About Koriander
Hi, I'm @laleshii — a software engineer and home cook who got tired of the state of cooking apps.
- • Ads everywhere, paywalls for basics
- • Wrong nutrition data, broken recipe scaling
- • No way to track how recipes evolve over time
So I built Koriander. It started as a tool for myself and my household, and grew into something I thought others might find useful too.
- Recipes with version control — track every tweak, compare revisions, never lose a version you loved
- Real nutrition tracking from a database of 900+ ingredients
- A meal planner that actually makes sense
- Shopping lists that merge ingredients and share with your household
- AI to scan cookbook pages or generate new recipe ideas
There's no company behind this. No board, no investors, no growth team. Just an independent developer who likes to cook and wants to keep building something useful.
Why "Koriander"?
The name comes from coriander — one of the most used herbs in kitchens around the world. The "K" is just a small twist to make it its own thing. Nothing deeper than that.
How it's funded
The core app is completely free — recipes, meal planning, nutrition tracking, shopping lists, sharing. No limits, no ads, no catch.
AI features (scanning recipes from photos, generating new ones) cost €3/month, which includes 10 credits. Extra credits are €0.05 each. AI costs real money to run, so you pay for what you use.
When you pay for Koriander, you're supporting an independent developer and his family, not an enterprise. I think that's a better deal than watching ads between recipe steps.