From your kitchen to a product plan
Start with a recipe people already love—or a new food idea. Review an AI formulation draft and ingredient alternatives. Edit ingredient prices and selling price in the mobile app, review packaging and labor assumptions, then prepare a quote request for manufacturing partners.
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See a recorded formulation draft, cost estimate and manufacturing brief. Try the cost and price arithmetic below, then edit ingredient prices and selling price in the mobile app.
Bring a written recipe, a photo or an idea. In this example: a smoky, sweet chili sauce to drizzle on pizza.
Check ingredient amounts and alternatives. The recorded example includes honey and gochujang paste.
Review ingredient prices, then check the packaging and labor assumptions against your own product.
Specify the format, quantity and target cost. Manufacturing partners confirm feasibility and final terms.
Recorded app example · USD
Proposed format: 227 g squeeze bottle
($11.99 − $5.42) ÷ $11.99 ≈ 55% before additional business costs.
Before a real production quote
Which estimate would you change for your own recipe: ingredients, packaging or labor?
Share your answer on Product HuntInteractive arithmetic · USD
Change these two inputs to recalculate gross profit and margin. The recorded example above stays fixed. Edit ingredient prices and selling price in the mobile app; review packaging and labor assumptions.
Gross profit = price − cost. Gross margin = (price − cost) ÷ price × 100.
Arithmetic from your inputs, before additional business costs. This is a public example calculator, not a manufacturing quote or verified profit.
Source: RecipeCat’s existing recorded app example, “Smoky Chili Hot Honey Pizza Drizzle.” The sample values above are copied from that example, rather than calculated from a recipe you submit here. See the actual app demo.
The packaging and labor amounts are not separately reproduced here. Confirm their itemized costs, ingredient prices and actual yield before relying on the total. The displayed selling price and margin are illustrative planning values, not a selling-price recommendation or verified profit.
Manufacturers confirm production feasibility, minimum quantities, prices and timing. Shelf life, storage conditions and food safety require product-specific assessment and testing.
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Start with a new food idea or a recipe people already love. Work through the product specifications, costs and production needs for a food product under your own brand.
Explore new food ideas around the flavors you love and the menu you have in mind.
AI suggests formulations and ingredient alternatives, and flags potential errors for review.
Review product specifications, estimated costs and target pricing, then prepare for prototype, small-batch or full-scale production quotes.
What will you make?
Looking for a new dish, or a way to turn a shop favorite into a product? Explore food categories, new combinations and ingredient alternatives. You can also start with an existing recipe and review its formulation and estimated costs.
Prepare in the app. Make it with a manufacturing partner.
We help connect your recipe with manufacturing partners. Explore production options and quotes based on the quantities you need and how you plan to sell.
PrototypesDefine the format and packaging of a popular dish or new recipe. Discuss sample development with a manufacturing partner to assess its taste and form as a real food product.
Small batchesIf you want to test customer response with a smaller run, review feasibility and quotes with manufacturing partners based on your target quantity.
Larger production runsBring a recipe you sell in your shop or online. Review the formulation, packaging, production requirements and partner quotes for the quantities you want to produce.
Manufacturing partners carry out production. Minimum quantities, costs, timelines and required product checks are confirmed for each project.
Discuss production and brandingPricing & company
App features and food manufacturing are priced separately.
Using the app
Try a limited number of recipes for free as a guest. Sign in to save products, use AI edits, join the community or request factory quotes. Basic and Pro offer more recipes and AI edits.
Pro includes one factory quote per month, starting in the first paid subscription period.
Annual plans offer new subscribers a 3-day free trial. Monthly plans have no trial.
U.S. App Store reference prices · USD
Basic and Pro are auto-renewing subscriptions. Prices and terms can vary by country and platform; confirm them on the final purchase screen.
A factory quote purchase is separate from actual prototype and food manufacturing costs.
Making a food product
Prototype, small-batch and larger-production costs depend on the recipe and product format, packaging, target quantity and development scope.
Manufacturing partners carry out production and confirm feasibility, minimum quantities, prices and timing for each product.
Discuss your production requirementsPrepare the format, packaging and brief for prototypes, small batches or a larger run.
Work from purchase prices, ingredient quantities and actual portions in a practical example.
RecipeCat helps chefs develop new menus, shop owners turn popular dishes into products for online sales, and creators build their own food brands. Explore formulations, ingredient alternatives and estimated costs per dish or product, then define specifications and selling prices. Request quotes for prototypes, small batches or larger runs from manufacturing partners.
Yes. Develop a new menu idea or work from an existing recipe, explore formulations and ingredient alternatives, and review estimated costs per dish. Confirm the final taste and cooking results in your kitchen. If you also want to sell a signature food product, prepare its format, packaging and manufacturing quote requirements.
Convert each ingredient’s purchase price to the quantity used, add the costs for the whole recipe, then divide by the portions actually produced. Account for preparation losses and cooking yield, and separate ingredient costs from packaging, labor and other operating costs. Explore formulations, ingredient alternatives and estimated menu costs in RecipeCat, then review them against your actual purchase prices and cooking results.
Yes. Restaurant, café, bakery and food-shop owners can start with a popular recipe and prepare it as a packaged product for online sales. Review the formulation, estimated costs, product format, packaging and target quantity, then discuss samples with a manufacturing partner. You can request quotes for a small market test or larger production run. Feasibility and production conditions are confirmed for each product.
Yes. Start with a food idea or an ingredient and develop a new dish or product. If you already have a proven recipe, review its formula and costs and prepare the details needed to turn it into a product.
AI suggests formulas and ingredient alternatives, helps review potential recipe errors, and supports comparisons of estimated costs, selling prices and margins. Its suggestions and calculations support development; they do not replace food safety testing or regulatory certification.
RecipeCat helps connect you with suitable manufacturing partners and prepare for quote discussions. Partners carry out manufacturing. Production feasibility, minimum quantities, costs, timelines and required checks are confirmed for each product.
Yes. RecipeCat is free to start. Basic and Pro are optional auto-renewing subscriptions, and individual factory quotes can also be purchased. Prices and terms can vary by country and platform; review what is included and the final purchase screen before buying.
App subscriptions and factory quote purchases are separate from actual prototype and food manufacturing costs. Prototype, small-batch and larger-production costs are quoted according to the recipe, product format, packaging, target quantity and development scope. Manufacturing partners confirm feasibility, minimum quantities, prices and timing for each product.
Download RecipeCat from the App Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android. The download buttons on this page link to the official listings. For app support, contact [email protected].
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We welcome chefs developing menus, shop owners turning popular dishes into products, food brands and online sellers, and manufacturers supporting prototypes and production.
[email protected]The RecipeCat story
There was a cat in the kitchen, batting at a handwritten recipe. Then one day, it began carrying that piece of paper outside.
It added grams and costs, then quietly placed the recipe before someone who could make it. That is what RecipeCat is here for: helping a flavor you love become a food product and a brand of your own.
Brand films from the RecipeCat character’s world and the food lab.
