Frequently Asked Questions
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Still curious? Email the team.
Kinji is a calm, smart kitchen companion app. It keeps track of what you have on hand, suggests meals based on those ingredients, and helps you waste less food. It is designed to reduce daily decision fatigue around what to cook and what to buy.
Kinji uses AI to read what is in your pantry and fridge, factors in dietary preferences and time available, and proposes recipes that match. Suggestions prioritize ingredients you already own so less food goes to waste before you reach the store.
Yes. The core experience — pantry tracking, recipe suggestions, and shopping lists — is free. Premium features may be offered later, but the everyday cook-from-what-you-have flow is intended to stay accessible.
Kinji is available on iOS and Android. It is built mobile-first because that is where kitchen and grocery decisions happen. A web companion may follow once the mobile experience is mature.
No. You can scan grocery receipts, snap a photo of items, or type them in. Kinji parses common formats and updates your pantry automatically so logging stays under a minute per shopping trip.
You set preferences once — vegetarian, gluten-free, allergies, dislikes — and Kinji filters every suggestion against them. You can adjust them any time, and household members can have separate profiles.
Yes. Weekly meal planning is built in. Kinji generates a balanced plan from what you already have, lists the few items you still need, and adjusts as you cook or skip meals.
Yes. After planning, Kinji compares your meals against your pantry and produces a shopping list of only the missing items. Lists group by store aisle to make trips faster.
Kinji tracks expiry dates, surfaces ingredients about to go bad, and biases recipe suggestions toward using them first. Households using these prompts typically cut grocery waste meaningfully within the first month.
Kinji uses a mix of large language models for recipe reasoning and computer vision for receipt and product parsing. Models are evaluated continuously and swapped for newer ones when they outperform on quality and latency.
Yes. Kinji does not sell personal data. Pantry contents, dietary preferences, and meal history are used only to power features in your account. See our privacy policy for the full breakdown.
Core viewing — your pantry, saved recipes, current shopping list — works offline. Features that require AI generation (new recipes, receipt parsing) need a connection because they run server-side.
Yes. Households can share a pantry, with separate dietary profiles for each member. Suggestions can target one person, the whole household, or a subset for a given meal.
Yes. You can mark family members as picky or set per-person dislikes. Kinji factors these in when planning shared meals and proposes simple variations when full agreement is hard to reach.
Most recipe apps start from a recipe and tell you what to buy. Kinji starts from what you already own and tells you what to cook. This inverts the usual flow and is what makes it effective at reducing waste and decision fatigue.
Yes. You can paste a URL, photograph a cookbook page, or type a recipe in. Kinji structures the ingredients and steps so it can match the recipe against your pantry like any other suggestion.
Grocery delivery integrations are on the roadmap. The current version exports your shopping list to common delivery apps and to standard formats so it is usable even before deeper integrations ship.
Email support@kinji.ai for help or feedback. Every message is read by the team, and the product roadmap is shaped directly by what users tell us is missing.