My Kitchen Buddy
Food & Drink
Distribution Intelligence
Niche: smart cooking for budget home cooks
📊 Market Size◑ MEDIUM MARKET
MicroSmallMediumLarge
top app has 28K iOS ratings · 50K monthly searches. Real market with meaningful audience. Apps exist but no single dominant winner.
28K
top app ratings
50K
monthly searches
2.9M
YT views
✓
top charts
📱 Top App Store Competitors
Meal Planner & Weekly Menu
★ 1,034
AnyList: Grocery Shopping List
★ 77,328
Plan to Eat
★ 5,920
MealBoard - Meal Planner
★ 2,419
🏁 Competitive Landscape
What everyone does
- •Creates weekly meal plans
- •Automatically generates grocery lists based on meal plans
- •Allows users to save and repeat favorite meal plans
- •Organizes and stores recipes
Gaps nobody covers
- •No recipe scanning feature from cookbooks or magazines
- •Lacks real-time syncing with partners
- •Does not track frozen meals or plan for leftovers
- •No option to scale servings or reschedule recipes
Interesting edges
- •User-friendly interface with visually appealing design
- •Personal digital recipe book feature
- •Drag and drop functionality for easy meal plan modifications
- •Configurable layout for meal planning
💬 User Pain Points10 unmet · 0 resolved
🍎 App StoreMEDIUM
9 relevant apps · avg 4.7★ ↗| Keyword | Pop | Diff | Opp |
|---|---|---|---|
| meal planner | 92 | 73 | +19 |
| grocery list | 90 | 73 | +17 |
| kitchen assistant | 79 | 62 | +17 |
| shopping list | 89 | 73 | +16 |
| pantry manager | 52 | 39 | +13 |
| weekly menu | 62 | 54 | +8 |
| grocery tracker | 60 | 55 | +5 |
| meal ideas | 64 | 59 | +5 |
0 of 8 keywords show strong opportunity
▶ YouTubeHARD
search videos ↗~2.9M views across top videos · consider reaching out:
SE
SetupsAI
“Customize recipes using what you have #productivity #recipe #chef #aitools” · 1.9M views
VV
VN Vlog
“upliance AI Cooking Assistant | 500+ Guided Recipes | 16 Cooking Modes: #smartkitchen #appliancetech” · 515K views
CU
Cultinno
“Can AI cook your dinner ? #ai #artificialintelligence” · 471K views
💬 RedditHARD
search posts ↗r/EatCheapAndHealthyr/Cookingr/cookingforbeginners
10 posts found · 3 subreddits📈 Trends↗
Easy
Interest: 2/100 (declining ↓)
🔍 Google Search↗
monthly searches50K
Google Ads CPC$0.13
search trendStable →
Top keyword: “meal planner”
🤖 Android↗
Hard
9 relevant apps · avg 4.6★
♪ TikTok↗
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