Saapadu – Meal Planner

Saapadu means "food" in Tamil - a smart meal planner for South Indian home cooks who want better variety, less repetition, and zero decision fatigue. ------------------------------------- SMART DAILY SUGGESTIONS ------------------------------------- Get three personalized meal cards for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Saapadu auto-detects the current meal by time of day. Every suggestion is scored for freshness: - Health score - healthier dishes rank higher - Recency - recent meals are deprioritized for two weeks - Frequency - often-logged dishes appear less in 30 days - Meal-time fit - breakfast idlis, lunch rice, dinner chapathi - Smart variety - keeps plans from feeling repetitive Don't like a card? Shuffle just that one - others stay. Tap Change to search your full list with veg/non-veg filters. Tap Done - Log it, or use Log a meal to record anything in seconds. Veg Day badge shows when non-veg is off the menu. ------------------------------------- MONTHLY MEAL PLANNING ------------------------------------- See your full calendar month from the 1st across every active meal slot. Auto-generate a balanced plan that avoids repeats and spreads cuisines across the week. Lunch and dinner support mix-and-match - two dishes per slot, like a real thali. Tap + to add, swipe to remove. Navigate months, regenerate with one tap, and browse completed months tracked for the year. Plans save locally. ------------------------------------- MEAL HISTORY ------------------------------------- Every logged meal makes tomorrow smarter. Browse by day or week, search by food, meal type, or date, swipe to delete entries. Logs feed the engine so suggestions stay varied. ------------------------------------- RECIPES - BUILT IN AND YOUR OWN ------------------------------------- 52+ South Indian favourites offline: Idli, Dosa, Sambar Rice, Chicken Biriyani, Chapathi, Curd Rice, and more. Add unlimited family recipes with cuisine, diet type, meal time, and health score (1-10). Search, filter, edit, swipe to delete. Optional recipe library (up to 1,000 dishes) mixes in at an adjustable inclusion percentage. Library recipes with source links open in Safari. ------------------------------------- DIETARY FLEXIBILITY ------------------------------------- Built for real South Indian households: - Vegetarian-only mode - Per-ingredient non-veg schedule - set allowed days for eggs, fish, chicken, mutton, beef, pork, and more independently - Example: chicken weekdays, fish Fridays, mutton Sundays - day-circle toggles with All/Off shortcuts - Optional Brunch and Snack slots - enable only if you use them; plans update instantly - Recipe library inclusion slider - from your recipes only to mostly library picks ------------------------------------- PRIVATE AND OFFLINE ------------------------------------- Works entirely on your iPhone or iPad. No account. No cloud. No ads. No tracking. Recipes, logs, and plans stay on your device. System light/dark mode. Five tabs: Suggest, Month, History, Recipes, Settings. Perfect for families, mixed-diet households, and privacy-conscious home cooks. Saapadu - deciding what to cook should take ten seconds, not ten minutes.