Dinner ideas from your own shelves.
It searches your saved recipes and the discover catalog in one pass, ranks ideas by what's already in your pantry, and names a side or a dessert when the main is settled.
Ask Sugo
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 pantryPhotos in, dinner outAnswers in your language
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What it can do
Ask, snap, remix.
Point the camera at the problem.
Photograph the groceries and they land in your pantry. Photograph three lonely ingredients and ask what they add up to, and you get ideas plus what's still missing.
Change the recipe, keep the original.
Make it vegan, halve it, swap the ricotta. Ask Sugo proposes the change, shows you exactly what moves, and only rewrites after you say yes.
House rules
It only talks food.
Ask Sugo won't do your homework or read your contracts. It knows recipes, ingredients, pantries, plans, and substitutions, and it answers in your language: English, French, or Spanish.
An assistant that has read your kitchen
General cooking chatbots have one weakness: they know cooking but they do not know you. They cannot tell you what to make tonight, because they have no idea what you own, what you have saved, or what you already ate this week.
Ask Sugo does. It can see your saved recipes, your pantry, and your meal plan, so "what can I make with what I have" is a question it can actually answer rather than deflect. Ask for something to do with half a bunch of coriander and a chicken thigh and it will look at your library first.
It also handles the boring questions well, which is most of them: substitutions, scaling a recipe for different numbers, converting units, what to do when a step assumed equipment you do not own.
Photos and plain language
You can photograph groceries and ask what to do with them, which is faster than typing seven items in. The same path handles a recipe on a page, a screenshot, or a handwritten card.
Questions do not need to be well formed. Asking in the language you actually cook in works too: Sugo answers in the language of your content rather than forcing everything into English.
What it does not do, and where it is wrong
It is a language model with access to your kitchen, and it makes mistakes. Substitutions can be plausible and wrong, nutrition figures are estimates, and dietary labels like vegetarian, vegan, halal and kosher are generated automatically and should not be trusted where the answer matters medically or religiously.
Check anything involving allergens yourself. This matters most for allergies, pregnancy, infants, older people, and anyone with a medical condition. Sugo is a tool, not a chef and not a doctor.
It also needs a connection, because the model runs on a server rather than on your phone.
What can I ask Sugo?
Anything about cooking, but the useful part is that it knows your kitchen. It can see your saved recipes, pantry, and meal plan, so it answers what to make tonight from what you actually own, alongside substitutions, scaling, unit conversion, and technique questions.
How is Ask Sugo different from asking ChatGPT?
A general chatbot knows cooking but not your kitchen. Ask Sugo can see what you have saved, what is in your pantry, and what is planned this week, so it can answer questions about your food rather than food in general.
Can I ask about a photo of my groceries?
Yes. Photograph what you bought or what is on the shelf and ask what to make with it. The same works for a recipe on a page, a screenshot, or a handwritten card.
Is the assistant accurate about allergens?
Not reliably, and you should not treat it as such. Dietary labels and nutrition figures are generated automatically and are estimates. Always check ingredients and allergens yourself before serving, particularly for allergies, pregnancy, infants, and anyone with a medical condition.
Does Ask Sugo work in French and Spanish?
Yes. Sugo answers in the language of your content rather than translating everything into English, so a French recipe stays a French conversation.
Is the assistant free?
The free plan includes the assistant. The real-time voice sous-chef, which talks with you while you are cooking rather than answering typed questions, is part of sugo+ at $7.99 a month.
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.