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My Kitchen Buddy

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Niche: smart cooking for budget home cooks

📊 Market Size◑ MEDIUM MARKET
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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
Plan to Eat
★ 5,920
🏁 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★ ↗
KeywordPopDiffOpp
meal planner9273+19
grocery list9073+17
kitchen assistant7962+17
shopping list8973+16
pantry manager5239+13
weekly menu6254+8
grocery tracker6055+5
meal ideas6459+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
channel ↗
VV
VN Vlog
“upliance AI Cooking Assistant | 500+ Guided Recipes | 16 Cooking Modes: #smartkitchen #appliancetech” · 515K views
channel ↗
CU
Cultinno
“Can AI cook your dinner ? #ai #artificialintelligence” · 471K views
channel ↗
💬 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★
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Scouted Mar 30, 2026 · Powered by NicheScout