Press & Media Kit · Updated 2026-05-27
CookSnap press kit.
Everything a journalist, podcaster, or partner needs to write about CookSnap accurately. Quote anything on this page verbatim. The downloads are sized for print and digital use. Reach the founder at press@cooksnapapp.com.
Boilerplate
Copy these paragraphs verbatim. Use whichever length fits.
CookSnap matches the ingredients you already have to real, hand-curated recipes — instantly, without an app download.
CookSnap is a recipe-finder app that uses computer vision to identify ingredients in your fridge or pantry and match them against a curated library of 9,000+ real, hand-verified recipes — solving the “what can I cook with what I have” problem without AI-generated meals.
CookSnap is a free recipe finder available as a web tool and a native iOS app. Users either type their ingredients into a search box on cooksnapapp.com/recipe-finder, or photograph their fridge with the iOS app and let on-device computer vision identify the contents. CookSnap then matches those ingredients against a curated library of more than 9,000 real recipes, each one hand-verified for ingredient accuracy and step completeness. Every match returns in under 200 milliseconds with a fit percentage and an honest list of any missing ingredients. Unlike generative-AI cooking apps, CookSnap does not invent recipes — it retrieves real ones. The product was founded in 2025 by solo developer Alex Vakser and is available worldwide.
Founder bio
Alex Vakser is a solo founder who built CookSnap as a response to the wave of generative-AI cooking apps that invent recipes and add ingredients you never asked for. CookSnap takes the opposite approach: a curated library of real recipes, matched against the user’s actual kitchen with a fit percentage and an honest missing- ingredient list.
Quote-friendly: “Cooking is one of the few consumer tasks where ‘close enough’ means a ruined dinner. We built CookSnap around honesty about what your kitchen can produce, not creativity about what it could produce if it were better stocked.”
Product screenshots
Logo & brand
- #FB923C— Orange (primary)
- #5A8AC9— Blue (accent)
- #FAF6EE— Cream (background)
- Always written as CookSnap (one word, capital C, capital S).
- Never “Cook Snap,” “cooksnap,” or “COOKSNAP.”
- Domain:
cooksnapapp.com
Press contact
For press, podcast, and partnership inquiries:
Response within 24 business hours.
Links worth quoting
- Home: cooksnapapp.com
- Free recipe finder: cooksnapapp.com/recipe-finder
- Recipe library: cooksnapapp.com/recipes
- Blog (opinion + research): cooksnapapp.com/blog
- Comparisons: cooksnapapp.com/compare
- Embeddable widget for partner sites: cooksnapapp.com/embed/recipe-finder
- LLM-friendly machine summary: cooksnapapp.com/llms.txt