How Fridjy works
Snap your fridge, cook what you have, waste less, and share what you make. Here's everything the app can do — jump to a section or scroll through.
🚀 Getting started
You can browse recipes without an account. To save recipes, post, follow cooks, or track your fridge, create a free account.
- 1Sign up with your name, email and a password (at least 6 characters). We ask for nothing else — no phone number.
- 2You'll pass a quick “I'm human” check (Cloudflare Turnstile) — it's invisible or one tap, and sets no tracking cookies.
- 3Head to My Kitchen to start cooking.
Your name in the top-right opens your account menu: Messages, My Kitchen, Community feed, your public profile, Saved recipes, Pantry, Submit a recipe, and Profile & activity.
🧊 Your fridge & finding recipes
- Snap your fridge / cupboard in Fridge & Cupboard — Fridjy reads what you have.
- On My Kitchen, the search box takes plain language (“something quick with chicken”) and filters, and Fridjy highlights recipes you can cook now from what's in your fridge.
- Open any recipe for ingredients, method, cost per serving, and a wine/drink pairing.
- Import a recipe from a web link, or bring in a whole cookbook (EPUB) — recipe authors and admins can submit.
👨🍳 Cooking a recipe
Inside any recipe you'll find:
- Servings scaler — tap − / + and every ingredient amount and the cost update live.
- ⇄ Metric / Imperial — switch units (g↔oz, ml↔fl oz, kg↔lb) instantly.
- 👨🍳 Cook Mode — a big, full-screen, one-step-at-a-time view that keeps your screen awake. Use the buttons, or your keyboard's arrow keys / space bar. Tap 🧺 to peek at the ingredients.
- 🎙️ Cook hands-free — voice-guided steps; say “next”, “back”, “repeat”, or set a timer.
- 🖨️ Print — a clean, printable recipe card at your chosen serving size.
- ✅ I cooked this — logs the meal and removes those items from your fridge.
🛒 Shopping list & meal planner
- Shopping list — tick recipes on My Kitchen and Fridjy builds one combined list, grouped by aisle, with items you already have subtracted out. Email it to yourself or print it. (We use your own email app — Fridjy stores no contact details.)
- Meal planner — plan the week (Meal planner), then generate a shopping list for the whole plan in one tap.
- Saved recipes — tap 🔖 Save on any recipe; find them all in Saved recipes, organise them into collections, and add private notes.
📰 Community
- Feed — your feed shows cooksnaps and new recipes from cooks you follow, plus what's trending.
- Profiles & Follow — tap any cook's name to see their profile and recipes, and follow them. Edit your own public profile (handle, bio, general location) from it.
- Cooksnaps — post an “I made this” photo on any recipe.
- Reviews & comments — rate recipes, write reviews with a photo, and ask questions.
- ⚑ Report — see the flag on cooksnaps and comments? Use it to report anything that breaks our Community Guidelines; our moderators review every report.
🥗 Nutrition & scanning
- Recipes can show an estimated per-serving breakdown (calories, protein, carbs, fat).
- Scan a product's barcode at the shop to pull in its nutrition (via Open Food Facts) — and that scan then helps everyone's recipe estimates.
- Figures are estimates only — please read the Food, Nutrition & Allergen Disclaimer, especially if you have allergies.
🔒 Your account & privacy
From Profile & activity you control everything:
- Change password at any time.
- ⬇️ Download my data — get a full copy of your account and content (GDPR data portability).
- Delete account — permanently erase your personal data (right to be forgotten). Your published recipes stay only in anonymised form unless you delete them too.
- Forgotten your password? See password help.
Fridjy is designed to hold the minimum about you: no phone numbers, no trackers, only truncated/pseudonymised IP records, and no selling of your data. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
📲 Install Fridjy as an app
Fridjy works like a real app on your phone or computer — offline-friendly, full-screen, with its own icon.
- Android / Chrome / Edge: tap 📲 Install the app in the footer, or your browser's “Install” / “Add to Home screen” prompt.
- iPhone / iPad (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
- Desktop: click the install icon in your browser's address bar.
♿ Accessibility
Tap the ♿ button (bottom-left of any page) to change theme (light / dark / high-contrast), resize text, reduce motion, have the page read aloud, or use voice commands. More in our Accessibility statement.
❓ Frequently asked questions
Is Fridjy free?
Yes — creating an account and using Fridjy is free.
Do I need to enter my phone number?
No. We never ask for a phone number. We use your own email app for things like shopping lists, so we don't store contact lists either.
How accurate is the nutrition information?
It's an estimate built from third-party food databases and ingredient matching, and it varies by brand and portion. Don't rely on it for medical or precise dietary needs — see the disclaimer.
I have a food allergy — can I trust the labels?
Treat allergen and ingredient info as a guide, not a guarantee. Always check the packaging of the products you actually use. Please read the Food & Allergen Disclaimer.
How do I report something offensive?
Use the ⚑ Report control on the cooksnap, comment or recipe. Our moderators review every report against the Community Guidelines.
Can I get my data, or delete my account?
Yes — both from Profile & activity: “Download my data” and “Delete account”.
I forgot my password.
Go to password help and enter your email — we'll email you a secure reset link so you can set a new password yourself. The link is single-use and expires after a while.
Does Fridjy work offline?
Once installed, pages you've opened keep working offline. You'll need a connection to load new recipes or save changes.
Still stuck?
Email us any time at hello@fridjy.com — we're happy to help.