Gustave is a mobile cookbook and kitchen assistant app designed for home cooks who want to digitize their recipe collection and coordinate multi-dish meals. Available on Android, it combines recipe management with AI-powered meal timing to help users plan, prepare, and serve complete meals with everything ready at the same time.
Key Features
- Recipe import from multiple sources: users can share URLs from any website, scan QR codes, bulk import multiple recipe links at once, or take photos of physical cookbooks, magazines, and handwritten family recipes using OCR technology. This makes it possible to bring scattered recipes into one organized digital collection.
- AI-enhanced cooking: the app automatically extracts key preparation steps from imported recipes and generates meal images using AI to visualize what each dish will look like. These visual previews help with plating and presentation planning.
- Smart organization system: recipes are searchable by keyword with tag filtering, sorting options, and flexible grid or list view layouts. The collection can grow without limits on the premium tier.
- Perfect meal timing engine: a smart timeline calculates when to start cooking each dish so every component of a multi-course meal finishes at the same moment. Real-time progress tracking with drag-and-drop step reordering lets cooks adjust on the fly, and local notifications alert them at the right moment for each step.
- AI-assisted duration generation: for imported recipes, the app automatically generates cook and prep durations so users do not need to enter timing manually.
- Smart Home Dashboard: a central dashboard displays a Plan Your Next Meal carousel for quick access to favorites, the full cookbook collection, a visual timeline of the entire cooking schedule, and a Quick Plan dialog to build meals from scratch in seconds.
- Built-in kitchen tools: the app includes individual timers for every cooking step, unit converters for common measurements (cups to milliliters, ounces to grams), and time estimators for cooking and roasting.
- Sharing and cross-device sync: recipes and complete meals can be shared via custom gustave:// links. The app syncs across devices using an offline-first design, and users can sign in with email, Google, Apple, or anonymous mode. Data remains available even without an internet connection.
- Material 3 design: the interface uses Material 3 with custom animations, an interactive onboarding tour, and step-by-step tutorials for first-time setup and advanced features.
Pricing
Gustave offers a free tier that includes one meal with up to three dishes, all core timing features, up to five recipe URL imports, up to three recipe photo imports, and up to three AI-generated meal images. A premium subscription removes ads and provides unlimited meal creation, unlimited dishes per meal, unlimited recipe imports, unlimited AI-generated images, and priority customer support.
Use Cases
- Recipe collectors who want to digitize an entire collection of online bookmarks, physical cookbooks, and handwritten family recipes in one searchable place.
- Home cooks who regularly prepare multiple dishes for the same meal and need coordinated timing guidance to serve everything hot at once.
- Busy families planning weekly meals who want to organize recipes, set cooking schedules, and receive phone notifications for each step without standing over the stove.
- Anyone who finds recipes online or in magazines and wants a single organized app instead of scattered bookmarks and clippings.
Privacy and Security
According to the app data safety declaration, Gustave does not share data with third parties and does not collect user data. It supports email, Google, Apple, or anonymous sign-in. The offline-first architecture ensures recipe data is available without network access.
