Will You Be Home For Dinner
Coordinate family dinners
$2.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Families with adult children living at home face a small but daily friction: nobody knows who is eating dinner tonight. Parents cook too much or too little, kids feel guilty for forgetting to text, and everyone sends the same messages over and over.
Will You Be Home For Dinner is a purpose-built family coordination app that answers one simple question: who is eating together tonight?
By giving every family member a private, shared calendar, dinner attendance is always visible. No more scrolling through noisy group chats to figure out portion sizes. Each family member simply opens the app, sets their plan for the day with a single tap, and everyone else can see it instantly. Parents don't over-cook, kids don't forget to communicate, and the family stays connected.
KEY FEATURES
• Dinner Plans at a Glance: A scrollable week strip shows everyone's status for the day. It is colour-coded so you can read the whole week in seconds.
• Four Simple Statuses: Home for Dinner, I'll Cook Dinner, Not Home, or Not Sure Yet.
• Multi-Day Planning: Planning ahead for your work schedule? Select multiple days and set your status for the entire week in one go.
• Guest Tracking: Bringing someone home? Add a guest count when setting your status so the chef knows exactly how many plates to set.
• Notes: Add a short note to any response, like "Late meeting" or "Vegetarian tonight." The app saves frequently used notes as quick-pick suggestions.
• Family Chat: A simple, private message thread dedicated entirely to dinner logistics, recipes, and grocery requests.
• Events & Reminders: Import family events directly from your device calendar so everyone can plan around birthdays and holidays. Daily reminders keep the routine going.
DESIGNED FOR SIMPLICITY & PRIVACY
• Minimum Taps: Setting a dinner response takes just one tap from the home screen using the floating action button.
• No Accounts Required: Families are connected privately through Apple's CloudKit infrastructure. Just share a link to invite the household.
• Your Data is Yours: Data is stored privately in your iCloud, never on a third-party server.
• Offline-First: Dinner plans load instantly from a local cache and sync in the background, meaning the app works flawlessly even with a poor connection.
One tap. Everyone knows. Dinner sorted.
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This build focuses on reliability and privacy.
• Dinner plans now update on everyone's phone automatically, without
needing to open the app and refresh.
• Invites are now sent to a specific person's Apple Account. An invite
link only works for the person it was sent to, so a forwarded link
can't be used by anyone else.
• Fixed an issue where a family member's response could appear saved
but not reach other phones.
• Fixed editing your name or colour causing your earlier responses to
disappear.
• Various calendar and display fixes.
Please re-test inviting a family member — the invite screen has
changed and now asks for an email address or phone number.
The developer, Keeping up with technology Pty ltd, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Keeping up with technology Pty ltd
- Size
- 3.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 - Keeping up with Technology Pty Ltd
