Meal planner app

A meal plan that already knows what's in your kitchen.

Drop recipes you've already saved onto the week. Every one carries a badge showing how much of it your pantry already covers — so Thursday can be the night you only need one thing. When the week looks right, the whole plan becomes a grocery list.

Try it free

Meal planning is a Pro feature. Every new account gets it for the whole 30-day trial, no credit card — and the pantry, your recipes and one shared grocery list stay free after that. See what Pro costs.

In one lineWhat a meal planner app is

A meal planner app lets you decide what you're eating before the week starts, instead of at 6pm with the fridge open. Pantry Pal plans from the recipes and the food you already have — and turns the week into a shopping list for the rest.

The planning problemPlans written from nowhere

Most meal plans are written as if your kitchen were empty

Planning a week is not hard because you can't think of seven dinners. It's hard because the plan and the kitchen are two separate documents. You write Tuesday down, and only at the store do you find out Tuesday needed nine things you don't own and skipped the chicken thawing in the freezer.

So the plan gets abandoned by Wednesday, the thighs go off, and you order in — which is the expensive way to discover that a plan disconnected from your shelves is really just a wish list.

A plan should start from what's actually in your pantry and from the recipes you already cook, and it should finish by telling you the short list of what's missing.

What it doesA week you can actually cook

A week built from your cookbook and your shelves

01 Every meal shows its pantry match

You can see which night is easy.

Each planned meal carries a percentage — how much of it your pantry already covers. A 75% Tuesday and a 17% Saturday are very different evenings, and you get to know that while you're still planning.

02 The plan becomes the list

One tap turns the week into shopping.

Pick which of the week's meals you're actually shopping for, and the missing ingredients land on your grocery list — with what's already on your shelves subtracted out.

03 Four slots, seven days

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack.

One week at a time, as a list rather than a grid, so a day with one dinner in it takes one line. Move a meal to another day when Wednesday goes sideways.

04 Your household sees the same week

One plan, not one each.

The plan belongs to the household, so whoever's cooking on Thursday opens the same week you wrote on Sunday. No screenshot on the fridge, no second copy drifting out of date.

The weekThe actual screen, not a mockup

Seven days, and what each one still needs.

Days stack down the screen with their slots underneath, each meal showing its cook time and how much of it your pantry covers. Empty days collapse to a single line, so a half-planned week reads as a week rather than a wall.

At the bottom sits the only button that matters on a Sunday: Add to grocery list, with the number of meals it's about to shop for.

Every entry is a recipe from your own cookbook — the picker searches what you've saved and sorts it by what your pantry can mostly handle.

Pantry Pal's meal plan on a phone: the week of March 9–15 with Monday's buttermilk pancakes badged 40% and a weeknight green curry badged 17%, above a button reading 'Add to grocery list — 10 meals'.
10 meals across 5/7 days. Let's fill in the rest.
How it worksSunday to Thursday

Plan the week in about five minutes

1

Pick a day and a meal.

Tap add on any day, choose breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack, and search the recipes you've saved — sorted by what your pantry can mostly handle.

2

Shuffle it until it looks like a week.

On a laptop, drag a meal onto another day. On a phone, long-press it and pick the day you'd rather cook it. Clear a day, or the whole week, without touching your cookbook.

3

Send it to the grocery list.

Choose which meals you're shopping for and the missing ingredients go to your list, minus whatever the pantry already covers.

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What it costsSaid before you sign up

Meal planning is on Pro. Here's the honest version.

Every new account starts with a 30-day trial of the paid features, no credit card, and meal planning is one of them. Plan four weeks, hand the week to the grocery list, see whether it changes how you shop.

When the trial ends you drop to the free plan and keep your pantry, your recipes and one shared grocery list — those are free for good, no ads. Meal planning is not: it needs Pro, and a free account that opens the meal-plan screen gets an upgrade card rather than a week. We'd rather you read that here than find it out on your first Sunday.

What Pro costs, in full

FAQ

Before you plan a week.

No — it's a Pro feature. Every new account gets it for the 30-day trial with no credit card, and after that it needs Pro. The pantry tracker, your saved recipes and one shared grocery list stay free whether you upgrade or not. Prices are on the pricing page.
Not yet. Both buttons are in the app and both are switched off — we'd rather show you where they're going than pretend they aren't coming. What does work today is that the plan is shared with your household, so nobody needs a copy of it.
No. Nothing here writes a week for you, and nothing suggests one. What it does is put your own recipes in front of you sorted by how much of each one your pantry already covers, which is the part that actually makes the choice easier.
A recipe you've saved, in one of four slots — breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack. That is the whole entry type: the plan holds recipes and nothing else, so it can always tell you what the week costs in ingredients.
Yes, and that's the point of it. Each planned meal is scored against your pantry, and when the week goes to the grocery list the things you already own are left off. You do have to keep the pantry current yourself — planning a meal doesn't take anything off the shelf.
Sunday, sorted

Write the week from what you already have.

Thirty days of meal planning with every new account, no credit card. If it doesn't change how you shop, keep the free pantry and walk away.

Try it free

Meal planning is a Pro feature. The trial runs 30 days.