Leftly: one photo of your fridge, three dinners from what's left, the missing item at your door

It names what's on each shelf, tops up the one thing you're missing in a single swipe and runs the timers on your lock screen. Before something goes off, it tells you.

The brief, in a founder's words: "Our app turns what's already in your fridge into tonight's dinner, but our homepage shows a pretty plate like every food app, so a busy cook who bins food every week can't see it starts with their own shelves."

Frost put one real ingredient among frosted glass. Fridge Light made a matte 3D kitchen at night, lit only by the open fridge. Hard Flash shot it as an editorial flash photo on cobalt.

Ryan picked Fridge Light. The key art is that kitchen with the leftovers falling out of the fridge light into a glowing bowl, and a short film lets them land.

We generated 18 lockups, each from an earlier one, and set 17 on one sheet in the order they were made (one was a near repeat). Each sits at full size, at 64 pixels, and as the symbol alone at 64 and 32, the app-icon test.

Ryan picked 06. We traced it to vector, matching the drawing to 99.2%, and built the lockup, the mark and the two app icons from that trace. It reads at 16 pixels, in yolk or night.

The other two are the key art and the launch. Every swap goes through the mark's own shape, a bitten-disc iris or a bite edge sweeping across the cell, in 0.45 seconds. It loops without a seam.

Ryan scored the app, the demo and this board 8.9 out of 10, joint best with Kubo. The first board's interface was, in his words, "extremely vibe coded". This one is the redo.

Each screen got one job and the one number that does it. The copy talks like a kitchen: name the food, the day and the number. Never "items", "ingredients detected" or "AI".

The first pass looked generated, so we started again from research. We broke down shipped-app demos frame by frame and wrote down the tells of a generated app. The final screens pass 25 of them.

A, The fridge is the screen: your own fridge photo stays the ground, and the food lifts out of it.

B, Dinner is the screen: Tonight is a deck of full-bleed dinners, your food rides along on a glass-shelf tray, and the fridge light is the only light.

C, Light kitchen: a calm daylight app, with night kept for cooking.

Ryan liked all three. The app takes A's scan and its dashed Parmesan slot, B's night deck and tray, and C as light mode.

Colour means one thing each. Amber is time left, red is use it today, green is you have it all. The one primary button is fridge light, and it appears only where you commit.

The app is set in SF Pro Rounded in three weights, so it sits in iOS like a shipped app, and system surfaces use SF Pro as Apple does. The brand's own voice goes into the wordmark, and into Gabarito on the App Store set, the tee and the poster.

The edge states are drawn too: the camera pre-prompt, a scan that fails on a dark shelf, a fridge with nothing to cook, the top-up on its way, the timer done and Leftly Plus. Fridge and Saved open from Tonight's header, so there's no tab bar.

It's built from the screens' own code, posed frame by frame, with every move timed to iOS springs. Each tap shows its haptic as a ring and a small tick of the phone. The camera pushes in on the moment that matters and never past 1.2 times, so the interface is only ever scaled down.

The App Store set gives each frame one line and one real screen, with the food breaking the frame. The magnet set is a week board: put each magnet on the day that food goes off, and cook from the top down.

Ryan made the key picks: the world and the logo. He also sent the first app back, which led to the redo. The worlds, the key art, the dishes and the launch photographs started as generated images; the logo was generated, picked and traced. Every screen, the demo and the board are drawn in code from one tokens file, so the interface is real and renders at any size.