iOS · Private beta
SpoonFed
A recipe app for two people. You each swipe through meals on your own, and when you both like the same one it becomes a match.
Dinner, decided.
“What do you fancy?” “I don’t mind, what do you fancy?” And then you order a takeaway.
Deciding what to eat with someone else is a negotiation nobody wants to have while hungry, and most recipe apps are built for one person browsing alone. SpoonFed takes the negotiation out of it: a meal only surfaces once you have both, separately, said yes to it.
How it works
Pair up
One person invites the other by email. They accept on their own phone.
Swipe separately
You each go through recipes at your own pace. Neither of you sees what the other picked.
Match
Like the same meal and it becomes a match. You're both told.
Plan the week
Matched meals go into a shared plan you can drag into order.
Shop
The plan becomes a shopping list grouped by aisle, scaled to your household.
Cook
Full method with step-by-step photos. Tick meals off as you go.
One meal at a time. Yes or no.
This is the whole interaction. A photo, how long it takes, how many it feeds, then yes or no. No lists to compare, no scrolling through options together, no talking anyone into anything. You go through the deck on your own phone, at your own pace.
- One meal on screen at a time
- Neither of you sees what the other picked
- Your likes stay yours until they match
Or browse the whole catalogue
If you would rather go looking than be shown, the full catalogue is there: by cuisine, by mood, by how long you have got. Liking works the same way from anywhere.
- Around 4,300 meals with photos, ingredients and method
- Browse by cuisine, mood or cooking time
- Like from the grid or from the recipe itself
What you both like becomes your week
When you have both liked the same meal it becomes a match, and you are both told. The matching runs on the server, so it works whether or not either of you has the app open.
- Matches arrive as a notification
- Matched meals collect in one shared list
- No negotiating, no one has to be the decider
Make it with what suits you
Plenty of dishes come in a few versions: beef, turkey, veggie. You match on the dish, then choose which version you are actually cooking. The ingredients and the shopping list follow your choice.
- Swap the protein after you have matched
- Ingredients update with the version you pick
- Add it straight to the week from the recipe
A week that shops well
Matched meals go into a shared weekly plan you can drag into order. It leans towards sets of meals that reuse the same ingredients, so you buy one bunch of coriander instead of three. Less on the bill and less in the bin.
- Drag meals into the order you will cook them
- Shopping list grouped by supermarket aisle
- Quantities scaled to your household size
Cook what you've got
Tell it what is in the fridge and it ranks meals by how close you are, naming exactly what is still missing. It answers “what is worth a quick shop?” rather than pretending you can cook from nothing.
- Ranked by how few ingredients you are missing
- Names what is missing, meal by meal
- Search and tick off what you already have
Two people, two diets
Allergies are shared. Taste stays personal.
Each of you sets your own diet and allergies. Allergies apply to both of you: a meal one of you cannot eat is not a meal you can cook together. Everything else stays yours, so you can still like a steak your vegetarian partner is never going to match on.
In private beta.
SpoonFed is a personal project, currently on TestFlight and used by two people. It is not on the App Store. If it sounds like something you would use, say hello.
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