Spaghetti bolognese
2 faces
6 ingredients
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
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.
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
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.
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
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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.
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Roll the week throws seven dice at once. Lock the days you like and re-roll the rest, twice per week.
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Ingredients from every planned day, grouped by aisle, added up and scaled to the people at your table.
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Give a favourite two faces and it comes up twice as often. The die changes shape as the list grows.
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Every die starts in wood. Cook 5 dinners for glass, 15 for metal and 30 for neon.
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Every cooked dinner with its rating, month by month, so you can see what the table loved.
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 support@polydish.info.
