Everything DishBinder does.
Six steps take you from a saved recipe to a logged meal, and back to the next recipe. Each one has its own page.
- Save a recipePaste a link from any recipe site, TikTok or YouTube, snap a recipe card, or import a file. Its nutrition comes from the ingredients.
- Plan the weekDrag recipes onto your week, or let the AI plan it from your pantry and your diet. Copy a day to as many days as you like.
- The grocery list writes itselfOne tap turns the week into a grocery list, sorted by aisle, with what you already have marked.
- Send it to your storeUnited States onlyAt a Kroger-family store or Walmart, send the list to your cart and check out there.
- Stock the pantryCheck things off as you shop, or import the receipt. What you bought lands in your pantry, counted.
- Cook and logTap “I cooked this”: the meal is logged and its ingredients leave your pantry. Ate out? Snap a photo of the plate.
The whole kitchen, one app.
A real recipe library paired with the tools that actually get dinner on the table — and on the food log.
A pantry that counts what's left
Pantry, fridge, freezer, spice rack — every item shows how many are left, and whether it's running low or finished. Every food is its exact product: pick it from the list, use its barcode, snap the label, or type the label numbers (fresh food with no brand can use USDA), and My foods remembers numbers you fixed. Made a recipe? “🍳 I cooked this” logs the servings you ate and takes what they used out of your pantry, and the recipe remembers the brands you used: its nutrition then comes from their labels. Log a cup from a gallon of milk and the pantry shows 15 cups left. A weekly check-up catches what changed, History & undo keeps every change, and low stock flows into your grocery list.
Snap your plate. We do the math.
Photo-log a meal in two seconds — AI identifies the food and estimates macros, no database scrolling. From a chain like In-N-Out? Each food takes the restaurant's own menu numbers. The meal keeps every food with its own numbers: fix one, or find it on the menu. Packaged? Scan the barcode. Didn't finish? Snap the leftovers: we subtract them and keep the rest to log in one tap later. Had a drink with it? “＋ Add a drink” logs it with that meal.
Honest nutrition, from your ingredients.
Most apps make you trust a database. DishBinder reads the recipe you actually cooked — every ingredient mapped to USDA FoodData Central and checked for the right food (cow's milk, not sheep's milk), scaled by serving size. A packaged product in your pantry or on your grocery list uses its own label's numbers, never a guess. You get fiber, sodium, sugar, vitamins and minerals along with the macros, each against your own goal or the FDA Daily Value, and every recipe gets an A–E health grade. The number you see is the number you ate.
Recipes that fit your remaining day
It's 6pm. You have 800 kcal and 35g protein left. Tap one button — see recipes from your library that fit what's left, and “Ready in” keeps only what's ready in time. Or see what your pantry already covers, and what's one or two things away.
Meal plans from your kitchen
Plan a week three ways — strict to your pantry, shuffle your library, or invent fresh dishes. Tap a diet preset (keto, Mediterranean, vegan, high-protein and more) and the AI builds the week around it; “Ready in” keeps every meal quick. Toggle dining out and it mixes in real menu items from chains nearby. Copy a day to as many days as you like, or a week to the next, and “Undo copy” takes it back.
A grocery list that knows your kitchen
Generate the week's list in one tap, sorted by aisle. Items already in your pantry show muted. Done shopping? “Add checked to pantry” moves everything you bought into your pantry — or import your receipt: what you bought goes into your pantry and comes off the list, and anything the store didn't deliver goes on it. History keeps every trip.
Real products on your grocery list
Don't know the brand? Tap Brand to see that item from every brand, pick one and a size it's actually sold in, then tap “📋 Nutrition Facts” to see its label. Foods from your pantry, or that you bought before, come with their brand and size, and the product you pick is used next time. Quick add shows a card with everything it will add, so you can fix it first. Recipes add what to buy, never “1 tbsp.”
Send your list to your Kroger or Walmart cart (US only)
US only. Shop at Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, King Soopers or another Kroger-family store, or at Walmart? Pick yours and, as you type, your list suggests that store's products. “Send to …” puts the list in your Kroger cart — one cart for the household, nothing sent twice — or opens it in your Walmart cart on walmart.com. You check out at the store, which has the final price. Import the receipt and what you bought moves into your pantry, each item with its product chosen when it matches the store's.
Syncs with Apple Health & Health Connect
Two-way, on both platforms. We read your steps, weight, active energy and the food you log in other apps — and write every meal and glass of water back, never counting a meal twice. Home shows your weight and the health numbers you pick, like steps and exercise, for each day of the week. Calories in finally meet calories out.
See your week, not just your day
Reports turn the log into trends — nutrition, weight, eating quality, your nutrients against your goals day by day, and an energy-balance view of what you ate vs. what you burned. Log your weight on Home, or sync it. Know what's actually working.
Every nutrient, your own goals
Sodium, sugar, fiber, vitamins, minerals, caffeine — from your scans, labels, recipes and the apps you sync with. Pick the ones you care about, set an “at least” or “at most” goal, and suggestions steer you inside them. They show on Home's Today card and the food log, and one switch measures every nutrient against your own targets or the FDA Daily Values.
A chef in your pocket
Ask anything mid-cook — substitutions, scaling, technique, 'what can I make with this?' — and get a streaming answer that knows the recipe you're looking at.
Bring any recipe in
Paste a link from 400+ recipe sites — or a TikTok, Instagram Reel, or YouTube video. Snap a physical recipe card. Import a Word, Excel, PDF, or Paprika export. Or save a logged meal as a recipe. Site won't import? The Save to DishBinder button for your browser brings it in. Everything in one library.
Share your recipes with a link
Send a recipe you created as a clean public page — copy the link or email it in one tap — or share a cookbook, whose public page shows the recipes you created. Whoever you send it to doesn't need an account to open it.
Share your whole kitchen
One Family plan covers up to 6 people. Recipes, collections, grocery lists, pantry, and meal plans stay in sync for the whole household — and everyone gets premium.
Use it before it goes
When pantry food is about to expire, Home's “Use these soon” lists it with recipes that use it, and “Use what's expiring” sorts your library the same way. Snap the best-by date on the package and it lands on the item.
Your library, your way
Nest cookbooks in subfolders, rate your recipes, see how many times you've made each one, and print a cookbook. Deleted one? Trash keeps it for 30 days.
Real screens, not mockups.
The most-used screens. Tap any one in the app to see how DishBinder closes the loop between your pantry, your plate, and your week.
Before you start cooking.
What happens when the trial ends?
You subscribe to keep using DishBinder. There's no free tier — we'd rather build one good app than a crippled version of it. Nothing is deleted: your recipes, pantry, meal plans, and food log are exactly where you left them the moment you subscribe.
Where do the nutrition numbers come from?
From what you actually ate. A recipe's numbers come from its ingredients, each matched to USDA FoodData Central and checked for the right food — or, once you've cooked it, from the labels of the products you used. A packaged food uses its own label (picked, scanned or photographed). A meal from a chain uses that restaurant's own menu numbers. What the AI estimates from a photo says “AI estimate”, and you can change any of it.
How do I cancel?
Wherever you subscribed: Settings → Subscriptions on iPhone or iPad, the Play Store on Android, or on the web Settings → Subscription → Manage, which opens the billing portal. Cancelling stops the renewal and you keep premium until the period you already paid for runs out.
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