1 person2 people
Portions
Cooking for one or two
Choose one or two people. The choice is shared across recipe detail, cook mode, shopping and sharing, and supported numeric measures scale to sensible fractions.
Features
Small tools for the next meal.
Five tabs: Today, Plan, Shop, Recipes and Food guide. Around them, a handful of tools that keep cooking calm and the shopping honest.
Cook mode
One step on screen at a time.
Cook mode opens directly to the first instruction. Each step shows only the image and instruction, with compact navigation, so your eyes find the next thing to do at a glance.
- Opens at the first instruction
- One image and one instruction per step
- Back and Next, nothing more
Cook modeStep by step 2/4
Step 2 of 4
One step on screen. Read it, cook it, then tap Next.
Shopping
Buy what you need. Skip what you have.
Shop for a selected day, Today, the next three or seven days, all 14 days, or added recipes only. The next three and seven days end at Day 14.
- Check items as “Have it”
- Show only items to buy
- Share or copy the missing items
- Start a new trip
Day 1’s selected-day list is free. Broader shopping scopes come with Daybowl Premium.
Shop
Your shopping list
TodayNext 3Next 7All 14Added
Day 1
Cooking for
1 person2 people
Items to buy
Show only items to buy
Have it
Have it
Recipes
Find a recipe by name, tag or ingredient.
Search recipes by title, tag, ingredient and alias, then filter by type, meal and maximum cook time.
Day 1’s recipes are free. The full catalog comes with Daybowl Premium.
Recipes
Cook from the reset
Search recipes or ingredients
All mealsBreakfastLunchDinner
Oat Porridge
Chickpea Salad
Mixed Vegetable Curry
Premium recipe
Food guide
Meet the ingredients.
The Food guide has its own tab. Search it by name, alias, tag or category, and get to know the vegetables, pulses and grains in the plan.
Food guide
Food guide
Name, alias, tag or category
Bottle gourd
Green gram
Horse gram
Red amaranth
Snake gourd
Hide allergen & high-risk foods
Avoid list
Leave out what you avoid
Pick ingredients to avoid, or turn on Hide allergen & high-risk foods. Both apply across recipes, the plan and shopping lists. Safety adaptation is free.
Meal reminders
Evening prep
Reminders
Nudges, only if you want them
Meal and evening-prep notifications are optional, local and separately controlled. There are no reminders after Day 14.
Progress cards
Share a day you cooked
After a fully recorded day with at least one cooked meal, make a Post (1080 × 1350) or a Story (1080 × 1920). Cards use your actual cooked and skipped counts and recorded-day markers.
Works offline.
Daybowl works offline from a bundled catalog, and it stores your progress locally on your iPhone. It runs on iOS 17 and later.