Recipe scaling and meal-prep costs

Ponda the ChefScale any recipe. Know what it costs.

Save your recipes, scale them for 2 or 20, and see what every serving costs before you shop. Ponda the Chef turns your recipes into one grocery list with an estimated total. It works offline on your iPhone, with no account needed.

Coming soon to the App Store

Android: coming soon to Google Play

No account · No ads · No tracking · Works offline

Made by Patrick Sun

Ponda the Chef grocery list with an estimated total of $171.05, with Ponda peeking over it

What is Ponda the Chef?

Ponda the Chef is an iPhone app for home cooks, meal preppers and small kitchens. It scales any recipe for any number of people, shows each recipe's estimated cost per serving from the prices you enter, and turns your recipes into one grocery list. It works offline, with no account, ads or tracking. It's coming soon to the App Store, with Android to follow on Google Play.

Scale by servings or by what you have

Cook for 8 instead of 4, or tell it how much chicken you have and it works out everything else.

Chicken adobo scaled from 4 to 40 servings in Ponda the Chef: $124.00 in all, still $3.10 per serving

Know the cost per serving

Enter what you paid, by amount or by pack size, and every recipe shows its total and per-serving cost.

Chicken adobo for 4 in Ponda the Chef: $12.40 in all, $3.10 per serving, with each ingredient's amount and cost

Your recipes, priced

Keep your recipes in one place, each with its servings and cost per serving.

Ponda the Chef recipe list with each recipe's servings, total and cost per serving

Share, print and shop again

Send a grocery list as text, save recipes and lists as PDF or Excel, tick items off as you shop, and reuse the same list next week.

Ponda the Chef grocery list with items ticked off and an estimated shopping total of $171.05, including a 10% buffer

490+ dishes to start from

Explore 84 cuisines, from New York classics to Caribbean, Italian-American and Tex-Mex favorites and this year's dishes from every continent, in metric or US units. Save any dish to your recipes and add your own prices.

A new Recipe of the day, and four more, every day.

Ponda the Chef's Explore: premade dishes by region and cuisine, here Asian › Indonesian, in US units

Order sheets for the kitchen

Cooking for an event? A Kitchen Order Sheet lists portions, pans and allergens for each dish, and a Purchasing Order Sheet lists everything to buy with a buffer. Save them as PDF or Excel.

Ponda the Chef Kitchen Order Sheet for a birthday lunch for 20, with each dish's portions, packaging, allergens and total weights
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Private by design

Your recipes, prices and lists stay on your iPhone. There's no account, no ads and no analytics.