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Paprika vs AnyList vs Crouton vs ReciMe vs Sugo
An honest comparison of the five recipe apps people actually choose between in 2026: what each one is genuinely best at, and where Sugo goes further.
Private preview · for home cooksCook what's in
Cook what's in
the kitchen.
Sugo keeps every recipe you've ever loved in one place (from grandma's index card to that Instagram reel) then helps you actually cook them, hands-free, with what's in your pantry tonight.
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⋮Lasagna
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Time70 min
Serves2
RemixStart cooking
IngredientsStepsNotes
28oz San Marzano
3 cloves Garlic
3 tbsp Olive oil
1 handful Basil
Capabilities
Every recipe you've ever loved, finally in one place.
Sugo turns scattered bookmarks, screenshots, scribbled cards and 12-minute YouTube videos into clean, searchable recipes. Then it helps you cook them, together if you like.
01 · COLLECT
Snap a recipe. Anywhere.
Paste a link, snap grandma's index card, screenshot a TikTok, or scan a cookbook page. Sugo's parser pulls out ingredients, steps, times, and serving counts, even from what a creator says out loud in a video, and asks you when it isn't sure.
- URL, photo, screenshot, or paste: all the same
- Reads reels and TikToks: captions and spoken steps alike
- One tap to fix anything the AI got wrong
bbcgoodfood.com/roast-tomato-pasta
URL · 13 ingredients · serves 2
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Index card · Grandma's marinara
tiktok.com/@…/video/72031…
Video · 47 seconds · spoken steps transcribed
Queued↓ ONE TAP TO SAVE
SAVED TO COOKBOOK · WEEKNIGHTSRoast tomato pasta with breadcrumbs & ricottaSERVES 2 · 70 MIN · 13 INGREDIENTS · NO ADS
02 · COOK
Hands-free cook mode, big and clear.
The screen stays bright. The font stays big. Timers start themselves when you hit a step that needs one, and "Hey Sugo, next step" works while your hands are covered in flour.
- Say "hey sugo": next step, set a timer, ask a question
- Screen never sleeps mid-recipe
- Cross out ingredients as you go
9:41
Cooking · hand-crushed pasta
STEP 1 OF 5
Warm the olive oil and slip in the sliced garlic, keeping it gentle.
GARLIC · GENTLE
1:30
Garlic · 3 clovesSLICING
Olive oil · 3 tbspPOURING
San Marzano · 800 g–
Basil · 1 handful–
Sea salt · to taste–
say “next” · hands-free
03 · SUGGEST
Tonight, with what you have.
Tell Sugo what's in your pantry once. From then on, the home screen shows recipes you can actually cook tonight, not a wish list of things requiring a 9pm grocery run.
- Pantry-aware suggestions, ranked by what you have
- Missing one thing? Sugo suggests the smart swap
- Auto-builds a shopping list for the rest
Your pantry
Updated 2 hours ago · 23 items
04 · COOK TOGETHER
One recipe. Four kitchens.
Start a cook party and your favorite people cook the same recipe with you, live, each in their own kitchen. Everyone follows their own lane through the steps, timers stay in sync, and reactions fly while the sauce simmers.
- Live lanes: see where everyone is, step by step
- Shared timers and voice chat across kitchens
- Plate photos stay covered until the reveal at the end
Cook party
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SHARED TIMER · SIMMER08:24
PLATES STAY COVERED UNTIL EVERYONE SERVES
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05
The cook who's read your whole kitchen.
Ask Sugo is the assistant behind the sparkle. It knows your saved recipes, your pantry, and your week, so 'something quick tonight' gets a real answer, not a search page.
- Knows your pantry
- Photos in, dinner out
- Answers in your language
ask sugo
ANYTHING, ANYWHERE.
ask sugo anything…
How it works
Three steps. That's it.
No accounts, no onboarding survey, no "let's get to know you first." Open the app, save a recipe, cook it. Everything else is optional.
i.
Save anything.
Share a link, snap a card, paste a screenshot. Sugo cleans it up in seconds and files it away.
ii.
Tell it your pantry.
Add the basics once: oil, salt, the spice rack. Sugo learns the rest from your grocery list.
iii.
Cook tonight.
Open the home tab. Pick one. Hit Cook. The screen stays bright. The timers start themselves.
Cooks talking
From the kitchens using it.
Sugo is in beta with about 4,000 home cooks across 22 countries. Some of them keep emailing us nice things.
I had 312 recipes saved across Notes, screenshots, and three different bookmarking apps. Sugo took an evening to import them all. Now I cook from them.
Maya Hosseini
Brooklyn · cooks 5×/week
The pantry thing sounds gimmicky. It isn't. I haven't done a "what should I make" stare into the fridge in two months.
Daniel Park
Oakland · cooks 3×/week
It read my grandmother's marinara off a 40-year-old index card with one correction. I cried. Then I made it.
Sofia Ricci
Bologna · cooks daily
Pricing
Free to cook. Forever.
The basics (saving recipes, pantry, cook mode) stay free. sugo+ unlocks the full AI kitchen. famiglia sets the whole table.
Save up to 37%
Free
Home cook
$0/forever
- Unlimited saved recipes & pantry
- 25 link imports + 2 photo & video imports a month
- Hands-free cook mode with voice steps
- 1 cookbook & 1 meal plan
- Cook party with a friend
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sugo
$5.00/monthSave 37%
$59.99 billed yearly
- 200 link imports + 25 photo & video imports a month
- Unlimited cookbooks & meal plans
- Real-time voice sous-chef while you cook
- 50 recipe remixes a month
- AI cover art & pantry photo scans
- Cook party with up to 4 friends
For the table
famiglia
$10.00/monthSave 33%
$119.99 billed yearly
- Everything in sugo+, with the highest limits
- Up to 20 people in one shared household
- Shared meal plan, grocery list & pantry everyone edits
- Unlimited link imports & recipe remixes
- Cook party with up to 10 friends
- Early access to new features
Paid plans start with 7 days free. Cancel anytime.
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Open beta
Join the betaPut one good dinner on the table.
Sugo is in open beta on iPhone. Join through TestFlight and start saving the recipes you actually cook.