Heatdex

Heatdex is the hot sauce collection app for people who own more bottles of chili sauce than they'll admit to. If your fridge door is a wall of Cholula, Tapatio, and some unlabeled reaper sauce a friend brought back from a trip, Heatdex gives that collection a home — and turns "how hot was that one again?" into an answer you actually have. Open the app and your Shelf is the first thing you see: every bottle you own, its brand, product name, a photo, your own tasting notes, and its Scoville heat rating on a hands-on sliding dial that runs from mild to reaper. Mark your daily driver, rate each bottle out of ten, and note where you bought it so you can find it again. From there, Heatdex pulls double duty as a recipe finder — tap any bottle to browse dishes that pair with its flavor family, sourced live from TheMealDB, and mark the ones you've actually cooked. Curious what the rest of the world puts hot sauce on? The Atlas is a curated library of sauces from Mexico to the Caribbean to South-East Asia, each with its Scoville range, its culinary traditions, and the history behind it — browse it for inspiration or add anything you like straight to your own Shelf. KEY FEATURES ✓ Shelf collection — log every hot sauce you own with a photo, brand, tasting notes, rating, and exact Scoville heat unit reading ✓ Scoville dial — set a bottle's heat on a real sliding scale from mild to reaper, with live SHU numbers as you drag ✓ World Atlas — browse a curated library of hot sauces from a dozen culinary traditions and regions, each with its history and heat range ✓ Recipe pairings — find real recipes that match any bottle's flavor profile, pulled live from TheMealDB, with ingredients and step-by-step instructions ✓ Scoville Ladder — track your all-time heat ceiling, unlock tier badges from Mild Master to Reaper Survivor, and watch your heat journey on a timeline ✓ Cooked dishes — mark recipes you've actually made and see them logged against the bottle you used ✓ Daily Driver pin — keep your go-to bottle pinned to the top of the Shelf ✓ Camera or gallery photos — snap or pick a photo for every bottle, stored right on your device HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a bottle to your Shelf — snap a photo, name it, and set its heat on the Scoville dial 2. Tap into any bottle to see its detail page, rate it, and jump straight to recipes that pair with it 3. Cook something, mark it "Made it", and watch your Ladder climb as your collection's heat ceiling rises WHY HEATDEX — there's no account to create and nothing to sync: your Shelf lives on your device, photos and all. The Atlas and recipe pairings are the only things that touch the network, and only to fetch public sauce and recipe data — never your own collection. No ads, no in-app purchases, no clutter. Just a fast, native way to keep track of what's actually in your fridge. PRIVACY — Heatdex stores your Shelf and photos locally on your device. Recipe and pairing data comes from the free TheMealDB API; no personal information is sent with those requests. There is no account, no ad tracking, and no data shared with third parties. Got a bottle Heatdex's Atlas is missing, or a bug to report? We'd love to hear about it.