Fresco - Smart, Guided Cooking

4.1
160 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Fresco is your personal sous chef, ready and willing to help you try new recipes or serve up your favorites. With a smart step-by-step format and recipes made for your appliances, cooking will be so easy you’ll want to do it every day.

Fresco is the only app that seamlessly brings recipes, appliances, and home cooks together to create a smart step-by-step cooking experience. Our recipes work with over 100 different appliance models from Instant Pot to Thermomix to Kenwood. Simply tell us what smart appliances you have and we’ll find the perfect recipes to work with them.

Start cooking in a flash.
Whether you’re a new cook or have been cooking for years, we’ll guide you through every recipe. We’re always two steps ahead so that all you have to do is focus on that delicious dish.

Smart recipes for smart appliances.
From Instant Pot® to Thermomix®; connected ovens from GE Appliances, LG Electronics, and Bosch to the Kenwood Cooking Chef XL and CookEasy+, there are over 100 different appliance models that can be controlled from the Fresco app. Simply connect what you have in your kitchen and we’ll find the perfect recipes to work with them. From timers to temperatures, we tell your appliance what it needs to do at the right moment so you don’t have to.

Make the internet your favorite cookbook
We can take a recipe from your favorite website or blogger and give you smart step-by-step instructions. Pumpkin bread from Food 52? Pasta from Donal Skehan? We can do it all, and now, so can you. It is also completely ad-free! Here are some of the curated recipes you’ll find already in the app:

1️⃣ One-pot recipes
❄️ Freezer-friendly food
🥗 Vegetarian and vegan recipes
⌚ 30-minute meals
🥘 Batch cooking recipes
🐌 Slow cooker recipes
Instant Pot recipes
Thermomix recipes

Create what you crave
Whether you’re looking for a dairy-free dessert or a vegetarian chili, only see recipes you’ll love. Filter food by dietary needs, preferences, or meal type (gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, vegetarian, nut-free, low fat, low sugar, paleo) and get cooking. Once you’ve found the perfect recipe, use the app to resize quantities, make ingredients substitutions, and build the recipe to work for you.

Now we’re cooking.

Even more features to sink your teeth into:
-Ingredient substitution - don’t miss out on a recipe because of one ingredient. Substitute out a missing ingredient with whatever you have to hand.
-Customize your serving size - with recipe resizing, you can scale the recipe quantity up or down in a cinch, reducing food waste without altering results.
-Personal collections - Save and organize your recipes as you like, making it easier and faster to plan and cook great food at home.

WIRED Magazine has called Fresco “a pretty amazing thing.” Fresco has also been praised in Gigaom, TechCrunch, MacWorld, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Gizmodo, and many more.

If you’re enjoying our app, please take a moment to rate us in the Play Store or share your delicious dishes on Instagram by tagging @fresco_cooks #nowwerecooking

If you knead us, we’re here. For bug reports or suggestions, get in touch at support@frescocooks.com.
Updated on
Sep 21, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit

Ratings and reviews

4.1
146 reviews
Nicholas Doering
October 7, 2020
In my GE smart home app, it said my stove was compatible with this app, so I installed it. Now, any time I try and open a recipe that uses my oven, the app crashes! The interface is ok, and the recipes all look good, it gets a star for that. It has the same interface as the instant pot app, so I assume they use the same codebase. No idea who to contact for support, could be GE, Drop, Instant Pot, etc.
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Radiant Smiler
January 9, 2021
I found out about this app through a show on Prime about Irish innovations/innovators. I was so impressed & intrigued by it's concept of exploring recipes, simple choice options, exposure to different chefs with resources to healthier eating. Thank you for this cool app that helps to create the shopping list, gives guidance, steps to accomplish recipes and more. Thanks, again!
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William Croysdill
January 20, 2023
The drop scale doesn't stay connected it blinks and the app shows its connecting and then it just says disconnected, I can't find any information online for trouble shooting it either and I'm not sure how to tell if it's just the battery needs to be replaced
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What's new

Various improvements