How it works
Pantry → AI Recipes → Nutrition
Pyrra keeps a live pantry of what you actually own, gives you AI recipes based on those ingredients, and tracks your nutrition from your real food — your logs stay private on your device.
In TestFlight now · Coming to the App Store
Overview
Pyrra is a private iOS app that keeps a live pantry of what you actually own, gives you AI recipes based on those ingredients, and tracks your nutrition — including 70+ nutrients — from your real food. Your logs, body profile, and health data stay on your device and sync through iCloud; they never reach Pyrra's servers.
How it works
Features
Pick the ingredients you want to use, mark items to prefer or avoid, and conjure. AI recipes stream in with a name, per-serving macros, and an ingredient list based on what's actually in your pantry.
Recipes are revealed with cook times, steps, and macros calculated from your real ingredients rather than guessed — down to per-ingredient calories. Save one and it gets its own AI dish art.
Change servings or spin the fraction wheel on pantry-matched ingredients — calories and macros recalculate as you turn it. Pin an ingredient to a specific store product and the numbers follow that label.
Start Cooking turns a recipe into checkable steps with built-in timers. Background the app and the timer moves to the Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen as a Live Activity — current step and countdown at a glance, plus a preview of the next step on the Lock Screen.
Save a meal as a preset and log it in a tap. Didn't eat an ingredient? Uncheck it and the calories update before you save.
Photo logging is rolling out now; barcode scanning and weigh-ins already sit one tap from the log. Each new day also greets you with per-meal suggestions drawn from what you actually eat.
Yes. Expiring items surface at the top of your pantry, cooked leftovers become batches with servings left and eat-by dates, and logging a serving draws your stock down automatically.
Yes. Barcode scanning is one of the ways to add items to your pantry and log your real food, backed by nutrition data from USDA and Open Food Facts.
Milestones mark the way — 50 meals, 100 meals — and each one pays out Embers, the in-app currency that unlocks AI recipes and images.
Illustrated badges track logging milestones, recipe progression, and eating variety. Each shows exactly what to do next — and pays Embers when you earn it.
70+ nutrients — 13 vitamins, 12 minerals, 6 carotenoids, 9 fat subtypes, 18 amino acids, plus carbohydrate and fiber breakdowns, hydration, and caffeine — from USDA and Open Food Facts.
Yes. Your logs, body profile, and health data stay on your device and sync through your own iCloud account. They never reach Pyrra's servers, are never sold, and there are no ads. The AI features send only what they need to work — your pantry's ingredient list and your recipe preferences (like diet, allergens, and calorie and macro targets) to generate recipes, and a photo when you log by photo.
Comparison
| Feature | Pyrra | MyFitnessPal | Cronometer | Foodnoms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live pantry + stock/expiry | Yes | No (Premium+ checklist only) | No dedicated pantry feature | No |
| AI recipes from your ingredients | Yes | No (stated preferences, not your pantry) | No (manual builder + URL importer) | No (URL import, not generation) |
| Macros from your real ingredients | Yes | Yes, free | Yes, free | Yes, Foodnoms+ |
| Micronutrient depth | 70+ nutrients | No official total; up to 5 selectable (free) | ~82–84 nutrients (free tier) | ~20 goal-settable nutrients |
| Photo / AI logging | Yes | Yes, Premium | Yes, Gold-only | Yes, Foodnoms+ (10 free uses) |
| Barcode scan | Yes | Yes, Premium-gated | Yes, free tier | Yes, free |
| Privacy: on-device, not sold | Yes | Cloud; ads on free tier | Cloud; free tier ad-supported | Local-first, no ads/sold data (AI relays to OpenAI) |
| Apple Health sync | Yes | Yes, free (two-way) | Yes, two-way | Yes (export-only free; bidirectional on Foodnoms+) |
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad, iOS 26.1+ | iOS, Android, web + wearables | iOS, iPadOS, Android, web, macOS, watchOS, visionOS | iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS (no Android/web) |
| Price | Free, with optional premium | Free (ads); Premium $19.99/mo; Premium+ $24.99/mo | Free (ads); Gold $10.99/mo; Pro $39.99/mo | Free tier; Foodnoms+ $5.99/mo |
See the full breakdown in Pyrra vs. MyFitnessPal and Pyrra vs. Cronometer.
Updated June 2026.
FAQ
Pyrra is a private iOS app that keeps a live pantry of what you actually own, gives you AI recipes based on those ingredients, and tracks your nutrition — including 70+ nutrients — from your real food. Your logs, body profile, and health data stay on your device and sync through iCloud; they never reach Pyrra's servers.
Pyrra gives you AI-generated recipes based on what's in your pantry, with macros calculated from your real ingredients rather than guessed.
Pyrra tracks 70+ nutrients — 13 vitamins, 12 minerals, 6 carotenoids, 9 fat subtypes, 18 amino acids, plus carbohydrate and fiber breakdowns, hydration, and caffeine — from USDA and Open Food Facts.
No. Pyrra is privacy-first. Your logs, body profile, and insights stay on your device and sync through your own iCloud. They never reach Pyrra's servers, your data is never sold, and there are no ads.
Yes. Pyrra is free to use, with an optional premium tier. Generating recipes is free.
Pyrra is an iPhone and iPad app (iOS 26.1 and later). It integrates with Apple Health, iCloud sync, Live Activities, and Siri and Spotlight. It is in TestFlight now, with an App Store release coming.
Pyrra starts from a live pantry and gives you AI recipes based on what you actually own, with macros calculated from your real ingredients. See the full comparison in Pyrra vs. MyFitnessPal.
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Pyrra is in TestFlight now, with an App Store release coming.