What's For Dinner Tonight
What's For Dinner Tonight · Last updated July 18, 2026
What's For Dinner Tonight is built to respect your privacy. The short version: your recipes and pantry live on your device, we don't run ads or trackers, and we never sell your data. The details are below.
Your meals, pantry ingredients, tags, notes, and cooking history are stored locally on your iPhone using Apple's SwiftData. If your device is signed into iCloud, this data also syncs and backs up through your personal iCloud account (Apple's CloudKit) so it survives a new phone — that copy lives in your private iCloud storage, which we cannot access or read. Beyond your device and your own iCloud, this information goes nowhere except as described in the AI Features section below. There is no account to create and no sign-in.
The app's AI features — scanning a photo to identify ingredients, importing a recipe from a photo, generating meal ideas, and finding ingredient swaps — only run if you choose to use them. There are two ways to use them:
Photos you scan are used solely to identify ingredients or extract a recipe, and are not retained by us.
When you import a recipe from a web link, the page is fetched directly from your device — we have no servers in that path and never see the address. Most recipe sites publish structured recipe data, which is read entirely on your device with no AI involved. If a page has none and you use the AI features, the page's text is sent to your chosen provider (or through our backend if you subscribe) exactly as described above, solely to extract the recipe.
When you scan a product barcode, only the barcode number is sent — directly from your device — to Open Food Facts, an open community product database, to look up the product's name. No account or personal information accompanies the request (like any web request, they can see the request's IP address). Barcode reading itself happens entirely on your device. Product data comes from Open Food Facts under the Open Database License.
Subscriptions are processed by Apple (on iOS) or Google Play (on Android) and managed through RevenueCat, our subscription infrastructure provider. We receive your subscription status (active or expired, and which tier) associated with an anonymous identifier. We do not receive your name, email address, or payment details — Apple and Google handle all billing.
Everything above applies equally to the Android app, with one difference: the Android app currently stores your meals, pantry, and history only on your device — there is no iCloud on Android and the app has no cloud sync of its own yet. Back up your phone normally and your cookbook comes with it; uninstalling the app deletes its data. On Android, your bring-your-own API keys are stored in Android's encrypted storage, and canceling a subscription happens in Google Play → Subscriptions.
Because your content lives on your device, deleting the app removes your recipes, pantry, and history. To cancel a subscription, use Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on your iPhone.
The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.
Questions about privacy? Email brndnrsn@protonmail.com.
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