Setting your family's table

Create your table

Sign in, choose Create a table, and name it — "The Haddad Table", "Sunday People", whatever feels like home. You take the first seat, and Sufra gives you a six-character invite code.

Share the code — privately

The code is the only key to your table: anyone who has it can pull up a chair. Share it in person, or in a private family chat — not anywhere public. The code can't be changed later, so treat it like a house key.

Family members download Sufra, choose Join a table, and enter the code. Their seat appears on everyone's table immediately.

Post your first dinner

Tap the compose button, take or choose a photo, and post. A photo is the only requirement — the dish name and recipe are optional (though your family will thank you for the recipe). Posting takes seconds; photos are resized on your phone so they upload fast even on cellular.

One dinner per person per day — that's the ritual. Once tonight's dinner is in, the button changes to "Add to your day" for anything else you want to share.

Understand the gate

Until your dinner is posted, tonight's plates from everyone else stay hidden — on the table, in the vault, everywhere. Post yours and they unlock. Your own meals are never hidden from you, and at midnight the table resets for a new night.

This is the heart of Sufra: nobody gets to watch without cooking. It keeps the table fair, and it keeps it alive.

Know the five tags

Every post carries one of five tags: dinner, breakfast, lunch, snack, other. The clock picks a sensible default, and you can change it before posting. Only dinner is the ritual meal — it's what glows on seats, opens the gate, counts toward the family streak, sends the "someone posted" push, and enters the week's finals. Everything else is "off-menu": welcome, visible behind the same gate, but carrying no obligations.

Vote on Sunday

Each day's most-reacted dinner becomes that day's finalist. On Sunday a ✦ button appears on the table: the ballot. One vote each, no changing your mind, and your own dish is off-limits — the app enforces both. At 9pm the crown lands, the winner is named in a single recap push, and the dish takes its place on the Winners' Shelf in the vault.

Leaving a table

You can leave any table from your table list. Your posted meals stay at the table — they're part of the family's shared memory — but your seat is gone and you stop seeing anything from that table. The table's creator can also remove a seat. Removal isn't a ban: the invite code still works, so patching things up is one code away.

Deleting your account

Settings → Delete account permanently erases your sign-in, your profile, every meal and photo you ever posted at every table, your reactions, your ballot votes, and your seats. Sufra asks you to confirm and to re-enter your password first. It cannot be undone.

What stays: the table itself, for the people still using it, and small aggregate markers ("the whole table ate together on this date") that identify no one. Full detail in the privacy policy. If you can't access the app, email help@sufra.info and we'll delete your account for you.