Meal Planner
Invite onlyPlan the week's dinners together, then shop and cook from the same list. Built around what your family actually eats, and what some of them can't.
A week the whole family shares
Shared week
Pick dinners and lunches together. Everyone sees the same plan, and the week opens on today.
Scaled to your table
Set how many people eat and every recipe scales to fit, with a stepper when company comes.
Something else
Plan a store-bought or no-recipe night by name. Scan the barcode and the label numbers fill in.
A library that fits your family
200+ recipes
With photos, ratings and filters by meal, diet and time. Diet labels like low carb and heart healthy come from each recipe's numbers.
Bring your own
Import from a link, a photo of a recipe card, a PDF or pasted text. You check it before it saves.
Make it lighter
A heart healthy version shows every swap and the saturated fat before and after. The original stays.
Built around what some of you can't eat
Per-person sensitivities
Low FODMAP groups and gluten for each person, with or without an account. About 570 foods are checked.
See it as you browse
Recipes with a food your family avoids are marked in red, liked foods sort to the top, and each recipe shows which sensitivities it touches and for whom.
Make it without your avoids
Found a recipe with mushrooms and someone won't eat them? Claude suggests swaps, like zucchini, and shows every changed line before anything saves.
From plan to cart
One combined list
The week becomes one grocery list, grouped by store, with the same food added up across recipes.
Pantry and staples
Mark what you have, what's low and what's out. Low and out go on the list.
Send to your cart
Link a Kroger account, Pick 'n Save included, review the matches and prices, and add the list to your cart.
Hands busy, screen on
Cook mode
One step at a time in large type, with that step's ingredients at your scaled amounts. The screen stays awake.
Handy amounts
Grams and pounds come with "about 3 breasts" or "about 4 1/2 cups", so nobody has to weigh anything.
Quick meal
Pick a protein, the sides you feel like and a time limit, and get the dinners that fit.
Claude in the kitchen
Ask about this recipe
Swaps, timing, scaling or storage, mid-recipe. Claude knows the step you're on and your family's avoids.
Ask for a quick meal
Type "something quick with chicken and broccoli" and Claude sets the choices for you.
Create with Claude
Describe a dish and Claude writes a lighter recipe that leaves out your avoids and says what it left out.
Most apps do one part of this
Recipe keepers, grocery lists and diet trackers each cover a piece. Meal Planner puts the pieces in one place, for a whole family.
| Feature | Meal Planner | Recipe apps | Grocery list apps | Diet trackers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared family week plan | Built in | Some | Some | Some |
| Import from a link, photo or PDF | Built in | Common | Rare | Some |
| Lighter version, original kept | Built in | Rare | Rare | Rare |
| Per-person sensitivities, including FODMAP | Built in | Rare | Rare | Some |
| Nutrition from ingredients | Built in | Some | Rare | Common |
| Grocery list with a pantry | Built in | Common | Common | Some |
| Send the list to a store cart | Kroger stores | Some | Common | Some |
| Cook mode with each step's amounts | Built in | Common | Rare | Some |
| Make a recipe without an avoided food | Built in | Rare | Rare | Rare |
| AI help that knows your family's avoids | Built in | Rare | Rare | Rare |
General patterns from our look at 28 meal planning, recipe, grocery and diet apps in October 2026. Individual apps vary, and they change.
What we're working toward
Create with Claude on Quick meal
No match for what you feel like? Claude writes one.
Make a variation
"Spice it up" or "make it vegetarian" on any recipe.
More store carts
Beyond Kroger stores, as partner programs allow.
Import from Instagram and TikTok
Save the recipe from the video you just watched.
Ideas, not promises. No dates.
Want in?
Meal Planner is invite only while a few families test it. Tell us a little about your household.
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