A place for every source.
A photographed index card and a link from tonight's scroll should end up as recipes you can read the same way.
About Sugo
Sauce on the spoon. A recipe worth keeping.
Sugo is for home cooks with recipes in screenshots, old books, browser tabs, family cards, and memory. It gathers the dishes together, then helps put one on the table.
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sugo
The good stuff at the bottom of the pan.
cook what's in the kitchen
Useful at the stove.
Saving is not the finish line. Steps, timers, pantry matches, and lists should make dinner more likely.
Recipes have histories.
Cookbooks and sharing leave room for who taught you the dish and who you want to feed next.
Team
Who builds Sugo.
Sugo is built by one founder, end to end: the iOS app, the backend, and the recipe understanding that sits between them.
Romeo Phillips
FounderFrench data engineer based in Oakland, California. Builds and runs every part of Sugo: the Expo iOS client, the Python backend on Google Cloud, and the pipeline that turns a link, a screenshot, or a photographed index card into a structured recipe.
He built Sugo because his own recipes lived in half a dozen places at once: screenshots, browser bookmarks, a notes app, a shelf of books, and a text thread. Opening a saved link usually meant a page buried under ads and pop-ups, with a thousand words of preamble before the ingredient list. Sugo is the version he wanted: one library, every source read the same way, and nothing standing between you and the cooking.
A tech startup with its own app.
Sugo is an independent software company. We build and operate our own mobile app and backend platform, and we sell the app directly to home cooks by subscription.
- Founded
- August 2026
- Based in
- Oakland, California
- Team size
- 1 founder
- Product
- Sugo, an iOS recipe app
The product
Sugo, screen by screen.
Every screen below is a real screenshot of the shipping iOS app, captured from a live account with real recipes and a real shared household.
- 01 / Your kitchen
Everything you saved, on one screen.
Home opens on what you can cook tonight: a suggested dinner built from what is in your kitchen, how many recipes are cookable right now, and how many items are still on the list.
- 02 / Discover
Find something worth cooking.
A searchable catalogue of thousands of recipes, browsable by cuisine and by moment, with dietary filters that narrow results as you go.
- 03 / The recipe
Every source, read the same way.
A link, a screenshot, or a photographed card all end up as the same structured recipe: scalable ingredients, metric and imperial units, and a visible credit back to the original author and site.
- 04 / Cook mode
Useful with your hands busy.
Cook mode steps through the method one instruction at a time, highlights the quantities inline, runs the timers the recipe calls for, and answers out loud when you ask.
- 05 / Meal plan
A week you can actually cook.
Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner across the week and share it with your household. When nobody can decide, open a vote on a slot and let the house pick. One tap rolls the week into a shopping list.
- 06 / Shopping list
Grouped the way the store is.
Ingredients from planned meals land on a shared list, sorted by aisle, by recipe, or flat, with anything already in your pantry filtered out.
- 07 / Pantry
Know what is already in the kitchen.
Track what you have and Sugo counts the recipes you could make tonight with nothing else bought, which is what the cookable count on Home is reading.
Stage
Where Sugo is today.
Sugo is out. It shipped on the App Store on 31 August 2026 for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and is now on Google Play for Android, with the same app running in a browser at app.sugo.kitchen, against a production backend on Google Cloud Run.
- Stage
- Released, version 1.0
- Platform
- iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, web
- Launched
- 31 August 2026
- Business model
- Free with paid subscription
The principle
Cook tonight. Not someday.
Out now
Put one good dinner on the table.
Sugo is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac, on Google Play for Android, and in any browser at app.sugo.kitchen. It is free to start, so start saving the recipes you actually cook.