DISHDECODERSwiftUI · iOS

DishDecoder

Photo in, recipe out

Take a photo of any dish, yours or a restaurant's, and get back a complete recipe in seconds: ingredients, steps, cooking time, difficulty, and nutrition, powered by AI.

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DishDecoder app camera screen prompting the user to take a photo of a dish to get its recipe

DishDecoder home screen analyzing a photo, with past recipes listed by time, difficulty, and title

DishDecoder recipe screen showing a French apple tart with ingredients and prep steps

Figma file showing DishDecoder's onboarding, camera, and recipe screens designed and annotated before development — Designed and annotated in Figma before a line of Swift was written.

Most of the code came from prompting OpenAI's models, back when context windows were too small to one-shot a whole app like you can now: I built it one screen at a time, reviewing and editing the code by hand as I went, then switched to Cursor briefly near the end.