What's For Dinner Tonight is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains what data the app handles and how.
Last updated: May 30, 2026
Nothing.
What's For Dinner Tonight does not collect, store, transmit, sell, or share any personal data with us or any third party. We have no servers that receive your data. We have no analytics SDKs. We have no advertising integrations.
All data you create in the app — meals, household members, dinner logs, photos, queue entries, settings — is stored:
When you create or join a household, the meals, people, and dinner logs you've chosen to share are mirrored to a CloudKit shared zone visible only to the household members you've invited. Other people cannot see or join your household without an explicit invitation from you.
The "Ask WFD" voice feature uses Apple's Foundation Models framework, which runs entirely on-device. Your voice input, transcription, and the AI's responses never leave your iPhone. We do not see, log, or transmit anything from this feature.
When you add a meal, the app may automatically fetch a stock photo from TheMealDB (a free public recipe database) based on the meal's name. The only data sent is the meal name as a search query. The app does not send your meal library, your identity, or any other personal data to TheMealDB. The fetched photo is then stored in your iCloud library, same as any other photo.
You can also choose to attach your own photo from your iOS Photos library to a meal. That photo stays in your iCloud and is shared only with household members who already have access to your household.
If you use the "Import from URL" feature to bring a recipe into your library, the app makes a network request to the URL you supplied to fetch the recipe's structured data (JSON-LD). The URL you typed is sent only to the website you specified. We do not see this URL or the response.
The Plus tier ($1.99 one-time) is processed by Apple's StoreKit framework. We do not see your payment information. Apple handles the transaction and provides us only an anonymous receipt confirming that you purchased Plus.
What's For Dinner Tonight does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Because the app does not collect any data at all from any user of any age, this is not an active concern, but we note it for completeness.
If we ever change how data is handled in a future version, we will update this page and note the change in the app's release notes. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will reflect any updates.
Questions about this policy? Email Don Bonaddio at don.bonaddio@gmail.com.