# Grublin

> Grublin is a free recipe app for iPhone and Android. You set your allergies, intolerances and diet once. Then you tell Grub, the goblin who lives in your fridge, what you have, what you fancy, or show him a photo of your shelf or of a dish you want, and he writes a complete recipe that fits all of it.

- What it is: A free recipe app for iPhone, iPad and Android. It writes a new recipe for what you have and how you eat, rather than searching other people's recipes.
- Dietary rules: Nine allergens and intolerances (tree nuts, peanut, shellfish, fish, dairy, egg, gluten, soy, sesame), fourteen diets (vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, halal, kosher, low-carb, low-fat, high-protein, keto, low-FODMAP, paleo, low-sugar, low-salt, GLP-1 friendly) and a free-text list of ingredients you don't like, set once and applied to every recipe. Allergens, vegetarian, vegan, halal and kosher are re-checked in the finished recipe by our own code; the other diets steer the recipe.
- Ways to ask: Type what's in the fridge; say what you fancy; or photograph a shelf, a cupboard, a finished dish or a takeaway (Super Grub). Photo scanning is free and photos are not stored.
- Kitchen kit: Gas, electric, Aga or no oven, plus microwave, air fryer, slow cooker, pressure cooker, grill and wok. Recipes only use kit you own.
- Per-meal choices: How many you're feeding, kid-friendly, how fancy (weeknight, a bit special, impressive), spice level, seventeen cuisines to lean towards, metric or US measurements.
- Recipe styles: Default, ADHD friendly, New to cooking or Executive summary: how the method is written, never what is in the dish.
- After the recipe: Tweak it (same dish, adjusted) or ask for a completely different idea. Save favourites.
- Pricing: Free: a few recipes a day, another whenever you want one by watching a short ad, up to five saved recipes. Premium subscription (monthly or annual, through the App Store or Google Play): unlimited recipes, no ads, unlimited saved recipes.
- Not an inventory app: Nothing to log. No pantry database, no receipt scanning, no expiry dates. Name a few things or take a photo and the recipe comes back in seconds.
- Account: None. Preferences and saved recipes stay on your device. An anonymous device token meters the free allowance.
- How it works: A small Gemini language model writes the recipe and reads photos. Our own code builds the brief, checks the result against your allergens and enforced diets, and meters the service. Nothing is trained on your data.
- Made by: Jonathan Russell, an independent developer in the United Kingdom.

## Start here

- [The recipe app that already knows how you eat](https://grublin.ai/): Free recipe app for iPhone and Android. Set allergies and diet once, then type what's in the fridge, say what you fancy, or take a photo. Every recipe fits you.

## Point the camera at anything. Get a recipe.

- [Point the camera at anything. Get a recipe.](https://grublin.ai/photo-to-recipe): Photograph your fridge and Super Grub reads the ingredients. Photograph a dish or takeaway you're craving and he writes a recipe to make it at home.
- [Photograph the takeaway you're craving. Cook it tonight.](https://grublin.ai/photo-to-recipe/homemade-takeaway): Photograph the takeaway or restaurant dish you're craving and Super Grub writes a recipe to make it at home, inside your allergies and diet, with your kit.

## Recipes that fit your allergies, intolerances and diet

- [Recipes that fit your allergies, intolerances and diet](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet): Set vegan, gluten, dairy, nut, halal, kosher, keto and more once. Every Grublin recipe fits those rules, whether you're using up the fridge or craving a curry.
- [Dairy-free recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/dairy-free): Set dairy once and every Grublin recipe avoids milk, butter, cream, cheese, whey, casein and ghee, while coconut and oat milk pass. Re-checked by code.
- [Egg-free recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/egg-free): Set egg once and every Grublin recipe avoids eggs and the dishes that hide them: mayonnaise, aioli, hollandaise, meringue, quiche. Re-checked by code.
- [GLP-1 friendly recipes for a smaller appetite](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/glp-1-friendly): Set GLP-1 friendly once and Grublin steers every recipe toward protein first, plenty of veg and nothing greasy, for a smaller appetite. Steered, not medical advice.
- [Gluten-free recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/gluten-free): Set gluten once and every Grublin recipe avoids wheat, barley, rye and where they hide: soy sauce, beer, couscous, wheat noodles. Re-checked by code.
- [Halal recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/halal): Set halal once and every Grublin recipe avoids pork, alcohol in the cooking and gelatine, with wine vinegar allowed. Re-checked by code, from fridge or craving.
- [Keto recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/keto): Set keto once and Grublin steers every recipe towards very low carb, high fat, from the ingredients in your fridge or the dish you fancy. Steered, not counted.
- [Kosher-style recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/kosher): Set kosher once and every Grublin recipe avoids pork and shellfish, re-checked by code. Meat-and-dairy separation and certification are not checked.
- [Low-carb recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/low-carb): Set low-carb once and Grublin steers every recipe away from bread, pasta, rice and potatoes, from your fridge or the dish you fancy. Steered, not counted.
- [Low-FODMAP recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/low-fodmap): Set low-FODMAP once and Grublin steers every recipe away from onion, garlic, wheat and other high-FODMAP foods. Steered, not checked: verify against your list.
- [Nut-free recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/nut-free): Set tree nuts and peanut once and every Grublin recipe avoids them, including pesto, marzipan, satay and nut flours. Re-checked by code before you see it.
- [Pescatarian recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/pescatarian): Set pescatarian once and Grublin steers every recipe towards fish, seafood and vegetables with no meat, from your fridge or your craving. Steered, not checked.
- [Vegan recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/vegan): Set vegan once and every Grublin recipe is free of meat, fish, dairy, egg and honey, with plant-based lookalikes allowed. Re-checked by code.
- [Vegetarian recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/recipes-for-your-diet/vegetarian): Set vegetarian once and every Grublin recipe avoids meat, fish, shellfish, gelatine, lard and suet, while veggie sausages pass. Re-checked by code.

## What should I cook tonight?

- [What should I cook tonight?](https://grublin.ai/what-to-cook-tonight): Staring into the fridge with no idea? Tell Grub what's in, or what you fancy, and get a decision, not 400 search results. Break the same-seven-dinners rut.
- [ADHD-friendly recipes that don't lose you halfway](https://grublin.ai/what-to-cook-tonight/adhd-friendly): Grublin's ADHD friendly recipe style writes every method with the prep first, one action per step, exact times and clear "done when" cues. No choices mid-cook.
- [Aubergines at 29p. Never cooked one. No problem.](https://grublin.ai/what-to-cook-tonight/bargain-shopping): Aubergines at 29p and you've never cooked one? Type it in. Grublin writes a recipe around whatever the offer shelf threw at you and lists the staples to grab.
- [In from work. Four kids. No plan. Dinner in one tap.](https://grublin.ai/what-to-cook-tonight/family-dinners): In from work, kids hungry, no plan. Grublin decides from what's in the fridge; its Kid-friendly switch keeps dinner mild, familiar and balanced, veg worked in.
- [Cook like you've got money. Spend like a student.](https://grublin.ai/what-to-cook-tonight/student-cooking): Grublin turns what's left in a student fridge into real dinners and late-night snacks, works with a microwave and a kettle, handles allergies, and is free.

## Recipes for the kitchen you actually have

- [Recipes for the kitchen you actually have](https://grublin.ai/cook-with-your-kit): Tell Grublin your kitchen: gas, electric, Aga or no oven, plus air fryer, slow cooker, pressure cooker, microwave, grill or wok. Recipes only use kit you own.
- [Aga recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/cook-with-your-kit/aga): Set Aga as your heat source and Grublin writes for a range cooker, not a dial, from the ingredients you have, inside your allergies and diet.
- [Air fryer recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/cook-with-your-kit/air-fryer): Tell Grublin you own an air fryer and it uses it where it helps, writing air fryer dinners from the ingredients you have, inside your allergies and diet.
- [Recipes with no oven at all](https://grublin.ai/cook-with-your-kit/no-oven): Set your heat source to none and say what you do have, such as a microwave or air fryer. Grublin writes real dinners from your ingredients with only that kit.
- [Slow cooker recipes from whatever's in your fridge](https://grublin.ai/cook-with-your-kit/slow-cooker): Tell Grublin you own a slow cooker and it writes long-and-low dinners from the ingredients you have, inside your allergies and diet, method written out in full.

## About and support

- [How Grublin uses AI, and why I built it](https://grublin.ai/how-grublin-uses-ai): A plain account of what the AI in Grublin does, what our own code does, which model it uses, what leaves your phone, where it can be wrong, and why I built it.
- [Support](https://grublin.ai/support): Help with Grublin: allergies and diets, photo scanning, free recipes and ads, managing or cancelling Premium, deleting your data, and how to contact us.

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://grublin.ai/privacy): How Grublin handles your data: preferences and saved recipes stay on your device, photos are not stored, and an anonymous device token meters free recipes.
- [Terms of Service](https://grublin.ai/terms): Terms for using the Grublin app and website, including the food-safety and allergen notice, the free tier and ads, and the Premium auto-renewing subscription.