Smidgen
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Every recipe,
made yours.
Save recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or the web with a tap. See what you eat with verified nutrition data, clear environmental ratings, and adaptations based on your cooking goals.
Verified nutrition
Official UK food data
Save anywhere
TikTok, Instagram, web, and photos
Goal-led adaptation
Fewer carbs, dairy-free, lower footprint and more
Honest nutrition
Official UK tables vs estimates
Sustainability
Planet, people, and animal ratings
Private by design
Health details stay on your phone
Save recipes from anywhere without the clutter.
Found a dinner idea on TikTok or Instagram Reels? Reading a food blog buried under life stories and adverts? Or looking at a handwritten recipe card from family?
Share a link to Smidgen or take a photo, and it pulls out the ingredients, amounts and steps.
- Photo import for printed cookbooks and handwritten cards
- Offline access so your recipes are always ready
Adapt recipes to your goals.
Adaptation starts from your goals. Choose what you want, such as fewer carbs, dairy-free or a lower footprint, and Smidgen suggests ingredient changes to match.
- Seven goals: vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, more protein, fewer carbs and a lower footprint
- Clear reasoning: each suggestion names the goal it serves and why it was chosen
- Flags what to check: a change that may not suit a goal, or may contain an allergen you have set, is marked
- You stay in control: review each change and keep only the ones you want
Nutrition that tells you the truth.
Most recipe apps guess nutritional numbers and present them as fact. If you are watching what you eat, guessing is not good enough.
Calculated directly from CoFID, the UK official food composition dataset.
Provided directly by the recipe author or publisher.
Calculated using AI when an ingredient is not in the official tables.
Left blank rather than guessed when information is missing.
See the impact of what you cook.
Smidgen looks at each dish two ways:
Planet
A grade per serving and the specific ingredients that drive it, calculated from published lifecycle research.
People & animals
Supply-chain concerns such as labour conditions and animal welfare, named per ingredient.
- Evidence-based: grounded in published agricultural research rather than marketing claims
Plan a week, then cook step by step.
Pick recipes for a week with Plan a week, step between weeks as your plans change, and let Smidgen turn your plan into a shopping list grouped by supermarket aisle.
- Plan a week: pick recipes for the week and step forward or back between weeks
- Aisle-grouped shopping list: ingredients sorted by supermarket aisle
- Cook mode: large step cards, screen stays on, and built-in timers
Share your library with the people you cook with.
Share one recipe library with everyone in your home. Send an invite link to bring others into your household collection, so everyone can browse and plan from the same recipes.
- Shared library: share one recipe collection with the people you cook with
- Invite with a link: add family or housemates with a simple invite link
- Notes with names: each person adds their own notes to shared recipes
Your health details stay on your phone. Always.
Why should a recipe app send your medical conditions or health profile to a remote server? We believe it should not.
In Smidgen, health conditions remain strictly on your device. When you ask to adapt a recipe, your phone only shares practical cooking goals — such as fewer carbs or dairy-free — so our servers never receive your medical history.
No medical diagnoses in our databases. No health tracking. No selling profiles to data brokers. Every commitment is verified against our source code in our technical privacy commitments.
Help test Smidgen on Android
We are testing Smidgen on Android before opening the closed beta. If you would like to test early builds and give feedback, ask to join our testing group. Testers get three months of Smidgen Plus free when we launch publicly.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about Smidgen, data privacy, and testing access.
Which platforms are supported? ▼
Smidgen is built for Android devices running Android 9 and newer, distributed through Google Play. An iOS version is planned after public release.
How does importing a recipe work? ▼
Share a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link, or a recipe website, to Smidgen, or take a photo of a cookbook page or recipe card. Smidgen reads the caption, page or photo and pulls out the ingredients and steps, leaving out the chat and adverts. Pinterest isn't supported yet: open the recipe's own site and share that instead.
What is CoFID, and how does Smidgen verify nutrition? ▼
CoFID (the Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, originally established by McCance & Widdowson) is the UK Government official food composition dataset. When Smidgen marks nutrition as Verified, the numbers come directly from these tables. When an ingredient is not in the database, we calculate an Estimated figure using AI, clearly labelled so you always know what to trust.
Does my health or dietary information leave my phone? ▼
No. Health conditions are stored strictly on your phone. When you ask to adapt a recipe, your phone translates your preferences into practical cooking goals (such as less carbohydrate or no dairy) before making the request. Diagnoses and conditions are never sent to our servers or stored in the cloud.
Can I use Smidgen offline in the kitchen? ▼
Yes. All recipes in your personal collection, weekly meal plans, and cook mode are cached on your device. You can cook, scale servings, and use timers without an active internet connection.
Is Smidgen free to use? ▼
Yes. Saving, planning, cooking, checked nutrition, the sustainability grade and household sharing are free. Imports the AI has to read come with a weekly allowance, shown with the day it resets.
What does Smidgen Plus add? ▼
Smidgen Plus gives you bigger allowances for recipe imports and AI features, planner goals with carbohydrate budgets, and meal planning from what is in your fridge. Early subscribers get a founder price of £3.99 a month or £29.99 a year, kept for as long as the subscription runs.