ChiveThe grocery list that cooks.
Check things off at the store and they'll land in your pantry automatically, expiry date and all.
Opens TestFlight on your iPhone or iPad.
Each step feeds the next, and the more you use it, the more powerful it becomes.
Recipes that know what’s in your kitchen.
Other apps store recipes. Chive integrates your recipes and pantry in a way that unlocks features other apps aren’t capable of.
A shopping list that works for you.
Automatically sorted by aisle, with real time price estimates from your preferred store.
A pantry that builds itself.
Every shopped item lands in your pantry automatically.
Ask Chive anything.
Chive knows your pantry, recipes, and the preferences you choose to share, so it answers questions a general chatbot can’t.
A kitchen that keeps up with you.
Your pantry fills as you shop, your list fills as you cook. The upkeep happens by itself.
Invite your partner, roommate, or family with a link. Everyone shares one pantry, list, and recipe collection.
Add by photo, scan, receipt, or voice. Chive handles the rest.
Watch Chive in action
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- Photograph your counter — Chive identifies multiple items at once
- Scan a receipt — line items parsed with prices, then reviewed
- Forward an email receipt to receipts@chive-app.com
- Scan a barcode — single or batch
- Voice add (iOS)
- Type-ahead search across your products, a shared catalog, and live retailer search
- “Done shopping” turns your checked-off cart into pantry stock
- Starter packs to stock common items fast
- Builds itself as you shop — items land in the right zone automatically
- Best-before dates estimated by product and zone, recalculated when you move an item
- View by zone or by food category
- Custom zones with their own icons and colors
- Grid or list layout, expiring and low-stock badges
- Detailed product cards — photo, brand, nutrition, price history, expiry
- Quick actions — consume, mark low, empty — each with undo and one-tap restock
- No smart fridge required
- Builds itself as you cook and as items run low or expire
- Running-low suggestions — Chive flags staples you’re likely to need from your shopping rhythm and expiry estimates
- Real-time household sync
- Sorted by your store’s aisles
- Price tracking from your preferred store, with a running total
- Add by Siri or the iOS widget (iOS)
- Hand the whole list to the Instacart® app; purchases return to your pantry
- “What can I cook tonight with what I have?”
- Check any recipe against your pantry and add what’s missing, scaled and aisle-sorted
- Modify any recipe by voice or text — “make it vegetarian,” “make it healthier”
- Talk to Chive hands-free while you cook
- Smart collections that sort themselves
- Import from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, a link, a screenshot, or a cookbook photo
- Step-by-step cook mode with per-step timers
- Cook log — rate, save leftovers, deduct used ingredients, restock what ran out
- Up Next queue — line up meals and shop for all at once
- Nutrition per serving, scaled with the recipe
- Servings adjuster with automatic unit conversion
- Knows your pantry, recipes, and the preferences you choose to share
- Adds ingredients to your list — deduped, scaled, aisle-sorted
- Technique help while you cook
- Organizes loose recipes into collections
- Voice in, voice out
- Connect the Claude Desktop app to your kitchen — ask what’s expiring, what to cook, or add to your list, right inside Claude (Chive+)
- Runs over MCP, scoped to one household, with a token you revoke anytime — step-by-step setup in our tutorial
- Share your whole kitchen — pantry, list, and recipes
- Invite by link, member roles, transfer ownership
- A separate home for your house and your cottage — each with its own pantry, list, and zones (Chive+)
- Switch between your homes from the top of the app
- Expiry and low-stock alerts with a configurable warning window
- Weekly review to clear expiring items and seed next week’s list
- Push notifications (iOS)
- Create, reorder, recolor, and re-icon zones
- Category defaults that auto-route items to the right zone
- Allergen and dietary flags (beta)
- Buy Local — flag locally-made products
- Up to 5 stores, with a Kroger store finder (US)
- Region and units — Canada / US / Australia, metric or US, °C/°F
- Light, dark, or system theme, four text sizes, haptics (iOS)
- Import from Paprika, Kitchen Pal, or any CSV or spreadsheet
- Guided wizard with column and zone mapping
- Available right in onboarding
- Export your full data as JSON anytime
- iOS app and installable web app — same kitchen, both places
- iOS home-screen widget
- Siri shortcuts (iOS)
- Instacart® list handoff and return-to-pantry
- Sign in with Apple or Google
- Activity feed of every add, use, move, and expiry — with undo within 24 hours
- Receipt inbox with status, merchant, and totals
- Your data is never sold, never used for ads, never used to train AI
- AI features are optional and consent-gated
- Export or delete your data anytime
Bring your kitchen with you.
Already using Paprika, Kitchen Pal, or other ways to store your data? Import your pantry and recipes in minutes. No starting from scratch.
Questions, answered.
How does the pantry stay up to date?
You already make a grocery list. When you check items off at the store, they move into your pantry on their own — each with an estimated best-before date based on what it is and where it's stored. Cooking and marking things used take them back out, so the picture stays current without upkeep.
Do I have to scan barcodes or type everything in?
Only if you want to. Checking off your grocery list fills the pantry by itself — and for everything else there's receipt scanning, a single photo of your counter, barcode scanning, voice entry (iOS), or just telling the assistant what you bought.
What can I ask Chive?
Questions a general chatbot can't answer: what can I make tonight, what's about to expire, what's running low. The assistant can see your pantry, your recipes, and the preferences you choose to share, and it can add ingredients to your list — deduped, scaled, and sorted by aisle — after checking with you first.
How much does it cost?
Chive is free to use — the pantry, the shopping list, recipes, and the assistant are all in the free plan. Chive+ is $3.99 a month or $24.99 a year and removes the caps: unlimited recipe imports and assistant questions, receipt and photo scanning, and room for more household members.
Is it on Android?
Not yet. Chive runs on iPhone and in any browser at chive-app.com — the web app installs to your home screen and shares the same kitchen. Android is on the roadmap.
Where do recipes come from?
You bring them. Paste a link from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, or any website — or snap a screenshot or a cookbook page — and Chive turns it into one clean recipe card, checked against what's in your pantry.
