Souva vs SuperCook

A SuperCook alternative, compared honestly. This page is published by Souva, so it argues for Souva. Every fact about SuperCook here was read off supercook.com, its privacy policy, or its App Store and Google Play listings on 2026-09-10, and each cell links to the page it came from. Where SuperCook does something that answers one of our advantages, it is in the same row. Store listings change: if something here has gone stale or is wrong, tell us and it will be corrected or removed.

Both apps answer one question: what can I make with what I already have? They collect the answer differently, and that is the whole difference. SuperCook asks you to enter a whole kitchen, choosing from a list its own listing puts at more than 2,000 ingredients. Souva takes a photo of a shelf or a grocery receipt and ranks recipes by how much of each one you already have, naming what you are missing.^1,5,6

Side by side

	Souva	SuperCook
Getting your kitchen in	Photograph a shelf, scan a grocery receipt to add a whole shop at once, scan a barcode, or type it in.^5,6	Choose from a list of “2000+ ingredients broken down into categories”, or use the voice dictation mode that adds them as you say them out loud.^1,2
How much you have to enter	Two or three things already return something. Ranking is by coverage, so a short pantry still sorts.^5,6	Its own instructions: “Start adding ALL the ingredients you have at home to your SuperCook pantry… including oils, spices.”¹
How results are ordered	By how much of each recipe your pantry already covers, with an honest list of anything missing.^5,6	“SuperCook only shows you recipes that require the ingredients you already have.” A “missing one ingredient” filter added in 2.0.6 surfaces recipes you are one item short of.¹
When nothing published fits	SouvAI writes a new recipe from exactly what is on your shelves.⁵	The library is the answer: its listing puts it at “over 11 million recipes from 18,000 recipe websites, in 20 languages”.^1,2
Where the recipes come from	Recipes published elsewhere on the web, each one linking out to whoever wrote it.⁵	The same idea at far greater scale, consolidated and, in its words, “fed into an AI system”.^1,2
Where it runs	iPhone and iPad, iOS 16.4 or later, and Android. souva.app runs the ingredient search in a browser; the pantry itself is in the app.^5,6	supercook.com in a browser with nothing to install. iPhone and iPad, iOS 11.0 or later. Android.^1,2,3
Account	Not required. “No account. No subscription. Your pantry never leaves your device.”^5,6	The website can be used anonymously, per the privacy policy. The app has an account of some kind: the App Store privacy label lists an email address, linked to you, under App Functionality, and 2.0.6 added the “capability to delete account from within the app”. Whether it is required to search is not stated on the pages checked.^1,4
Price	Free to download. Play labels it “Contains ads” and “In-app purchases”: the ads are rewarded only, and the one purchase is Souva Unlimited, $4.99 once (CHANGELOG v1.2.1).^5,6	Free to download, and its Play listing carried no “Contains ads” and no “In-app purchases” label when checked. On the website, the privacy policy says “We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site.”^2,4
Last update the listing shows	1.2.2 on iOS, 2026-08-27; Play says updated 2026-08-27.^5,6	2.0.6 on iOS, 2022-06-15; Play says updated 2025-10-16.^1,2
How big it is	App Store: 5.0 from 5 ratings. Play: 50+ downloads, too few ratings for a star average.^5,6	App Store: 4.8 from 21,716 ratings. Play: 4.6 from 18.6K reviews, 1M+ downloads, an Editors’ Choice badge.^1,2
Age rating	12+ on the App Store, Everyone on Play.^5,6	4+ on the App Store, Everyone on Play.^1,2

Where a page we checked did not state something, the row is not here at all. That is why there is no offline row: Souva’s listing says its pantry and saved recipes work without a connection, SuperCook’s pages say nothing either way, and printing “not stated” beside a feature is an argument dressed as a fact.

Try it now, nothing to install

Running in a browser with nothing to install is the one thing SuperCook does that an installed app cannot, and it is a real advantage.³ So the ingredient search runs in a browser here too. No download, no account, no pantry to build first: open a page, read the recipes, decide about the app afterwards.

Try it now, nothing to install

That page is one pair of ingredients; the rest are here. The app is the part that holds a whole pantry, reads it off a photo of a shelf or a grocery receipt, and keeps it between visits.^5,6

Souva’s home screen on an iPhone: ten items in the pantry, and the first recipe card badged 100% match with the line ‘You have everything for this recipe’. — A screenshot of the shipped app. This is the result screen, not the scanner: recipes ordered by how much of each one the pantry already covers, and a card that says outright when you have all of it.

Which one fits you

Souva fits if

You would rather photograph a shelf or a receipt than type a pantry.^5,6
You decide dinner on a phone, standing at the fridge.
You want results ordered by what you already have, with the gaps named.⁵
You want no account, and the pantry kept on the device.^5,6
You want a new recipe written from your shelves when nothing published fits.⁵

SuperCook fits if

You want it in a browser, on a laptop, with nothing to install.³
Entering a whole kitchen once from a 2,000-plus item list is time you are happy to spend.¹
You want the largest library: its listing claims 11 million recipes from 18,000 sites.^1,2
You want the far more established app. It has 1M+ Android installs, 21,716 App Store ratings and an Editors’ Choice badge; Souva has 50+ installs and 5 App Store ratings.^1,2,5,6

Questions people ask

Is there a free alternative to SuperCook?

Yes. Souva is free to download on iPhone and Android, needs no account, and answers the same question: what can I cook with what I already have. Where it differs from SuperCook and from most apps like it is how your kitchen gets in: a photo of a shelf, a grocery receipt, or a barcode, rather than ticking items off a list. SuperCook is also free to download, and it runs in a browser at supercook.com with nothing to install.^1,3,5,6

What is the difference between Souva and SuperCook?

SuperCook asks you to build a pantry by choosing from a list its listing puts at “2000+ ingredients”, then matches that against a library it describes as over 11 million recipes from 18,000 sites. Souva reads your ingredients off a photo, a receipt or a barcode, then ranks recipes by how much of each one your pantry already covers and names what you are missing. When nothing published fits, SouvAI writes one from exactly what is on your shelves. SuperCook is the older and much larger app; Souva is the one built for deciding dinner while standing at the fridge.^1,5,6

Do I have to enter every ingredient?

Not in Souva. Photograph a shelf and it adds what it recognizes; scan a grocery receipt and a whole shop goes in at once; and because results are ranked by how much of each recipe you already have, two or three things already return something you can cook. SuperCook asks for more, in its own words: “Start adding ALL the ingredients you have at home to your SuperCook pantry… including oils, spices.” Its app also offers a voice dictation mode that adds ingredients as you say them out loud.^1,5,6

Cook what you already have

Souva reads your ingredients off a photo of a shelf, a grocery receipt or a barcode, ranks recipes by how much of each one you already have, and names what you are missing. Free to download, no account, and the pantry stays on your device.^5,6

Try it in a browser first

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

Sources

Each page below was fetched and read on 2026-09-10. Where a listing figure is a rounded one the store itself prints (“1M+ downloads”, “18.6K reviews”), it is quoted as printed rather than converted.

SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient on the App Store (US), read 2026-09-10.
SuperCook - Recipe Generator on Google Play (US), read 2026-09-10.
supercook.com, the site itself, read 2026-09-10.
supercook.com privacy policy, read 2026-09-10.
Souva: Fridge & Pantry Recipes on the App Store (US), read 2026-09-10.
Souva: Fridge & Pantry Recipes on Google Play (US), read 2026-09-10.

Souva is not affiliated with SuperCook. SuperCook is a trademark of its owner, named here only to identify the product being compared.