recipeSZ

RecipeSZ

A recipe discovery and cooking companion app built with Flutter and Firebase. Browse thousands of recipes, save your favorites, plan your shopping, and keep a personal cook journal.

Features

Recipe browsing

• Browse recipes by category with thumbnails and descriptions
• Full recipe detail with ingredients, measurements, and step-by-step instructions
• Search recipes by name, category, or ingredients
• Random recipe picker (“Surprise me”)
• Recently viewed history

Pantry matching

• Check off ingredients you have on hand
• Find recipes you can cook with what’s in your pantry
• Exact matches (you have everything) and loose matches (partial ingredient overlap)

Favorites

• Save recipes to your favorites with a single tap
• Synced across devices via Firebase

Shopping list

• Add individual ingredients or all ingredients from a recipe
• Check off items as you shop
• Clear checked or clear all
• Cloud-synced per account

Reviews and ratings

• Write reviews with text, star ratings (1-5), and up to 3 photos
• Reviews go through admin moderation before appearing publicly
• Report inappropriate reviews
• Per-recipe average rating and review count
• Paginated review loading

Private notes

• Write personal notes on any recipe (what you changed, what worked, what to try next)
• One editable note per recipe, fully private to your account
• View and manage all your notes from the profile screen
• Long notes collapse with “Show more” on the recipe page

User profiles

• Google Sign-In authentication
• Customizable display name, avatar (via Cloudinary), and bio
• Public profile page showing approved reviews
• Profile tab view switching between reviews and notes
• Verified badge for admin users
• Live profile updates reflected across all review cards in real time

Account switching

• Switch between multiple Google accounts without signing out
• Per-account data isolation (favorites, shopping list, pantry, notes)
• Same-account detection with feedback

Admin moderation

• Dedicated review queue for pending and reported reviews
• Approve, reject, or delete reviews
• Dismiss reports
• Notification system for review status updates

Notifications

• In-app notifications when your review is approved or rejected
• Unseen badge count
• Mark as seen

Tech stack

• Framework: Flutter (Dart)
• Auth: Firebase Authentication + Google Sign-In
• Database: Cloud Firestore with schema-validated security rules
• Image hosting: Cloudinary
• State management: Riverpod
• Routing: go_router
• Analytics: Firebase Analytics
• Crash reporting: Firebase Crashlytics
• App security: Firebase App Check

Platforms

Android, iOS, Web, Windows, macOS, Linux

Data architecture

• User data (favorites, shopping list, pantry, notes, recently viewed) stored in private Firestore subcollections under users/{uid}/
• Reviews stored in a global reviews collection with server-side moderation workflow
• All subcollections have schema-validated Firestore security rules enforcing field types, size limits, and ownership
• Local SharedPreferences caching with UID-namespaced keys for offline support

Getting started

1. Clone the repo
2. Run flutter pub get
3. Set up Firebase (flutterfire configure) and Cloudinary credentials
4. Run flutter run

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