Choose your ingredients and get a recipe customized for your household.

It’s a recipe generator for homemade dog food built around a multi-pass nutrition algorithm. Pick your dog’s proteins and veggies from a database of 600+ whole foods, and the algorithm builds a recipe that meets your chosen nutrition standard — complete with supplement recommendations to fill any gaps.

Yes. The app uses your dog’s age to apply the appropriate life stage under NRC, AAFCO, or FEDIAF, so you don’t need to manually choose puppy versus adult. For seniors, the Weight Management or Senior macro profiles help you dial in lower-calorie, higher-protein recipes.

Yes. The app calculates your dog’s daily calorie needs based on weight, age, activity level, and spay/neuter status. You can also override calories manually to match vet guidance. Preset macro profiles like Weight Management and Low Fat make it easy to target specific goals.

NRC, AAFCO, and FEDIAF — each available for adult and puppy life stages. Select your preferred standard before generating and every recipe will be built to meet its nutrient minimums and safe upper limits.

Yes. Choose raw or cooked before generating and the app adjusts nutrient calculations accordingly — accounting for cooking losses and ingredient availability differences between the two approaches.

Choose from five preset macro profiles — Balanced, Weight Management, Low Fat, Performance, or Senior — to fine-tune the recipe for your dog’s needs.

Yes. After the whole-food LP pass, a second supplement pass identifies any remaining nutrient gaps and recommends specific supplements to close them. Each supplement includes dosing, product images, and direct purchase links.

The app estimates daily calories using your dog’s weight, age, activity level, sex, and reproductive status. The formula is based on standard MER/RER calculations. You can override the estimate at any time to match your vet’s recommendation.

Create profiles for each of your dogs with their own calorie targets and allergies. You can generate a shared recipe that portions out the right amount for each dog in the household.

Every recipe shows a full macro breakdown (protein, fat, carbs, fiber) plus 30+ micronutrients including calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, and all key vitamins. You’ll see how each nutrient compares to the minimum, maximum, and safe upper limit for your chosen standard.

Yes. Choose your required proteins, organs, fish, starches, vegetables, and fruits from the ingredient picker before generating. You can also exclude specific ingredients for allergies or preference — the algorithm works around your selections.

Yes. Recipes are saved to your account and stored locally on your device. You can rename them, add notes and photos, and share them with other Balanced Bowl users via a link.

Yes. The app builds a categorized shopping list from your recipe and connects you to retailers — standard grocery ingredients go to Instacart with nearby store selection, supplements link directly to Amazon, and specialty raw ingredients link to retailers like My Pet Carnivore and Raw Feeding Miami.

The AI Guide is a built-in assistant that helps you work with the algorithm. It knows your dog’s profile, can answer nutrition questions, suggest ingredients, and pre-fill recipe parameters — but the final recipe formulation is done by the nutrition algorithm.