About PantriQa

PantriQa is your dinner helper for deciding what to cook and making better use of the recipes you have and find.

Bring together recipes you already love, discover new ones and add them from websites, cookbooks, photos, screenshots, messages and notes. 

No more scrolling through saved posts or searching for that screenshot you took three weeks ago and cannot find again.

When you’re not sure what to make, spin the dinner wheel or filter your recipes by ingredients, cooking time or category. You can also plan your meals, create shopping lists and follow recipes more easily in Cook Mode.

There is no account to create, no subscription and no cloud sync. Everything stays on your phone.

I love cooking, but I am terrible at remembering what I have or haven’t cooked recently. Every day came with the same stress: debating what everyone wanted to eat, drawing a total blank and somehow ending up with the same five meals on repeat. Meanwhile, all the recipes I’d saved just sat there, forgotten.

Honestly, it was draining the joy right out of something I genuinely loved doing.

I started looking for an app that could keep all my recipes together, remember what I had cooked and help me choose something I had not made in a while. I could not find one that worked the way I wanted. Many apps also wanted me to create an account or pay for a subscription before I even knew whether they would solve my problem. I have never liked subscriptions, and I really did not want another one just to plan dinner.

So I decided to build it myself.

It started as a simple app where I could keep my recipes, plan meals and spin a dinner wheel to settle the “What should we eat?” debate. Later, I added Cook Mode, shopping lists and more ways to add recipes.

Eventually, it stopped feeling like something only I would use. I thought it could help other people with the same problem, so I gave it a name and released it.

PantriQa is now available in 11 languages. I am not a native English speaker, and my partner’s family speaks a different language from mine, so supporting multiple languages was important to me from the beginning.

A lot of recipe apps mainly help you save more recipes. PantriQa helps you actually use the recipes you already have.

It remembers what you have cooked and when, and uses that to nudge you towards recipes you have not made in a while. So instead of drawing a blank and falling back on the same five meals every week, you are reminded of recipes you may have forgotten about.

It’s also yours, properly. No account to create, nothing syncing to someone else’s server and no ads. Your recipes live on your phone, the way a cookbook lives on your shelf.

PantriQa is also available in 11 languages, so more people can use it in the language that feels most natural to them.