeping.
- Live web search — when freshness matters (prices, seasonality, recalls), the chef searches the web on the server and cites its sources.
What's new in 2.6.2
- Google sign-in fix — signing in with Google now uses Google's recommended sign-in flow, which reliably shows the account chooser on devices where the old one could fail silently.
What's new in 2.6.1
- Chef Chat fix — a failed first-launch download could leave chat answering "no strong match" to everything; chat now retries until the recipe library loads and says so honestly if it can't.
What's new in 2.6
- No account needed — the app opens straight into the chef chat and tools. Sign in only if you want your chats and recipes synced.
- Chats and saved recipes live on your device — guest conversations and saved recipes are stored locally and survive restarts.
- Login moved to Settings — sign in or create an account whenever you like; saved items sync to your account on a best-effort basis.
What's new in 2.5
- Fully native login & sign-up — built entirely with Android UI. No web screens are loaded inside the app.
- Sign in with Google or email & password with a native captcha; your account is saved securely on the website.
- If Google sign-in isn't available on a device, the app skips it and shows email sign-in instead — no confusing error, and email always works.
- Recipes, ingredients and the chef knowledge base arrive straight from the website — new content without a reinstall.
- Keeps working if your connection drops mid-session.