Dinner Diary

Calmlydidit

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About this app

Dinner Diary is the cooking diary that remembers what you cooked. Note every dinner with a star rating, notes, photos and tags, keep the recipe with it, and let the app help you decide what to make tonight. No account and no cloud: your diary stays on your phone.

TONIGHT
A pick for tonight, weighted toward dinners you rated highly and haven't made in a while. Not feeling it? Tap "Pick another". Below it: what you cooked this week and the dinners you haven't had in a while.

RECIPES
All your dinners as a list or a photo grid. Search looks through titles, ingredients, method, notes and tags, with or without accents ("creme" finds crème brûlée). Filter by favourites, meal type or tag, and sort by last cooked, rating, name or how often you made it.

A PAGE FOR EVERY RECIPE
Photos, your rating, how often and when you last cooked it, ingredients you can tick off and the method step by step. Keep the screen on while you cook, tap "Cooked it" when you've made it again (with Undo), or share the recipe as text.

ADD RECIPES YOUR WAY
• Paste a link from a recipe website and the recipe is filled in for you.
• Scan a recipe card or cookbook page with your camera. This runs on your phone, free and offline.
• Optional: let AI read difficult handwriting (Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, with your own API key).
• Or start blank. Breakfast, lunch, snacks and desserts fit in too.

PANTRY
Type what you have in the house and see which recipes you can make, closest first, with what's still missing.

JOURNAL
A timeline of everything you cooked, day by day, plus insights: totals, dinners per month and your top tags.

ALSO
• Swipe between the four tabs
• Back up your whole diary to a file and import it on a new phone; an import only adds and never overwrites
• English, Dutch, German, Spanish and French
• Light and dark mode
• Works with TalkBack and large text

PRIVACY, PLAINLY
Your dinners, photos and notes are stored only on your phone. The app is free and shows one small ad banner from Google AdMob; in the EU and UK you choose your ad consent first. Anonymous crash reports help us fix bugs, and you can turn them off in Settings. If you use the optional AI scan, that photo goes straight from your phone to the AI provider you picked, on your own account.

What’s new

New in 2.1: every cook counts.
- Dinner Diary now remembers each time you cook a dinner, not only the last time.
- Journal shows a dinner on every day you cooked it, and Insights counts every cook.
- "This week" on Tonight shows each day you cooked.
- Undo after "Cooked it" takes back exactly that cook.
- Scanned recipes keep amounts like "0.5 tsp".
- Privacy and security fixes.

Thanks for cooking with Dinner Diary!