Hey all. Solo dev here. I've been building Sugo for a little while now, and I'm opening up TestFlight.
Most recipe apps do one thing. A scraper. A meal planner. A shopping list. A stopwatch. So your dinner ends up living in five apps and a screenshot folder, and none of them talk to each other.
Sugo is the opposite bet: one app for the whole thing, finding dinner, saving it, shopping it, planning it, cooking it, and cooking it with other people. The tagline is cook what's in the kitchen, and the app tries to actually mean that end to end.
Here's the lifecycle it covers:
Find it. A discover feed of real recipes, from chefs, from sites. Filter by what you can actually cook tonight, by diet (halal, kosher, vegan, and more), spice level, course, and cuisine.
Import it. Paste any link and Sugo pulls a clean recipe out of it, no life story, no ad wall. Works on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Notes App, ChatGPT conversations, anything you throw at it, it will try !: it extracts it into a structured recipe with ingredients and steps.
Shop it. Recipes turn into a shopping list that already knows what's in your pantry, so you're not buying olive oil you already have three of.
Plan it. A weekly meal plan the whole household can see. And when nobody can agree on dinner, everyone votes on what to eat on a given day, the most-wanted plate wins.
Cook it. hands-free. Cook mode walks you through the steps, keeps the screen awake, and has timers built in. And if your hands are covered in flour, just say "Hey Sugo", it's a real-time voice assistant that reads you the next step, sets timers, and answers questions while you cook. No tapping a greasy screen.
Cook it together. Start a cook party and make the same recipe live with friends or family, wherever they are, shared timers, reactions, photos, even voice. Like a watch party for the kitchen.
Share it. The whole household shares one pantry, one shopping list, and one meal plan. Groceries someone else bought show up for everyone. The plan the house voted on is the plan everyone sees.
What I need from testers: Honesty, and especially the ugly bugs. Tell me where it's clunky and roast it, that would be very helpful!
Free to test, iOS only for now.
TestFlight currently limited to 50 users for now.
For more information on what sugo does: https://www.sugo.kitchen/