See Kitchen Coach in Action
Tell it who's eating and how much time you have — "a quick vegetarian curry for four tonight" — and get dishes that suit everyone at the table. Plan the week, make one shopping list sorted by aisle, then cook step by step on your phone over your home Wi-Fi. The AI runs on your own computer, and your recipes and household never leave it.
A short conversation, one topic at a time: who's eating, the time you have, what you feel like, what needs using up. Three suggestions come back — your library first, then new dishes drafted by the AI.
Plan a Meal puts a main, a side and a salad together, then blends their steps into one cooking order worked back from serving time — slow things first, one oven shared sensibly — with one shopping list.
Drag recipes into a week grid, or write rules like "fish once" and "under 30 minutes on weeknights" and let Aegis fill the empty dinners. A variety guard flags repeats; day and week nutrition totals sit underneath.
About a hundred recipes written for the app across twelve cuisines, plus everything you add or import from a recipe page. Smart search finds "something cozy and vegetarian for a rainy day" by meaning.
Ingredients merged across recipes with units normalized, checked against your pantry, and sorted by your store's aisles. Take the list to the store on your phone, or print it.
Pick the time you have, confirm what's in the kitchen — or photograph your ingredients for a local vision model — and get recipes ranked by what you already have, with swaps for what you don't.
Recipe apps usually start with a search box. Aegis starts by asking about the meal — in your own words — and keeps a meal brief you can see and correct before it suggests anything.
Each household member has a skill level, diet, allergies and dislikes. Allergy and diet checks are done by code on every recipe, suggestion and plan — an AI draft that fails is never shown.
The model talks, picks and drafts. Scaling, unit conversion, shopping totals, nutrition and food-safety temperatures are computed by code from bundled USDA-based data.
A side panel answers kitchen questions — a substitute, a safe temperature, "make it serve 6" — and proposes changes. Nothing changes until you accept.
Scan a QR code and the recipe opens on your phone — no app to install, nothing on the internet. The page is served from your computer over your home Wi-Fi only while you cook.
An ingredient checklist scaled to your servings, then each step with what it uses. Timers run on the phone, several at once, and sound and vibrate when done. Progress syncs back to the computer.
Thanksgiving, birthdays, dinner parties: a menu checked against every guest's needs, scaled shopping, and a timeline worked back from serving time — oven conflicts resolved, make-ahead work moved to the days before.
Recipe cards, the weekly menu with nutrition, the shopping list by aisle, and an occasion's menu and timeline — as PDFs on Letter or A4.
Estimates, and read the label. Nutrition is estimated per serving from a USDA-based table, and allergy checks work from ingredient names. Brands differ and "may contain" warnings are on the packet, not in the recipe — for severe allergies, always check the products you buy.
The language model runs locally through Ollama, and your recipes, plans, household profiles and photos live in a SQLite file on your computer. Photos are stored without location data.
No sign-up, no cloud sync, no analytics, no update checks. The only web request is a recipe page you paste to import — and every fetch is logged where you can see it.
Every feature, no charge and no license key. Export any recipe to an .aegisrecipe
file, schema.org JSON or a PDF whenever you like.
Aegis Kitchen Coach is in Beta and free to use. On Linux you can install it in one command:
Prefer a traditional package? A Debian/Ubuntu .deb is on the download page.
The meal assistant and AI drafts need Ollama and a local model. The default model runs on an 8 GB laptop without a GPU:
No Ollama? The recipe library, week planner, shopping list, pantry, nutrition and cooking on your phone all work without it.
Go to DownloadNote on licensing: Aegis Kitchen Coach is free to download and use during the Beta, with every feature available. After the Beta, some features may require a one-time license purchase — pay once, never a subscription. The software is proprietary and licensed, not sold.