Polydish

Can't decide what to cook? Roll the die. Tonight it's Pasta pesto.

Polydish puts your dishes on a 3D die. Roll it for tonight, roll seven for the week, and the shopping list writes itself.

iPhone · iOS 16 or later · Works offline · No account

Polydish Tonight screen: a die on a dark tray and the rolled dish, Veggie chili, with Cooked it and Roll again

Six dice, filled on day one

Polydish starts with six dice built from a catalog of 74 dishes and filtered by what you eat. Swap any face, add your own dishes or make a new die.

D12 · 11 of 12 faces used

Spaghetti bolognese

2 faces

6 ingredients

Chicken curry

5 ingredients

Bami goreng

5 ingredients

Kale stamppot with sausage

5 ingredients

Salmon with baby potatoes

4 ingredients

Veggie chili

6 ingredients

Mushroom risotto

5 ingredients

Sausage traybake

5 ingredients

Chicken fajitas

5 ingredients

Lentil dal

5 ingredients

Free faces hold jokers. Order in, Re-roll, New dish with three fresh ideas, or Partner's pick, where someone else chooses tonight.

How it rolls

Dice tab with six starter dice
01

Pick a die

Weeknight, Quick, Soup or one of your own. Its shape shows how many dishes it holds, from a D4 to a D20.

02

Flick, tap or shake

The die tumbles across a dark tray with real physics. Whatever lands on top is dinner.

How was it? card with thumbs up and thumbs down
03

Cook it, rate it

Tap Cooked it and give a thumb. Two thumbs down in a row and Polydish offers to swap the dish.

Everything after the roll

  • The rolled dish lands on a dark card with a fact, its ingredients, Cooked it and Roll again. Switch on With a side for a second die.

  • Roll the week throws seven dice at once. Lock the days you like and re-roll the rest, twice per week.

  • Ingredients from every planned day, grouped by aisle, added up and scaled to the people at your table.

  • Give a favourite two faces and it comes up twice as often. The die changes shape as the list grows.

  • Every die starts in wood. Cook 5 dinners for glass, 15 for metal and 30 for neon.

  • Every cooked dinner with its rating, month by month, so you can see what the table loved.

Tonight screen with the rolled dish

FAQ

Questions from the table

Every face holds one dish, so the shape follows the list: 4 dishes make a D4, 6 a D6, up to a D20. A dish on two faces comes up twice as often. Yesterday's dinner never comes up again, and a week never repeats a dish.

Yes. Pick from our 74 dishes or create one: a name, one of 36 icons, the diet and up to 30 ingredients with amounts and store aisles. It lands on the die right away.

Free faces can hold jokers. Order in gives the kitchen a night off, Re-roll throws again by itself, New dish shows three ideas from the catalog, and Partner's pick hands the phone to someone else to choose.

It collects the ingredients of every planned day from today on, groups them by aisle and adds up the same products. Amounts follow People at the table, from 1 to 8. You can check items off, swipe them away or add your own.

No. Polydish works fully offline and keeps your dice, plans and ratings on your iPhone. There are no ads and no in-app purchases.

Yes. Choose Everything, Pescatarian or Vegetarian when you start, or later in Settings under What we eat. Starter dice and new ideas follow that choice.

Wood is open from the start. Glass opens after 5 cooked dinners, metal after 15 and neon after 30. A dinner counts once you tap Cooked it for today or a past day.

Any iPhone with iOS 16 or later. Shake to roll and haptics need a real device.

More answers on the support page.

Contact us

A dish that won't behave, an idea for the catalog or a question about your data? Write to us.

Prefer email? Reach us at [email protected].

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