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RecipeScan is an app for iPhone and iPad that helps you plan your meals. You can take a photo of your fridge or pantry, and the app will suggest dinner ideas you can cook right away, along with a grocery list of items you still need to buy. With Pantry Scan, you can photograph your shelves, and the AI quickly identifies the ingredients. You can then choose recipes and get a grocery list that takes into account what you already have, merges duplicates, and allows you to share the list with others so everyone can add and check off items. RecipeScan also lets you save recipes from social media videos and other sources. You can enter links from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or Pinterest into the app, import recipes from recipe websites, scan a cookbook page, paste plain text, or bring in a Paprika/JSON/CSV export. Website links and recipes you type are available on the free plan, while social-video imports and scans require the Premium version. Plan your week, get your list, and cook with guided steps. The Premium version includes features like AI calorie tracking (with Apple Health sync), Auto-Fill for weekly planning, voice control in Cooking Mode, AI substitutions, and a Leftover Wizard that turns your leftovers into new recipes. RecipeScan is free to download with a 7-day Premium trial. The Premium version costs $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year. To use RecipeScan, open the Scan tab, choose Pantry, and take a photo of your fridge or shelves. The AI will identify the items, then you can select recipes and get a grocery list for what’s missing. Yes, you can enter links into RecipeScan to import recipes from social media videos. Social-video imports require the Premium version, while typed recipes and website links are available on the free plan (the free plan allows you to save up to 3 recipes of your own). With the Premium version, RecipeScan supports various types of scans, such as a single ingredient, pantry shelves, a barcode, a photo of a plated meal, grocery receipts, and handwritten recipe cards. The Multi-Dish Planner helps you coordinate when to start each dish so they finish in a similar time frame. You can log recipes manually or use one-tap logging based on nutrition. With the Premium version, you can also take a photo of a meal to estimate the calories and macros for each item, with a range and confidence level, and sync the logged data to Apple Health via a switch inside the tracker. RecipeScan is free to download. The free plan never expires and includes the recipe catalogue, Cooking Mode, grocery and pantry lists, manual calorie logging, and up to 3 saved recipes of your own. The Premium version (with a trial available) unlocks additional scans, social-video imports/scans, AI features like substitutions, and more.

Celeus is a platform for statistical analysis that uses AI assistance and is aimed at academic and scientific researchers. It proposes suitable statistical methods for a specific dataset and research question. The analysis is then conducted in R, using fixed versions of packages to ensure reproducibility. An AI model explains the aggregate results in simple language and can generate text for the Methods and Results sections of papers, without accessing the raw data rows. Each analysis generates a downloadable reproducible package that includes the R script, seed, session information, and an audit log. Celeus covers 39 statistical methods across categories such as comparison, regression, survival analysis, and diagnostic accuracy.

NoteOwl is an AI meeting notes application designed for Apple silicon Macs. It operates privately, recording, transcribing, and summarizing meetings directly on the device without the need for a bot to join the call. The app automatically identifies speakers, extracts action items, and tracks commitments made by each participant. Users can search through all past meetings using plain English queries and receive answers that are linked to specific moments in the recordings. NoteOwl functions fully offline after an initial model download and is available as a one-time purchase, without any subscription fees.

Miko is an AI coding assistant that operates on your own servers and uses open-source technology. It integrates with communication platforms like Slack, Linear, GitHub, and GitLab, as well as coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Grok. Users can assign tasks to Miko by mentioning it in a conversation. Once assigned, Miko takes on the task, works in a separate Git worktree, and submits a reviewed pull request. Miko can handle scheduled tasks, parallel workflows, and follow-up instructions during a task without losing context. A local board allows teams to examine each tool call, verify results, and review the final output for every completed task.

WEXTL is a platform for creating visual workflows to automate business processes and build AI agents on a large scale. Users can link more than 1,200 applications through built-in integrations, design process logic using a drag-and-drop interface, and write custom JavaScript for complex steps. The platform features human-mediated approval checkpoints, webhook triggers, scheduling tools, MCP support, and an AI Builder that generates workflows based on plain-English instructions. Paid plans start at $19 per month (Starter) and go up to $150 per month (Scale), with a free trial option available.

Transforming an Instagram carousel into a format suitable for LinkedIn used to require 45 minutes of resizing and re-exporting images. With igli.app, this process takes just about 30 seconds: you need to paste the link to an Instagram post (or upload your slides), choose portrait or square format, and download a single PDF file optimized for LinkedIn. The service works in both directions — LinkedIn document carousels can be converted back into images suitable for Instagram. Using igli.app is also a quick way to save carousels for future use rather than just reposting them. You can save any public carousel as a PDF for your swipe file, for republishing, as a second brain tool, or for research. Each slide is preserved in order, ready to be inserted into Notion, Obsidian, Readwise, or Drive. Free access allows you to process up to 5 slides (with a small watermark). Removing the watermark and processing up to 20 slides costs from $0.20 per export. This service was created by an individual who was tired of doing it manually.