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Capture anything
Start with photos from a cookbook, links from Instagram, pasted text, or imports from Mela and Paprika.
Dinner decision help for real weeknights
Decide dinner in seconds.
Import recipes from anywhere, spin by what fits tonight, and track what you actually cook. Built for iPhone, synced with iCloud.
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Spin With Guardrails
Filter the spinner for the kind of dinner that fits tonight instead of gambling across your whole library.
Pesto Pasta Bake
Coconut Curry Shrimp
Lemon Chicken Soup
Miso Noodle Bowl
Smoky Bean Chili
Tonight's winner
Lemon Chicken Soup
Quick25 min
Cook history
Cooked 4 times
Last made 9 days ago
iCloud Sync
No Login Required
Import Paprika/Mela
Export Anytime
The anti-planner loop.
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Spin smartly
Limit the choice to favorites, a tag, or quick meals when tonight needs a smaller answer.
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Cook responsibly
Open the result, run the timer without leaving the app, and mark it cooked to build your history.
Import sources
Import from what you already use.
Koste should meet your recipes where they already live, then turn them into something you can actually spin tonight.
Cookbooks, scans, and saved photos
Bring in a page you just photographed, something already sitting in your camera roll, or a recipe clipped from a book.
Cookbook pagesCamera capturePhoto library
IG
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Links and pasted text
Drop in a recipe site, a creator link, or plain text you copied. The point is to get it dinner-ready without cleanup work.
InstagramTikTokRecipe sitesPasted text
Paprika
Mela
Imports from apps you already use
Move over recipes you've already collected so the spinner works with your real library instead of forcing a restart.
PaprikaMela
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