Dish Detective

iOS & Android · Personal project

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Recipe ideas from the ingredients you already have.

The Dish Detective Discover screen with chicken and basil selected from the ingredient list and a Find Recipes button — Pick ingredients

The iPhone camera opened from Dish Detective, pointed at three bananas — Pick ingredients

The problem

Most homes have a few leftover ingredients and no plan for them. Without an idea of what to cook, they often go to waste.

What I built

Dish Detective turns what you already have into recipe ideas. Pick ingredients from the list, or put them all on the table and take a photo to select them at once. The app finds recipes that use your selection, shows each one with its ingredients, and lets you save favorites for later.

How I built it

I built it with Compose Multiplatform, so iOS and Android share the app’s logic and interface. Recipes come from TheMealDB, and ingredient recognition in photos uses the Gemini API.

Stack Kotlin · Compose Multiplatform · TheMealDB API · Gemini API

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