Meal Planning & Cooking

Mottainai includes an entire suite of tools specifically for recipes and cooking. A Recipe Collection container allows you to build a personal cookbook and simplify your meal planning.

Saving and importing recipes

You can write recipes from scratch, but Mottainai makes it incredibly easy to save recipes from around the web:

1. Import by URL: Just paste a link to a recipe online. Mottainai's AI will automatically extract the ingredients, instructions, and cooking time, ignoring all the fluff and ads on the page.
2. Import by text: Found a recipe in a book or on social media? Snap a photo or copy the text, and the AI will format it correctly for you.

Smart Ingredients

Recipes in Mottainai aren't just blocks of text. Ingredients are structured so that Mottainai understands them.

Because Mottainai knows that a recipe calls for "2 cups of flour", you can:

• Scale: Easily double or halve a recipe with a single tap.
• Shop: Send the ingredients directly to your Storage's shopping list, intelligently combining amounts (e.g., adding "1 onion" twice becomes "2 onions" on your list).

Cook Mode

When it's time to cook, reading a cramped recipe on your phone can be frustrating.

Mottainai includes a full-screen Cook Mode. This breaks the recipe down step-by-step in large text. It prevents your screen from turning off while you cook, so you don't have to touch your device with messy hands.

Sharing with others

You can share your Recipe Collection with family members so everyone can add their favorites.

You can also create a Public Link for any individual recipe. This generates a unique URL (like a secret web address) that you can send to anyone, allowing them to view the recipe even if they don't have a Mottainai account.