Foodly is a mobile-first cooking assistant that turns the ingredients people already have at home into clear, personalized recipes ready to cook. Users take a photo of their available ingredients, choose how much time they have, and Foodly suggests recipes that match their preferences, allergies, and lifestyle.
The goal is simple: spend less time deciding what to cook, waste less food, and make everyday meals easier to plan.
People often have food in the fridge but no clear idea of how to turn it into a meal. That leads to unnecessary shopping, food waste, and the feeling of cooking the same dishes over and over again.
Foodly solves that exact moment: "I have these ingredients. What can I cook right now?"
Foodly works as a personal cooking assistant:
- The user uploads or takes a photo of their ingredients.
- The app identifies the visible ingredients.
- The user adjusts preferences such as available time, diet, and allergies.
- Foodly generates realistic recipes with step-by-step instructions.
- Recipes can be saved, rated, reviewed, and organized in a meal calendar.
- Ingredient scanning from a photo.
- AI-powered personalized recipe generation.
- Recipes adapted to dietary preferences and allergies.
- Recipe pages with duration, calories per serving, ingredients, and instructions.
- Dynamic ingredient quantities based on the number of servings.
- Favorites to save the best recipes.
- Likes and reviews to highlight the most valued recipes.
- Search and filters by ingredient, cuisine, diet, cooking method, meal type, difficulty, time, calories, price, and seasonality.
- Meal planner with calendar view.
- Automatic meal plan generation for 7 days, 30 days, or a custom period.
- Mobile-first experience designed for daily kitchen use.
Foodly is designed for people who want to cook more at home without overthinking it:
- Busy people who need quick meal ideas.
- Families planning weekly meals.
- Students and professionals who want to make better use of what they already have.
- Users with dietary preferences or allergies who need more personalized suggestions.
- Anyone interested in reducing food waste.
Foodly combines three everyday needs in one experience:
- Make better use of available food.
- Decide what to cook faster.
- Turn individual recipes into a practical weekly meal plan.
It is not just a recipe search engine. Foodly starts from the user's real context: their ingredients, their time, their preferences, and their calendar.
The app is designed to be direct:
- Open the app.
- Take a photo.
- Get recipe ideas.
- Save what you like.
- Plan your meals.
The focus is to reduce friction and help users move from "I do not know what to cook" to "I have a realistic recipe I can make now."
- Recipes generated from the user's real ingredients.
- Personalization based on allergies and preferences.
- Integrated meal planning.
- Personal recipe library through favorites.
- Practical filters for time, cost, calories, difficulty, and more.
- Mobile-first approach, ideal for use in the kitchen.
Foodly is a functional MVP that demonstrates the full flow: ingredient recognition, recipe generation, favorites, ratings, reviews, filters, and meal planning.
The project is focused on validating an AI-assisted cooking experience that helps real users save time, make better use of their food, and organize weekly meals more easily.