Plan it, shop it, cook it — like you mean it.
Papupata keeps the recipes you actually cook, turns them into a week and a shopping list, and talks you through the pan when both your hands are full.
Creating an account needs an invitation code from a member.
The week
Opens on what you are cooking, not on everything you own
A recipe app that opens on a library is asking you to browse. Papupata opens on the week: what is planned, what is half-cooked, and what the shopping list still needs. The library is one tap away for the evening you want it.
Recipes
Stored as a recipe, not as a wall of text
Because Papupata knows an amount from an ingredient from a step, it can scale to six eaters exactly, convert a decilitre to grams when that is what a cook would do, and leave the pinch of salt alone. The same recipe reads as a card, as a table, or one step at a time.
Shopping
A list that walks your shop in order
Send a recipe to the list and the ingredients arrive merged and grouped. Papupata learns each shop’s aisle order by watching a trip — nothing to drag into place — and two people can shop the same list from two phones without stepping on each other.
Cooking
One step at a time, and as many timers as the dish needs
Cook mode shows the step you are on and holds the timers you started, all of them, named. It remembers where you were if you put the phone down, and on the iPhone the alarms go off even if the app is closed.
Getting recipes in
Photograph the page. It reads any language.
Type it, dictate it, photograph a magazine spread, paste a link, or describe what you feel like and let Papupata find it. A page photographed in Italian becomes a structured recipe in Finnish, with the amounts where amounts belong.
Hands-free
Say “hey papu” with both hands in the dough
The kitchen is the one room where a screen is useless: your hands are wet, floury, or holding a pan. Papupata listens when you ask it to and answers out loud.
- “What’s the next step?” — and it reads it out.
- “Set a timer for twelve minutes.” — named, and it holds several at once.
- “Add coriander to the list.” — in the right aisle, in your own words.
- “How much flour was that for six?” — it does the arithmetic you were about to do wrong.
Seven languages, and it cooks in all of them
Finnish, Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish and Italian — the interface, the voice, and the recipe that comes out of a photographed page. Finnish first, because that is the kitchen it was built in.
- suomi
- svenska
- English
- Deutsch
- français
- español
- italiano
Cooking is free. Thinking costs beans.
The parts you use every day cost nothing and are not going to start costing something. What costs is the AI: reading a photographed page, answering you mid-recipe, finding a recipe on the web, reading a step aloud.
- Free forever: recipes, the week’s menu, shopping lists, cook mode, timers, sharing.
- Beans: photo import, questions while cooking, finding recipes, spoken answers.
- Premium: €9.99 a month, which turns the AI on and brings 250 beans with it.
- No ads, ever. The app is paid for by the people using it.
Yours, and only yours
Recipes are private until you share them. Shopping lists are never public. No advertising, no trackers, nothing sold — and the microphone is open only while you are holding the button or while hands-free is on, which the app always shows.
Read the privacy policyPapupata is invitation-only while it is young
Every member has codes to hand out, so the way in is usually someone who already cooks with it. If nobody you know does, write to us.