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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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                "Every kitchen tool is free, and guests need no account",
                "Recipes are ranked by the ingredients typed in",
                "Substitutions give ratios and what changes in flavor and texture",
                "The same account works on the website and the Android app"
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                "Free accounts get 15 online chef messages a day",
                "History and saved recipes require an account",
                "Premium costs $12.99 a month, with cancellation handled through Gumroad"
            ],
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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": "Recipe manager and meal planner for self-hosting or hosted use",
            "summary": "Tandoor is a recipe manager and meal planner that builds shopping lists from planned meals and sorts items by supermarket aisle. It can be self-hosted with Docker or used as a hosted service with paid plans. Its code is public under AGPL-3.0 with a Commons Clause.",
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                "Commons Clause means it is not OSI open source",
                "Free hosted plan is limited to 10 recipes"
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