UlamHub turns a shared TikTok, grandma's handwritten notebook, or whatever's sitting in your fridge into a recipe you'll actually cook — then plans your week and builds the grocery list around it.
UlamHub started as a home for Filipino ulam — the everyday dishes that go with rice — and grew into a kitchen companion for whatever you're actually cooking. Save recipes from anywhere, lean on an AI sous-chef when you're stuck, and let UlamHub turn your week into a plan and your plan into a grocery list.
Five real steps, start to finish — this is the actual flow in the app, not a simplified version of it.
Type a recipe in yourself, paste a link, or snap a photo of a handwritten notebook.
AI fills in the ingredients, steps and nutrition — you fix anything it missed before saving.
Every day starts with two dish placeholders — tap Auto-fill to have UlamHub pick from your saved recipes, or fill them yourself. Need more than two? Add as many dishes as you want.
Tap Add to grocery list on any day — its ingredients land on your list, combining with whatever's already there instead of duplicating it.
Start Cooking drops you into Cook Mode — one step at a time, full screen, with timers built in.
Pulled straight from the app — each one does exactly what it says.
Recipe import
Type it in yourself, snap a photo of a handwritten notebook, or just hit Share on an Instagram, TikTok or YouTube post and pick UlamHub — it opens straight into the import, link already in hand. AI reads it and builds a clean, structured recipe card.
AI assistant
Ask it anything, by text or voice: what to make with what's on hand, a whole week planned to a budget, or a quick cooking question.
AI kitchen tool
Snap a few photos of your fridge or pantry, pick a cuisine if you're craving one, and it invents a new dish built around what you already have.
AI kitchen tool
At the market or an unfamiliar grocery aisle, snap a photo of an ingredient you don't recognize and get told what it is.
Planning
No fixed meal types — just dishes. Every day starts with two placeholders; tap Auto-fill to have UlamHub pick from your saved recipes, fill them yourself, or tap + Add a dish for as many more as you want.
Shopping
You're in control of what lands here — tap Add to grocery list on any day in your plan, and its ingredients merge in, combining with anything already on the list instead of duplicating it. Tap Substitute on anything you can't find, or turn on Cooking Abroad mode for substitutes and the nearest specialty store.
Entertaining
Pick how many dishes you need and the occasion, add a date, and generate a full spread — or choose every dish yourself.
Most recipe apps only let you send a single link at a time. UlamHub's Shared Kitchen hands out an invite code to your entire collection — family, roommates, a group chat, anybody — with no separate account system to manage.
Protein, carbs, fat and sodium, calculated for the actual serving size — not the whole pot.
Sour, salty and sweet, visualized so you know what a dish actually tastes like before you cook it.
Where the dish comes from, on tap, for the ones you want the backstory on.
Substitute an ingredient, make it vegan, double it, or get an air-fryer or budget version — without leaving the recipe.
Scale servings up or down and flip between Metric and US — every ingredient updates with it.
One step at a time, full screen, with timers built in — so you're never hunting for your place in a wall of text with flour on your hands.
Real screens, real taps — two of the most common things you'll do, step by step.
Two ways in, same destination — whichever is faster in the moment.
Right from the post or video, tap Share and choose UlamHub — the app opens straight into the import, link already in hand.
Open Add Recipe, choose Import from link, and paste the URL yourself.
Review what the AI pulled out, fix anything it missed, and save it to your cookbook.
In Meal Planner, tap Auto-fill for two dishes a day pulled from your saved recipes, or fill each day yourself.
On any day you're ready to shop for, tap Add to grocery list — meal planning never adds anything on its own.
Open Grocery List — ingredients from every day you added combine automatically. Tap Substitute on anything you can't find.
Browse by cuisine or ask Kitchen AI what to make — no more staring into the fridge.
However you found it — a link, a video, a handwritten note — it lives in your cookbook for good.
Add whichever days you're actually shopping for, and the same ingredient across them combines instead of duplicating.
Nutrition, flavor balance, and clear numbered steps with timers, right on every recipe.
Leftover Alchemist turns what's already in your kitchen into tonight's dinner.
Share an invite code — family, roommates, friends — and cook from the same collection, wherever everyone is.
A short quiz up front — who you're cooking for, the cuisines you love, how confident you are in the kitchen, and any dietary needs — feeds your recommendations from day one. Change any of it later from your Profile.
Ulam means the everyday dish Filipinos eat with rice — and it's where UlamHub started. Today it sits side by side with cuisines from around the world, so the app flexes to whatever's actually in your kitchen this week.
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