My Kitchen Buddy
Food & Drink
Distribution Intelligence
Niche: AI meal planning for home cooks
📊 Market Size◑ MEDIUM MARKET
MicroSmallMediumLarge
top app has 21K iOS ratings · 50K monthly searches. Real market with meaningful audience. Apps exist but no single dominant winner.
21K
top app ratings
50K
monthly searches
953K
YT views
📱 Top App Store Competitors
Cooklist: Pantry Meals Recipes
★ 11,042
MealBoard - Meal Planner
★ 2,419
SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient
★ 21,319
Recipe Keeper - Cook'n
★ 3,330
Samsung Food: Meal Planner
★ 6,142
🏁 Competitive Landscape
What everyone does
- •Recipe management
- •Meal planning
- •Shopping list generation
- •Ingredient management
- •Recipe filtering by dietary preferences
Gaps nobody covers
- •Integration with grocery store loyalty cards
- •Automatic downloading of food purchases into a digital pantry
- •One-Tap recipe saving from social media platforms
- •Ad-free interface for distraction-free cooking
Interesting edges
- •Meal kit experience at grocery store prices (Cooklist)
- •Importing recipes from websites and scanning from cookbooks (MealBoard)
- •Displaying recipes based on existing ingredients (SuperCook)
- •Fully guided recipes and extensive public recipe database (Samsung Food)
🍎 App StoreMEDIUM
8 relevant apps · avg 4.7★ ↗| Keyword | Pop | Diff | Opp |
|---|---|---|---|
| recipe generator | 78 | 59 | +19 |
| meal planner | 92 | 73 | +19 |
| pantry recipes | 69 | 54 | +15 |
| easy recipes | 75 | 61 | +14 |
| what to cook | 67 | 59 | +8 |
| healthy recipes | 68 | 60 | +8 |
| ingredient finder | 57 | 50 | +7 |
| meal suggestions | 55 | 48 | +7 |
0 of 8 keywords show strong opportunity
▶ YouTubeHARD
search videos ↗~953K views across top videos · consider reaching out:
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The Home Admin
“THIS Meal Planning Method WASTES So Much Food!! Try THIS HACK INSTEAD! #mealplanning #nowaste” · 731K views
AW
Amber Wardell | The Sensible Sessions
“Paprika // The BEST Recipe and Meal Planning App” · 110K views
TA
That Awkward Mom
“A system for successful meal planning in under 30 minutes!” · 110K views
💬 RedditHARD
search posts ↗r/cookingforbeginnersr/AskRedditFoodr/EatCheapAndHealthyr/Frugal
10 posts found · 4 subreddits📈 Trends↗
Easy
Interest: 27/100 (declining ↓)
🔍 Google Search↗
monthly searches50K
Google Ads CPC$0.03
search trendStable →
Top keyword: “recipe generator”
🤖 Android↗
Hard
10 relevant apps · avg 4.2★
♪ TikTok↗
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