Hey Maëlle!
Fa-Hsu Shieh Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hey Maëlle! is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Fa-Hsu Shieh. Rated 5.0/5 from 4 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated April 29, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 4 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 50 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Apr 29
- 2026 · v1.2.0
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About Hey Maëlle!
COOK WITH CONFIDENCE. EVERY RECIPE, EVERY TIME. Hey Maëlle! is the AI-powered recipe app built for the 32 million Americans living with food allergies. Set your allergens once and every recipe is automatically safe — whether AI-generated or scanned from a cookbook. ALLERGEN PROTECTION THAT NEVER SLEEPS — Tracks 16 allergens: Big 9 plus gluten, celery, mustard, lupin, molluscs, sulphites, and corn — Hidden allergen detection catches ingredients like casein, whey, and modified food starch — Server-side safety checking validates every recipe before you see it — 20+ dietary preferences: keto, vegan, halal, kosher, paleo, Mediterranean, DASH, and more SNAP A COOKBOOK. DIGITIZE A RECIPE. Nothing else does this. Point your camera at any cookbook page, handwritten recipe card, or PDF and Chef Maëlle digitizes it instantly. Every scanned recipe gets: — Automatic allergen detection and warnings — Complete nutritional information — Step-by-step guided cooking instructions — Saved to your collection forever No more cookbooks gathering dust. No more wondering if grandma's recipe is safe. AI RECIPES FROM YOUR KITCHEN Tell Chef Maëlle what's in your fridge, your allergies, and your preferences. She creates original recipes in seconds — not searched from a database, created just for you. Using ingredients you already have. COMPLETE COOKING COMPANION — Step-by-step guided cooking with built-in timers — AI cooking assistant: ask questions, substitute ingredients, adjust servings — Voice-enabled for hands-free cooking — Weekly meal planner with automatic grocery lists — Dinner time reminders so you never forget to start cooking — Nutritional info on every recipe — Save, rate, and share recipes Organize your favorites into personal Cookbooks — curate collections for weeknight dinners, meal prep, special diets, or anything else. Share them publicly and discover recipes from a community of home cooks and chefs. Follow the chefs you love and let their best dishes show up in your feed. Export any recipe or your entire cookbook as a beautifully formatted PDF — perfect for printing, gifting, or keeping offline. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Free forever: 15 AI recipes/month, 5 cookbook scans/month, full allergen protection, guided cooking, and grocery lists. No credit card required. Pro ($6.99/month or $49.99/year): Unlimited recipes, unlimited meal planning, 10 cookbook scans/day, and more. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS — Photos processed and immediately discarded. Never stored. — Encrypted token storage — We never sell your data — CCPA compliant — AI disclaimers on every recipe Built with love for allergy families by a parent who gets it. Available on iOS and web at heymaelle.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.2.0 · Updated April 29, 2026
- Cookbook creation and management - Community recipe feed - Improved performance and storage efficiency - Bug fixes
App privacy
The developer, Fa-Hsu Shieh, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Other Usage Data
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Audio Data
Used for: App Functionality
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