Frequently asked questions

Verdish is a zero-waste cooking app, on Android in late November 2026, on iPhone later. You snap your fridge, it suggests three recipes using what you already have, then you take a photo of your dish and a jury of four characters scores it out of 10: Grandma Jeanine, Chef Auguste, The Critic and Coach Max.

Yes: in Verdish, four judges score the photo of your dish on four criteria, and presentation (the plating) is the heaviest, at 30% of the score. Each judge also gives an opinion and a tip for your next dish.

From the photo: the four judges look at how the dish is plated, where things sit on the plate, the colours and how clean the rims are. Presentation counts for 30% of each judge's score; The Critic, Édouard de Vallombreuse, is the toughest on it. Each judge also leaves you a tip to plate better next time.

When your dish is ready, you take a photo. The four judges each look at it their own way, give their score and their advice, then the final score lands. When two judges disagree, a duel kicks off and you decide. The jury judges the dish, never the person.

Each of the 4 judges scores your dish on four criteria: presentation (30%), true to the recipe (25%), technique (25%) and appeal (20%). Their score is the weighted average of those, and the final score is the average of the 4 judges, to one decimal place. It's calculated by our servers, never taken as is from the judges.

Each judge has their own taste: Chef Auguste is a stickler for technique, Grandma Jeanine is kind-hearted, The Critic has a sharp eye, and Coach Max thinks about balance. When two judges are far apart, on one criterion or on their overall score, a duel kicks off: they argue it out, then you decide. Your choice never changes the score.

The jury judges your photo: it's a visual score, it can't taste. It looks at presentation, visible cooking, how close it is to the recipe and how tempting it looks. When it comes to taste, you're the expert: before sending, you can give yourself a taste score, shown next to the jury's.

Yes. The judges are characters, and their opinions, like the recipes, are generated by artificial intelligence, from our provider Anthropic. The jury can get things wrong, especially with a dark or blurry photo: a verdict that feels unfair can be reported from the app.

Yes: every recipe only uses your confirmed ingredient list and your basics (salt, oil, pepper…), with nothing to buy. You can set your basics in the app's settings.

The app rules out recipes with an ingredient that contains an allergen you've listed and, to be safe, those using an ingredient it doesn't recognise; the same goes if you've listed a diet. It doesn't know brands or traces. Always check the labels: Verdish can't guarantee a dish is free from allergens.

Before sending, the app strips the hidden information from your photo, including GPS location. Your fridge photos are only used to list your ingredients: they're deleted as soon as they've been analysed, and within 24 hours at the latest. Your dish photos stay private on your account, for your history, until you delete it.

Yes. The fridge scan, the recipes, the four judges and the duel are free, with no card needed, with up to five verdicts a week. A Premium plan will come later, with unlimited verdicts and your full dish history.

On Android in late November 2026, on iPhone later, in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada and Ireland, in French and English. You can join the waiting list at verdish.fr to get a single email on launch day.

Not to try it: as a guest you get two scans and one trial verdict. After that, you'll need a Google account or an email address. Everything you did as a guest comes with you. The app is for ages 15 and up.

In the app's settings, "Delete my account" erases everything: dishes, photos, verdicts, progress and allergies. Without the app, the steps are at verdish.fr/en/account-deletion.