Foodies, the social network for food lovers.

Yes, Foodies is exactly that. It is a social network built around one subject: the food people cook and the food people eat. You post photos and short videos of your plates, follow the people whose taste you trust, like and comment on what they post, message them privately, and see what is being eaten near you. Nothing in it is designed to pull you towards politics, outrage or anything that is not dinner.

That is a fair shorthand. Foodies has the parts of a photo-sharing network you would expect, a feed, a follow graph, likes, comments, saves, direct messages and live video, with the difference that every post is food. There is no separate life to scroll past, no advertising in the feed, and the ranking is tuned so that a plate posted an hour ago can still reach you.

It depends on whether you want an archive or an audience. A camera roll stores photos; Foodies is built to share food photos with people who care about them, you post the picture, write what it was in the caption, tag the cuisine, and it reaches the people who follow you and the people eating near you. It is free, there are no ads in the feed, and posting takes about thirty seconds.

Three ways. Explore is a picture-first grid, so you find creators by seeing a plate you like and tapping through to whoever posted it. Nearby surfaces people posting in your own city. And every profile carries a Food DNA, a breakdown of the cuisines that person actually posts, saves and likes, so you can tell in a second whether their taste matches yours before you follow.

There are three feeds behind one screen. For You is ranked from your own behaviour, what you save, like and linger on, weighed against how fresh a post is, never against what an advertiser paid. Following is strictly chronological: every post from everyone you follow, in the order they posted. Nearby shows posts from around your city. Videos autoplay muted and stop the instant you scroll past.

Open the Nearby tab. Foodies asks once for an approximate location, snaps it to roughly a kilometre, and then shows you the dishes people around you are posting. It is a feed of plates from your city, not a map of venues, your exact position is never published, and if you decline the permission every other part of the app works exactly as before.

Yes. A post can be a photo or a short video, and video is usually the better format for anything with movement in it, the fold, the sear, the moment the sauce comes together. Video autoplays muted in the feed and stops the instant you scroll past it.

It is a live broadcast from your kitchen. You start it from the app, people join while you cook, and they type into a chat you read in real time, you can see how many are watching as you go. It is the closest thing to cooking with somebody who happens to be four time zones away.

Yes, in the way people actually share them: a post with the dish photographed or filmed, and the method written into the caption. Foodies is not a structured recipe database with ingredient fields and timers, it is a social network, so a recipe here is a post, and it travels because somebody you follow made it rather than because it ranked in an index.

No. You can browse the feed and Explore as a guest and see what the community is posting. Liking, commenting, posting, saving and messaging ask you to sign in first, with Apple, in one tap, without handing over an email address.

Yes. Posting, following, messaging, saving and browsing are all free, with no ads in your feed. An optional Pro subscription adds profile-visitor insights and a badge; nothing in the core experience sits behind it.

Yes. Each device generates an X25519 key pair. A shared secret is derived per conversation, run through HKDF-SHA256, and used to encrypt every message with ChaCha20-Poly1305. The server sees ciphertext and routing metadata, never what you actually said.

Thirty-four languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Thai and both Chinese scripts, with right-to-left layouts laid out properly rather than mirrored as an afterthought. The app runs on iPhone and iPad, on iOS 17 or later; there is no Android or web version today. This website is English only for now.