What's New in BiteCaddy 1.0.12: Pantry Scan, Multi-Ingredient Search, and the Broc Wand

The 1.0.12 release shipped earlier this month and it's the biggest single update we've pushed since launch. Three new features, all built around the same insight: the recipes you actually want to cook tonight are usually the ones that use what's already in your kitchen.

If you've ever opened the fridge at 6pm, stared at it for a minute, closed it, and ordered DoorDash — this update is for you.

Here's what shipped.

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Pantry Scan: Snap a photo. Get every ingredient.

Open the Broc Wand in the bottom-right of any screen, tap Scan pantry photo, point your camera at any shelf, drawer, or fridge.

That's it. Our AI reads everything in frame — produce, proteins, dairy, condiments, frozen items, spices — and surfaces them as a confirm list. Tap once to add them to your pantry tracker, or jump straight into a multi-ingredient recipe search using what we just detected.

A few things worth knowing:

• It works on messy shelves. You don't need to organize anything. Items hidden behind other items might not get picked up — close-up second photo solves that.
• Photos are processed in-memory and never saved. EXIF metadata gets stripped on your phone before upload. The image bytes are dropped after the AI finishes reading them. This isn't a marketing line — it's how the system is built.
• The quota is 5 scans per rolling 7-day window. That covers a weekly fridge check with one extra. Plenty for the workflow we built it around.

The 31% food-waste problem is mostly a perception problem. You don't throw out the chicken thighs because you don't like them. You throw them out because they migrated to the back of the fridge and you forgot. Pantry Scan makes the whole shelf visible in one shot.

Full deep-dive on Pantry Scan →

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Multi-Ingredient Recipe Search: Cook what you have.

Standard recipe search assumes you'll go buy whatever's missing. Type "chicken parm" → get a recipe → buy chicken, breadcrumbs, mozzarella, marinara, eggs.

Multi-ingredient search inverts the question. Tell us what you already own. Pick 3-5 ingredients in the kitchen — leftover chicken, half an onion, the spinach about to wilt — and we rank recipes by how many of your selections each one uses. Every result shows an X/Y in pantry chip so you know exactly how complete the match is.

It pairs with Pantry Scan in the most obvious way: you scan your fridge, then pick 5 items from the detected list, then we recommend dinner. Zero typing, zero store run.

The ranking is by overlap_count and overlap_pct — recipes that use more of your ingredients float to the top, and we weight by how complete a coverage that represents. Cooking tonight without another trip to Aldi becomes the default mode, not the exception.

Full deep-dive on multi-ingredient search →

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The Broc Wand: Every action, one tap away.

We had a problem. As BiteCaddy got more features, the UI got more crowded. Per-screen floating buttons multiplied. Tab bars grew. Users had to remember which tab held which action.

The 1.0.12 fix is the Broc Wand — a single floating broccoli button in the bottom-right of every screen. Tap it and a tray opens with eight quick actions:

1. Scan pantry photo (1.0.12 hero)
2. Search recipes by ingredients (1.0.12 feature)
3. Log a meal
4. Log exercise
5. My saved recipes
6. Create new recipe — paste a URL, drop a TikTok/YouTube link, snap a cookbook page, or type it
7. Add to shopping list
8. My profile (account, settings, subscription)

Every action you used to have to navigate to — scan, search, log, save, create — is now one tap from anywhere. The deals tab, the meal planner, the cook screen, the shopping list. Same Wand, same eight actions, always exactly where your thumb already is.

This sounds like a small UX thing. In practice it changes how the app feels. The friction of "wait, where do I find that?" disappears entirely.

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How the three pieces fit together

The deeper change isn't any one feature. It's that 1.0.12 closes a loop we'd been building toward for a year:

Open the fridge
  → Snap with Pantry Scan        (your shelf becomes a list)
  → Search by ingredients         (the list becomes recipe matches)
  → Pick a match                  (one tap from the wand)
  → Cook it in Cook Mode          (timers auto-detect from steps)
  → Log it to Progress            (macros + 22 micronutrients folded in)

Every other meal-planning app makes you start with a recipe and shop for ingredients. BiteCaddy now lets you start with the ingredients and end with a meal — without typing anything.

We'd been calling this internally "the kitchen-first flow." 1.0.12 is the release where it actually works end-to-end.

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Other 1.0.12 updates worth flagging

A few quieter improvements that shipped in the same release:

• 15-step App Tour that explicitly walks through the loop above on first install. Replayable any time from Wand → Profile → Tutorials.
• New deal-label formats on the shopping list: 60% off · Albertsons, $4.99/lb · Kroger, Chicken on sale · Aldi (for same-protein-different-cut matches).
• Android storage-permission strip to clear a Google Play policy block.
• Proxy-URL fallback for recipes missing a hero image (hotfixed via OTA on 2026-06-01).

The next release is shaping up around UI polish (Phase 3 V2 design system) and a few quality-of-life things on the meal planner. Stay tuned.

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Start cooking

The 14-day free trial includes Pantry Scan, multi-ingredient search, and the Broc Wand from day one — same as every other feature.

• App Store
• Google Play

Or browse the full feature set at bitecaddy.co/features.