Tasty alternative — from recipe videos to a full nutrition system
Tasty is where you find recipes. Swoodie is where you plan them, track them, and decide with a partner.
The bottom line
Tasty is cooking entertainment — great videos, no nutrition tracking. Swoodie covers the full cycle: discovery, AI generation, calorie tracking and a couples mode, with a 10-use free trial of the AI.
Tasty built one of the most recognizable food brands online on short cooking videos — a massive recipe library, video-first instructions, and a Botatouille AI for recipe discovery.
But Tasty is a content and entertainment app — no calorie tracking, no couples mode, no AI recipe generation. Swoodie covers the full cycle: finding meals, planning the week, tracking intake, and deciding together. The AI runs on a 10-use free trial, then Premium.
Features evolve fast
Swoodie ships new features regularly, so this page may not reflect the very latest. The homepage is always up to date — check there for everything Swoodie does today.
See the latest on the homepage →Feature by feature
| Feature |  Swoodie | Tasty |
|---|---|---|
| Permanent free plan (not a trial) | Free — $0 forever | Free — recipe library |
| AI features without paying | 10 free one-time uses, no card | Botatouille — discovery only |
| AI photo calorie / meal scan | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | |
| Barcode scanner | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | |
| Log a meal you ate ("ate it") | Free — basic calorie logging | |
| Meal journal / food diary | Free: last 3 days · Premium: full history | |
| Packaged-product quality score (0–100) | Free — scan, score & breakdown · Premium: better swaps + Ask AI | |
| Recipe discovery / browse | Free — 8,000+ recipe library | Millions of recipes |
| Swipe-to-choose recipe UX | Free | |
| Filter recipes by ingredients you have | Free — Discover Mode | Botatouille ingredient search |
| AI recipe generation (Chef AI) | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | Discovery only, not generation |
| Import a recipe from a video / social post | Trial — 5 free saves, then Premium | |
| Hands-free voice cooking mode | Free | |
| Built-in kitchen tools (converters, scaler, cook times) | Kitchen Tools — Free: 6 offline tools (unit, oven & air-fryer converters, scaler, cook times, safe temperatures) | Serving scaler (metric + US) + cook mode |
| Multi-day meal planner (1/3/7-day) | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | Curated meal planner |
| Shopping list merges duplicate ingredients | Trial — built with the plan | |
| Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together) | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Shared meal plan | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Separate macro targets per person | Free | |
| Multi-person session (family / friends) | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Intermittent fasting tracker | Tracker: Free · Coach quips: Premium | |
| Paired wellness accountability (2-person daily score) | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Shareable meal report card | Meal Report Card — Free | Community photo sharing only |
| Calorie & macro goal setting | Free | Not a calorie counter |
| Diet-style macro targets (keto / low-carb / high-protein) | Free | Keto/vegan filters narrow recipes only |
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| Android app |
Where Tasty wins
Tasty built one of the most recognizable food brands online on short, satisfying cooking videos — millions of community and editorial recipes, video-first instruction, a Botatouille AI for discovery, and one-tap Instacart grocery ordering. As free cooking inspiration, it's hard to match.
Honest scorecard
Where Swoodie wins
- Swipe-to-choose recipe UX
- Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together)
- Multi-person session (family / friends)
- Paired wellness accountability (2-person daily score)
The verdict
Switch to Swoodie if…
you want recipe discovery combined with calorie tracking, an AI planner personalized to your goal, or couples meal coordination.
Stay with Tasty if…
you primarily want cooking video inspiration, a massive community recipe library, and Instacart ordering — without nutrition tracking.
Made up your mind? Start free.
Swoodie plans the week, tracks what you eat and lets two people pick dinner together. The recipe library and tracking are free, no account needed — every scan carries a Blood Sugar Score, six Kitchen Tools work offline, and Premium is free for 7 days on the yearly plan.
We put these comparisons together from publicly available information and each app's own website. Prices and features change — if you spot anything inaccurate or out of date, email support@swoodie.app and we'll correct it. We want this comparison to stay fair.
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