The kitchen that knows
what's in it.

AI chatbots already write great custom recipes. The hard part is everything else — what's in your pantry, what your kids will actually eat, what you cooked last Tuesday. Butler tracks all of it so meal planning starts from reality.

Recipes

Recipes are the easy part.

Generic chatbots already nail custom recipes — gluten-free, low-carb, kid-friendly, "use up these leftovers." Butler does that too. But that's not where families get stuck.

Any diet, any preference, any constraint — handled in plain English.
Iterates conversationally — swap an ingredient, halve the servings, plan the whole week.
Saves the recipes that worked so you stop re-asking.

Pantry

The hard part is knowing what's in your kitchen.

It gets old fast: "I don't have tomatoes, but I do have peppers." Butler keeps an up-to-date pantry — auto-imported from grocery emails, scanned from receipts and fridge photos, and intelligently merged so duplicates collapse. Every meal Butler suggests starts from what you actually have.

Auto-imports Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh, and Instacart orders from Gmail.
Snap a receipt, fridge interior, or pantry shelf — Butler reads it.
Smart merge collapses duplicates and updates quantities.

Family

Built for the whole family, not just one cook.

Different diets, dislikes, allergies, and tastes — Butler tracks who needs what and surfaces it on every request. Ask for tomorrow's school lunches in the same conversation as Saturday's dinner party, and Butler stays straight on who's eating what.

Per-member preferences, dislikes, allergies, and restrictions.
Rate meals — Butler stops suggesting the dish your kid hates.
Freeform notes ("trying to cut sugar", "loves spicy") feed every plan.

Shop without thinking.

Auto-generated from your meal plan, diffed against your pantry — only what you actually need. Check it off as you shop and the items land back in your pantry automatically.

Remember what you cooked.

Snap a photo of what you made and rate it. Over time Butler stops suggesting the dish that flopped and leans into what your family loves.

Want to try it?

Butler is a hobby project, not a public app yet. Drop your details below and I'll add you to TestFlight. If you'd like to help build it, that section is optional but appreciated.