Good evening.What's for dinner?
Mattarello opens the way a kitchen should: with a greeting and one honest question. Underneath it sit your own recipes, a shopping list that sorts itself by supermarket aisle, and a pantry that quietly keeps count of what you have left.
Mattarello is Italian for rolling pin. It is also the sound of a Tuesday evening going well.
Four cards. That is the entire menu.
No tab bar, no dashboard, no onboarding tour. A greeting that follows your clock, a slideshow of the dishes you cooked before, and four ways in. Everything else lives behind them, where it belongs.
My recipes
Everything you saved, searchable by name or by ingredient, filtered by course.
New recipe
Name, course, time, servings, a photo, ingredients and your own notes.
Shopping list
Everything the coming week asks for, in the order you walk the shop.
Pantry
What is in the cupboard and how much of it is left, without counting jars.
Write it down once. Cook it forever.
The dish your mother makes, the one you improvised last winter, the pasta you finally got right. Give it a name, a course, a time and a photo, and it becomes yours: not a link that rots, not a screenshot you cannot find.
- Five courses, each with its own colour: breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, snack
- Ingredients with amounts and units, in metric or imperial
- Notes for the steps, with a tap to drop an ingredient straight into the text
- Search by name or by ingredient, because sometimes the question is just what do I do with fennel
- Tick off what you already have while you cook
- Flour, type 00400 g
- Eggs4
- Olive oil1 tbsp
- Salt1 pinch
- Parmesan60 g
Tap the basket. The list writes itself.
Choose a recipe, say how many people are eating, and the ingredients land on your list at the right amounts. Cooking two things that both want onions? They become one line. What you already have at home steps aside on its own.
- Amounts scale with the servings and add up across recipes
- Sorted by supermarket aisle, so you walk the shop once Plus
- Things you have at home are set aside, with one tap to buy them anyway
- Tick a line off as it goes in the basket, or drop it in your pantry instead
- Tomatoes, ripe600 g
- Basil, fresh1 bunch
- Parmesan120 g
- Eggs6
- Pasta, spaghetti500 g
It counts, so you do not have to.
Put in what you keep in the house and how much of it there is. From then on the arithmetic runs by itself: your receipt tops the cupboard up, and every recipe you plan quietly takes its share out again. When something runs out it moves to a short list of its own.
- Amounts are optional: oil and salt can simply be always in stock
- Partly covered? The list shows what you still need to buy, not the whole amount
- Empty jars gather under Out, buy more
- Quick suggestions for the twenty-odd things almost every kitchen has
Photograph it. Mattarello types it out.
A recipe from a cookbook, a magazine, the back of a packet: take a picture and it arrives filled in, name and time and ingredients and method, ready for you to check. Do the same with your supermarket receipt and the pantry stocks itself.
- Apple's Vision reads the text on your phone, the assistant makes a recipe of it
- Recipe across two pages? Just take more photos
- The receipt lands in a review list first, so nothing sneaks into your cupboard
- Every step happens on your device, with no internet needed
What is actually on the plate.
Not a diet, not a lecture. Just the numbers behind the dish you already wanted to cook: energy, protein, fibre, sugar, salt and fat per portion, with the official Nutri-Score formula on top and a note about how processed it all is.
- Calculated from a bundled table of more than 10,000 foods, from NEVO (RIVM) and USDA FoodData Central
- Ingredients the table does not know get an estimate from the assistant, and you are told how much of the dish that covers
- The NOVA scale as context, not as a verdict: bread and cheese are processed too
- A week view from your shopping list, so you can see the week ahead in one go
All of it is worked out on your phone. It is an estimate to cook by, not medical advice.
Based on 94% of the ingredients. NEVO (RIVM) and USDA FoodData Central.
All the thinking happens in your kitchen.
The scanning and the insights are done by an open-source language model that lives on your iPhone. You download it once, and after that it works on a mountain top with no signal. Your recipes, your receipts and your shopping are never sent anywhere, because there is nowhere to send them.
- Model: Qwen3 4B, open source under Apache 2.0
- One download of about 2.5 GB, over wifi, and only if you want it
- Delete it whenever you like: the rest of the app carries on without it
- No account, no server of ours, nothing to log in to
One tap, and it is a book.
Everything you collected, laid out as a proper PDF: a cover, a page per recipe, photos where you added them. Print it, mail it, or give it to the person in the family who does not do phones. It is your cooking, on paper, at last.
- Made on your device, so the book never passes through anyone else
- Long recipes continue neatly on the next page
- Share it the way you share anything else on iPhone
My recipe book
Verse pasta
Free to cook with. Plus for the clever bits.
Recipes, the shopping list and the pantry are yours from the moment you install it, with no trial and no countdown. Plus unlocks the parts where the assistant does the work for you.
- Unlimited recipes with photos and notes
- Shopping list that scales and merges
- Pantry with amounts and the arithmetic
- Metric and imperial units
- Scan recipes and receipts
- Insights with Nutri-Score and NOVA
- Shopping list by supermarket aisle
- Your recipe book as a PDF
- iCloud sync across your devices
- Whatever we add later is included
Same features, smaller step. Try it for a couple of months of cooking and switch to the one-time unlock whenever you are sure.
Prices in euros, including VAT. Your App Store may show a slightly different amount in another country.
Your kitchen is nobody else's business.
Mattarello has no account, no analytics and no server of ours. Everything you write down stays in the app, on your phone.
Stays on your phone
Recipes, list, pantry and photos live in the app's own database. Reading, scanning and calculating all happen on the device.
Two downloads, that is all
The app fetches the assistant's model from Hugging Face if you ask for it, and talks to the App Store about your purchase. Nothing else leaves.
iCloud is your iCloud
Turn sync on with Plus and your recipes travel through your own private iCloud, between your own devices. We cannot see any of it.
Something is already simmering.
Free on the App Store. Bring your own recipes, or start with the one you make every week without ever writing it down.
Requires iOS 26.5 or later, on iPhone or iPad. The app speaks Dutch today, with more languages on the way.