Fight food waste,
save money
Make dinner with what you’ve already got
Ripe Recipes helps you quickly enter what ingredients you have in the fridge and then generate delicious meals, instantly!
How it Works
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Quickly add the ingredients you already have - either by writing them out, taking a photo or uploading a receipt if you’ve recently been to the shops.
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Get a list of delicious things you could cook with what you already have. Recipes include portion sizing, dietary requirements and a nutritional breakdown.
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The average young household wastes $1,503 and 113kg of food every year. With beautiful recipes and inspiration, we hope to change that!
(OzHarvest, "Half Eaten", Australian Household Food Waste Research 2025)
💛 Official supporter of OzHarvest 💛
Ripe donates 2 meals to Australians in need through our partnership with OzHarvest for every new supporter
OzHarvest is Australia's leading food rescue organisation. At their core, OzHarvest rescues good-quality surplus food from supermarkets, cafes, delis, hotels, airlines and restaurants & delivers it for free to Australians doing it tough.
⚡️ Instant Recipes
Stop stressing about food expiring. Ripe turns the ingredients already in your fridge into recipes instantly, prioritised by what’s going off.
Core features
🛍️ Smart Shopping Lists
Supermarkets are overpriced. Only buy what you don’t already have. Ripe builds shopping lists based on what’s in the pantry then suggests the minimum shop required.
🔮 AI Powered Personalisation
Ripe tailors recipes to you and your dietary needs, preferences and portion sizes so every meal fits your lifestyle effortlessly.
📋 Save Recipes from Anywhere
Now you can have all your recipes in one place - from Instagram, cookbooks and Aunty Julie’s handwritten notes. Save them and actually cook them.
Pricing
100% Free for All Users
Voluntary donations are welcome
We are in a food waste crisis. Every recipe on Ripe helps reduce food waste and save our users money through inspiration.
To keep this accessible to everyone, we provide access to our app and all it’s features completely free.
We rely on the generosity of our community and donors to keep this service alive.
Read Our Reviews
The average young household wastes $1,503 and 113kg of food every year, 70% of which is perfectly edible.
OzHarvest, “Half Eaten”, Australian Household Food Waste Research 2025
FAQs
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This app helps you use ingredients before they go off, automatically sorts them by expiry, and gives you recipe ideas based on what needs to be used first. It also shows you the estimated dollar value you save by cooking food before it expires.
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You can enter your ingredients manually and we will try to give you our best guess of when we think it will go off, too! The app then sorts everything by what’s going off first when making recipes.
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The app uses local supermarket prices (based on your selected country + state) and the quantity of each ingredient. The “Estimated value” label shows how much money you keep by using the ingredient before it goes off.
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Absolutely! We love the feeling of a community building a project together to help a shared mission so we’ve built a “Request a Feature” section. Each week we’ll work to add as many new features from our users as possible.