Hey home cooks, Bring a recipe. Ask the questions it can’t answer.
Fennli doesn’t write recipes. You bring one, and the questions start. What actually makes or breaks it? What can I swap? Skip? What has to stay? Fennli answers before you cook and while you do, and remembers how last time went.
Free to try. Bring the one you already have open.
You’ve saved a hundred recipes. Not one of them can answer a question.
A recipe can only tell you what someone else did. It can’t tell you what matters and what doesn’t, what happens if you skip the anchovies, or why your meat came out gray instead of brown. The moment your kitchen stops matching the page, you’re on your own. And that’s not a bad recipe. That’s every recipe.
A video is no different. It shows you what to do, never why. So you follow along, and then something changes. A missing ingredient, a pan that’s too hot, a step that didn’t look like the video. You’re stuck. You’re copying, not cooking.
And when it comes out wrong, the recipe has nothing to say about that either. Too salty, fell apart, never browned: every one of those has a cause, and the page that got you there can’t name it.
So you ask something that can answer. You paste the recipe into ChatGPT and it tells you what capers do. It’s right, it’s free, and it’s genuinely useful.
It just doesn’t know your kitchen. That your oven runs hot, that you don’t eat pork, that there’s half a bunch of dill in the fridge that needs using. That you made this two months ago and the sauce split and you still don’t know why. So you tell it. You type all of that first, and then you ask the question.
Everything you just typed is the whole reason the answer is any good. So you paste what you remember, and what went wrong last time is exactly the part you don’t. You’re the one holding all of it, in your head, every time.
Fennli holds it instead. Three things a chat window can’t. Your shelf. The recipes you’re actually cooking, each one with the video or page it came from. Your pantry. What’s in the kitchen right now. And the record. What you made, what you swapped, what went wrong and what you did about it. It’s a screen you can open, read, and delete from.
You mention the oven and the pork rule once.
No catching up. You just ask the question.
You found a recipe. Here’s what happens next.
Start with a recipe you’re curious about
You watched a YouTube video for lamb kofta and thought, “I want to try that.” Save the recipe. That’s your starting point.
Figure out what you have and what you need
Before you buy anything, Fennli checks what’s already in your kitchen. So you’re not standing in an aisle guessing whether you own sumac, and not driving across town for a spice you could have skipped.
Find out what you can get away with
Before you turn on the stove, Fennli tells you which parts of this recipe actually decide how it turns out. You know which step to get right before you touch anything.
Cook it, and ask questions as you go
They’re cracking apart under the broiler. The recipe said “mix until just combined.” It never said what that feels like.
Reflect on how it went
Dinner’s done. This is the part everyone skips, and it’s the only moment where what happened is still fresh enough to explain.
Use up what’s left
You’ve got leftover kofta and yogurt sauce. A few days later Fennli checks in. So Saturday’s cooking doesn’t turn into the container you throw out on Thursday.
Where this goes
Week one. You bring a recipe you’re curious about. Fennli walks it through with you: what matters, what doesn’t, what to do when it goes sideways.
A month in. You’ve made it a few times. You’ve stopped reading the steps. You swap in what you’ve got, and it still works.
Six months in. Someone asks what’s for dinner and you just… make something. You’re not following a recipe anymore.
A year in. You’re still finding recipes you want to pull apart. They’re just better questions now. That part doesn’t stop. It isn’t supposed to.
Every other tool starts from zero every time. You explain yourself again, and again. Fennli was there for all of it. Every dish, every swap, every thing that went wrong and why.
Fennli is the only thing in your kitchen that will remember tonight.
Free to try. The record starts on the first conversation.
What Fennli isn’t
Fennli is not a recipe generator.
Fennli doesn’t add to the pile. The internet has more recipes than anyone could cook in a lifetime, and you don’t need another one invented by an algorithm. You need to get more out of the ones you already have, from cookbooks, YouTube, your family, your friends. Bring your recipes. Fennli helps you understand them, adapt them, and make them yours.
Fennli is not a chef.
Fennli is a home cook, like you. No 47-ingredient plating exercises, no restaurant technique for its own sake. But take on a Sunday braise you’ve never attempted, and Fennli is right there with you, telling you which two moments actually decide how it turns out.
And Fennli needs something to work from.
Bring the video, the blog post, the page from the book. Fennli keeps the video or page with the recipe, so when you need to see how they did it, you can go back and watch the thing again. Fennli can talk you through a recipe but can’t show you what your hands should be doing. Keep the video or the page open for the steps you need to watch.
If you already use a cooking app.
Fennli is where the recipes you actually cook live. If what you want is a library of everything you might cook someday, the apps built for that are better at it than Fennli is.
What’s here. Import from a link or a photo. Scaling, and you can switch any ingredient between metric and imperial. Search that goes by meaning, not just the words you typed. Your notes on a recipe, and Fennli’s notes added to it. A pantry with staples, leftovers and expiry dates. A grocery list you check off. Or take a photo of the receipt, and Fennli ticks off what you bought and puts the rest in the pantry. Reminders you set just by telling Fennli, your phone buzzes and you can snooze it. And a screen showing what Fennli has picked up about your kitchen and about you. You can read it, and delete anything you want gone.
What’s not here. No nutrition, no meal-plan calendar, no folders. Week plans fall apart by Wednesday, and folders only start helping once you’ve saved more than you cook. There’s also no export and no offline.
Fennli reads text and images. It doesn’t watch video or listen to audio. Fennli can only pick up a recipe the creator actually wrote down: in the description, in the caption, on the page, on the card you photographed. If it only exists in the voiceover, there’s nothing for Fennli to read.
Why I built Fennli
I built Fennli because of a thing that kept happening. I’d come across a recipe. Something I’d never made, something that looked interesting. And I’d want to talk about it. What actually makes this work? What matters here and what doesn’t? What happens if I leave this out?
There was nobody to ask. The recipe couldn’t tell me. The video couldn’t either.
So I started asking why. Why salt early, why rest meat, why a splash of acid wakes up a heavy dish. The more I understood, the less I needed the recipe in front of me. Cooking got flexible. It got fun.
Fennli is what I wish I’d had then: something that explains the why, knows your kitchen, and is still there the next time you cook.
Yevhen
Pricing
Free trial
$0
See if it clicks
A few conversations on us. Bring a recipe and see how Fennli talks it through. No card needed.
Standard
$9.99 / month
Enough for how you actually cook
Everything Fennli can do. This is the one to pick.
Max
$19.99 / month
When you’re cooking a lot
Same Fennli, more of it. More recipes pulled apart, more questions mid-cook.
FAQ
How does it work?
Sign up, open a chat with Fennli, and just text. Bring a recipe you want to cook and ask it the things the recipe doesn’t tell you: what makes or breaks it, what you can swap, what you can skip, why yours came out different last time. Then keep the chat open while you cook. Fennli responds in seconds.
How is this different from asking ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is good at this. It’s also starting from zero every single time. It never saw you cook. You explain yourself again, every session, forever.
Fennli was there. Fennli knows you subbed lemon for sumac at the store on Saturday, so when the yogurt sauce comes out flat on Sunday the reason is already on the record. Fennli knows what’s in your kitchen, what you made last month, what went wrong and what you did about it. That’s not a bigger brain. It’s a smaller one that was present, and it’s the whole difference.
Do I need to already know how to cook?
You need something to work from. Bring the video you watched, the blog post, the page from the book. Fennli keeps it with the recipe, so the parts a conversation can’t show you are one tap away. Fennli can talk you through a recipe but can’t show you what your hands should be doing. With the video or page sitting next to it that’s rarely a problem. With nothing to work from, it is.
Do I need to bring my own recipes?
Yes. And that’s the point. The internet already has more recipes than anyone could cook in a lifetime. Fennli doesn’t add to the pile. Fennli helps you get more out of the ones you already have: from cookbooks, YouTube, blogs, family, wherever. Bring one you’re curious about and Fennli takes it from there. What matters in it, what you can change, what it doesn’t bother telling you.
Is this just an AI wrapper?
No. Fennli keeps three things a chat window doesn’t: your shelf (the recipes you’re actually cooking, each one with the video or page it came from), your pantry (what’s in the kitchen right now), and the record (what you made, what you swapped, what went wrong and what you did about it). All of it is in front of Fennli before you get an answer. Take the AI out and there’s still a kitchen there. Take those three out and you’ve got a chat window.
What about dietary restrictions?
Tell Fennli once: vegan, gluten-free, allergies, whatever you need. And Fennli remembers. Every suggestion and substitution from then on respects your needs without you having to repeat yourself.
What happens when I use up my free conversations?
You pick a plan or don’t. If you don’t, your account stays as-is. Nothing gets deleted, nothing gets charged. Come back whenever.
What happens when I hit my plan’s limit?
Standard and Max reset every month. If you run out before the reset, you can top up with extra conversations that never expire, or wait. Nothing gets deleted either way.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel in your account settings and you won’t be charged again. Your saved recipes and notes stay in your account if you decide to come back.
Is my data private?
Yes. Your data stays yours. We don’t sell it. We only share what’s necessary with the services that power Fennli, like the AI behind your conversations and the service that handles payments. See our Privacy Policy for the full picture.
Start with one recipe. Fennli will still be there for the next one.
Free to try. Bring one you’re curious about, or the one you saved and never made.