Android app
Your kitchen, in your pocket.
Recipes, servings, swaps and a chef that answers on your phone, with no daily limit. One account works on the website and in the app, Premium included. Account syncing and the pizzeria finder need a connection.
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- Needs
- Android 6.0+
- Price
- Free to start
- Chef
- On your phone
What's new
Version 5.1.0: the chef answers in the language you write in.
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Answers in the language you write Write in English, Spanish or French and the chef answers in that language, whatever language the app is set to.
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Dinner plans in chat Ask the chef to plan your dinners. Free plans cover three days; Premium plans the whole week.
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Recipe PDFs your way Every recipe still downloads as a free PDF. With Premium you choose the servings and metric or US units first.
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Cooking reminders, only if you want them Turn on one reminder a day in Settings, at lunch, early evening or later. They stay off until you switch them on.
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 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.
Royal Chef, the chef’s cooking model, is built from Qwen3-0.6B (Apache-2.0, by the Qwen team) and trained on our recipes, substitutions and cooking conversations. On the website you start its one-time download from the chat page, and then it answers without a connection. Recipe pages still need a connection.
Earlier versions 5.0.0 → 2.5
What's new in 5.0.0
- Royal Chef on your phone — chat answers are written by Royal Chef, our own cooking model, inside the app. It works offline, has no daily limit, and your questions never leave the phone.
- Recipe cards, lists and tools — ask for a recipe card or a shopping list, scale a recipe from the conversation, start a timer or open a tool.
- 20 languages — the app follows your phone's language, or pick one of 20 in Settings.
- One bigger download — the chef is part of the app, so the app is about 90 MB.
What's new in 4.3.0
- An icon and splash that match the site — the ink tile and white mustache from the website header, on your home screen and when the app opens, with a themed icon on Android 13 and later.
- A home screen made for a phone — ask the chef from the top of the screen, then tonight's recipe, quick recipes, cuisines and every tool in one list. The header folds away as you scroll.
- One look on every screen — the same ink top bar, spacing and cards everywhere. Settings is a clean list, and the tools open with ideas to tap instead of an empty page.
- Faster, and email login fixed — in our tests it opens about twice as fast, and the captcha on the email login and sign-up screens shows again.
What's new in 4.2.0
- Website links open in the app — recipe, cuisine, chat and tool links from myroyalchef.com open the matching screen in the app (Android verifies the site owns them).
- Continue a long recipe — when a chef answer is cut off, a Continue the recipe button picks it up where it stopped, the same way the website does.
- Tables and PDFs fixed — chef answers with tables render as tables, and recipe PDFs always match the recipe you opened.
- Smaller and more native — less than half the size (3.5 MB), the system splash screen, edge-to-edge screens, the predictive back gesture and a microphone permission that explains itself.
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 account plan still applies.
- 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 chat messages and consistent account plans 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 another AI request.
- Same free tier and Premium rules — Cook Tonight shared chat’s free tier and rewarded-ad bonus.
- 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.
- Rewarded ad bonuses — free accounts could watch a short ad for extra chat messages. Premium and guest accounts were 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 the old plan on screen 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 answers came from a culinary language model on our server, with clean formatting (tables, steps, timings). If the server was unreachable, the on-device engine took over automatically.
- Free tier + Premium — a free tier for everyone, and Premium ($12.99/month, via Gumroad on the website) on the same account across 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 mattered (prices, seasonality, recalls), the chef searched the web on the server and cited 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.
Direct download (APK)
For phones without Google Play. This build is ad-free and buys Premium on the website; it updates itself from this page.
- Download the APK Your browser may ask to confirm.
- Allow this one install Android asks once, for your browser.
- Tap Install Updates keep your chats and recipes.
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:
faddf682b633dfe0c371057ffa683bbe04e6ac595e2d3ec2dd1e36d7dcadeb46 The app uses myroyalchef.com to sign you in, check your plan and download recipe data. Chef answers are written on your device by Royal Chef, which is bundled with the app. Optional Google sign-in and speech recognition use their respective services; see the Privacy Policy.