MealTime
Food & Drink
$2.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
MealTime is an iOS app that helps you to easily prepare complex meals made up of many different items.
Build up the meals you want to cook out of items and the different cooking steps that describe how those items are actually cooked. Once added MealTime will then arrange all the different cooking steps to ensure that your meal will have all the items finish cooking together at the same time.
As the meal is being cooked your phone will tell you when you must start to cook each item, it’ll even warn you so you can be prepared ahead of time. If you fall behind with these instructions then you can simply pause the meal to let you catch up and then resume cooking when you’re ready. Don’t take too long though as items already cooking may overcook, MealTime will warn you of items that will be overcooked whenever you pause the meal.
For hands free operation you can make MealTime say the cooking instructions out loud so that you can concentrate on cooking your meals.
MealTime will automatically time share your microwave oven if you’re cooking more than one microwave item in your meal. If you’re using an oven to cook any item then it can automatically tell you to preheat your oven just in time for the first oven item to start cooking.
Scan barcodes for items you add and you’ll be able to quickly add them to new meals in the future by just scanning their barcode.
You can visualise the cooking steps in a timeline by rotating your phone onto its side whilst you’re cooking a meal.
Its easy to setup a meal to start or end cooking at a specific time, MealTime will then move all of its notifications to fit the time you request.
Beyond the managed meals, MealTime also includes simple timers, that you can create with 5 second precision instead of the 1 minute precision of the iOS clock timer. You can also start, stop and pause as many of these timers at once as you’d like.
Microwave wattage adjustments let you calculate the cooking time for an item specified in a certain wattage that’s correct given your microwave’s own wattage, so if an item tells you to cook for 2 minutes in a 750 watt oven then MealTime can tell you that you'll need to cook that item for 1 minute and 30 seconds in a 1000 watt oven.
MealTime includes an iOS Today Widget and Apple Watch App and Complication which lets you glance at the progress of mealtime without having to open the app.
MealTime has been developed with a real focus on VoiceOver support for vision impaired users to enable them to use all the apps features with ease.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Fixed bug where when cooking a meal the top and bottom buttons were missing after going to the landscape timeline view and back to the portrait list of cooking items.
- Fixed small text alignment and cropping problems on some text and input fields
- added some light haptics for major user actions around starting/stopping/pausing meals and simple timers
The developer, James Bamford, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- James Bamford
- Size
- 33.8 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 8.7 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, French, German, Italian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2014 James Bamford
