Buddy is your kitchen companion. Open the Buddy tab and ask anything about food and cooking. Buddy is an AI chatbot, not a person.
What Buddy can help with
- Ideas for what to cook, based on the recipes in your library
- Finding a recipe you saved
- Saving a new recipe, or changing, renaming or deleting one
- Adding recipes to your lists or taking them out
- Questions while you cook, like swaps for an ingredient you don't have
When Buddy sends you a message, you'll see a badge on the Buddy tab and on the app icon.
What Buddy remembers
Buddy remembers useful things you tell it in the chat, like "I don't like coriander" or "we're cooking for four", so you don't have to repeat yourself. To see what Buddy remembers, go to Profile, then Profile again, and open What Buddy remembers. To delete something, tap it and choose Forget.
Sharing your diet with Buddy
Buddy works best when it knows how you eat. To use the chat, you need to allow sharing your diet with Buddy. See "Your Diet, Allergies and What Buddy Knows" for what this means and how to change it.
Message limits
Free accounts can send a set number of messages to Buddy each day. With MealBuddy Plus you can chat a lot more.