The question nobody answered in a 10k-member appliance group, and a Portuguese developer's 4.99 € answer: TachoBot hasn't charted yet, but the gap it fills is real

TachoBot is a Portuguese-language appliance recipe app by Portuguese indie developer Fábio Gaspar: 9000 recipes, compatible with Bimby (Thermomix's name in Portugal) and the supermarket brand Yämmi, works offline, no sign-up, all recipes free, PRO is a one-time 4.99 € purchase. It recently ranked #36 in the Food & Drink Top Grossing chart in the Portugal App Store, which looks like traction but is still small: 0 iOS ratings and 100+ Android downloads. What's worth looking at isn't the results; it's the playbook.

2025 March, a question nobody could answer

2025 Mar 24, in the Facebook group 'Tudo YAMMI' (10k members, all Yämmi appliance owners), a user named Sofia Alves posted: 'Is there a way to look up Yammi 3 recipes without the machine? Is there an app or website?'

Among the 5 replies, someone linked the recipe page on the Continente supermarket website, someone said 'online', and a member named Paulo complained: 'When is Yämmi going to release an app that connects to the Yammi 3... something simpler, more tech-savvy.'

Yämmi is the private-label appliance sold by Continente, Portugal's largest supermarket chain, priced well below Bimby. Its recipes live mainly on the machine's screen and on the Continente website; there is no standalone app.

15 months later, in 2026 Jun 11, Fábio Gaspar posted in the same group: 'TachoBot is finally on Google Play!' The post was straightforward: 9000 recipes for Yammi, Bimby, and other appliances, with step-by-step instructions, weekly menus, automatic shopping lists, and offline use. 'The best part? It's free.' It listed what's free, what the one-time 4.99 € PRO adds, and ended with 'iOS coming soon.' The post got 22 likes and 23 comments.

What it is

A blender assistant with a library of Portuguese recipes:

• Recipe library: 9000+ recipes, sorted by category and difficulty, with each step spelling out temperature, speed and time in large print so you can read it from beside the stove.
• Adjusted to your machine: choose whether you have a Bimby, a Yämmi or another blender, and the recipe settings change to match.
• Weekly meal plan and shopping list: lunch and dinner planned automatically, with one tap to add the ingredients to your list.
• No account, works offline: the store page calls this "privacy by default".
• Pricing: the free version lets you browse every recipe, create 10 of your own, and plan today's and tomorrow's meals, with ads. PRO is a one-time 4.99 € purchase that unlocks unlimited custom recipes, two-week meal plans, export and sharing, and no ads (founder's group post, 2026-06-11).

Why anyone would want it

The competitor is Vorwerk's official platform, Cookidoo. It ranks #1 in the Portugal Food category Top Grossing chart, has 67,709 ratings (App Store Portugal, 11-06), 100k+ recipes, and can push them straight to the machine. But it requires sign-up, needs an internet connection, and is an annual subscription: from July 2024 it went from 48 € a year to 60 €, and on iOS it costs 69.99 € (Vorwerk Portugal website). In a Reddit Portugal thread someone asked, "Do you actually pay the Cookidoo annual fee? I don't really want to spend that money."

TachoBot goes the other way: no sign-up, no internet connection, 4.99 € one time. For Bimby users it's the alternative to not renewing; for Yämmi users it's the "app that doesn't look recipes up on the machine" that Sofia asked for, which didn't exist before.

What the #36 spot is worth

Not much. The bar for the Food Top Grossing chart in the Portugal App Store is low. On 6 Nov, the #18, #28, #34 and #35 apps on the same chart all had 0 ratings. Here, a couple of 4.99 € sales a day could plausibly get you into the top 40 (inference).

Its chart history also looks like a push followed by a drop. On the Top Free chart it was #29 on 164 Oct, jumped to #1 on 29 Nov, fell back to #57 the next day, and has since sat between #85 and #116. On Top Grossing, from 1 Nov it has bounced between #24 and #41 (App Store Portugal, 10-29 to 11-06). I couldn't find the original post that drove the spike around 1 Nov; my guess is another round of group posts. It has not charted in any other country.

On Android, Google Play shows 100+ downloads, with ads and in-app purchases (11-06). The website went live in mid-July, and the App Store button was still a dead link late into the month.

So all we can say for now: some people will pay for it, the number is unknown, and the scale is definitely still small.

Where users come from

1. The founder posting in Facebook groups is the only confirmed channel. The Tudo YAMMI group has 10k members; there are larger Bimby groups in Portugal, and I couldn't confirm whether he posted in those.
2. Store search: the app name and description are packed with Bimby, Yammi and robô de cozinha (food processor), so it probably picks up a little search traffic (inference).
3. Other: it doesn't show up on TikTok, there's no discussion on X, no press coverage, and no sign of paid ads.

The comments under the group post also reveal some issues: one user said "this recipe is written in pounds, not kilos or grams," and another asked "Yammi's machine has 2 and Plus, does this work with 3?" The founder replied to both. Where the 9000 recipes came from isn't disclosed; if they were copied from an official community or website, there's a copyright and takedown risk (unverified).

Who it's competing with

The ones really worth watching are Cookomix and Ricette per Bimby: third-party, multi-brand blender recipe apps, free with ads and in-app purchases, that reached millions of installs in French and Italian. TachoBot is that model carried into Portuguese, with the local Yämmi brand added. As far as I can tell, it's the only one doing Portuguese and Yämmi together. I haven't seen anyone copying it yet.

If it were you

My take: don't go head-to-head with it in Portugal. The niche is too small, and it hasn't proven it can make money. What's worth learning is the approach: find a market where the official app charges an annual fee, a cheap supermarket-brand blender has a local following, and users cluster in Facebook groups, then run it the other way round with a one-time price.

Who it suits: people who can build offline content apps and can write or produce thousands of recipes in a local language. Someone already active in a national blender group has an edge.

Who it doesn't suit: anyone aiming for a big business. Each country only has so many blender owners, and this kind of app tops out like Cookomix: millions of installs, ads, and small in-app purchases. It's also a bad fit for anyone without a legitimate recipe source who only plans to copy content from official communities.

How to do it: start by picking the market. Three conditions: Thermomix sells well there, or there's a supermarket or discount-chain house-brand blender (Lidl's Monsieur Cuisine is sold in many countries); no Cookomix-style third-party app exists in the local language yet; and the Facebook groups are active. Check which supermarket-brand machines in the Spanish-, Polish- and German-speaking markets lack a decent recipe app. Copy TachoBot's features: an offline recipe library, parameters adjusted per machine, weekly meal plans, a shopping list, and no sign-up. Let people browse all recipes for free and sell a one-time upgrade to remove ads and unlock premium features. Recipe sourcing is where the effort matters most: either write the recipes yourself or license them from local food bloggers.

How to get users: as with TachoBot, post in the blender brand's Facebook groups, with the founder fronting it, stating clearly what's free and what the one-time price is. Put the brand name and the local word for "blender" in the app name and description, and reply to every comment in the group.

When to move: no clear window. Demand like this doesn't follow trends, but each language usually only has room for one or two apps, so the early mover takes it.

Signs you've got it wrong: Vorwerk or a supermarket brand launches a free, offline official app; your recipes get taken down after complaints; or you've posted in groups two or three times and downloads are still stuck in the hundreds.

Data as of 2026-11-06. TachoBot's revenue and paying users aren't public, and chart rank alone can't tell us its earnings.