Super Grub is the photo feature in Grublin, a free recipe app for iPhone and Android. Photograph raw ingredients and it produces an ingredient list you can confirm or edit before Grub writes a recipe from them. Photograph a finished dish and it produces a description Grub uses to write a recipe for making that dish at home. Both paths obey the allergens, diet and dislikes you set once in Preferences. Scanning is free and photos are not stored.
Photograph the shelf
Typing out the contents of a fridge is dull, and most people stop at three things. A photo doesn't. Super Grub picks out everything edible he can clearly see, names it in plain words ("cheddar", "spring onions", "beef mince", never brands or quantities), and puts anything he's less sure about in a separate list of guesses for you to confirm or bin.
You tick what's right, add anything he missed, choose how fancy you're feeling and who's eating, and he writes the recipe. It uses what's in the photo, respects every dietary rule you've set, sticks to the kit you own, and lists the handful of staples to nab.
Good things to photograph: the fridge shelf on a Thursday, a cupboard of tins you've stopped seeing, the bag of shopping still on the counter, the student kitchen, the veg drawer before it's too late. For a better read, good light, labels facing out, one shelf at a time. If a photo is too dark or blurry, Grub says so and asks for another.
Photograph the thing you're craving
"Ooh, someone's already done the cooking. Fancy making that yourself?"
This is the part testers love. Show Super Grub a finished dish: the plate at the next table, the meal in a takeaway menu, the thing you had on holiday and have thought about since. He describes it in a line detailed enough to recreate, hands that to Grub as a brief, and you get a recipe to make it in your kitchen.
Because your rules are already set, the homemade version comes back the way you can eat it. A takeaway you love but can't have as served becomes a version without the dairy, without the gluten, or vegetarian. A restaurant plate becomes a weeknight dinner that fits your air fryer and your spice tolerance. If Super Grub isn't sure what he's looking at, he shows you his description first so you can correct it.
Homemade takeaways from a photo goes into this in detail.
How it works
- Open Super GrubOn the Cook tab, tap Super Grub and take the photo, or pick one from your library.
- ConfirmIngredients he's sure of, guesses he isn't, or a one-line description of the dish. Tick, untick, edit.
- Pick the vibeWeeknight, a bit special or impressive. Who's eating.
- CookA complete recipe that fits your rules and your kit. Tweak it or ask for a different idea.
Photos, privacy and the free tier
The photo is sent securely to Grublin's server, read once, and not kept. Nothing from it is linked to you. Scanning is free and does not count towards your daily free recipes; only the recipe itself does. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
Raw or packaged ingredients, such as a fridge shelf, a cupboard or a bag of shopping, and finished dishes, such as a plate in a restaurant or a takeaway you want to recreate. Ingredients become a list you confirm; a finished dish becomes a description Grub turns into a recipe. Yes. Photograph the dish and Super Grub describes it, then Grub writes a recipe to make it at home, without the ingredients you avoid and using the kit you own. No. The photo is read once to produce the list or description and is not kept. Nothing from it is tied to your identity. No. Scanning is free and does not count towards the daily free recipe allowance. Only the recipe itself does. Yes. Every recipe, however you start it, is written to the rules you set in Preferences and re-checked against the hard ones. Always read product labels yourself.Questions people ask
What can I photograph with Super Grub?
Can Grublin make a homemade version of a takeaway from a photo?
Does Grublin store my photos?
Does scanning use up my free recipes?
Do photo recipes respect my allergies and diet?