You save the video. We turn it into a shopping list with a price on it — and make sure it fits the money you actually have this week.
Most recipe apps assume a full pantry and an open wallet. BudgetBites starts from the opposite place: a saved TikTok, a real budget, and a grocery store near you. It costs each ingredient twice — the portion the recipe uses and the whole bottle you'd have to buy — so nothing surprises you at checkout. Then it plans the week, tells you when you're under budget, and suggests the meals that would use the rest well.
Every recipe is priced two ways — the portion you actually use and the full package you'd buy at the store. Set a weekly or monthly budget, add your state, and the numbers move to local prices instead of a national guess.
Snap the dish you're eating abroad and BudgetBites identifies it, then reverse-engineers a home-cook version with ingredients you can find in a US grocery store — substitutions included.
A curated drinks collection with its own colour, filters for nighttime, digestion, low calorie, fruity and creamy — and automatic pairing so every dinner can end with something that feels like a treat.
A Pinterest-style community feed where people post what they recreated, plus a chat that can search the web and hand you a full costed recipe when you say “high protein pescatarian, please”.