Primary award: Nutrition & Healthy Eating — Abbey’s Kitchen
Same Table's primary award target is the Nutrition & Healthy Eating — Abbey’s Kitchen Influencer Award. It offers one practical food addition for the meal already happening—at a restaurant, on the road, with children or at home with leftovers—with instructions that fit the setting and room to leave the meal as it is.
For judges: try the full app with the invite code “ship”
Same Table is on the App Store now (version 1.1). Version 1.2 adds an invite code for reviewers and event judges and was submitted to Apple on September 24. Once it is live, open the app, finish the short onboarding, and on the purchase screen tap Have an invite code?, enter ship and tap Use code. The full app opens without a purchase until November 30, 2026. The same field is in Settings › Purchase, and Apple's official offer-code redemption is still available as Redeem a code. If the store still shows 1.1, the invite field appears after the 1.2 update is approved.
Inspiration
A useful food suggestion has to fit the meal already happening. A restaurant order, hotel breakfast, child's plate and leftovers at home leave different options available. Same Table starts there: choose the setting, point to the food in front of you and find one possible addition. Leaving the meal as it is is a normal option.
What it does
Choose Eating out, On the road, With the kids, or At home with leftovers. Tap foods from 48 illustrated plate tiles, or choose Not sure. The app returns one of 160 additions with a short explanation and a practical way to get or serve it in that setting. Use the idea, see another, or leave the meal as it is.
Save combinations and set food exclusions, dietary preferences and allergen filters. If preferences change, incompatible saved combinations show a mismatch. Ingredient reminders explain that filters cannot guarantee what a product or kitchen contains. Broad protein, fiber and fat tags guide ideas without calculating calories, portions or nutritional adequacy. English and Japanese are included, along with an on-device Siri suggestion and a widget that opens the chosen setting.
How we built it
Swift 6, SwiftUI, Observation, SwiftData, App Intents and WidgetKit. XcodeGen defines the project and Xcode Cloud builds the store archive. Bundled JSON and deterministic rules consider exclusions, setting, nutrient-tag fit, food-family overlap, recent suggestions and previous selections. No runtime generative model or remote nutrition API is needed.
Challenges and what we learned
The same food needs different instructions at a restaurant and beside a fridge, so identity and setting-specific instructions are separate. Alternatives, saved combinations and Siri must respect the same preferences. We also separated deleting local food data from preserving confirmed purchase access. A suggestion is useful only when its practical limits are clear.
Accomplishments
The current app brings 48 plate tiles, 160 additions and four complete settings into one English/Japanese experience. Seventeen tests using the actual core source passed, covering filtering, persisted favorites, deletion and purchase-cache preservation. The current store screens and real-price paywall were reviewed.
Influencer award fit
Nutrition & Healthy Eating — Abbey's Kitchen. Same Table offers practical, compassionate ideas for ordinary meals without calorie counting, macro tracking or restrictive meal plans. Picture-based input, one addition and a normal leave-it option turn the category brief into a small action. Category selection does not imply endorsement or partnership.
Also entering: RevenueCat Design Award
Every picture in Same Table was made for it: 48 plate tiles, 160 additions and the scene art are original illustrations, and no image is reused for two foods. The flow is one decision per screen — where you are, what is on the plate, one thing to add — so a parent can answer with a child on their lap. When a dish changes there is a single calm reveal (an 0.85-second ease-out, no looping, bouncing or artificial steam). The palette comes from the table itself — paper, yolk, tomato and leaf — with a matching dark mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver labels on every tile. Leaving the meal as it is has its own button, so the design never pushes.
What makes it different from other “add something to your meal” apps
- The setting comes first. The same egg is ordered at a restaurant, grabbed at a hotel breakfast, cut up for a child, or taken from the fridge. Same Table keeps one identity per food and separate instructions for each of the four settings, so the answer is something you can actually do where you are.
- Pictures instead of typing or photographing. You tap illustrated plate tiles. No text box, no camera, no photo leaves the phone.
- Everything is on the device. Bundled data and deterministic rules; no server, no generative model, no account, no analytics SDK. It works on a plane, and the same plate gives the same answer twice.
- One addition, one reason — and a real “leave it” option. Not a ranked list to scroll and not a score. Another idea is one tap away, and “I'm ready to eat” finishes the flow without adding anything.
- Filters that say what they can't know. Allergen and diet filters cover the added food's recorded ingredients and tell you to check the rest of the meal; halal and kosher choices are conservative on purpose.
- Made for two languages from day one. English and Japanese copy written separately, plus Siri, a Home Screen widget and a calendar of your days at the table.
- One purchase, no subscription. Judges can try the full app with the invite code above.
Purchases and privacy
A fixed onboarding sample precedes a single lifetime non-consumable purchase. RevenueCat loads the product and manages access and restoration; Apple handles payments and official code redemption. Food preferences and saved combinations stay local, subject to system backups. Apple and RevenueCat separately process purchase information for access and purchase analytics. This is an everyday food-idea tool, not medical nutrition treatment.
What is next
Same Table 1.1 is on the App Store (first public release September 11, 2026). Version 1.2, submitted on September 24, adds the judge invite code above. After that, the aim is to improve food coverage and setting-specific instructions where people cannot find a useful addition.
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