Your kitchen,
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A general chatbot writes a recipe from scratch the moment you ask. Saffra's catalog recipes are written in advance and complete enough to cook from: 99.8% of ingredients carry a measured amount, 97.2% say how to prep it, every recipe lists the equipment it needs, and 99.3% name a cue for what done looks like. Unlike a recipe site, she knows your pantry, equipment, allergies, skill level, and the step you're on, and she has dedicated tools for search, substitutions, techniques, and hands-free cooking.

The core assistant uses a multimodal AI model, with a faster utility model for tasks such as parsing receipt text and condensing the older part of a long chat. Recipe search uses vector embeddings over the curated library. Her voice is a natural-sounding AI voice, and lines she has spoken before are kept ready to replay, while speech recognition uses Apple's Speech framework, which is server-backed — the audio reaches Apple, not us. In Cooking Mode the clip is also re-transcribed by OpenAI's Whisper, for every spoken question rather than only noisy ones, then discarded. Receipt text is read on-device through Apple's Vision framework; shelf photos are sent to the server for vision analysis and are not stored. The recipe catalog is written ahead of time rather than improvised per request, and every recipe carries allergen flags.

Ask for a dish or "what should I cook?" and she searches Saffra's own catalog, where every recipe is written in advance, then adapts what she finds for you. For techniques and substitutions she uses dedicated tools. She won't claim to have tasted anything: she'll say "by the numbers, this should read bright and savory" instead of "I love this." If she's not sure, she says so.

Saffra covers cuisines including Thai, Mexican regional, Korean, Vietnamese, French, Italian regional, Chinese regional, West African, Levantine, and Peruvian, and dietary needs including vegan, keto, halal, kosher, FODMAP, Whole30, and celiac. She cooks for first-timers and technique-focused home cooks alike, in kitchens from induction-only or no-oven setups to fully equipped ones. For dishes outside the catalog, she draws on regional and technique knowledge and tells you when she's unsure.

Yes. Your conversations are saved, your pantry is tracked, and recipes you rate 4 or 5 stars shape future suggestions. In a long chat, older messages are condensed into a short summary so she keeps the thread. She knows what you've cooked recently, what you loved, and what fell flat. She leans toward your wins and mixes things up within the genres that worked for you. She won't repeat last Tuesday's dinner unless you ask, and she won't pitch the same dish twice in one chat.

You tell her, and it's quick. Snap a grocery receipt and your phone reads the lines, then a lightweight AI model turns them into clean items (the photo never leaves your phone). Scan a barcode and she looks it up in Open Food Facts, so the item lands in your pantry pre-tagged with category, expiration, and allergen flags. Photograph a shelf and she names what she sees. That photo does go to our server, where a vision model reads it before you confirm the list, and it isn't stored. Or just type things in. As you cook, she tracks what's used and what's running low, and anything going off gets pitched for tonight's dinner instead of the trash.

No. Text chat is the default and works exactly the same. Voice is for when your hands are deep in dough or holding a knife. Turn it on per session in Settings, or open Cooking Mode for full hands-free narration with the wake phrase "hey saffra". The wake phrase is only armed inside Cooking Mode, so the mic isn't listening when you're not cooking. Voice timers fire silently and land in Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Free includes one hands-free voice cooking session; Pro makes voice cooking unlimited.

Allergies you declare are hard rules. Saffra either names a substitution or declines the recipe and offers an alternative. For serious allergies (peanut, tree nut, shellfish, sesame, and gluten for celiac users), it also flags cross-contamination risks in shared oils, fryers, and cutting boards. Adapted recipes carry a persistent allergen notice, and recipes include target internal temperatures where appropriate. Saffra is an AI, so always verify allergens and cooking temperatures yourself, and don't treat it as medical or dietary advice.

Yes. You can try a sample kitchen before making an account. A free account (Sign in with Apple or Google) gives you 10 chef messages in total — a lifetime allowance, not a daily one — plus the full recipe library and search, your own saved recipes, one recipe adaptation, one hands-free voice cooking session, pantry tracking, a grocery list and meal planner, 5 barcode scans and 3 fridge-photo scans a month, and the same safety rules. Pro lifts the 10-message chat cap (fair-use limits still apply) and adds unlimited voice cooking and recipe adaptation, receipt scanning, unlimited barcode and photo scans, recipe import from supported websites, and a week of meals planned by Saffra.

Saffra separates recipe writing from real-time adaptation. The flagship catalog is drafted in advance, with allergen flags on every recipe. What that buys you is completeness: a measured amount on 99.8% of ingredients, a prep note on 97.2%, an equipment list on every recipe, and a sensory cue for the finish on 99.3% (measured across the shipped catalog on August 19, 2026). When you ask for a dish, Saffra starts from that catalog entry and adapts it to your pantry, equipment, allergies, and skill level.

Yes. Saffra is out now on the App Store for iPhone and needs iOS 18.6 or later. No timing has been announced for other platforms.

Sign in with Apple or Google, or try a sample kitchen first without an account. We never sell data. We never use your conversations to train models. We never track you across apps or websites. When you use voice mode, audio is transcribed by Apple's Speech framework, which is server-backed — the audio reaches Apple, not us. In Cooking Mode the clip is also sent to OpenAI's Whisper for a second, more accurate transcription — every spoken question, not only the noisy ones — and discarded afterwards. Receipt photos run through Apple's Vision framework on your phone — only the extracted text leaves the device. Other photos leave only when you send them: a shelf photo you take to stock your pantry is sent to our server, read by OpenAI's vision model, and not stored; a photo you attach in chat goes to the AI model with your message; and a photo you add to one of your own recipes is stored privately with your account. You can delete your account and all of your data from Profile / Me at any time. Read the full Privacy Policy.