DAIDOKO: AI Recipe from Photo

Kei Sato

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About this app

You had something wonderful at a restaurant. A week later you can almost taste it, but you have no idea how to make it.

DAIDOKO closes that gap. Photograph the dish, and AI works out the ingredients, amounts and steps — as a recipe you can actually cook in a home kitchen, with what your supermarket sells. Cook it, say how yours turned out, and the recipe moves closer to the original.

■ From a photo to a recipe
• One photo is all it takes — AI drafts the ingredients, amounts and steps
• Add the restaurant name or a note about the taste for a closer result
• Amounts and timings a photo cannot settle come back as a guide, not as fact
• Every AI-made recipe carries a note saying the AI estimated it
• You always review and edit the draft before it is saved

■ Getting closer to the taste
• After cooking, write how it turned out ("too sweet", "needs more heat")
• AI adjusts the recipe from your notes — and shows you exactly what changed
• Anything not in that list is left untouched, so your recipe stays yours
• Every version is kept, so you can look back at how it developed

■ Shared with the family, automatically
• Share an invite code — no account, no email address
• Recipes, shopping list and pantry arrive on every phone in the family automatically
• Choose per item whether the shopping list and pantry are shared or private
• Your recipes, shopping list, pantry and cooking mode work offline; they catch up when you are back online
• Only the AI features and URL import need a connection

■ Building your collection
• Search by recipe name, tag or ingredient
• Import from a recipe URL or pasted text (unlimited — no AI allowance used)
• For a cookbook page or a food package, just photograph it — AI reads it, front and back merged into a single recipe
• Cover photos and per-step photos
• Cooking mode shows one step at a time, large, with timers and no ads

■ Kitchen, shopping and pantry
• Add the ingredients you are missing to your shopping list in one tap — items you already have stay on the list, so you can decide what to add
• Move what you bought into the pantry — by barcode or by scanning a receipt
• See which recipes you can cook right now, ranked by how much you already have
• Get a reminder when something is running low

■ Where your data lives
• No account, no sign-up. We never hold your email address or phone number
• Unless you share with family, your data stays on your device
• Join a family group and only the items you share travel through our server.
Delete the group and everything on the server goes with it
• Backup, restore and a transfer file for moving to a new phone
• AI features include a free allowance, then a short ad unlocks one more.
Add your own Gemini key for no limit

■ Who it is for
• Anyone who wants to recreate a restaurant dish at home
• Cooks who want their recipes in one place, not scattered across screenshots and links
• Households that want recipes, shopping and what is in the fridge to work together
• People who want to follow a recipe while cooking without ads in the way

■ Permissions
• Camera: photographing dishes, reading text, scanning barcodes
• Photos and media: choosing an image from your library
• Notifications: low-stock reminders (on your device), cooking timers, and family-sync updates

Note on AI: your photo, or the ingredient names you selected, is sent for analysis only when you use an AI feature. You are told before it happens, and nothing is stored on our servers.

DAIDOKO does not detect allergens. Always check the ingredients yourself, especially if you have food allergies.

What’s new

Fixed the labels on the bottom tab bar being cut off at the edge of the screen on some devices, where they overlapped the gesture bar.