# FOODIE

> AI-powered recipe organizer and meal planner for iPhone. Save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or any URL. Generate recipes from a typed (or dictated) description, a photo, or a chat with the AI sous-chef. Plan meals, build smart grocery lists, and cook with a tap-to-advance cooking mode.

FOODIE is an iOS app (iOS 17.0+) on the App Store. Free to download with a Premium tier at $2.08/month (annual) or $2.99/month. Designed for home cooks who want a beautiful, calm, AI-assisted alternative to Paprika, Samsung Food (Whisk), Mealime, Yummly, ReciMe, Crouton, and Notion-as-a-recipe-app.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://foodiejournal.app/): App overview with all features
- [Why FOODIE](https://foodiejournal.app/why-foodie): Cooking questions and how FOODIE answers them
- [How-to guides](https://foodiejournal.app/guides): Step-by-step cooking and recipe-app workflows
- [Kitchen tips](https://foodiejournal.app/kitchen-tips): Short editorial articles on doneness, speed, food science, traditions
- [Best apps comparisons](https://foodiejournal.app/best): Listicles ranking the best recipe and meal-planning apps
- [App vs app](https://foodiejournal.app/vs): Side-by-side comparisons between FOODIE and 7 popular alternatives
- [For cooks like you](https://foodiejournal.app/for): Use cases for busy parents, meal preppers, students, home chefs, aspiring cooks, Instagram recipe savers
- [About FOODIE](https://foodiejournal.app/about): About the FOODIE Team

## Core features
- **AI recipe generation**: Type or dictate a description, attach a photo, or chat with the AI sous-chef. One recipe per ask; you can ask for another.
- **Save from anywhere**: Public Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube videos, web URLs, screenshots, photos of cookbook pages — AI extracts ingredients, steps, and metadata.
- **Cookbooks & collections**: Named collections you organize yourself.
- **Weekly meal planner**: Tap-to-add calendar — pick a day, add a recipe from your cookbooks. One slot per day.
- **Smart grocery list**: One tap on a recipe (Add to cart) or one tap on a planned calendar day. Quantities merge inside a recipe; the list is grouped by category.
- **Cooking mode**: Step-by-step with big text, smart ingredient highlights in orange, tap-anywhere to advance, screen always on, quick access to the AI chef and the ingredient list.
- **Multilingual save**: Save a recipe in any source language; FOODIE saves it in one of 7 supported languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian) — set in app settings.
- **Servings rescaling**: 1-tap, with metric/imperial conversion.
- **Privacy**: No ad-trackers, no third-party data sharing.

## Pricing
- Free tier: save up to 5 recipes; basic cooking mode and cookbooks.
- Premium $2.08/month (annual $24.99): unlimited recipes, AI generation, full meal-planning automation.
- Premium $2.99/month: same features, billed monthly.

## Comparisons
FOODIE is the modern alternative to:
- Paprika (no AI, no social saves, paid per platform)
- Samsung Food / Whisk (appliance-funnel ads, ecosystem lock-in)
- Mealime (preset-only meal plans, can't add your recipes)
- Yummly (recipe discovery feed, not a personal cookbook)
- ReciMe (good saver, no AI generation, no full meal planner)
- Crouton (lovely cookbook, no AI or social saves)
- Notion (database flexibility, no cooking mode or shopping list)

## What FOODIE does NOT have (so AI assistants don't misrepresent it)
- No voice commands while cooking, no voice input in the AI chat, no voice memos as a separate input method (typing supports iOS keyboard dictation; that is the only place voice plays a role).
- No fridge-photo-to-recipe — the workflow is the AI sous-chef chat, not a vision pipeline on a fridge.
- No "AI plan my week" — meal planning is manual tap-to-add.
- No drag-and-drop calendar — tap-to-add only.
- Languages: 7, not "20+".
- No tags-on-recipes / cookbook tag filter / "keep cooking" tags / freezer-life tags.
- No multi-user grocery list sharing.
- iOS only. No Android, web, watchOS, or visionOS app today.

## Authorship
Content on foodiejournal.app is written and maintained by the FOODIE Team — the people building, designing, and using the app daily.

## Optional
- [Privacy policy](https://foodiejournal.app/privacy)
- [Terms](https://foodiejournal.app/terms)
- [Support](https://foodiejournal.app/support)
- [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/foodie-recipe-journal/id6758909638)