Core Features & Architecture
Explore how Minthee organizes your meals, scores dish recommendations privately on your device, coordinates flexible meal plans, and compiles aisle-sorted grocery lists.
Recipe Collections & Repeat Frequency
On your Home screen, Minthee organizes your personal recipe database into categorized collections while scoring every dish behind the scenes to answer one question: What should we cook next?
- ✓Rating-Influenced: Your 1 to 10 star ratings weight recommendations and Meal Plan suggestions toward dishes your household loves.
- ✓Repeat Frequency: Each dish has a repeat frequency (1 to 60 days, default 15 days). A cooked dish rests until its repeat frequency interval elapses.
- ✓Rediscover Forgotten Favorites: High-rated dishes that haven't been cooked in weeks are surfaced in your Rediscover collection and boosted in weekly plans.
- ✓Category & Tag Collections: Browse across Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast, and Dessert collections or filter by custom tags and ingredients.
How Meal Recommendations Work
Adjust the sliders below to see how ratings and resting days combine to choose today's recommended dish.
Meal Calendar & Real Life Events
Planning shouldn't break when plans change. Minthee's weekly planner lets you organize delicious home-cooked meals alongside real calendar events like dining out, family gatherings, and leftovers.
- ✓Plan Week: Tap Plan Week to automatically slot ready-to-cook meals into unassigned days based on your scoring engine.
- ✓Special Event Days: Schedule Dining Out, Leftovers, or Family Gatherings. Event days keep your schedule realistic and prevent unneeded grocery checklist entries.
- ✓Drag-to-Reorder: Long-press any meal card to drag and swap meals between days when your schedule shifts.
- ✓Flexible Start Day: Configure your week to start on Monday, Sunday, or dynamic Today mode.
Calendar Planning & Grocery Sync
Assign meals, schedule dining out or leftovers, and compile an ingredient checklist with one tap.
Connected Grocery Checklist
Connect your recipes directly to your shopping cart.
- ✓Import from Meal Plan: Scans all planned dishes for the selected week, compiles all ingredients, and marks their source recipe.
- ✓Pantry Stock Tracking: Mark items you already have as "In Stock" so your shopping trip is focused only on what's missing.
- ✓QR Code & Text Sharing: Export your list to plain text for WhatsApp/SMS, or generate a QR code for instant camera-based sharing with household members.
Meal Plan Ingredient Import
Scans your meal calendar, extracts required ingredients, and merges quantities by dish.
Instant Offline QR Sharing
Compresses your entire shopping list into an offline QR code for instant phone-to-phone transfer.
Ad-Free Web Recipe Import
Paste any food blog URL. Minthee extracts ingredients and instructions on-device, skipping ads and stories.
Traditional Roman Carbonara
Web Recipe URL Scraping
Found a great recipe on a food blog or cooking site?
- ✓One-Tap Extraction: Paste the URL in Add Dish. Minthee's built-in parser extracts title, ingredient lists, and cooking steps automatically.
- ✓Ad & Story Stripping: Bypasses massive blog stories and popups, capturing purely the recipe instructions and ingredient quantities.
Private Storage & Encrypted Cloud Backup
Your recipes and cooking habits belong strictly to you.
- ✓100% Offline Core: Private database stored on your device in app sandbox. No mandatory accounts, no cloud dependency for core features.
- ✓Client-Side AES-256-GCM: Optional Google Drive backup encrypts payload with a user passphrase before transmission.
- ✓Plain JSON Portability: Export your database to unencrypted JSON anytime to keep full data ownership.
- ✓Safe Photo Access: Uses system Photo Picker; never requests broad READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE or photo library permissions.
Color Themes & Starter Library
Minthee is designed to feel like your favorite kitchen companion, personalized to your tastes and lighting conditions.
- ✓Color Palettes: Choose between Sage, Citrus, Berry, and Iced accent palettes designed for readability and OLED battery savings.
- ✓Instant Starter Dishes: Start immediately with authentic, culturally tailored recipe collections in 6 languages (English, Spanish, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian).
- ✓Sleek 5-Tab Navigation: Compact, high-contrast bottom navigation bar across Home, Meal Plan, Shopping, Pantry, and History.
Hands-Free Cooking Session & Stove Timers
Cook with confidence using Minthee's focused kitchen session view with integrated timers.
- ✓Large Countertop Typography: One-tap text enlargement (Aa toggle) in-session and global setting expand steps and ingredients for clear reading across the kitchen counter.
- ✓10-Second Precision Timers: Multiple concurrent countdown timers with 10-second precision stepping under 1 minute, customizable dial watch display, and persistent alerts.
- ✓Docked Step Navigation: Anchored thumb controls with fluid step transitions and isolated per-step ingredient measurement cards.
Simmer on low heat with the lid slightly cracked until sauce thickens.
Cooking History & Monotony Prevention
Track your household cooking trends over time and keep your family meal rotation lively.
- ✓Timestamped Cooking Logs: Every time a meal is cooked, it is recorded in your local timeline, updating the dish's last-cooked date and active repeat frequency.
- ✓Burnout & Monotony Detection: Minthee flags dishes that have been cooked too frequently, nudging you toward underutilized family favorites.
- ✓Cooking Frequency Statistics: See your top-cooked meals, total meals prepared, and historical monthly trends.
- ✓Brigade de Cuisine & Milestones: Advance through 6 chef ranks from Commis Chef to Executive Chef, earn culinary medals, and build weekly rhythm without daily streak pressure.
Offline QR Code & Text Sharing
Share recipes and shopping lists instantly with family members without creating accounts or syncing through remote servers.
- ✓Optical Camera QR Codes: Generate high-density QR codes on screen that another phone can scan directly camera-to-camera, importing recipes in milliseconds.
- ✓Plain-Text Formatted Export: Send formatted recipe cards or organized grocery checklists through WhatsApp, Signal, SMS, or email with one tap.
- ✓Complete Database JSON Backups: Export your entire library into standard, human-readable JSON files anytime for personal archival or cross-device transfer.
Scan with another phone to instantly import checklist. No account or internet required.
Configurable in App Settings • 100% On-Device Scoring Calculation
Algorithm Tuning & Scoring Weights
Take total control over how meals are recommended to fit your household's unique rhythm.
- ✓Custom Rating Weight: Adjust how much high ratings (8–10 stars) dominate recommendations versus lower-rated staple meals.
- ✓Recency & Decay Curves: Tune how aggressively dishes lose recommendation points right after being cooked, and how quickly they recover.
- ✓Strict Repeat Frequency: Guarantee zero repeats within 1 to 60 days by completely removing resting dishes from suggestions.
Print & Export PDF: Cookbooks & Checklists
Bring your recipes, weekly meal plans, and grocery checklists to physical paper or share high-resolution PDFs without relying on any external cloud service.
- ✓Single Recipe Cards: Print beautifully formatted recipe sheets with an ingredients checklist, step-by-step instructions, prep notes, ratings, and optional photos.
- ✓Weekly Plan Cookbooks: Batch print all scheduled meals for the week into a unified cookbook booklet with continuous page numbering.
- ✓Printable Grocery Checklists: Generate physical shopping lists with checkboxes for pen/pencil marking and source recipe tags.
- ✓Realistic Paper Preview & Eco Controls: Preview exact pagination and margins before printing. Customize font sizing (Small, Medium, Large), layout modes (one dish per page vs compact), and Eco Ink-Saver monochrome mode.
Chicken Tagine
- 800g Chicken
- 2 Onions, sliced
- 2 Carrots, sliced
- 1 tsp Cumin
- Brown chicken in oil
- Sauté onions & spices
- Simmer on low 40m
Offline Multi-Entity Search & Word-Position Ranking
Find dishes, tags, ingredients, and categories instantly with an offline-first search engine powered by word-position decayed relevance and database-wide autocomplete suggestions.
- ✓Autocomplete Suggester: Dynamic candidate suggestions across all dishes, ingredients, tags, and categories with automatic intent scoping (#tags, @ingredients, free text).
- ✓Word-Position Decay Scorer: Evaluates title matches with word-position decay (1st word > 2nd > 3rd > 4th+), category prioritization, household star ratings, and cooking recency boosts.
- ✓Boolean AND & Operators: Combine multi-term searches with prefix scoping and negative exclusions (-exclude) with Unicode diacritic tolerance (e.g. spatzle → Spätzle).
- ✓One-Hand Ergonomics: Right-aligned dismiss arrow, prepending suggested chips before typed text, and silent 100-character constraint.
Barcode Scanner & Open Food Facts Nutrition
Point your phone's camera at food packaging to inspect full nutritional profiles, verify Nutri-Score grades, and add verified ingredients straight to your grocery list.
- ✓Real-Time CameraX Scanning: Fast, hardware-accelerated barcode detection for EAN-13, EAN-8, and UPC retail codes with zero cloud latency.
- ✓Open Food Facts Integration: Encrypted, SSL-pinned queries pull official Nutri-Score grades (A to E), energy (kcal/kJ), macros (protein, carbs, sugars, fat), fiber, and declared allergens.
- ✓Dynamic Portion Calculator: Switch between standard per-100g/ml density and customized manufacturer serving sizes with a live portion multiplier.
- ✓Offline Scanned Products Catalog: Scanned items are cached locally on your device for instant offline browsing and re-adding to shopping lists.
Connected Pantry Inventory & Stock Tracking
Keep a tight, realistic pulse on what is already on your shelves. Minthee links pantry staples directly to your recipes and grocery lists, avoiding duplicate buys and expired ingredients.
- ✓Aisle-Organized Storage: Group pantry items across canonical grocery departments (Produce, Dairy, Pantry, Spices, Frozen) matching your store layout.
- ✓Stock Levels & Low-Stock Warnings: Mark items as In Stock, Low, or Out of Stock. Low items automatically flag warnings when scheduling recipes.
- ✓1-Tap Restock to Grocery List: Quickly transfer depleted items straight from your pantry shelf to your active grocery checklist with custom quantities.
- ✓Full Offline Resilience: Manage stock entirely offline in your device's local Room database with multi-field search and bulk-edit actions.
12-Hour Ephemeral Live Recipe Links & Instant Invalidation
Share your recipes with guests or family members in an interactive, ad-free web view designed specifically for kitchen prep without sacrificing your privacy.
- ✓Strict 12-Hour TTL: Every shared live recipe link is capped at a 12-hour lifespan. Links automatically expire and wipe remote copies from memory.
- ✓Live Countdown Timer: The web viewer displays an active countdown banner showing remaining link validity so guests know when access ends.
- ✓Host Link Revocation: Revoke and invalidate active shared links instantly at any time from Settings or the share dialog in DishApp.
- ✓Interactive Cooking Companion: Web visitors can check off ingredients, check off preparation steps, and view high-resolution food photos.
Your kitchen, organized and stress-free.
Private and 100% offline-first. Take control of your daily meals with Minthee on your Android device.