Dinsy Terms of Use

Last updated: 17 August 2026

These terms govern your use of the Dinsy iOS app ("Dinsy", "the app", "we", "us"). Dinsy is operated by Michael Turner, trading as Dinsy, based in Queensland, Australia. By downloading or using Dinsy, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.

1. What Dinsy does

Dinsy is a meal-planning app for Australian and New Zealand households. You tell it your supermarket, budget, household size, and dietary needs, and it uses AI to generate a week of dinners and a matching shopping list. Some features are free; others require a Dinsy Plus subscription (see 4. Subscriptions).

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Dinsy (matching its App Store age rating), and you must be able to form a legally binding contract. If you're under 18, that means having a parent or guardian's permission. Dinsy is intended for use by people responsible for household grocery shopping and is not directed at children.

3. Your account

You create your Dinsy account by signing in with Google or with Apple. We never create or store a Dinsy password — your Google or Apple account is how you get back in, including on a new device. Keep that provider account secure; anyone who can use it can access your Dinsy data. You're responsible for the accuracy of what you enter into Dinsy (including household members' dietary information — see section 5). You can delete your account and its server-side data at any time from Settings → "delete my data." Accounts created under the app's earlier anonymous model continue to work under these same terms.

4. Subscriptions

Free features

Without a subscription, you can set up your preferences, generate a week of dinners (your dinner names and days are always shown clearly; photos and other details appear blurred until you subscribe), see the week's estimated cost against your budget, and use the full aisle-sorted shopping list — including the "already have it" pantry pass and check-off tracking. Plan generation (free and Plus alike) is capped at 10 generations per week, a fair-use limit — if this cap ever changes, we'll label it honestly in the app rather than hide it.

Dinsy Plus

Dinsy Plus unlocks:

• the full visual week: photos, per-dinner costs and details for every dinner
• full recipe detail (ingredients, step-by-step method, nutrition estimates)
• swiping your own week together, or letting Dinsy fill the rest for you
• stretching a favourite dinner across two or three nights, and swapping out any night for something you'd rather eat
• nutrition tracking against your own weekly goals
• family profiles for picky eaters
• Sunday prep mode
• tonight's dinner on your home screen
• a running tally of your cooking wins

Pricing (subject to change — always confirm current pricing in the App Store before you buy):

• A$9.99 per month, or
• A$59.99 per year
• Both plans include a 7-day free trial.

How billing works

• Subscriptions are billed and managed entirely through your Apple ID via the App Store — Dinsy never collects or stores your payment details.
• Your free trial converts automatically into a paid subscription at the end of the 7 days unless you cancel before the trial ends.
• Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period (monthly or yearly, matching your chosen plan) unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Your Apple ID account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the price you agreed to.
• You can cancel anytime through your device's Settings app: Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions → Dinsy → Cancel Subscription. Cancelling stops future renewals — you keep access to Dinsy Plus until the end of the period you've already paid for.
• Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited if you purchase a subscription during the trial period, where applicable under Apple's terms.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under its own refund policies, not by us directly — request a refund via reportaproblem.apple.com or your purchase history in the App Store.

5. Meal plans, recipes, and price estimates — please read this carefully

Dinsy's meal plans and recipes are AI-generated suggestions, not professional advice.

• Prices are estimates only. Every ingredient price and total shown in Dinsy is an approximate estimate, not a live or guaranteed price at your supermarket. Actual prices vary by store, location, specials, and over time. Always check prices at the checkout — Dinsy's numbers are a planning guide, not a quote.
• This is not dietary, nutritional, allergy, or medical advice. Dinsy lets you set dietary restrictions (e.g. dairy-free, nut-free, vegetarian) and its AI is instructed to respect them, but AI-generated content can make mistakes. If you or anyone you're cooking for has a food allergy, intolerance, or any medical dietary requirement, you must independently check every ingredient and recipe yourself before shopping and before eating — do not rely on Dinsy alone. This applies every time, even for a recipe or restriction you've used before. Nutrition figures (calories, protein, carbs, fat) shown in the app are estimates and should not be treated as precise or as medical/clinical nutrition guidance.
• Cooking steps and appliance guidance are general suggestions. Always use safe food-handling practices and your own judgment, particularly around cooking temperatures and times for meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs.
• We are not liable for outcomes from following a Dinsy plan or recipe, including but not limited to: an allergic or adverse health reaction, incorrect budgeting due to a price estimate, or dissatisfaction with a suggested meal. To the extent the law allows this kind of limitation (see 8. Australian Consumer Law, below, for where it doesn't).

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use Dinsy for any unlawful purpose
• attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract the app's underlying AI prompts, models, or source code beyond what's permitted by law
• attempt to bypass the subscription/paywall system or fair-use generation limits
• use automated tools (bots, scrapers) to interact with Dinsy or its backend
• misuse the AI generation feature in a way that damages the service for other users (e.g. excessive automated requests)

We may suspend or terminate access for accounts that breach this section.

7. Intellectual property

Dinsy, its name, branding, character, design, and underlying software are owned by us (or our licensors) and protected by intellectual property law. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app for your own household meal planning. You don't get any ownership rights in the app itself. Generated meal plans and recipes are provided for your personal use; we don't claim ownership over the fact that you cooked a given dish, but the specific written recipe text and plan as generated by Dinsy remain part of the service we provide, not something you can redistribute commercially.

8. Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law (or equivalent New Zealand consumer protection law) that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted, or modified. Where our services fail to meet a consumer guarantee that can't be excluded, our liability is limited (to the extent the law allows) to re-supplying the service or paying the cost of having it re-supplied. Everything else in these terms — including the disclaimers in 5. and the liability limits in 9. — applies only to the extent the law permits.

9. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Dinsy is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law (and subject always to 8. Australian Consumer Law):

• we don't guarantee the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that AI-generated content will always be accurate, complete, or suitable for your needs;
• we're not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential loss arising from your use of the app, including wasted grocery spend from a price estimate being off, or dissatisfaction with a suggested meal;
• our total liability for any claim relating to Dinsy is limited to the amount you paid us in subscription fees in the 12 months before the claim arose (or, for free users, nil, to the extent the law allows).

10. Changes to the app and these terms

We may update Dinsy's features and these terms over time as the app develops. We'll update the "Last updated" date when we do, and we'll flag material changes (like a change to subscription pricing or what Plus includes) in the app. Continuing to use Dinsy after a change means you accept the updated terms.

11. Termination

You can stop using Dinsy at any time by deleting the app (and cancelling any active subscription separately via your Apple ID, per 4. Subscriptions). We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia (where Dinsy's operator is based), without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where a consumer's local law (e.g. NZ consumer protection law) mandatorily applies and cannot be excluded.

13. Contact us

Questions about these terms: support@dinsy.app