LinkDish helps you turn recipe links into a clean, readable recipe format. This page explains what information the app handles and how it is used.
Information LinkDish handles
- Recipe links that you paste into the app so the service can extract recipe information.
- Recipe content returned from the extraction service, such as titles, ingredients, steps, and timing.
- Recipe photos or camera captures you choose to submit for image-based recipe scanning.
- Recipes, edits, and personal notes you choose to save. Free includes up to 15 personal saved recipes; paid plans include unlimited saves.
- Recipes, edits, and notes you add to a shared Family recipe book, including the account shown as the recipe owner.
- An app-generated RevenueCat app user ID used to load purchase options, restore purchases, and verify LinkDish paid plan entitlement status.
- Purchase, subscription, and lifetime-access status returned by RevenueCat, Apple App Store, Google Play, or RevenueCat Web Billing, such as whether a Plus, Family, or Founding entitlement is active.
- If you sign in for plan access or Family household sharing, your account email, login code/session records, household membership, and household invite records.
- First-party analytics events such as page or screen views, app opens, feature actions, extraction outcomes, source hostnames, app version, session identifiers, and error summaries.
How the information is used
- Submitted links are sent to LinkDish's backend service to fetch and extract recipe details.
- Personal saved recipes are stored on your device so you can reopen them later inside the app. Free includes up to 15 personal saves; paid plans remove that save limit.
- Shared Family recipes are stored by LinkDish so active household members can view them and see who added them.
- The app-generated purchase ID is sent to RevenueCat and to LinkDish's backend service so LinkDish can check entitlement status and apply the correct import and extraction limits.
- Basic server-side operational logs may be used to monitor reliability, prevent abuse, and debug failures.
- Analytics are used to understand whether LinkDish is working across the website, web app, Android app, and backend, including extraction success rates, source hostnames, performance problems, and errors.
- Account and household records are used only to sign you in, manage Family household membership, send login or invite emails, and apply the shared Family quota.
Purchases
LinkDish uses RevenueCat to manage purchase offerings, purchases, restores, customer-portal access, and entitlement checks. Mobile purchases are processed by Apple App Store or Google Play through RevenueCat. Web subscriptions and the one-time Founding offer are processed through RevenueCat Web Billing and its payment processor. LinkDish does not receive your full payment card number or payment account credentials.
What LinkDish does not do
- No account is required for the first 3 free recipe imports.
- Sign in is required to buy or restore a plan and for Family household sharing.
- LinkDish does not sell your personal information.
- LinkDish does not include third-party advertising in the current app.
- LinkDish analytics do not store full recipe URLs, recipe titles, ingredients, instructions, uploaded recipe images, raw page text, or LLM prompts.
Data storage
Personal recipes you save are stored locally on your device. Shared Family recipes are stored by LinkDish for household access. Extracted recipe data may also pass through LinkDish's backend service in order to produce results and keep the service running reliably. The RevenueCat app user ID is stored on your device and may be stored by LinkDish's backend for quota checks and by RevenueCat for purchase and entitlement management. Mobile session tokens use operating-system-backed secure storage; the web app uses browser storage needed to keep you signed in. Server-side account, session, invite, and household records are stored by LinkDish's backend. First-party analytics records are stored by LinkDish's backend using anonymous or hashed identifiers.
Your choices
You can stop using the extraction service at any time by not submitting links or images, and you can remove personal saved recipes from inside the app whenever you want.
You can manage or restore access from LinkDish's Plans screen. Store subscriptions are managed through the App Store or Google Play account used to make the purchase; web subscriptions are managed through the RevenueCat customer portal opened from LinkDish. Founding access is a one-time purchase and does not renew.
If you create a LinkDish account, you can delete it from Account in the app. Account deletion removes server-side account and household records, but it does not cancel App Store, Google Play, or web subscriptions. Local saved recipes remain on your device.
If you cannot access the app and need help with deletion of data retained by LinkDish, email support@linkdish.ca.
Questions
If you have questions about privacy or support, use the support contact listed on the app's store listing or visit the LinkDish support page.