New Version 1.1.0 — share with your household, Cook Mode and more →

Know what’s for dinner. All week.

Menu Planner 2 turns the meals you plan into one shopping list, sorted the way you walk the store. When it’s time to cook, it takes you through the recipe one step at a time.

Free to download
iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android
6 languages
See how it works

Turkey and Vegetable Skillet recipe with its photo, rating, times and a Start Cooking button

Home: today’s next meal with its photo and when to start cooking, then the rest of today’s meals

Added 14 items to your listfor this week’s planned meals

Simmer 15 to 20 minTap the time in a step to start a timer

One tapSuggest Meals fills your week from recipes you love

Aisle by aisleA shopping list in the order you walk your store

Any recipeFrom websites, cookbook pages, photos and 17 other apps

Up to 6 peopleShare one kitchen with your household

How it works

Plan once. Everything else follows.

Your meal plan, your recipes, your pantry and your shopping list all know about each other — so planning dinner is the only thing you have to think about.

Plan your week

Tap a day and add a recipe, or let Suggest Meals fill the whole week from recipes you already love. Drag meals between days when plans change.

Shop once

Pick the days you’re shopping for, and everything those meals need goes on your list — with the right amounts, minus what you already have, sorted by aisle.

Cook without the stress

Cook Mode shows one step at a time in big type, the ingredients each step uses, and a timer for every time in the recipe. Your screen stays on.

Features

Everything a home cook needs. Nothing they don’t.

Meal plan showing a week of breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks

Meal planning

Never ask “what’s for dinner?” again

See your whole week at a glance, with your own meal types — breakfast, school lunch, Sunday roast, whatever fits your family.

Suggest Meals fills a day or a week from your own recipes. Shuffle any you don’t fancy.
Drag a meal to another day, and choose to move it or copy it.
Save a day or a meal you make often as a template, and add it again in one tap.
A profile for each person, each with their own plan and nutrition goals.
A reminder when it’s time to start cooking, based on the recipe’s prep and cook times.
Your meals in the Calendar app, kept up to date as your plan changes.

Shopping list

Your week becomes one grocery list

Every ingredient for every planned meal, added up and sorted in the order you walk your store. No more doubling back for the cumin.

Things you already have stay off the list. Salt never shows up again.
Set up each store’s aisles once — after a few trips, the app offers the order you actually shop in.
Open your list at the store and it switches to that store by itself.
Track prices at each store, see a running total, and find the best-value size.
Scan a barcode to add something new, with its nutrition filled in.
Separate lists for the holidays, a camping trip, or someone else’s groceries.

Cook Mode: one step in large type, a running timer, and the ingredients that step uses

Cooking

Cook step by step. Timers built in.

A recipe screen made for a phone propped against the fruit bowl, with floury hands.

Cook Mode: one step at a time, in big type, with the ingredients that step uses.
Tap “simmer 15 to 20 minutes” to start a timer. Run as many as you need.
Timers show on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and ring even on silent.
Double a recipe or halve it, and every amount updates — ranges included.
Show amounts in cups and spoons or in metric, with grams where the weight is known.

Turkey and Vegetable Skillet recipe page with its photo, rating, times, tags and ingredients

Recipes

Every recipe, in one place

From the family cookbook, your favorite food blog, or the back of a card in Grandma’s handwriting.

Save recipes from most recipe websites — search the web without leaving the app.
Scan a page of a cookbook with the camera, pull one out of a photo, paste it, or read it out loud.
A recipe in another language offers to translate itself, right on your device.
Photos, tags, ratings, favorites and notes. Recipes without a photo get a drawing that fits.
Filter by tags, ingredients, nutrition, price or what you have — and save the filters you use.
Export all your recipes to a standard file any time. Your recipes are yours.

Pantry

Stop buying what you already have

Keep count of your food as closely — or as loosely — as you like.

Cook a planned meal and what it used comes out of your pantry.
Clear your cart after shopping and your pantry is restocked.
Running low? It goes on your list, counting what this week’s meals will need.
Expiration dates, where things live (pantry, freezer, garage) and prices at every store.
Or keep it simple: just “have it” or “don’t”.

Nutrition

Hit your goals without counting

Nutrition is worked out from your recipes’ ingredients, so it’s there when you want it and out of the way when you don’t.

Choose the nutrients you care about and give each one a goal.
Each day shows a bar per nutrient; the iPad week view shows the whole week.
Scan a nutrition label — even one in another language — or look a food up online.
Goals start from official recommended values, and you can change any of them.

New · Household sharing

One kitchen. Everyone in it.

Invite up to five people — a partner, the kids, a roommate — to share your recipes, meal plans, shopping lists and pantry. Everyone uses their own phone, tablet or Mac with their own sign-in.

Something checked off at the store disappears from everyone’s list within moments.
The shopping list shows who added each item.
Each person opens the app on their own meal plan.
One Premium + Sync subscription covers the whole household. Joining is free.

Household screen listing four people, the note that one Premium + Sync covers everyone in the household, and an invite code

On iPad

Made for the bigger screen

See the whole week side by side, browse your recipes as big photos, and keep a recipe open on the kitchen counter.

iPad week view: seven days side by side, each with its meals and a nutrition chart — **The week at a glance.** Every day side by side, with each day’s nutrition above its meals. Drag a meal from one day to another.

iPad Kitchen showing recipes as a grid of large photo cards — **Your recipes, in full color.** Browse your whole collection as big photo cards, then filter by tag, ingredient or what you have.

iPad month view of the meal plan — The month at a glance

iPad recipe with ingredients and directions side by side — Ingredients beside the steps

iPad Cook Mode showing one step in large type with the ingredients it uses — Cook Mode on the counter

iPad shopping list sorted by aisle — Your list, aisle by aisle

iPhone · iPad · Mac · Android

On every device you cook with

Each version is made for its device, so it feels at home there. With Premium + Sync, your meal plans, recipes, lists and pantry follow you from one to the next.

Menu Planner 2 on the Mac: the list of days beside today’s nutrition and meals with photos

iPhone

Widgets, Siri, recipe timers on the Lock Screen, and your list one tap away in Control Center.

iPad

Day, week and month views, two windows side by side, and drag and drop. Same download as iPhone.

Mac

A real Mac app, with a sidebar, recipes in their own windows, menu commands, timers in the menu bar and widgets.

Android

Made the Android way for phones and tablets, with home screen widgets and the same recipes, plans and lists.

Menu Planner 2 widgets on the iPhone Home Screen showing today’s meals and the shopping list

On iPhone

Right where you need it

On iPhone, Menu Planner 2 works the way the rest of your phone does.

Widgets

Today’s meals, your shopping list with checkboxes, what’s running low and a recipe of the day.

Siri and Spotlight

“Add milk to my Menu Planner 2 list.” Your recipes show up when you search your iPhone.

Live timers

Recipe timers on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

Apple Intelligence

Tidy messy recipes, suggest tags and write summaries — on your device, privately.

iPad windows

Your meal plan in one window and your list in another. Drag food straight onto a meal.

Control Center

Open your list or the barcode scanner from Control Center or the Action button.

Moving in

Bring everything with you

Coming from the original Menu Planner?

Welcome back. I made the original app too, and I rebuilt Menu Planner 2 from scratch. If the original app is on the same iPhone or iPad, Menu Planner 2 offers to bring over your recipes, pantry, meal plans, shopping list, stores, tags, templates and profiles in a couple of taps. Nothing in the original app is changed.

How bringing your data over works →

Coming from another recipe app?

Bring all your recipes over at once — photos, ingredients, steps, times, ratings and favorites, where the other app keeps them.

Works with exports from Paprika, Mela, Crouton, Recipe Keeper, Plan to Eat, Copy Me That, My Recipe Box, CookBook, Pestle, Flavorish, Grocery, MacGourmet, MasterCook, Meal-Master, Nextcloud Cookbook, RecipeSage and Tandoor. Got a list of recipe links? Paste them all in at once.

See the steps for your app →

Pricing

Free to download. Upgrade only if you want to.

Everything one person needs to plan, shop and cook on one device is free, for good. No trial that runs out.

Free

Download it and use it for as long as you like.

Meal plans, templates and reminders
Recipes with photos, nutrition and import from the web, cookbooks and other apps
Cook Mode and recipe timers
A shopping list sorted by store and aisle
Pantry tracking and running-low alerts
Barcode scanning and online food lookup
Print or save a PDF of a recipe, list or meal plan
Reports, most widgets, and Apple Intelligence tools
Join someone’s household

Premium

$14.99 once, per app

Every Premium feature for good, on the kind of device you buy it on: iPhone and iPad share one purchase; the Mac and Android each have their own. No syncing or cloud backup.

Everything in Free
Suggest Meals — fill your week in one tap
More than one shopping list
A profile for each person
Pantry photos and image search
Share plans, lists and recipes as links, and print many recipes at once
Meals kept up to date in the Calendar app
Themes, app icons and more widgets

Premium + Sync

$1.99 a month

or $19.99 a year. Prices in your currency are shown in the app.

Everything in Premium
Everything synced between your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android devices
Automatic cloud backup
Household sharing for up to six people — one subscription covers everyone
One subscription covers every device you sign in on, whichever store you bought it in
Stay eight months, or buy a year once, and Premium is yours to keep in that app even if you cancel

Your recipes are yours. Export them all to a standard file whenever you like.

Free stays free. Features that are free today won’t be moved behind a paywall.

Cancel any time from your App Store or Google Play subscriptions. Your recipes and plans stay on your device.

Privacy

What you eat is your business

No account needed

Use Menu Planner 2 without signing in. Everything stays on your device.

No tracking

No advertising IDs, no following you across other apps and websites.

Never sold

Your recipes, plans and lists are never sold or shared with advertisers.

Smart, on your device

Apple Intelligence features and recipe translation run on your own device.

Read the full privacy policy.

Questions

Good to know

Do I need an account?

No. Menu Planner 2 opens straight to your Home screen, and everything stays on your device. You only need a free account for Premium + Sync, to sync between devices or share with your household. There’s no password: sign in with a code sent to your email, or with Apple or Google.

Is it really free?

Yes. Meal planning, recipes, recipe import, Cook Mode, the shopping list sorted by aisle and pantry tracking are all free, with no ads and no time limit. Premium adds things like Suggest Meals, more lists and profiles, and pantry photos. Premium + Sync adds syncing, backup and household sharing.

Which devices does it work on?

iPhone and iPad with iOS 17.6 or later, Mac with macOS 26 or later, and Android phones and tablets with Android 12 or later. The free version works on each one by itself. With Premium + Sync and a free account, your recipes, meal plans, lists and pantry stay the same on all of them, so you can plan on the Mac and shop with your phone.

Can my family use it too?

Yes. With Premium + Sync, invite up to five people to your household. Each person signs in on their own device, and you all share the same recipes, meal plans, shopping lists and pantry. One subscription covers everyone, and joining is free.

What happens if I cancel Premium + Sync?

Your data stays on your device and syncing stops. If you’ve paid for eight months (they don’t have to be in a row), or bought a year, the Premium features stay unlocked for good in the app you subscribed in.

I used the original Menu Planner. Can I bring my data?

Yes. If the original app is on the same device, Menu Planner 2 offers to bring over your recipes, pantry, meal plans, shopping list, stores, tags, templates and profiles. The original app’s data isn’t changed. More about moving in.

I use the original Menu Planner. Where do I sign in?

The original app’s website is still there for you. Sign in with your Menu Planner sync account to manage your data, just as before. When you’re ready to move to Menu Planner 2, install it on the same iPhone or iPad and it offers to bring everything over.

Does it work without an internet connection?

Yes. Your meal plans, recipes, pantry and lists live on your device, so you can plan and shop in a store with no signal. Things that look something up — importing from a website, barcode and nutrition lookup, image search — need a connection, and syncing catches up when you’re back online.

Which languages does it come in?

English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Italian. It follows your device’s language, or you can choose one just for Menu Planner 2.

Where can I get help?

Browse the help guide, or write to me. I read every message myself.

Make tonight’s dinner the easy part

Free for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.