# Fridge.Menu

> Save recipes from a link, a photo or plain text, track your pantry by barcode, and get a shopping list and a weekly menu that fill themselves. Fridge.Menu is free on the App Store.

fridge.menu is the home page of the domain; the app itself runs at https://recipe.fridge.menu/.

## What the app does

- Saves a recipe from a link to a recipe site, from a photo of a cookbook page, or from plain text such as a message.
- Turns any of those into one clean recipe with ingredients and steps, sorted into categories, searchable, with favourites.
- A pantry tracked by scanning a barcode, a shopping list that fills itself from what a recipe or a meal plan is missing, and a weekly menu built from what is on hand.
- Family sharing — one pantry, one shopping list and one weekly menu for everyone in it.
- Hands-free cooking mode with step-by-step timers, and an AI assistant for what to cook and what to substitute.
- Offline-first: saved recipes open without a connection and sync afterwards.
- Free on the App Store for iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6754548085.
- App interface is available in English and Ukrainian; the assistant and cooking mode support more.

## About this page

- It has four looks — morning, day, evening, night — chosen from the visitor's own clock.
- The boundaries are real solar times (civil dawn, solar noon, sunset, civil dusk) derived from the browser's IANA time zone. No geolocation is requested and nothing is sent anywhere.
- Append ?tod=morning, ?tod=day, ?tod=evening or ?tod=night to see a particular state.

## Questions and answers

### What is Fridge.Menu?

A recipe app that keeps everything you cook in one place. You save a recipe from a link, a photo of a cookbook page or a message someone sent you, and it becomes a clean recipe with ingredients and steps. It runs on iPhone and lives at recipe.fridge.menu.

### How do I get a recipe into it?

Three ways: paste a link to a recipe site, photograph a page of a cookbook, or paste plain text. Each one ends up as the same tidy recipe, sorted into your categories.

### Does it work without a connection?

Yes. The app is offline-first, so your saved recipes open in the kitchen whether or not the Wi-Fi reaches there, and sync when you are back.

### How do I get the app?

It is free on the App Store for iPhone. Install it and start saving recipes, tracking your pantry and planning your week right away.

### Why does this page keep changing?

It follows the sun where you are. Morning, midday, evening and night each have their own photo, palette and question — worked out from your time zone, with no location prompt and nothing sent anywhere.

## Product catalog and recipe pages

- The grocery product catalog lives at https://fridge.menu/uk/p/ and https://fridge.menu/en/p/ — barcode, name, brand, category, description, composition and nutrition for products collected from public sources 2015–2021, plus category shelves under /uk/c/... and /en/c/....
- A shared recipe page lives at https://recipe.fridge.menu/r/<slug> — one recipe a user chose to make public, with its title, category, servings and time, ingredients and numbered steps.
- Every one of those pages also answers in Markdown: request the same URL with ".md" appended (for example https://fridge.menu/uk/p/<key>.md or https://recipe.fridge.menu/r/<slug>.md), or send `Accept: text/markdown` to the ordinary URL. Either way you get the same content as the page, without its layout or styling.
- Read yes, train no: an agent reading a page to answer a question right now — including search and answer agents such as OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot — is welcome to fetch and quote these pages. Bulk crawling to build a training corpus is not permitted; the machine-readable rules are in https://fridge.menu/robots.txt.

## Translations

- [English (en)](https://fridge.menu/)
- [Українська (uk)](https://fridge.menu/uk/)
- [Español (es)](https://fridge.menu/es/)
- [Português (pt)](https://fridge.menu/pt/)
- [Deutsch (de)](https://fridge.menu/de/)
- [Français (fr)](https://fridge.menu/fr/)
- [Italiano (it)](https://fridge.menu/it/)
- [Polski (pl)](https://fridge.menu/pl/)
- [日本語 (ja)](https://fridge.menu/ja/)
- [Türkçe (tr)](https://fridge.menu/tr/)
- [Nederlands (nl)](https://fridge.menu/nl/)