Free to try · 3 fridge scans, no card

Photograph your fridge. Get five dinners.

Make Do looks at your shelves, lists what’s there, and writes five recipes you can cook tonight — ranked so whatever is closest to going to waste gets used first. No typing. No shopping trip.

How it works
  • 3 free scans
  • 12 free recipe searches
  • Photos never stored

$1,500of food a US family of four throws away every year, says the USDA

That’s about $29 a week — the spinach you meant to use, the chicken pushed to the back. It happens at 6pm, fridge open, no plan. That’s the moment Make Do is built for.

How it works

Open fridge to dinner in four steps

  1. 1

    Photograph your shelves

    A few close shots — a shelf, the door, the drawer — sent together. Close photos catch more than one wide one.

  2. spinacheggs ×6carrots+ add
    2

    Check the list

    Everything it spots becomes a tag you can remove or fix. Anything that needs using soon is marked.

  3. QuickComfortingThaiVegan
    3

    Say what you fancy

    A mood, one of 19 cuisines, a diet, a time limit, the kit you own. Or skip it entirely.

  4. Spinach & feta frittataUses up spinach
    4

    Cook the top one

    Five recipes, full matches first. Cook mode shows one step at a time, runs the timers and keeps the screen on.

Why it works at 6pm

Built for the fridge you actually have

Oldest food first

Every recipe names the ingredient it saves from the bin. Spinach with two days left beats cheddar that keeps for weeks.

The one-item unlock

One thing short? It names the single cheap item that opens up the most extra dinners — “a lemon unlocks three more.”

Knows your kitchen

Tell it your staples once — salt, oil, soy sauce — and which appliances you own. No oven means no oven recipes.

Remembers what it saw

Scan again in a few days and it knows how long each thing has been in there, then cooks the oldest first.

Cook mode

Big type, one step at a time. “Simmer 10 minutes” becomes a timer button, and the screen stays awake.

Plans and lists

Plan the next three dinners around what’s left. Missing bits go on a shopping list that checks the fridge first.

Pricing

Start free. Decide after dinner.

Free

$0

No card. Not a trial — it doesn’t run out on a date.

  • 3 fridge scans
  • 12 recipe searches
  • 10 saved recipes
  • Cook mode, plans and shopping list
  • All 19 cuisines and every diet
For regular cooks

Pro

$59/year$7.99/month

$4.92 a month, billed once a yearBilled monthly. Cancel any time.

  • 300 scans a month
  • 400 recipe searches a month
  • Unlimited saved recipes
  • Everything in Free
  • Cancel any time from your account

Free allowances are a total, not per day. Sending the same photo or repeating the exact same search uses none of them.

Questions

Before you open the fridge

Is it really free?

Yes. Every account gets 3 fridge scans, 12 recipe searches and 10 saved recipes, with no card. They are a total, not a daily allowance — enough to cook from your fridge a few times and decide. Pro is $7.99 a month or $59 a year.

What counts as a scan?

One photo. Three close shots of one fridge — a shelf, the door, the drawer — is three scans, and usually finds far more than one wide photo. Sending the same photo again costs nothing.

What if it gets something wrong?

It will, sometimes. Nothing gets cooked straight from the photo: you see the list first, as tags you can remove, add to or correct. Anything it is unsure about is marked so you can check it.

What happens to my photos?

They are read once and never stored. Only a fingerprint of the image is kept, so scanning the same shelf twice costs nothing.

Will I have to go shopping?

No. Recipes use what you have plus your staples — salt, oil, the things you always keep. If a dish is one item short it says which, and anything missing can go on your shopping list.

Does it work for my diet and my kitchen?

Vegetarian, vegan, halal, gluten-free and dairy-free are built in. Tell it which appliances you own and it never suggests anything else — no oven, no oven recipes.

Do I need to install anything?

No. It runs in the browser on your phone or laptop. Sign up with an email address or Google.

How does it read the photo?

A vision model (Claude, by Anthropic) looks at each photo and names the food it can actually see. It is told not to guess — anything it isn’t confident about is dropped or marked for you.

There’s dinner in your fridge.
Let’s find it.

3 free scans · sign up with email or Google