Scodella: Venice school menu

What's for lunch at school today? No more guessing in front of the fridge, no more zooming into the city's PDF: Scodella opens straight on today's canteen menu for the nursery and primary schools of the Comune di Venezia (Venice, Italy).

First course, main course, side dish, bread and fruit, with an icon that tells you at a glance whether it's meat, fish or vegetables, so you already know what to cook for dinner without repeating the same dish.

🍝 WHAT IT DOES

• Opens on today. Swipe right for tomorrow, left for yesterday, or jump to any day from the calendar or the week strip.

• Weeks A–E, no thinking required. The menu rotates over five weeks: the app works out which one it is and tells you when a menu is not (yet) valid.

• Special diets. Gluten-free, no milk, no eggs, no fish, no tomato, no legumes, no tree nuts, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, no meat: pick your season and your diet in Settings and every day shows the right menu.

• An icon for every dish. Vegan, vegetarian, meat, fish, cold cuts: a quick look, summed up at the top of the day too.

• Changes for a single day. Is there something else instead of the chicken today? Tap the dish, write what is really served (the app suggests dishes it knows). You can also leave a free note on the day. Each menu and diet keeps its own changes.

• Counters for eggs, meat and fish. Optional, under the day: how many days since the last dish with eggs (or meat, or fish) and how many until the next. Handy to plan the rest of the week.

• "Today's menu" widget. On your home screen you see today's menu and, scrolling, the next canteen days, with your changes. One tap and the app opens right on that day.

• Holidays and closures. Saturdays, Sundays and closing days don't appear. If the school closes unexpectedly, hide the day with a tap (and restore it any time from the settings).

• Statistics for the curious. How many times you replaced a dish, with what, and which dishes get skipped most. Just counts, no judgement.

• Changes from the municipality. When the municipality announces a change to the menu, I enter it and you find it on the right day of the app, in your language, with a notification (and the date it was announced). You can ignore a change, turn notifications off or turn updates off entirely in the settings: in that case you enter changes by hand.

• In your language. English, Italian, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Marathi, with dish names translated too. Any other phone language shows the app in English.

• Good to look at. Light and dark theme, colours that follow the menu (or those of your phone) and headings with a touch of elegance.

🔒 NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Free, no ads, no purchases, no account. Scodella uses the internet only to download menu changes (and you can turn that off in the settings): it sends nothing of yours, does no analytics or tracking and has no ads. Only if you turn it on in the settings (off by default), it sends anonymous crash reports to help fix bugs. Your own changes, notes and settings stay on your phone only.

📅 WHAT ABOUT NEW MENUS?

The menus are already inside the app. When the city publishes a new one (autumn, winter…), I add it and it arrives with an update: keep the app up to date and you're all set.

⚠️ A FEW SERIOUS WORDS

Scodella is an independent, unofficial app: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or run by the Comune di Venezia or the school catering service. The menus are taken from the documents published by the city. For last-minute changes, or doubts about allergies or intolerances, the school always has the final word: don't rely on the app alone. If you spot a mistake in a dish, write to me at the address you find below and I'll fix it.

Enjoy your meal! 🥣