DiffDish: Free meal planner

Tired of cooking the same five dinners on repeat?

You own the cookbooks. You've saved the recipes. But somehow it's 5pm and you're making that same pasta again. DiffDish fixes that.

DiffDish is a smart meal planner built around the recipes you already love. Instead of dumping everything into a list, it intelligently rotates your dishes — surfacing the meals you haven't cooked in a while and ranking them by how much you like them. Variety, without the mental load.

Get your recipes in — without the typing

* Import from a link — paste any recipe URL and DiffDish pulls in the name, ingredients, instructions, and times

* Snap a photo — photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten card and DiffDish reads it for you. It even handles two-column cookbook layouts

* Guided import — for messy recipes or ones spread across pages, a step-by-step flow walks you through it

* Or add it by hand — as simple as "Mom's Spaghetti" or as detailed as you like

Photo reading happens entirely on your device. Your photos never leave your phone.

How it works

Rate your recipes with stars, then let DiffDish do the thinking. When you plan your week, it puts your best-loved, longest-uncooked dishes right at the top, so deciding what's for dinner takes seconds.

Every meal you plan is automatically tracked, so your rotation stays fresh on its own. No spreadsheets. No nagging. Just good dinners, in healthy rotation.

Why you'll love it

* Smart rotation — recipes resurface based on how long it's been and how highly you rated them

* Weekly planner — tap any day to assign a dinner, and plan as far ahead as you like

* Automatic variety — anything already on your upcoming plan is hidden so meals don't repeat

* Quick & Easy mode — short on time? Instantly boost meals that take 30 minutes or less

* Snooze — not feeling a dish? Push it down the list, and it'll drift back later

* Cooking Mode — a clean, easy-to-read view for when you're at the stove, with tap-to-check-off ingredients so you never lose your place

* Your recipes, your way — ingredients, instructions, prep and cook times, and notes

* Backups that belong to you — export everything in plain JSON format to a file or straight to your clipboard, so your recipes are never locked inside the app. Restore from either on any device

Built for real kitchens:

* Search by recipe name or ingredient

* A proper unit picker — cups and grams, plus cloves, pinches, cans and bunches

* Star ratings with half-star precision

* Lightning-bolt badges flag your quickest meals

* Share any recipe as clean, formatted text — straight to messages, email, or notes

Private by design

DiffDish works completely offline. No account, no sign-up, no cloud. Your recipes live on your device and nowhere else. Export everything to a single backup file anytime, keep it wherever you like, and restore it on a new phone in seconds.

Just getting started

A guided tutorial walks you through the basics with two sample recipes, so you're planning meals in minutes. And there's more coming — shopping lists, side dishes, and smarter weekly suggestions are all on the roadmap.

Stop asking "what's for dinner?" and start cooking the meals you actually love — on rotation, the smart way.