Magic Fridge keeps a notebook on your dinner. That suits some cooks.

Magic Fridge has a few thousand recipes. You can narrow them to vegetarian or vegan, which already puts it ahead of the finders that pretend everyone eats everything. The unusual part is the memo: nutrition for the recipe, and a check on whether the ingredients you picked are in season.

You can change the servings for the number of people at the table, and adjust amounts again if you cooked too much. If you are the sort of cook who writes down what you ate, this matches how you already think.

Plenty of households do not want a nutrition panel on a Tuesday soup. They want the soup. A catalogue of five thousand dishes is only useful if one of them fits the fridge, the allergy, and the time you have. If none of them do, more filters will not invent the missing recipe.

Seasonality notes are a real help in a French market rhythm. They are less magical if your shop is a supermarket that sells the same berries in January.

Menuistia can start from the same place — a photo of the fridge, a list, a diet — and write the recipe rather than retrieve one. It will also lay out the rest of the week and a shopping list, which is the part Magic Fridge leaves to you. Use Magic Fridge if the nutrition note and the seasonal check are why you opened the app. Use a generator if the note was never the point.