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            "tagline": "Pantry-based recipes, ingredient swaps and an AI chef chat",
            "summary": "My Royal Chef AI finds recipes from the ingredients a user has, suggests swaps for missing items and scales portions. Its kitchen tools are free, and a free account allows 15 chat messages a day. Premium costs $12.99 a month for 90 messages. The product is available on the web and on Android.",
            "developer": "Yunus Emre Vurgun",
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            "overview": "The site has 342 recipes and free kitchen tools, including substitutions with ratios, portion scaling and numbered cooking steps. The chat takes typed ingredients as filters and returns ranked recipe cards. Guests can use the tools without an account.\n\nThe pricing page says some on-device answers do not use the daily chat allowance. A free account gets 15 online chef messages a day and saved recipes. Premium raises the allowance to 90 messages for $12.99 a month and works with the same account on the website and the Android app. Gumroad handles payment and cancellation."
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            "tagline": "Meal planner with recipe organizing and automatic grocery lists",
            "summary": "Plan to Eat is a meal planner and recipe organizer that builds grocery lists from planned meals. It runs in a browser and as iOS and Android apps, with a free trial that needs no card. The paid plan is $5.95 a month or $49 a year.",
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        "My Royal Chef AI has a free plan or free version; Plan to Eat does not.",
        "My Royal Chef AI: free plan, paid upgrades. Plan to Eat: subscription."
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