Home food,
wherever home is now.
One cookbook for the reel, the WhatsApp forward and Nani’s diary. Zaika reads Indian recipes the way they’re shared — half in Hindi, “andaaz se”, three whistles — then adapts them to the store and the stove you have now.
HOW IT WORKS
Save it
Share a link, a photo or a forward from any app — a reel, a YouTube video, a blog, a WhatsApp message, a photo of Nani’s handwriting.Zaika reads it
Hindi, Hinglish and English. “Andaaz se” stays “andaaz se”, three whistles become minutes, and the cook who made it stays credited.Cook it here
Substitutes for what your store doesn’t stock, cooker recipes rewritten for the Instant Pot, and one step per screen at arm’s length.Then plan the week from what you saved, and shop it from one list split by store.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
Cook in your language, timer on the step.
Nine languages, from Hindi to Malayalam, and a timer on every timed step — in type you can read from across the kitchen.
One list, split by your stores.
The Patel Brothers run and the Kroger run, sorted before you leave the house.
Plan the week, meal by meal.
This week and next stay free — Pro lets you plan the weeks beyond them.THE ONES NEVER WRITTEN DOWN
Ask the person who taught you. Keep their voice.
Some recipes only exist in someone’s head. Send them a link from Zaika — over WhatsApp, like anything else — and they answer in their own voice, or with a photo of the card, or by typing it out. No app to install, no account to make.
Zaika turns the answer into a recipe you can cook from, and keeps the recording beside it. So the day you make it, you can hear her say “andaaz se” herself.
- 1You askPick “Ask someone” and send the link to whoever knows the dish.
- 2They answerA voice note, a photo of the handwritten card, or a few typed lines — from any phone.
- 3You cookThe recipe lands in your cookbook, credited to them, with their voice note on it.
WHO’S BRINGING WHAT
Plan the potluck. Skip the group text.
Put up what the table still needs — a starter, a main, something sweet — and share one link. Everyone claims a dish before the group chat even gets going, and the list updates the moment they do.
Guests don’t need Zaika. No account, no app, nothing to install — just the link, from whatever phone or browser they already have open.
MADE FOR THE WAY INDIANS COOK
No amchur? 1 tbsp lemon juice.
Ranked substitutes with honest notes on what changes — and a flag for the Indian-store list when nothing else will do."3 whistles" → 9 min, high pressure.
Every cooker recipe rewritten for your Instant Pot — release method and the "why" included.Navratri to Diwali, planned.
Festival collections that respect vrat rules, on your calendar before the week sneaks up on you.Read any recipe in your own language.
Ingredient names and steps in the script you think in, alongside the English — so the person who taught you the dish can read it back.
- हिंदीHindi
- मराठीMarathi
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀPunjabi
- বাংলাBangla
- தமிழ்Tamil
- తెలుగుTelugu
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- മലയാളംMalayalam
More arrive one at a time — each done properly rather than machine-dumped.
FROM THE ZAIKA KITCHEN
Recipes you can read today.
All recipes →Written by us, free to read, with both measures and the substitutes for a kitchen far from an Indian grocery. They are the first recipes in the app’s own collection.
WHAT COSTS NOTHING
Free, with no time limit
- Your cookbook, private by default
- Weekly plan, breakfast to dinner
- Store-aware grocery lists
- Cook mode, one step per screen
- Festival and vrat collections
- 5 recipes a week, imported or saved
Zaika Pro · $39.99/year
7-day free trial. Cancel in your App Store settings any time.
- No weekly recipe limit
- Plan more than two weeks ahead
- Nutrition facts per serving
- Unlimited translations
- PDF export
Hit the weekly limit mid-import and nothing is lost — the recipe waits in your tray until the week turns over.
CREATORS STAY CREDITED — ALWAYS
Import a reel and the cook who made it keeps their name, their handle and a link to the original — on the recipe, on anything you share, on a PDF, and on the copy your friend saves from your link. There is no setting anywhere in Zaika that removes it.
If you’re a creator, read this →QUESTIONS
Stop losing the reel you saved.
Join the waitlist and we’ll email you once — when it’s real.