Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Chefstep's Joule on Messenger
Control "joule" (smart sous-vide cooking) via messenger.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Chefstep's Joule on Messenger launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Story of Joule, a sous vide machine from ChefSteps
2016 · its alternatives →
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Tender by Nomiku▲125Sous vide recipe app that also controls sous vide machines
2015 · its alternatives →
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Book a professional chef to entertain your guests at home
2015 · its alternatives →
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meals.chat▲222Send me pics of your food, track your calories and macros
2024 · meals.chat · its alternatives →
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Over the last 2-3 weeks, I vibecoded the recipe app that I always wished existed - recipeninja.ai . It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get your dirty hands over your new iPad when you're cooking. Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally. Last month, I decided to use Windsurf to build a Rails 8 API backend and React front-end app, using OpenAI's realtime API for voice-to-voice responses. Over the last few…
2025 · recipeninja.ai · its alternatives →
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Chat to find recipes by ingredient, chef, emoji and more.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Upload a photo of your food and get roasted by a savage AI
2023 · its alternatives →
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Checkout the app at https://www.lechef.fyi
2022 · abuqader.substack.com · its alternatives →
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- 24FM
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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