Why I built Ajimi
It started with a camera roll full of recipes I never cooked.
I had set myself a goal: lose some weight and eat healthier. So I did what most of us do. Every time an amazing recipe came up on Instagram or YouTube, I took a screenshot. Before long I had hundreds of them.
Very few of them ever became a meal. The screenshots disappeared into my camera roll between everything else, and when I did pick one, shopping for it meant flicking between pictures in the supermarket, trying to work out what I needed for which recipe.
Then cooking at home got more complicated. My daughter is lactose intolerant. My son wanted meals with more protein. Every recipe I found now needed rewriting before it could go on the table — for three different sets of needs at once.
I wanted one app that kept every recipe in one place, changed it for the people actually eating, and turned it into a shopping list I could follow. That app is Ajimi.
— Hosam, founder of Ajimi
What Ajimi does about it
The screenshots
Every recipe in one place
Save from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, blogs, cookbook pages or handwritten cards. Each one lands in the same clean format, ready to cook.
The family table
Rewritten for the people eating it
Tell Ajimi once what your household can’t or won’t eat, and what you are aiming for. Recipes are adapted, with the food science behind every swap.
The supermarket
A shopping list that keeps up
Pick the week’s recipes and get one list, sorted by aisle, with the staples you already own hidden.
Where the name comes from
味見
Ajimi
Ajimi is the Japanese word for tasting your own cooking while it is still on the heat. Not tasting to judge it — tasting to correct it. The pinch of salt at minute twenty, the splash of acid that pulls a sauce together, the small adjustment that brings a dish into balance for the people who are going to eat it.
That is the job this app does. A recipe is written for a stranger. Ajimi adjusts it for the people at your table — what they can eat, how many of them there are, what needs using up tonight — and tells you why each change works, the way a cook who already knew would have told you.
The mark is a tasting bowl with three plumes of steam rising from it, drawn in the manner of a kamon — a Japanese family crest. It is a bowl, not a spoon.
Every recipe, adapted to the people at your table.
Ajimi opens on TestFlight first, then on iOS and Android. Put your name down and cook on it from the start.