What does rekoMAInda mean?
rekoMAInda blends the Filipino word for recommendation with our proprietary Meal AI Intelligence. Instead of asking you to search thousands of recipes, we look at what is expiring in your pantry right now and recommend the highest-value dishes to cook today.
Why standard food apps fail home cooks
Most recipe apps were designed as commercial cookbooks, not real household inventory solvers.
Standard App Problem: $60/Year Paywalls
Competitors lure users with basic pantry lists, then lock meal planning, barcode scanning, and nutrition behind costly monthly subscriptions.
rekoMAInda is 100% free forever for all features.
Standard App Problem: Western-Only Matching
Other apps fail to recognize local Philippine vegetables, cuts of meat, or Tagalog ingredient names (e.g. itlog, bangus, sitaw, patis).
Full Filipino/English synonym & tropical shelf-life support.
Standard App Problem: Blunt Item Deletions
Cooking a meal in other apps deletes entire ingredients from your pantry, destroying your true stock counts and miscalculating grocery needs.
Proportional math (500g from 1kg) + 3-day leftover freshness.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
See how rekoMAInda delivers every advanced kitchen capability without a subscription.
100% FREESupermarket Receipt Scanning
Direct Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Vision for SM, Puregold, Robinsons
Manual entry only
No receipt OCR
Describe What You Bought
Groq Llama 3.3 70B extracts quantities & items from plain text
Manual typing per field
No conversational parsing
Barcode Scanning & Phone Relay
Continuous batch scan + live desktop-to-phone QR bridge
Single item, camera only
Locked behind paid tier
Ways to Add Groceries
5-Way consolidated entry: Barcode, Receipt, AI, Quick Add, Form
1 manual form only
2 limited options
Quantity Math on Cook
Proportional deduction: 500g used from 1kg keeps 500g in pantry
Whole-item blunt deletion
Removes entire item
Leftovers Freshness Tracking
Auto-spawns 3-day countdown items for cooked extras
No leftover tracking
Manual re-entry required
Live Nutrition & Portion Scaler
Live macro recalculation that dynamically scales with servings
Static text or basic macros
Generic USDA averages
Weekly AI Meal Planning
21-meal auto-fill prioritized around expiring pantry items
Manual calendar dragging
Paid $59.99/year subscription
Tagalog & Local Synonym Matching
Bilingual matching: Itlog = Egg, Bawang = Garlic, Sitaw = Beans
English-only keyword match
English-only matching
Allergen Safety Guarantee
Hard-filters unsafe meals in English & Tagalog (hipon, mani, itlog)
Generic warnings only
No Tagalog detection
Local Philippine Shelf-Life Data
Accurate shelf lives for bangus, kangkong, calamansi, and local staples
Generic western storage tips
No tropical guidance
Money Saved & Food Waste Tracker
Real-time peso (₱) savings log vs rescued kilograms of food
No financial waste tracking
Basic recipe history only
Pricing & Paywalls
100% Free Forever with zero paywalled features
Ad-supported with feature gates
$6.99/mo or $59.99/yr Pro Tier
Small kitchen habits create massive household savings.
Household food waste accounts for nearly 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions and costs the average urban family ₱18,000+ per year.
