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Tap your picture — the round button with your initials or emoji — at the top left of any tab. That opens Profile & Settings:

• The profile you’re planning for. Tap it to change its name, picture and Nutrition & Goals.
• Without Premium, a Menu Planner 2 Premium card. Tap See What’s Included to find out what it adds.
• Switch Profile (when you have more than one: tap a profile to plan for it) and Manage Profiles.
• Under Account: your email and plan, or Sign In / Sign Up, and Household.
• Messages, when there are any.
• Settings: Starting Weekday, Language, Cups and Spoons, Recipe Display, Calendar, Apple Intelligence, Theme, App Icon and Keeping Count; the things you set up once — Tags, Stores, Lists, Meal Types, Meal Templates, Pantry Locations and Saved Filters; and Import & Export, to bring recipes in from other apps, save them all to a file, or add pictures to recipes saved from websites (Get Photos from Recipe Websites).
• Help: Help & FAQ (this guide), Contact Support, What’s New, Quick Setup, Show Tips Again and Fix Search.

An orange warning triangle on your picture means syncing needs your attention — open Profile & Settings and tap your account, or Sign In / Sign Up, to see what’s wrong. A number on your picture means you have unread messages.

Home is your day at a glance: the next meal and when to start it, the rest of today and tomorrow, and what’s missing from your list. Meals is your calendar of planned meals. Kitchen holds your recipes and pantry items together — everything you cook with or buy. Lists is your shopping list, sorted by store and aisle once you set them up.

They work together: a recipe’s ingredients are pantry items, planned meals can put what they need on your list, and if you keep count of your food, clearing a finished list restocks your pantry.

Menu Planner 2 opens on the tab you used last.

Home shows your day at a glance for the profile you’re planning for. Everything on it opens the real thing — the recipe, the day in Meals, or your list.

• The next meal, with its food and when to start cooking it. Tap Cook to open the recipe, or the calendar button beside Made It to see the whole day. If you keep count of your food (Settings → Keeping Count), Made It records that you made it — Had It for a pantry item. If someone else is eating it too, it says who; Count Me Out takes you off it, and they keep it.
• Nothing planned? When the last meal of your day has a time and nothing in it, Home suggests a few recipes for it. Tap + beside one to put it on today, or Browse Kitchen to look for something else. Otherwise, when nothing is planned today, tap Plan Today.
• Also Today and Tomorrow list the rest of your meals. Once today’s meals are done, Home says That’s everything for today.
• This Week shows which of the next seven days have nothing planned, until most of the week is planned. Tap a day to plan it. Once you have a few recipes, tap Suggest Meals to fill the week.
• Ingredients not on your list for today’s and tomorrow’s meals. Tap Add All to your list to put them on it, or Add for More Days… to look further ahead.
• Your shopping list: how many things are left to buy and how many are in your cart. Tap it to open the list.
• Planned Today — what today’s meals add up to — if the profile has nutrition goals. Tap Find Foods That Fit under it for foods that get the day closer to them.
• Recently Added and Haven’t Made in a While, and any other Saved Filters you set to Show on Home. Tap + beside a recipe to plan it, or See All to open the whole list.
• Recipe timers that are running, near the top. Tap one to go to its step.
• A Did You Know? card about a feature you might not have found.
• Notes that come and go: Want a Reminder at Meal Time? once you plan a meal with a time; a box for your name while your profile is still called “Me”; Year in Review from December 15 to January 15; and notes about your account when something needs doing, like Sync is turned off, or Getting your recipes and plans while they arrive after you sign in.

Tap the chart button at the top right of Home to open Reports.

When you start with an empty Menu Planner 2, Home shows a Get Started checklist: Set up the basics, Add your first recipe, Plan a meal, Make a shopping list and Stock your pantry. The first and last are optional. Steps check themselves off as you do them. You don’t need an account for any of it.

Tap a step to go straight there. When it’s your next step, Set up the basics has a Quick Setup button, and Add your first recipe has Website, Photo and Type It. Stock your pantry has Scan Barcode and Type It.

Moving from another recipe app? Tap Moving from another recipe app? Bring your recipes over on the card. If the original Menu Planner is on this device, Have the original Menu Planner? Bring over your recipes and meal plans brings your recipes and plans over.

Once a meal you planned for today is at the top of Home, the checklist moves under it. Tap ✕ on the checklist to hide it for good. It goes away by itself when every step is done.

If you sign in to an account that already has recipes and plans, Home shows Getting your recipes and plans while they arrive, and the checklist waits until they’re here.

After that, Home shows one Did You Know? card a day about a feature you might not have found. Tap the card’s button, when it has one, to go to that feature, Next Tip to see another, ✕ to close it until tomorrow, or Stop Showing These to turn them off.

Steps only check off for things you do yourself. The starter food Quick Setup adds doesn’t count toward Add your first recipe or Stock your pantry.

1. Tap your picture at the top left to open Profile & Settings.
2. Tap Help.
3. Tap Quick Setup.

Quick Setup is one screen: your name (while your profile is still called “Me”), the meals you plan and the time of each (the times put each day’s meals in order and set when meal reminders arrive; a meal can also have no time), starter food, and whether to keep track of the food you have. It only changes what you choose, when you tap Done. Tags, stores and lists are set up in Settings; profiles and nutrition goals are in Profile & Settings.

When you’re new, the Get Started card on Home has a Quick Setup button too.

Quick Setup can add starter food — three easy recipes and the ingredients they use — so you don’t start from an empty kitchen. Tap your picture at the top left, then Help → Quick Setup, turn on Add starter food, and tap Done.

The starter food comes in the language Menu Planner 2 is showing: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian or Brazilian Portuguese. Change the language before Quick Setup if you want it in another one.

Add starter food is already on when your kitchen is empty. Once you have recipes or pantry items, it starts off, so the same food isn’t added twice by accident.

Now and then I send news about Menu Planner 2 to signed-in accounts. A new one shows at the top of Home, and a number appears on your picture.

Tap the New message: banner on Home to read it, or ✕ to mark it read. To see them all, tap your picture, then Messages. To delete one, swipe left on it, or open it and tap Delete. Delete All at the top right deletes them all.

Tap your picture at the top left, then Help. Under Contact Support, choose Feature Suggestion, I Have a Question or Report a Bug. Enter or check your email address, write your message, and tap Send Message.

For a bug, leave Include Technical Details on so I can see what went wrong. Turn on Include Menu Planner 2 Data if the problem is with your recipes, plans or lists. Include Original Menu Planner Data shows when the original app is on this device.

In Help & FAQ, you can also tap Ask a Question at the bottom, Ask Support when a search finds nothing, or Still stuck? under any answer (Ask Support About This after you tap the thumbs-down). That starts your message with your question. You don’t need an account to write to me.

If the original Menu Planner app is on the same device, Menu Planner 2 can bring your recipes, pantry foods, meal plans, shopping list, meal types, stores, tags, templates and profiles across. Nothing in the original app is changed.

Menu Planner 2 offers to do this the first time you open it. If you’re signed in, it goes into your account and to your other devices. If not, it stays on this device until you sign in.

If you tapped Not Now, tap Have the original Menu Planner? Bring over your recipes and meal plans on the Get Started card on Home, if it’s there. Or tap your picture at the top left, then Settings, and under Import & Export tap Bring Over Original Menu Planner Data. Then tap Bring It Over. That row only shows when the original app, with your recipes and plans, is on this device.

If Menu Planner 2 already has recipes or plans, you choose. Add to What’s Here keeps everything you have: recipes, foods, stores and tags with the same name aren’t added twice, and a meal you’d already planned for the same day gets the original app’s food added to it. Replace Everything removes what’s in Menu Planner 2 first — on all your devices if you’re signed in, which needs an internet connection. It can’t be undone.

• Keep the app open until it says All Done. Your screen stays on while it works. If it’s closed part way, the next time you open Menu Planner 2 it offers to finish, and nothing is added twice.
• Recipe photos come across if the original Menu Planner backed them up online. They come last and need an internet connection.
• For recipes with a link to a website and no photo, tap Get Photos from Recipe Websites when the import is done. The same button is under Import & Export in Settings, for all your recipes at any time.
• If some photos didn’t come across, tap Get These Photos there.

Bringing everything over again later only adds what’s missing.

Many recipe apps can export all your recipes to a file, and Menu Planner 2 can bring them all over at once. These include 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.

1. On the Kitchen tab, tap + → New Recipe → From Other Recipe Apps. You’ll also find Import Recipes from Other Apps in Settings, under Import & Export, and, when you’re new, Moving from another recipe app? on the Get Started card on Home.
2. Pick the app your recipes are in to see how to export them from it.
3. Export from that app. Paprika and Mela can send the file straight to Menu Planner 2; for the others, save the file to the Files app and tap Choose File.
4. Every recipe in the file is checked, except ones that look like recipes you already have (the same name or the same web page). Tap Select All or Select None to change them all, then tap Import.

• Photos, ingredients and their headings, steps, prep and cook times, servings, nutrition and where the recipe came from come across, when the other app’s file has them.
• Ratings, favorites and the date each recipe was first saved come across from the apps that keep them.
• A category from the other app is added only when you already have a tag with the same name.
• You can tap Stop Importing at any time. The recipes imported so far stay.
• Can’t find your app? Search for it, or tap My app isn’t listed and try Choose File.

Apps that can’t export: AnyList, BigOven, NYT Cooking, ReciMe, Samsung Food and Tasty can’t send all your recipes at once. Pick the app in the list to see the best way to bring its recipes over: open each recipe’s web page with Find on the Web and tap Get Recipe, then Save Recipe, use From Pasted Text, or, when you have the recipes’ web addresses, tap Paste Recipe Links.

Paste Recipe Links: paste the web addresses of as many recipes as you like, one at a time or a whole list, and tap Find Recipes. Menu Planner 2 reads each page and lists the recipes it found to import together, plus any pages it couldn’t read. Mealime is on the list until it closes on October 21, 2026. Its recipes are on mealime.com, so this brings them over: in Mealime, open a recipe, tap Share, then Copy, and paste it in.

Your recipes in the other app aren’t changed.

You can save all your recipes, with their photos, in one file: to keep as a backup, or to open in another recipe app.

1. Tap your picture at the top left, then Settings.
2. Under Import & Export, tap Export All Recipes.
3. Tap Create File, then Save or Share File. Choose Save to Files to keep it on your device or in iCloud Drive, or send it with AirDrop or Mail.

The file uses the standard recipe format, so other recipe apps can read it. To bring the recipes back into Menu Planner 2, go to Settings, tap Import Recipes from Other Apps under Import & Export, then tap Choose File. Headings, recipes used inside other recipes, ratings and favorites come back too.

Exporting is free, and your recipes in Menu Planner 2 aren’t changed.

Recipes you saved from a website, or brought in from another app, often have the web page they came from but no photo. Menu Planner 2 can open each of those pages and add its picture.

1. Tap your picture at the top left, then Settings.
2. Under Import & Export, tap Get Photos from Recipe Websites. It shows how many recipes have a website and no photo.
3. Tap Get Photos, and keep the screen open until it’s done. With a lot of recipes, it can take a few minutes.

You can tap Stop at any time; the photos added so far stay. When it’s done, it says how many photos were added. If some websites didn’t answer, tap Try Those Again.

This is free. Recipes that already have a photo aren’t changed. To get the photo for one recipe, edit it and tap its picture, then Recipe Website.

On Home, tap the chart button at the top right to open Reports:

• Weekly Recap — last week in a few numbers, and what’s still unplanned this week.
• Forgotten Favorites — favorite and highly rated recipes that haven’t been planned lately. Plan one straight from the list, or swipe left on one and tap Not Now to hide it for 90 days.
• Grocery Spend — what you spent and where, and what your meals cost per serving. It uses the prices recorded when you clear your cart.
• Meal Plan Stats — which meals get planned or missed, and your planning streak.
• Nutrition Trends — how often planned days land inside each nutrition goal.
• Pantry Health — what’s expiring, running low, or never used.
• Recipe Stats — your most planned recipes and your tag mix.
• Year in Review — your year in the kitchen, from December 2026.

Most reports have a period picker at the top, so you can look at a different stretch of time.

Open Home → Reports → Weekly Recap and turn on Weekly reminder. On the first morning of each week you’ll get a notification saying how much of the week is still unplanned. Tap it to see your recap.

The week starts on the day set in Settings → Starting Weekday. If notifications are off for Menu Planner 2, turn them on in the Settings app first.

Year in Review shows a year in the kitchen in a few pages: your most planned recipes, what was new, your busiest month and more. Swipe to move through it.

From December 15 to January 15 it appears as a card on Home — tap ✕ to hide it for that year. From December on, it’s also in Home → Reports: in December it shows the year so far, and from January it shows the year before. The first Year in Review is for 2026.

It needs at least 10 planned meals in that year.

Menu Planner 2 follows your device’s language. It’s available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Italian, and so is Help & FAQ.

To use a different language just for Menu Planner 2, tap your picture at the top left, then Settings → Language. That takes you to the Settings app, where you can pick one.

Don’t see Language on Menu Planner 2’s page in the Settings app? Add the language to your iPhone first, in Settings → General → Language & Region.

Tap your picture at the top left, then Settings. Under Appearance, tap Theme and pick a color theme, or tap Custom there to choose your own color. Each theme has a color for Light Mode and one for Dark Mode, and the app uses the one that matches your device. No Theme uses the plain system colors.

Tap App Icon to choose a different icon for your Home Screen. To change the first day of the week, use Starting Weekday under General.

Default and No Theme are free. The other themes and your own colors are part of Premium — you can tap any theme to try it first. The other app icons are part of Premium too.

1. Tap your picture at the top left.
2. Tap your profile at the top of Profile & Settings.
3. Tap Edit Appearance.
4. Choose Initials or Emoji and pick a Color, then go back and tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

Each profile gets its own color automatically, so you can tell them apart. The picture shows at the top left of every tab.

Choosing a profile’s look is part of Premium. You can try any color or emoji first. An emoji picked on a newer device that this one can’t show appears as the profile’s initials here.

Tips point out features the first few times you use a screen. To see them all again, tap your picture at the top left, then Help → Show Tips Again. They come back the next time you open Menu Planner 2.

Home also shows one Did You Know? card a day, picked at random, about a feature you might not have found, skipping the ones you already use. Tap the card’s button, when it has one, to go to that feature; tap Next Tip to see another one now, ✕ to close today’s card, or Stop Showing These to turn them off. Show Tips Again brings them back straight away. While the Get Started checklist is on Home, the cards wait until it’s done or hidden.

What’s New opens by itself the first time you open Menu Planner 2 after an update. To see it again, tap your picture at the top left, then Help → What’s New.

1. On the Meals tab, tap a day. On iPhone the day opens on its own screen; on iPad it opens beside the list of days. In Week or Month, tapping a day takes you there (in Month, a day that already has meals shows them first — tap Edit Day).
2. Tap one of your meal types, such as Breakfast or Dinner. Once the day has a meal, they’re under Add a Meal. The ones you usually plan on that day of the week come first, in bold. Tap More… to see the rest.
3. Under the meal, tap Add food, then tap the foods and recipes you want. Tapping a food that’s already in the meal adds another serving.

On iPhone the foods open over the day. To fill another of the day’s meals, tap its name at the top. Tap the X (or Close) when you’re done. On iPad the foods open beside the day; tap Done when you’re finished.

Under the meal types are more ways to add: Templates adds a saved day or meal, and Suggest Meals suggests meals for the day. Day Options (•••) at the top → Add Meal Types… shows every meal type and template; if any of the meals you usually plan that day are missing, tap Add All there to add them at once.

You can also start from a recipe: open it and tap Add to Meal Plan at the top — if you don’t see it, tap More (•••) first. For a pantry item, tap Add to Meal on its page, or touch and hold it on the Kitchen tab. Pick the day, then the meal to add it to.

When the profile has nutrition goals, tap the up-and-down arrows above the food list and choose Fits What’s Left Today (or Tomorrow, or the day’s date). Foods that fit what’s left of the day’s goals come first, each with what one serving adds; foods that would go past a limit come last.

To add a note to a meal, like “Use up the spinach”, tap ••• beside the meal’s name and choose Add Note. The note shows under the meal’s name.

On iPad, you can drag a food from the list onto any meal.

1. Tap Suggest Meals (the sparkles button). Inside a day it’s under the meal types and at the top of the screen. On Home it’s in the This Week card. On the Meals tab, iPad has it at the top; on iPhone, tap ••• at the top and choose Suggest Meals….
2. Choose Day or Week, and tap the meal types you want filled.
3. Take the checkmark off any suggestion you don’t want, or tap the arrow beside one for other ideas.
4. Tap the button at the bottom — it says Add and how many meals.

Suggestions come from what you’ve planned before and from your recipes. Nothing is added until you tap that button. To move a suggestion to another day, touch and hold it and drag it. In Week, turn on Try a new recipe to get one you haven’t planned yet. If this week is already planned, it opens on next week.

If the profile shows nutrition and has goals, turn on Fit Your Nutrition Goals (or Fit and the profile’s name) to pick meals that get each day closer to them. Nutrition by Day at the bottom then shows where each day lands, counting what’s already planned: Within your goals, or what’s short or over.

A day that already has that meal is left alone unless you tap Suggest Anyway. The suggestion then replaces what’s planned; tap the line under it to choose Add Alongside or Keep What’s Planned instead.

In a suggestion’s other ideas, tap More Ideas at the bottom for different ones. To stop suggesting that meal, tap ••• at the top of its other ideas and choose Don’t Suggest. Tap ••• (Options) at the top of the screen for Shuffle All, or Suggestion Settings to limit suggestions by tag. To have a meal suggested again, open Suggestion Settings, swipe it under Not Suggested and tap Suggest Again.

No recipes yet? Tap Add a Recipe to add one without leaving.

Anyone can see and change suggestions. Adding them to your meal plan needs Premium — without it, the button at the bottom says Unlock Suggest Meals with Premium.

Touch and hold a meal, then drag it onto another day. When you let go, choose Move or Copy. To move just one food, touch and hold that food instead — it goes into the same meal type on the new day. This works in the list of days on iPhone and iPad, and in the iPad Week and Month views.

Without dragging: open the day, tap ••• beside the meal’s name and choose Move or Copy. Pick the day in the calendar and tap Move or Copy at the top. Copy stays open so you can copy to more days. The same menu has Change Meal Type, Save as Template, Add to Calendar and Add Note.

To change the order of foods in a meal, touch and hold one and drag it up or down.

Open the day and tap ••• at the top (Day Options):

• Add Meal Types… — every meal type and template, to add to the day.
• Move All to Date — move every meal to another day.
• Copy All to Date — repeat the day on another day.
• Save as Template — keep the day to reuse later.
• Reorder — drag the meals into a new order, then tap Done. Shown when the day has more than one meal.
• Display Mode — show foods as a List or List with Images.
• Print or Save PDF… — print this day, or save it as a PDF.
• Share — send this day as a link to another Menu Planner 2 user (Premium).
• Remove All — clear the day.

In a day, swipe left on a food and tap Delete. Tap Undo at the bottom if you didn’t mean to.

To remove a whole meal, swipe left on its name and tap Remove Meal, or tap ••• beside its name and choose Remove Meal. If the meal has food in it, you’re asked first. The ••• menu also has Remove All Food to empty the meal but keep it.

If others are eating the meal too, removing it asks: Remove for Everyone, or Remove Just for the person whose plan you’re looking at. A food you delete, and Remove All Food, come off everyone’s plan.

To clear the whole day, use Day Options (•••) → Remove All. Meals others are eating stay on their plans.

If you keep count of your food, swipe a food to the right for Made It (or Had It) instead of removing it.

On iPhone, the Meals tab is one long list of days. Scroll to move through time, or swipe the week strip at the top to jump a week. Tap Today to come back. To go to any date, tap the month name at the top, pick a day and tap the checkmark (or Done). Inside a day, tap its date to open the calendar, or use the arrows for the day before or after.

On iPad, choose Day, Week or Month at the top. Day shows the list of days with the chosen day beside it. Week shows seven days side by side — swipe for another week. Month scrolls up and down; tap a month along the bottom to jump to it, and choose Detailed or Compact in the ••• menu. Week and Month have a Search box.

The calendar you open from the month name (or a day’s date) shows a dot in each meal’s color on the days that have meals, and lists the chosen day’s meals. Today jumps back to today, and Add Meal Types… adds meals to the chosen day without leaving the calendar.

To show just one meal type, tap the filter button at the top of the Meals tab (on iPad, in Week and Month) and pick it; choose Show All to see everything again. Inside a day, Day Options (•••) → Display Mode shows foods as a List or List with Images. To change the first day of the week, set Starting Weekday in Settings.

Meal types are the meals in your day, like Breakfast, Lunch or Kids’ Dinner, and you name them yourself. To manage them, open Settings → Meal Types. Or, in a day, tap Day Options (•••) → Add Meal Types…, then the pencil at the top and Meal Types. Tap + to add one, or tap one to change it. Tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

You can also edit a meal type from a day: tap ••• beside a meal’s name and choose Edit Meal Type.

Pick a color for each; Dark Mode gets a matching lighter shade unless you turn off Match Dark Mode Automatically. Turn on Target Time to give a meal type a time: its meals are put in order by that time, and it can remind you when to start cooking. Leave it off for a meal you eat at any time. Turn off Count in Nutrition Totals for meal types that shouldn’t count toward the day’s nutrition, such as a meal you plan for someone else.

Don’t use one any more? Swipe it and tap Hide (or turn on Hide from Add Meal in it). Its planned meals stay, but it isn’t offered for new meals. When some meal types haven’t been used in 3 months, the top of the list offers Hide Unused to hide them all, or Review to see which they are. To bring one back, tap the Hidden heading at the bottom of the list (it shows how many are hidden), then swipe the meal type and tap Show.

Deleting a meal type (swipe it and tap Delete) also deletes every meal planned with it, so hiding is usually better.

To move a planned meal to another meal type, tap ••• beside it and choose Change Meal Type.

1. Open Settings → Meal Types and tap a meal type.
2. Turn on Target Time and set the Time.
3. Turn on Reminders, and allow notifications if you’re asked.
4. Tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

You get one reminder for each planned meal of that type. If its recipes have prep and cook times, the reminder comes early enough to start cooking; otherwise it comes at the meal’s time.

Reminders are for the meals on Your Profile (the first one in Manage Profiles). In a household, each person’s device reminds them about the meals on the profile they picked as theirs.

After you plan a meal that has a reminder time, the day may ask Want a Reminder at Meal Time? Tap Turn On Reminders to allow them.

Meal types with a target time are put in order by that time when you add them to a day.

1. Open a day you want to reuse.
2. Tap Day Options (•••) at the top and choose Save as Template. To save just one meal, tap ••• beside that meal’s name instead.
3. Give it a name, change anything you like, and tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

To add foods to a template meal, tap Add Food under it, tap the foods you want, then tap the checkmark (or Done). A food already in the meal is marked Added; tap it again for another serving. To change how much of a food a template meal has, tap its amount. Type any number of servings, like 0.35. For a food with a serving size, you can also pick grams, cups or pieces and type that instead.

Add Meal adds another meal to the template, and ••• beside a meal’s name moves it up or down or removes it. A meal can have a note, or be left without foods to fill in once it’s planned.

To use one, open a day and tap Templates (under the meal types). Tap + beside a template to add it to that day as it is. Or tap the template to see it, choose one or more days under Add To, and tap the Add to button at the bottom (it names the day, or how many days). If a day already has meals, choose Add Alongside, Fill Matching Meals or Replace the Day. All, Whole Days and Single Meals at the top narrow the list.

Manage templates in Settings → Meal Templates. Tap + to make one from scratch, or touch and hold one to edit, duplicate or delete it.

Profiles keep separate meal plans — one for each person, or one for the family and one for work lunches. To switch, tap your picture at the top left of any tab and pick a profile under Switch Profile. Your own profile is at the top. The Meals tab then shows that profile’s plan.

Add, rename or remove profiles in Profile & Settings → Manage Profiles. Each profile can have its own nutrition goals.

Is more than one of you eating the same meal? Open the day, tap ••• beside the meal and choose Who’s Eating… to put it on each person’s plan at once.

More than one profile requires Premium.

When more than one person is eating the same meal, you can put it on each of their plans at once. Who’s Eating is there once you have more than one profile.

1. On the Meals tab, open the day and tap ••• beside the meal’s name.
2. Tap Who’s Eating….
3. Tap each person who’s eating it, so they have a checkmark. Tap someone again to take them off.
4. Tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

Each person gets the meal on their own plan, with the same food and amounts. The meal’s card then says With and the others’ names. Tap that line to change who’s eating.

• Adding, deleting or reordering food, Make Fresh or Leftovers, the note and the meal type change for everyone. So do Move and Copy.
• Amounts are each person’s own, and count in their own nutrition. Tap a food’s amount to see everyone’s in Quick Edit, under Others Eating This.
• If you keep count of your food, a recipe is made once for everyone: Made It counts everyone’s servings, and Not Made takes it back for everyone.

To take someone off, open Who’s Eating and tap their name. The meal leaves their plan and stays on everyone else’s. Remove Meal asks whether to Remove for Everyone or Remove Just for the person whose plan you’re looking at. Once only one person is left, it’s an ordinary meal again.

On Home, a meal someone else is eating too says who. Tap Count Me Out to take yourself off it; the others keep it, and a message lets you Undo. In the list of days, a shared meal says With and the names after the meal type. On iPad, Week shows their pictures and Month shows a small two-people symbol.

If someone already has that meal planned with food in it, they keep theirs too, so they’ll have two. If theirs is empty, the shared meal goes into it.

In a day, tap the amount under a food or recipe. Quick Edit opens. Type the Amount, or use − and + to change it a serving at a time, then tap the checkmark (or Done).

For a food, the menu beside the amount switches between servings and the measures on its label, like grams, cups or pieces. Typing 120 grams of a food whose serving is 40 grams plans 3 servings. The food shows in the unit you pick in all your meals.

If others are eating the meal too, Quick Edit shows the amount for the person whose plan you’re looking at, and everyone else’s under Others Eating This. Use − and + beside a name to change theirs half a serving at a time.

The amount you plan is what the day’s nutrition counts, and, if you keep count of your food, what comes out of your pantry.

Each recipe in a day has a button under its name that says Make Fresh or Leftovers. Tap it and choose the other one to switch.

Choose Leftovers when you’re eating something you already cooked. Its ingredients aren’t added to your shopping needs again, it doesn’t count as cooking time for reminders, and there’s nothing to mark as made.

On a meal more than one person is eating, switching changes it for everyone: it’s the same pot.

On the Meals tab, tap ••• at the top and choose:

• Print or Save PDF… — print the plan, or save it as a PDF you can send to anyone.
• Share — a link another Premium Menu Planner 2 user can open to add the plan to their app. Links need an internet connection and expire after 48 hours.

Both start with the days you’re looking at: the week showing in the list, or the day you have open (Day Options inside a day has both too). On iPad, it’s the day, week or month showing.

In Print or Save PDF, pick up to 31 days, the profile (if you have more than one) and the meal types. Choose Week Grid (the week across a sideways page) or Day by Day, and the paper size. You can include Servings and Amounts, Meal Notes, Nutrition for Each Day (when the profile shows nutrition) and The Recipes, which print after the plan, each on a new page. Then tap Print or Share PDF.

In Share, choose the profile, the meal types and the dates (up to 31 days), and whether to include Empty Meal Plans, Images and Tags. Then tap the checkmark (or Share) and pick how to send the link.

Printing a meal plan is free. Sending one as a link is a Premium feature.

One meal at a time: open the day, tap ••• beside a meal’s name and choose Add to Calendar (it shows once the meal has food or a note). A new event opens with the meal filled in; tap the checkmark (or Add) to add it. This copy doesn’t change if you change the meal later. If you add the same meal again from this device, you’re asked first, so you don’t end up with two by mistake.

Your whole plan, kept up to date (Premium):

1. Open Settings → Calendar.
2. Turn on Show Meals in Calendar.
3. Tap Allow Full Access when you’re asked.

Your meals from a week ago to 4 weeks ahead go in a calendar called Meals, and change when your plan does. Everyone’s meals are included: one event for each meal, with everyone’s food in it. A meal type with a Target Time (in Settings → Meal Types) shows at that time; the others show as all-day. Tap Add Meals To (Main Calendar when you have more than one profile) to use a different calendar instead. While it’s on, a meal’s ••• has Show in Calendar instead of Add to Calendar, which opens the Calendar app on that day.

You only need this on one device: the calendar shows on your other devices through iCloud. If another of your devices already keeps it up to date, Settings → Calendar says which one, and Use This iPhone Instead (or iPad) moves the job to this device with the same choices.

To let family see your meals, share the calendar from the Calendar app. A Google or Outlook calendar works too if that account is added to your iPhone’s Calendar app.

Planning for more than one person? Under Each Person’s Meals, tap someone and choose where their meals go: the Main Calendar with everyone else’s, their own calendar (called Meals and their name), or Don’t Show. Share someone’s own calendar with just them from the Calendar app — tap Calendars, tap the info button next to it, then Add Person — and they see only their meals. A calendar kept only on this device can’t be shared, so choose one in your iCloud account. A Google or Outlook calendar is shared from that account instead.

Changes you make to these meals in the Calendar app are replaced the next time your plan changes, so change the meal in Menu Planner 2 instead. When you turn Show Meals in Calendar off, you can remove the meals or leave them there.

Open a recipe and tap Meal Plan History at the top — if you don’t see it, tap More (•••) first. It appears once the recipe has been planned. For a pantry item, tap Meal History on its page.

The top shows when you last had it and how often. Plan Again adds it to a meal on the day you pick. Below are Upcoming meals, then past ones by month; filter by meal type or profile, or change the order.

Tap a meal to go to that day on the Meals tab. Touch and hold it and choose Today, Tomorrow or Choose a Date… to plan the whole meal again.

On the Kitchen tab, tap + and choose New Recipe, then pick how:

• Enter Manually — type it in yourself.
• From Camera — scan the pages of a cookbook.
• From Photo — pull a recipe out of pictures you already have, up to 6 at a time.
• From Pasted Text — paste a recipe copied from anywhere. Servings and prep and cook times at the top of the text are picked up too.
• By Dictation — read it out loud. Only on devices with Apple Intelligence.
• Find on the Web — search the web for a recipe, or paste a recipe’s web address, without leaving the app.
• From Other Recipe Apps — bring over all your recipes from Paprika, Mela, Recipe Keeper and many other apps.

You can also share a web page, text, a photo or a PDF to Menu Planner 2 from another app. On iPad, you can drag a link, text, a picture or a PDF from an app beside Menu Planner 2 onto the Kitchen tab.

When your Kitchen is empty, it shows Find a Recipe on the Web and Import Recipes from Other Apps buttons.

On the Kitchen tab, tap + → New Recipe → Find on the Web. Type what you want to cook, or paste a recipe’s web address, and tap the arrow key on the keyboard. Open a recipe you like and tap Get Recipe at the bottom. The button is filled in when the page has a recipe the app can read, and changes to Saved once you’ve saved it. You stay on the web page afterwards, so you can save several in a row. Use the arrows at the bottom to go back and forward between pages.

Before you search, Find a Recipe lists the websites you’ve saved recipes from. Tap one to go straight there.

When a search on the Kitchen tab finds no recipes, tap Search the Web for “…” to look for it there.

From Safari or another browser, open the recipe, tap Share (in Safari on iPhone it’s in the ••• menu) and choose Menu Planner 2.

When the recipe is found, choose Cook Now to cook from it without keeping it, or Save Recipe to check it over and save it. If you’ve saved it before, you can Open Saved Recipe or Import Again. A recipe shared from Safari opens once you save it.

Websites you sign in to stay signed in, so recipes behind a sign-in can be saved too.

Have a list of recipe links? On Find a Recipe, before you search, tap Have a list of links? Import them all at once. Paste the links, tap Find Recipes, then pick the recipes you want and tap Import.

Some sites don’t publish their recipes in a form the app can read. On devices with Apple Intelligence, Menu Planner 2 then reads the page itself, which takes a moment. If that doesn’t work, copy the recipe’s text and use From Pasted Text instead.

Prices some sites list beside each ingredient are left out.

When you find a recipe on the web, choose Cook Now to open the recipe without adding it to your recipes. Closing it forgets it.

A bar at the bottom says Not saved. To keep the recipe, tap Save in that bar. Adding it to a meal plan or recording that you made it saves it first — tap Save & Continue.

If you’ve checked off ingredients, picked a step, started a timer or changed the servings, closing it asks Save this recipe before you close it? Tap Save Recipe to keep it, or Close Without Saving.

In most apps, tap Share and choose Menu Planner 2 to send a web page, text, photos or a PDF. Menu Planner 2 reads the recipe out of it:

• A web page opens Recipe Found, where you choose Cook Now or Save Recipe.
• Text, photos or a PDF: with Apple Intelligence, the name, ingredients and directions are sorted out for you. Without it, you pick them out of photos and PDFs on Choose the Recipe Text, and text is sorted by the recipe’s own headings, like “Ingredients” and “Directions”.

Check the recipe in the editor before you save it, especially one read from photos or a PDF.

On iPad, with another app beside Menu Planner 2, drag a link, text, a picture or a PDF onto the Kitchen tab and let go when it says Drop to import a recipe.

1. On the Kitchen tab, tap + → New Recipe → From Camera and scan the pages.
2. With Apple Intelligence, the name, ingredients and directions are sorted out for you, and the recipe opens in the editor.
3. Without it, Choose the Recipe Text opens. Touch and hold a word, drag the ends of the highlight over the text you want, then tap Name, Ingredients or Directions. Do the same for each part, then tap Done. Use All Text at the top reads the whole page instead and sorts it by the recipe’s own headings, like “Ingredients” and “Directions”.
4. Check the recipe, then tap the checkmark (or Done) to save it.

From Photo works the same way with a picture already in your photo library.

To scan just one part of a recipe you’re editing, tap Scan above the Directions, or the Scan button above the keyboard when you’re typing ingredients in Text. Pick the text you want, then tap Use Selected Text. What you scan is added after what’s already there, so nothing you’ve typed is lost.

Blurry photos, handwriting and pages without headings can cause mistakes, so check the ingredients and directions before you save.

When a recipe you import isn’t in your language, a bar at the top of the recipe editor says which language it’s in. Tap Translate before you save. The name, ingredients, directions, summary and notes are translated, and the ingredients are read again so they can be linked to your pantry. Translation happens on your device and needs iOS 18 or later. Recipes you’ve already saved aren’t translated.

To print a recipe or save it as a PDF you can send to anyone, open it and tap Print or Save PDF… at the top — if you don’t see it, tap More (•••) first. On a wide screen it’s in the Share button’s menu. Choose a Full Page or a 6 × 4 in Recipe Card, the servings, Show Amounts In, Large Text, and whether to include the photo, the notes, where it’s from and nutrition per serving. Then tap Print or Share PDF.

To paste a recipe into a note, an email or a message, tap Share at the top — if you don’t see it, tap More (•••) first — and choose Copy Recipe as Text. Copied shows for a moment; then paste it wherever you like. It has the name, times, where it’s from, its summary, the ingredients for the servings showing (in the measures chosen in Show Amounts In), the steps and the notes. The photo isn’t included.

Choose Share… in the same menu to create a link another Premium Menu Planner 2 user can import. A link needs an internet connection and expires after 48 hours.

To print or share several recipes, filter the Kitchen tab down to them, then tap Options (•••) → Print or Save PDF… or Share. It uses what’s showing; a printout takes up to 100 recipes.

To save all your recipes to one file, tap your picture at the top left, then Settings → Import & Export → Export All Recipes.

Printing a recipe and copying it as text are free. Sharing recipes as a link, and printing several at once from the Kitchen, are Premium features.

On the Kitchen tab, tap a recipe to open it. Its photo fills the top of the screen — or a drawing, if it has no photo — and stays put while the rest of the recipe scrolls up over it.

On the photo, under the recipe’s name:

• Where it’s from. Tap a website’s name to open the page.
• The stars and the heart, to rate it and make it a favorite.
• Prep time, cook time and oven temperature, and how many servings it makes.
• Leftovers, when you’ve kept some with Made It.
• Its tags.
• Start Cooking, once it has directions.
• Its summary: one you wrote, one that came with the recipe, or one Apple Intelligence wrote.

Below the photo are Ingredients, Directions, Notes and At a Glance. At a Glance says when the recipe was last on your meal plan and how many times in all, when it’s planned next and, if you keep count of your food, how many of the ingredients you count are on hand.

On iPad, the ingredients sit beside the directions, with a third column in landscape. A Nutrition card shows calories and more for one serving, and it, Notes and At a Glance fill in below the shortest column.

Along the top are the recipe’s actions: Add to Meal Plan, Meal Plan History, Made It…, Nutrition, Make a Copy, printing and sharing. If you don’t see one, tap More (•••) first. Some only show when they apply. The list button adds the ingredients to your shopping list, and the pencil button (Edit) changes the recipe.

At the largest text sizes, the details move off the photo so the bigger text has room.

Open the recipe and tap the pencil (Edit) at the top. Or touch and hold the recipe on the Kitchen tab and choose Edit.

The recipe editor has:

• The photo at the top left, the Name, the stars and the heart.
• Tags.
• Oven, Prep and Cook: type them however you like, such as “350°F” or “20 min”.
• Servings: how many servings the whole recipe makes.
• Summary, Ingredients, Directions and Notes. Tap one to fill it in; on a wide screen, it opens beside the rest. Put one step per line in Directions.
• Nutrition: worked out from the linked ingredients, unless you put in your own.
• Source and URL: where the recipe came from. A recipe saved from a website fills them in for you.

When you’re done, tap the checkmark (or Done) at the top. To leave without saving, tap the X (or Close).

To try a change and keep the original as it is, make a copy of the recipe first and change the copy.

Edit the recipe and tap the picture at the top left. Choose Photo Library, Camera (Enable Camera Access until you’ve allowed it), Recipe Website for pictures from the page it came from, Search for Images, or Paste From Clipboard. Remove Photo takes it off.

Recipe Website shows only for a recipe saved from a website, and Search for Images once the recipe has a name.

Search for Images looks for pictures of the recipe’s name. Change the words at the top and search again if you like, then tap a picture to use it. Turn on Remove Background first if you want the picture without its background.

On devices with Apple Intelligence, Create with Image Playground makes a picture from the recipe’s name.

Recipes from websites with no photo? Tap your picture at the top left, then Settings, and under Import & Export tap Get Photos from Recipe Websites, then Get Photos. Menu Planner 2 opens each recipe’s web page and adds its picture. Keep it open until it’s done; with a lot of recipes it can take a few minutes. Stop keeps the photos added so far, and Try Those Again tries the websites that didn’t answer.

Using a picture from Search for Images is a Premium feature. Get Photos from Recipe Websites is free.

A summary is a few lines about the dish. It shows on the recipe’s photo, below its details.

To write your own, edit the recipe and tap Summary. Recipes saved from a website often bring one with them.

When a recipe has no summary, Apple Intelligence writes one from its name, ingredients, directions and notes, on iPhones and iPads that have it (iOS 26 or later). It runs on your device, and the Apple Intelligence symbol shows while it writes.

The summary is kept, so it’s there straight away next time. It’s written again when you change the recipe’s name, ingredients, directions or notes, or the Summary Style. To use other words, write your own under Summary.

In Settings → Apple Intelligence, Recipe Summaries turns this off or on, and Summary Style chooses Standard, Minimalist, Verbose or Custom. With Custom, describe the tone you’d like, or even another language.

With Premium + Sync, a summary goes to your other devices and your household with the recipe, so an iPhone or iPad without Apple Intelligence shows it too.

Printing a recipe on a full page and Copy Recipe as Text include its summary, whoever wrote it.

Want to try your own version of a recipe and keep the original? Make a copy and change that.

1. Open the recipe and tap Make a Copy at the top — if you don’t see it, tap More (•••) first. Or touch and hold the recipe on the Kitchen tab and choose Make a Copy.
2. Tap Make a Copy again to confirm.
3. The copy opens, named like the original with “(Copy)” at the end. Tap the pencil button (Edit) to rename it and make your changes.

The copy has the same ingredients, steps, photo, nutrition and tags. It starts fresh: no rating, not a favorite, and it hasn’t been planned or made yet. The original stays as it is.

Copied from the recipe’s screen, the copy opens over the original. Close it to go back.

To paste a recipe into a note or a message instead, use Share → Copy Recipe as Text.

On a recipe, tap a star to rate it — tap the same star again for a half star. Tap the heart to make it a favorite. You can also touch and hold a recipe on the Kitchen tab and choose Favorite.

To take the rating off, tap the first star until all the stars are empty. The stars and the heart are in the recipe editor too.

Filter by Rating or Favorites, or sort by rating, to find them again.

Edit the recipe and tap Tags. Tap tags to add them, or type in Find or add a tag and tap Add New Tag. With no tags yet, tap Create Starter Tags for a ready-made set.

On devices with Apple Intelligence, Suggested by Apple Intelligence picks tags from your own list that fit the recipe. Tap one to add it.

Tap Edit at the top of the tag list to rename, merge or delete tags.

1. Tap your picture at the top left, then Settings → Tags, and tap a tag.
2. Change the Tag Name and tap the checkmark (or Done), or see what uses it under Used By. Swipe left on a recipe or pantry item to take the tag off it, or tap Add Recipes or Pantry Items… to tag more.
3. Tap Show in Kitchen to see everything with it, Merge Into Another Tag… to combine it with another, or Delete Tag.

Look Alike lists tags spelled almost the same. Tap Merge and choose which name stays, or swipe for Not the Same. Two tags with exactly the same name merge straight away, keeping the one that’s used more. Delete Unused Tags removes tags nothing uses.

To delete a tag from the list, swipe left on it and tap Delete. Tap + at the top to make a new tag.

Edit the recipe and tap Ingredients. Put in a whole list of ingredients at once — typed, scanned, pasted or dictated — one ingredient per line. A line like “2 cups flour, sifted” is read as the amount, the unit, the ingredient and extra details. Ranges (“2–3 tablespoons”), cans and packages (“1 (15 oz) can black beans”), counts (“3 cloves garlic”) and notes such as “to taste” or “or butter” are understood too.

A line whose ingredient has exactly the name of one of your pantry items is linked to it straight away. For the others, Menu Planner 2 suggests the closest pantry item: the one that shares the most words, with the items you use most, and the ones you’ve linked those words to before, first.

Lines that aren’t linked yet are counted in a banner above the list. Tap Review to go through them one at a time, or Accept Suggested Matches to check Menu Planner 2’s suggestions and link them all at once. A line you don’t review is saved as text in the recipe, never linked to a guess.

Switch between List and Text at the top. In Text, end a line with a colon — “Sauce:” — to make a heading. In List, tap a line to change it, swipe left on it to delete it, and use Add Ingredient and Add Heading at the bottom. To change the order, tap Reorder at the top (on iPad, the up-and-down arrows button), drag the lines into place, then tap Done (on iPad, the checkmark).

Linked ingredients count toward the recipe’s nutrition, can go on your shopping list, and show what’s already in your kitchen.

In the recipe’s ingredients, tap a line, then tap the item shown under it to change what it’s linked to, or use Review to go through the ones that aren’t linked. Pick a Suggested item, search your pantry, or tap Add “…” to my pantry. For something you don’t need to track — water, a pinch of salt — choose Keep as text in this recipe only.

To link many lines at once, tap Accept Suggested Matches in the banner above the ingredients. Suggested Matches lists each line with the pantry item it would be linked to, all checked. Tap any that are wrong to take their check off, then tap the checkmark (or Link 5 Ingredients, with your number).

The lines you linked are highlighted for a moment, and a note at the bottom says how many were linked: tap Undo there to put them back as they were. Lines you took the check off stay in the banner, ready to review.

On the recipe, each line shows its amount in bold. When a line is linked to a pantry item, the item’s name takes the place of the ingredient’s words, so you can see what it counts as: “1 cup milk” linked to Milk, Low-fat 1% reads “1 cup Milk, Low-fat 1%”. When the ingredient’s words can’t be picked out of the line, the item’s name is shown in grey after it instead. In the recipe editor, the line stays as you wrote it.

Touch and hold a line on the recipe and tap Edit to change the pantry item it’s linked to. To link the line to a different item, edit the recipe.

A recipe can be an ingredient in another — a sauce, a dough, a spice mix. Edit the recipe, tap Ingredients, and in List, tap Link to Recipe at the bottom and choose it. On the recipe, tap that line to open the other recipe.

While editing a recipe, tap Clean Up above the Directions, or the Clean Up button above the keyboard when typing ingredients in Text. It tidies messy imported text, such as stray step numbers, bullets and blank or split lines. With Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 or later) it can fix more, and fill in empty prep, cook and oven times it finds in the steps.

Afterwards it says how many lines were removed or changed. Tap See Changes to see them, and Put Back to return a removed line to the end of the text. The undo arrow beside Clean Up puts your text back as it was.

Apple Intelligence also writes a short summary for recipes that don’t have one, shown on the recipe’s photo. Settings → Apple Intelligence turns Recipe Summaries off or on and sets the Summary Style. It all runs on your device.

Change Servings on the recipe with − and +, or tap ½ or ×2. Every ingredient amount updates to match, ranges such as “2–3 tablespoons” included, and “recipe makes” beside the number shows what the recipe was written for. Count and size words change with the amount too, so “1 clove garlic” becomes “2 cloves garlic”; the names of foods stay as the recipe wrote them. The recipe remembers the new amount until you tap the reset arrow next to it.

Amounts written inside the directions, such as “add 2 cups of stock”, stay as the recipe wrote them. Cook Mode reminds you of this while the servings are changed.

A recipe can show its amounts in the measures you use. Your recipe isn’t changed, only what’s shown.

1. Open a recipe and tap the last button at the right of Ingredients (it looks like a list, a picture or a grid).
2. Tap Show Amounts In and choose As Written, US Measures or Metric.

• Metric changes cups, pints, quarts, ounces, pounds and sticks of butter to milliliters and grams. US Measures changes milliliters and grams to cups, spoons, ounces and pounds. As Written shows the amounts the way the recipe was written.
• Teaspoons and tablespoons stay as they are, and amounts are rounded to what you can measure. Cups are the size chosen in Settings → Cups and Spoons.
• While amounts are changed, a line under Servings says so. Tap Show as Written to go back.
• Cook Mode uses the same choice.

Grams or milliliters: in Metric, an ingredient measured in cups shows in grams when it’s linked to a pantry item whose serving size has a weight, so you can use a kitchen scale. On the line under Servings that says how many are in grams, tap Change to choose Grams or Milliliters for each food. Your choice is used in every recipe. For a food with no weight, a weight found online is suggested (tap Use), or tap Edit Serving Size to add one.

You can also choose this in Settings → Recipe Display. It’s kept on each device.

Open a recipe and tap Start Cooking, below the recipe’s name and details (it’s there once the recipe has directions). Cook Mode shows the recipe one step at a time in large type, and your screen stays on.

• Get Ready comes first: everything you’ll need, so you can get it all out. You can change the servings here too. If you checked off ingredients last time, tap Uncheck All. Tap Start Cooking at the bottom to begin.
• Each step shows the ingredients it uses under For this step, with the amounts for your servings. Check each one off as you add it. Not checked off yet holds the rest, in case a step calls an ingredient by another name.
• Tap an underlined ingredient in a step to see how much to use, or an underlined time to start its timer.
• Next Step and Back are at the bottom, with the start of the next step above them, or swipe left and right. On the last step, tap Finish.
• Tap a step’s timer to start it; you can have several going at once. Timers from other steps and other recipes stay at the top of the screen. Tap one of this recipe’s to go back to its step, use its pause button to pause it, or tap Stop when it’s done.
• The Text Size button at the top right (two letter A’s) opens a slider that makes the text bigger. It only changes Cook Mode. The list button beside it shows all the ingredients.
• All done! comes after the last step. Rate the recipe under How did it turn out? and, if you keep count of your food, tap Made It. Back to Recipe closes Cook Mode.

Tap ✕ at the top left to close Cook Mode at any time. The recipe remembers the step you were on, and its button says Continue Cooking with the step number. That’s kept for the last recipe you cooked.

Tap an ingredient to check it off. Once something is checked off, a button with a checkmark and a curved arrow appears next to Ingredients. Tap it to uncheck them all. The checkmarks also clear by themselves after four hours.

The last button next to Ingredients shows the ingredients as a List, a List with Images or a Grid, and holds Show Amounts In.

Touch and hold an ingredient that’s linked to a pantry item, then tap Edit to change that item.

Measurements, under the servings, lists the measuring cups and spoons you’ll need.

Your screen stays on while a recipe is open. For big text, one step at a time, tap Start Cooking.

When a step mentions a time, like “simmer 15 to 20 minutes”, a timer button appears under it. Tap it to start, tap again to pause or carry on, and tap the ✕ to reset it. For a range it counts down the shorter time. When it’s up, the button says Done; tap it to clear it.

You can have several timers going at once, in one recipe or several. They keep going when you leave the recipe or lock your phone. Running timers also show on Home; tap one to go back to its step.

On iOS 26 or later each timer is an alarm: it rings even when your phone is on silent, counts down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and has Stop and Open Recipe buttons. Allow alarms the first time you’re asked. If you don’t, or on earlier versions of iOS, you get a notification instead, so allow notifications.

Times written in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese or Italian get a timer.

On iOS 26 or later, a finished timer rings as an alarm, like a timer in the Clock app, so silent mode and Focus don’t stop it. If you didn’t allow alarms, or on an earlier version of iOS, it comes as a notification instead, and a notification can be kept quiet.

To find Menu Planner 2’s settings, open the Settings app and tap Apps, then Menu Planner 2. On iOS 17, scroll down to Menu Planner 2 instead.

• Alarms are off: on iOS 26 or later, turn on Alarms in Menu Planner 2’s settings.
• Notifications are off: in Menu Planner 2’s settings, tap Notifications and turn on Allow Notifications and Sounds. If you see Immediate Delivery, choose it. The first time you start a timer while they’re off, Menu Planner 2 tells you, with a button that opens these settings.
• Silent mode: a notification makes no sound while your phone is on silent, so turn silent mode off. An alarm rings anyway.
• Focus or Do Not Disturb: a timer’s notification gets through a Focus as long as Time Sensitive Notifications is on in Menu Planner 2’s notification settings, and the Focus allows time-sensitive notifications (under Focus in the Settings app). Or turn the Focus off in Control Center.
• Volume is down: in the Settings app, tap Sounds & Haptics and drag the volume slider up.

While Menu Planner 2 is open, a finished timer also shows as done on the recipe, in Cook Mode and on Home.

Tap a step in the directions to highlight the ingredients it uses; the Directions heading then says which step you’re on. Tap it again to let it go. Recipes without a photo show a drawing based on their name, at the top of the recipe and on their Kitchen card.

Turn either off in Settings → Recipe Display with Highlight Step Ingredients and Illustrated Placeholders. With Highlight Step Ingredients off, Cook Mode doesn’t show For this step or underline ingredients either. Show Amounts In is there too. These settings are kept on each device.

Open the recipe and tap the ✓ next to Ingredients, or tap Made It… at the top — if you don’t see it, tap More (•••) first. In Cook Mode it’s on the All done! page. Choose the Servings made and tap Made It. What the recipe used comes out of your pantry, and Undo shows for a moment in case you didn’t mean to. Servings beyond what’s planned for today are kept as leftovers, or all of them if nothing is planned. They show under the recipe’s name as Leftovers, and planning the recipe as Leftovers uses them up.

This only shows when Keep Count of What I Have is on in Settings → Keeping Count. If you check off every ingredient while cooking, the recipe offers to record it for you, unless you recorded it in the last four hours.

The buttons along the top choose what shows: Everything, Recipes, Pantry, or one of your Saved Filters from the button after them (just an icon until you pick one). The number on the chosen button is how many items are showing. The sort and filter buttons are at the end of that row.

• The button at the top right switches between Show as Grid and Show as List.
• In the grid, pinch to switch between small and large cards, or use Options (•••) → Grid Size.
• Tap the round badge on a recipe card to turn it over and see its prep and cook times, servings, when you last made it, what’s planned next and how many ingredients you have.
• Touch and hold a recipe or pantry item for Edit, Add to Meal, Favorite and more; a recipe also has Add Ingredients to List and Make a Copy. In the list, swipe right to edit, or left for Delete, Hide or Replace.
• To add a recipe, a pantry item or a Saved Filter, tap + at the top right.
• Options (•••) also has Print or Save PDF…, for the recipes showing, and Share, for everything showing. Both are part of Premium.

On iPhone, the search box is at the bottom of the Kitchen tab; tap ✕ beside it to clear it. On an iPhone Duo that’s open and turned sideways, it’s in the row with Everything, Recipes and Pantry. On iPad, tap the search button (a magnifying glass) at the top right. Search looks at names, brands, tags, ingredients, directions, summaries, sources and notes (with just one or two letters, only names, brands and notes).

As you type, matching tags and ingredients appear under Add as a filter. Tap one to filter by it instead.

Type the numbers of a barcode to find the pantry item with that barcode.

To leave notes out of a search, turn off Search Notes Too in the filters, under Options.

On the Kitchen tab, tap the sort button (up-and-down arrows) at the end of the row of buttons at the top, next to the filter button. Sort by name, date added, rating, number of ingredients, when it’s planned and more, or open Nutrition and pick a nutrition value. Random shuffles them. At the bottom of the menu, choose the direction, like A to Z or Highest First.

In the list, By Tag groups everything under its tags. Tap a tag heading to fold it up, or touch and hold one for Collapse All and Expand All. A strip of letters down the side lets you jump to a tag.

When you add food to a meal, the same menu also has Fits What’s Left Today, if the profile has nutrition goals.

On the Kitchen tab, swipe left on a recipe or pantry item in the list, or touch and hold it, and choose Delete, Hide or Replace. A screen opens that shows how many recipes and meal plans use it. Choose what to do, then tap Replace…, Hide or Delete at the top right.

• Replace — tap Select Replacement…, pick another item to use instead in every recipe and meal plan, and tap the checkmark (or Done); the old one is then deleted.
• Hide — recipes and meal plans that already use it keep it, but it no longer shows up in searches.
• Delete — it’s taken off everything that uses it. Recipes keep the line as plain text.

If nothing uses the item, the screen that opens only offers Delete.

On the Kitchen tab, tap the filter button (sliders) at the end of the row of buttons at the top; a number on it shows how many filters are on. On iPad the filters open beside the list. Filter by tags, nutrition, rating, ingredients, stores and prices, how much you have (like what’s running low), how often it’s planned and more. The button at the bottom says how many match; tap it to see them. Reset at the top clears them all.

Active filters show as buttons under the top row. Tap one to change it, or its ✕ to remove it. Clear All removes them all.

Ingredients shows recipes that use the ingredients you add. From Saved Filter adds the ingredients a Saved Filter shows, such as what’s in your pantry; a recipe needs just one of those. With two or more ingredients, or an ingredient and a Saved Filter, choose Match Any (a recipe uses at least one of them) or Match All (it uses every ingredient you added, plus one from the Saved Filter).

Under Options, turn on Limit Number of Results to see only the first few, as many as Show Up To says.

When nothing matches, Menu Planner 2 suggests which filter to remove and how many matches that would give.

Set up filters, then tap Save These Filters… at the bottom of the filters to keep them as a Saved Filter. Give it a name and tap the checkmark (or Done). Saved Filters can be used anywhere you pick recipes or items. Turn on Show on Home in a Saved Filter to see its first few recipes or pantry items on the Home tab.

Pick one from the Saved Filters button after Pantry in the Kitchen tab’s top row (just an icon until you pick one); its menu also has New Saved Filter and Manage Saved Filters. After you change a Saved Filter’s filters, a dot shows on its button, and its menu offers Save Changes, Save as a New Saved Filter… or Revert to Saved. On a Saved Filter of pantry items opened from Home with See All, More → Add All to Shopping List adds everything in it.

Two are set up for you, Recently Added and Haven’t Made in a While, and they show on Home until you turn them off. Manage them in Settings → Saved Filters, where you can also put them in order or delete one. If you ever delete them all, tap Add some Starter Saved Filters there.

Search may be out of date. Tap your picture at the top left, then Help, and tap Fix Search. It takes a moment and doesn’t change anything.

• On the Lists tab, tap + and tap items to add them. Tap one again to take it off. On iPad, the food is in the panel beside the list: tap the list button beside an item, or drag it onto the list. Tap a recipe to add its ingredients.
• Not in your pantry? Type its name and tap Add name just this once. It goes on your list only, and is gone once you clear it from the cart.
• To keep a one-time item for next time, swipe right on it on your list to edit it, tap Add to My Pantry, then tap the checkmark (or Done). It becomes a pantry item you can give tags, a place and a count.
• To add something by its barcode, tap + beside the search box and choose Scan Barcode. If it isn’t in your pantry yet, Menu Planner 2 looks it up online so you can make it a pantry item.
• On the Kitchen tab, tap the list button on a pantry item. For a recipe, touch and hold it and choose Add Ingredients to List, or open the recipe and tap the list button at the top. Then tap Add number Missing, Add All number, or the button beside each ingredient.
• When you open a day on the Meals tab, each food has its own list button.
• On a Saved Filter’s page (See All on Home), tap More and choose Add All to Shopping List.
• You can also ask Siri: “Add to my Menu Planner 2 list.”

The list button shows your list’s icon, filled in when the item is on the list. It adds to the list named at the top of the Lists tab.

Tap Add Food for Planned Meals. It’s in List Options (•••) on the Lists tab and at the top of the Meals tab, and on iPhone it’s a button on an empty list. Pick This Week, Next Week, Next 7 Days, or your own dates (and Whose Meals, if you have profiles).

• To Buy is checked for you. Tap a row to leave it off. It won’t be offered again unless your meals need more. To add only a few things, tap Uncheck All beside To Buy, then tap the ones you want (Check All puts them all back).
• No Longer Needed shows things added for meals you’ve taken off the plan. They come off your list unless you tap the ones you still want.
• You May Have These are things most kitchens have. Tap any you need.
• Already Covered is in your pantry or already on your list.
• Tap ••• on a row and choose I Always Have This at Home for things like salt, so meals never add them.

Tap the Add button at the bottom; it says how many items and which list. A message lets you Undo. If your plan changes later, a Your meal plan changed card on your list offers to Review what to add or take off.

Pantry items set to Automatic tracking also go on your main list by themselves when what you have, less what planned meals will use, drops below their minimum.

To see which items are for upcoming meals, tap Meal Plans at the top of the list, or turn on Show Which Meals Need It in List Options.

An item for planned meals says how many meals need it and how much, such as For 3 meals · 2 cups. It counts the meals in the next 7 days, or through the last day you added food for, if that’s later. Tap it to see those meals. If meals after that need it too, that screen says how many.

Home shows ingredients for today’s and tomorrow’s meals that aren’t on your list. Tap Add All to your list, or Add for More Days… for the rest of the week. The Missing From List widget does the same for the week.

The name at the top of the Lists tab is your active list. Tap it to switch to another list, or choose Manage Lists at the bottom to make a new one. Every list button in the app adds to the active list.

With more than one list, a message at the top says Added to that list after you add something. Tap Change to move it to another list. That list becomes your active list.

To add to a different list without switching, touch and hold an item’s list button and choose Add to that list. On Kitchen cards, it’s in the card’s touch-and-hold menu. For a recipe’s ingredients, pick the list at the top of the screen that shows them; that list becomes your active list.

Tap your list’s name at the top of the Lists tab and choose Manage Lists. It’s also in List Options (•••) and Settings → Lists. Tap + to make a list for a holiday, a trip or someone else’s groceries.

Give it a name, a Color and an Icon. The first color follows your app theme.

If you keep track of your pantry, turn off Purchases Update My Pantry for a list you shop for somewhere else, so what you buy on it doesn’t change what the app thinks you have. Running-low items always go on your main list.

To delete a list and what’s on it, swipe it to the left. You’re asked first. Your main list can’t be deleted.

Additional lists, and most list icons, require Premium.

Your list follows a store’s aisles while it’s showing that one store. When items aren’t where you expect, check these:

1. One store is picked. At the top of the Lists tab, tap the store’s name. All shows everything in one list by name, without aisles.
2. Aisles are turned on. Open List Options (•••) and make sure Show Aisles is checked.
3. The store has aisles. Go to Settings → Stores, tap the store, and add aisles in the order you walk the shop. A store with none yet offers Add Standard Aisles as a starting set.
4. The item has an aisle at that store. Items without one wait at the top of the list under Needs an aisle. Tap Pick Aisle on an item, or Assign to go through them one at a time.

Items that aren’t at any store are under No Store, at the bottom of the list and as a choice at the top.

The buttons along the top of the Lists tab choose what the list shows: All, one of your stores, Meal Plans for items needed for upcoming meals, Running Low, or No Store. The number on each is how many items it has.

Pick a store to see its items in the order of its aisles. If the store has a location, the list switches to it by itself when you open your list there.

Meal Plans, Running Low and No Store only appear when they have items. While one store is picked, items sold only at your other stores are hidden; items with no store still show at the bottom under No Store.

To change a store’s aisles, their order or its location without leaving your list, touch and hold its button and choose Edit (with the store’s name). While that store is picked, the same choice is in List Options (•••).

Tap an item, or the circle beside it, to put it in your cart. It moves down to In Cart with a green check and stays there until you clear it. Tap it again to take it back out.

Swipe right on an item to edit it. Swipe left to Remove it (a message lets you Undo), or, when it’s there for your meals or pantry, to tap I Have This. An item below its minimum shows Running Low instead of Remove. Tap its amount, or its photo, to change how many you need.

If you check off an item that has no store while your list is showing a store, Menu Planner 2 adds that store to the item. The same happens for any item you check off while you’re at a store that has a location. When the trip is over, for a store with aisles, a card at the top of the list offers to Review the items that were new: pick an aisle for each, or tap Not Sold at the store to take it off again.

The bar at the bottom shows how many items are in your cart; tap it to jump down to the cart. Display Mode in List Options (•••) switches between List and List with Images; Show Prices adds prices.

On your list, tap an item’s amount (its photo in List with Images) or its price. From there you can:

• Change how many with + and −.
• Pick a Size, when the item comes in more than one, or tap Add Size (Add another size when it has just one) for a bigger pack.
• See why it’s on your list: tap the meals line to see which meals need it, or the pantry bar to change how much you have.
• Type the price at each store and choose the item’s aisle there. Add a Store adds another store that sells it; stores you’ve bought it at come first.
• Move to Cart (Take Out of Cart once it’s in), Remove, or I Have This.

Tap the checkmark (or Done) at the top to save. The pencil button (Edit) saves too, and opens the whole pantry item.

When you’re done, tap Clear beside In Cart and confirm. Everything in your cart leaves the list and is saved to purchase history. Items tracked Automatic or Have It or Not are added to your pantry, unless the list has Purchases Update My Pantry turned off. One-time items are deleted.

If someone else in your household has things in the cart too, you choose Clear My Items (just what you picked up) or Clear Everyone’s Items.

Remove All in List Options is different: it empties the list without updating your pantry or saving purchase history. If some items are running low or needed for meals, Keep Those, Remove the Rest leaves them on. A message lets you Undo.

When pantry items are running low but aren’t on your main list, a card such as 3 pantry items running low appears at the top of your main list. Tap Review, tap the ones you need, then tap Add number to a List and pick a list.

The card only shows when you keep track of your pantry. The Running Low button at the top of the list shows items already on your list that are running low.

Items Menu Planner 2 put on your list by itself — because planned meals need them, or they’re running low — would just be added again if you only removed them. If you try to remove one, Menu Planner 2 shows why it’s staying. Tell Menu Planner 2 you have it instead:

• Swipe left on the item and tap I Have This. It stays off your list until your meals need more.
• For an item below its minimum, swipe left and tap Running Low (or tap its Below minimum tag), then choose I Have This or Change Amounts.

If your pantry count looks wrong, the message after I Have This offers Update Pantry.

Something you added yourself that no planned meal needs only offers Remove: it isn’t added back.

When more than one person is in your household, the list shows who did what. Something another person put on the list says Added by and their name. Something they’ve picked up says In name’s cart. Your own items don’t say anything.

While the list is open and someone else is changing it, their changes show up within seconds, so you can split up in the store.

If you both have things in the cart, tapping Clear asks Clear My Items (just what you picked up) or Clear Everyone’s Items. Anything left stays in the cart for the other person to clear.

The name is the profile each person picked when they joined. If they haven’t renamed their profile, the name comes from their email address.

Open List Options (•••) and tap Print or Save PDF… to print the list, or save it as a PDF you can send to anyone. It starts with the store you’re looking at, in that store’s aisle order, with a box to check on each line. Things the store doesn’t sell come last, with where to get them. Change Store to print another store, or All Stores for everything in one list by name.

Choose the Paper Size, One Column or Two Columns, and whether to include Prices and Total, Which Meals Need It, Brand and Size, Photos, Items in the Cart and Room to Write In (a few blank lines to write more on). Then tap Print, or Share PDF to send it.

Tap Share in List Options instead for a link another Premium Menu Planner 2 user can import as a list of their own. Choose the List, the Stores and whether to include Items In Cart, Images and Tags, then tap the checkmark (or Share) at the top and choose how to send it. Links need an internet connection and expire after 48 hours.

Printing a list is free. Sending one as a link is a Premium feature.

A pantry item is anything you buy or cook with — flour, apples, paper towels. Pantry items and recipes live together on the Kitchen tab; tap Pantry at the top to see only pantry items.

1. On the Kitchen tab, tap + and choose New Pantry Item.
2. Type its name, and its brand and package size if you like.
3. Tap the checkmark (or Done).

To change an item later, tap it to open its screen, then tap the pencil button (Edit). To delete one, touch and hold it on the Kitchen tab and choose Delete.

On an item’s edit screen, Can Go on Meal Plans and Can Be a Recipe Ingredient decide where it can be picked. Turn them off for things like dish soap that you only ever shop for.

For food you cook from a package, like a frozen pizza, turn on Include Prep/Cook Details on its edit screen and fill in the oven temperature and the prep and cook times. When it’s planned, its times count toward how long the meal takes to make and when to start cooking.

On the Kitchen tab, tap a pantry item to open its screen. On iPad it opens in a window over the Kitchen. Tap the pencil button (Edit) at the top to change anything about the item.

Under the name, Add to List (On List once it’s there), Add to Meal and Favorite sit side by side. If you have more than one list, touch and hold Add to List to put it on another one.

• On Hand — how much you have, with a warning when upcoming meals need more. Tap Change Amounts to change it, or Keep Count if the item isn’t counted yet.
• Coming Up — the next meals that use it. Meal History shows every time it was planned.
• Used in 3 recipes (or however many) — the recipes that call for it. Tap one to open it.
• Nutrition per Serving — the values your profile tracks. Tap See Nutrition Facts for the full label.
• Stores — the price and aisle at each store, with the cheapest marked Lowest, and when you last bought it.
• History — the latest purchases and uses. Tap See All History for the rest.
• Tags & Note (just Tags or Note when it has only one) — the item’s tags and note.

On Hand shows when Keep Count of What I Have is on, and Coming Up once the item has been planned. The other parts only show when they have something in them.

Give an item a Location — pantry, fridge, freezer, garage — on its edit screen: tap Location and pick one, or choose New Location… to make one right there. The location shows under the item’s name on its screen.

To add, rename or delete locations, go to Settings → Pantry Locations. Tap + to add one, tap a location to rename it, or swipe it to the left to delete it. Deleting a location takes it off the items stored there; the items themselves stay.

To see what’s in one place, tap the filter button on the Kitchen tab and choose Locations.

On an item’s edit screen, turn on Track Expiration Date and set the Expiration Date. The date shows in red on the item’s card and screen.

To see what expires first, tap the sort button (↑↓) on the Kitchen tab and choose Expiration Date. Pantry Health in Reports on the Home tab lists what expires this week, with recipes that use it.

Menu Planner 2 doesn’t send a reminder before something expires.

On an item’s edit screen, tap the picture square beside the name, then choose Photo Library, Camera (Enable Camera Access until you’ve allowed it) or Paste From Clipboard — or, once the item has a name, Search for Images to find one online. On devices with Apple Intelligence you can also Create with Image Playground.

Search for Images looks for the item’s brand, name and size. Change the words at the top and search again if you like, then tap a picture to use it. Remove Background is on to begin with, so the picture comes without its background; turn it off to keep the background.

Once there’s a photo, the same menu offers Remove Background (or Restore Background) and Remove Photo. On the item’s screen, Add Photo takes you there.

On a recipe showing its ingredients as List with Images or Grid, you can also touch and hold an ingredient and choose Search for Images to give that pantry item a picture.

Pantry item photos are a Premium feature. Without Premium, the picture square offers Upgrade to Premium.

The serving size says how much one serving is. Menu Planner 2 uses it to work out nutrition, to take what you cook out of your pantry, and to add up amounts on your shopping list.

1. Open the item and tap the pencil button (Edit).
2. Tap Serving Size.
3. Under One serving is, fill in a Volume, a Weight or a Count — or more than one.
4. Enter the Servings per package from the label. A new item’s Package Holds starts at this number.
5. Go back to the item, then tap the checkmark (or Done) to save it.

Fill in whichever ways your recipes measure the item. The note under the sizes says what your recipes still need, such as a volume when a recipe uses cups.

Scan a nutrition label or Look Up Nutrition Online on the same screen fills in the serving size and nutrition together.

If you buy the same thing in different packages — a 12 pack and a 24 pack — keep them as one item with more than one size. Every size shares one count of what you have, one set of nutrition facts and the same recipes.

1. Open the item and tap the pencil button (Edit).
2. Tap Other Sizes, then Add Another Size.
3. Enter the Package Size, how much the Package Holds, its Barcode, and a price for each store under Prices for This Size.

The size the item started with is marked Usual size. Its Package Holds is the same setting as Package Holds under Keeping Count. While that’s still 1, the usual size shows the label’s Servings per package instead; for an Automatic item, tap Change to that number so buying a package adds all of it. Open another size and tap Make This the Usual Size to swap them, or Remove This Size (or swipe the size to the left on the Sizes screen). The size with the lowest price for what it holds is marked Best value.

Your shopping list buys the usual size. To buy another, tap the item’s picture, amount or price on the list and choose under Size; Add Size there adds a new one. For items counted Automatic, clearing the cart adds what the size you bought holds.

Scan the barcode of a new package of something you already have, and you’re asked whether to Add as Another Size or Add as a Separate Item.

Have the same product in your pantry twice? On the Sizes screen, tap Combine with a Duplicate Item… and pick the other one. It becomes a size of this item, and its recipes, meal plans, lists and history move over. This can’t be undone.

Turn on I Always Have This at Home on an item’s edit screen for things like salt or cooking oil. Your planned meals won’t add it to your shopping list unless you choose it.

You can also set it while adding your planned meals’ food to your list: in Add Food for Planned Meals, tap the ••• button beside a food and choose I Always Have This at Home. Choose I Don’t Always Have This there to turn it off again.

On the Kitchen tab, tap + and choose Scan Barcode. Point the camera at the barcode, or type the number into Manual Entry and tap the magnifying glass. The Kitchen switches to its list view and shows any pantry items with that barcode, and Menu Planner 2 also looks it up online.

When the product is found, a Barcode Found Online row appears at the top. Tap its + to add a new pantry item with the name, brand, package size, serving size and nutrition filled in. If it looks like another package of something you already have, you can Add as Another Size instead. If it isn’t found, the row says Barcode Not Found Online, and its + still starts a new pantry item with the barcode filled in.

You can also scan while adding food to a meal or list (tap + there), from Control Center or the Action button, or with the barcode button beside Barcode on an item’s edit screen.

Scanning is free. Online lookup covers US products. When you’re done, swipe the barcode row to the left and tap Clear to put the Kitchen back.

Tap your picture at the top left to open Profile & Settings, tap Settings → Keeping Count, and turn on Keep Count of What I Have. (Quick Setup can turn it on too.) Then each pantry item can be counted its own way:

• Automatic — what you have goes up when you buy the item and down when you make a recipe or have a planned meal that uses it. When it runs low, counting what your planned meals will need, it goes on your list by itself.
• I'll Update It — you update the amount yourself. Menu Planner 2 won’t change it or add it to your list.
• Have It or Not — you just mark whether you have it or not, and buying it marks it as in your pantry. Menu Planner 2 won’t count how much you have or add it to your list by itself.
• Don’t Keep Count — not tracked.

New items start with the way chosen under For New Pantry Items on the same screen. To change one item, open it, tap the pencil button (Edit), then Keeping Count → How to Keep Count. Or open the item and tap Keep Count (Change Amounts once it’s counted).

To change how much of an item you have, do any of these:

• On the Kitchen tab, tap the bar under the item.
• Touch and hold the item and choose Amounts.
• Open the item and tap Change Amounts.

Set Current to what you have now, then tap the checkmark (or Done). For a Have It or Not item, tapping the bar switches it between having it and not; the other ways show an In Pantry switch.

No bar? Make sure Keep Count of What I Have is on in Settings → Keeping Count, and that the item isn’t set to Don’t Keep Count.

Choose in Settings → Keeping Count → Planned Meals Leave the Pantry:

• On the Day (the starting choice) — two hours after a meal’s time, or at the end of the day for a meal type with no time, what it uses comes out by itself. A note on the meal plan, such as “Took 2 planned meals out of the pantry”, says what was taken; tap Review to put back anything you didn’t have, or swipe the food to the right and choose Not Made (Not Had for a pantry item). The ✕ closes the note.
• When I Confirm — nothing comes out until you say so. Mark meals Made It as you go, or answer one question on the meal plan about the ones you haven’t.

If you plan for more than one profile, the note lists only the meals of the profile you’re planning for, and its ✕ closes only those. Switch profiles to see the others’ meals.

This choice is the same on all your devices and for everyone in your household.

Open a day on the Meals tab, swipe right on a food and choose Made It for a recipe or Had It for a pantry item. Made It asks how many servings you made. Not Made and Not Had put it back. On Home, the next meal’s card has a Made It (or Had It) button too.

With When I Confirm, a note on the meal plan, such as “3 past meals to confirm”, asks about past meals you haven’t confirmed. Tap Confirm All, or Review to uncheck the ones you didn’t have: unchecked meals are left alone, and you won’t be asked about them again. The ✕ on the note puts the question off until tomorrow.

The note asks about every profile’s meals; when they belong to more than one profile, Review shows whose each one is. Meals more than two weeks old aren’t asked about.

Choose how long it waits before asking — After 1 day, After 2 days (the starting choice), After a week or Never — in Settings → Keeping Count → Ask About Past Meals. It’s there while Planned Meals Leave the Pantry is set to When I Confirm, and it’s set separately on each device.

Had It is offered for pantry items counted Automatic. None of these show when Keep Count of What I Have is off.

Open the item, tap the pencil button (Edit), then Keeping Count. Under Levels, set a Minimum and, if you like, a Warning level higher than it.

• At or below Warning, the item shows as running low.
• Below Minimum, an Automatic item goes on your shopping list — counting what your planned meals will use. An I'll Update It item is only marked below minimum.

For Automatic items, Package Holds is how much one package adds; it’s added when you clear the cart. If the label gives a different number of servings per package, a button such as Use the 12 servings per package sets it to that. If the item comes in other sizes, this is the usual size’s; each other size has its own, under Other Sizes. Things like flour and spices can be counted by Weight/Volume instead of Servings.

The Keeping Count row on an item’s edit screen only shows while Keep Count of What I Have is on in Settings → Keeping Count.

Settings → Keeping Count → Set Everything to Zero sets every pantry item’s current amount to 0. Tap Reset to confirm. Use it when you want to count everything again from scratch.

Automatic items with a Minimum may go on your shopping list afterward.

Open a pantry item to see its latest purchases and uses under History, and when you last bought it under Stores. Tap See All History for the full list. Each line says where the change came from: the store you bought it at, the recipe or meal plan that used it, or Set by hand when you changed the amount yourself.

The clock button on an item’s Keeping Count screen opens the same list.

1. On the Home tab, tap the chart button at the top right (Reports).
2. Tap Pantry Health.

• Expiring Soon — what you have that has expired or expires in the next week, with recipes that use it under Use Them In. Tap + beside a recipe to plan it.
• Running Low — tracked items that are low. Tap the cart beside one to put it on your shopping list, or Add … to List to add all the ones that aren’t there yet.
• Sitting Unused — things you have and use in recipes, but haven’t planned in 90 days. Anything bought in the last 30 days is left out.

Running Low and Sitting Unused need Keep Count of What I Have turned on in Settings → Keeping Count.

Tap your picture at the top left to open Profile & Settings, then tap Stores and +. Give the store a name, then choose how to start its aisles: Standard Aisles, Your Own Aisles, or A Copy of Another Store. You can also skip the aisles and add them later. Tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

You can also make a store while editing an item: on its Stores screen, tap New Store…. When you save it, it’s added to that item.

A copy gives the new store the same aisles as one you already have and puts every item where it is there. It’s handy for another branch of the same shop. Prices aren’t copied, and the choice is only offered while the store has no aisles.

Add as many stores as you like. Your list can show them all together or one at a time.

In Settings → Stores, touch and hold a store and drag it to change the order stores appear on your list. To delete a store, swipe it to the left, or open it and tap Delete Store at the bottom; you’re asked first, and it’s taken off every item that has it.

Your list shows an item under the stores you’ve said sell it. To choose them, open the item, tap the pencil button (Edit), then Stores.

• Where You Buy It lists the stores that sell it, each with its price and aisle there.
• Below that, under Other Stores (Your Stores if it has none yet), tap a store to add it. Stores you’ve bought it at before come first, marked You’ve bought this here before.
• New Store… makes a store and adds it to this item.
• Swipe a store left to Remove it, or right to Edit Store. A store you remove keeps its price and aisle, with Add Back, until you save.

While you shop, tap an item’s price or amount on your list and choose Add a Store to do the same from there.

Give a store a location, and your shopping list switches to that store when you open the list there.

1. Go to Settings → Stores and tap the store.
2. Under Location, tap Use My Current Location while you’re at the store, or Search for the Store to find it by name or address.
3. If you’re asked, allow Menu Planner 2 to use your location.
4. Tap the checkmark (or Done) at the top.

You can set it from your list too. Pick the store at the top of the Lists tab, tap Set Up on the card that offers to switch to it, and choose I’m at the Store Now or Search for the Store.

Your location is only read when you open your list or come back to it, never in the background. If a store’s location was set on another of your devices, this one asks to use your location the first time you open your list. To stop the list switching, turn off Switch to the Store You’re At in Settings → Stores (it appears once a store has a location).

When the list switches, a message at the bottom says so, with Undo to go back to what you were looking at.

Each store on a pantry item has its own price. Enter it on the item’s Stores screen, or tap an item’s price or amount on your list.

Turn on Show Prices in the Lists tab’s List Options (•••). Items show their price, the top of the list shows an Estimated total, and the bar at the bottom totals your cart. On All, prices come from the cheapest store. With prices at two or more stores, the lowest is marked Cheapest.

When an item comes in more than one size, the size and store that cost least for what you get are marked Best value.

Grocery Spend, under Reports on Home, adds up what you bought each time you cleared the cart.

Open the store in Settings → Stores — or, on your list, touch and hold the store’s button at the top and choose Edit (with the store’s name). If it has no aisles yet, tap Add Standard Aisles for 22 common ones, or Add an Aisle to type your own. Then type in Add an aisle and press Return to keep adding. Touch and hold an aisle to move it, or swipe it to the left to delete it. Tap the checkmark (or Done) when you’re done.

Tap an aisle to rename it and to see what’s in it. Add Items puts several items in the aisle at once. Swipe an item to the left to take it out, or touch and hold it to move it to another aisle. A new aisle can take items once the store is saved.

You don’t have to get the order right the first time. After a few shopping trips, Menu Planner 2 can offer the order you actually walk.

There are three ways, and all of them do the same thing:

• From your list. With one store picked at the top of the Lists tab, items without an aisle wait at the top under Needs an aisle. Tap Pick Aisle on an item and choose.
• One after another. Tap Assign beside Needs an aisle, choose Assign Aisles at the store in List Options (•••), or tap Assign Aisles on the store’s screen or in Settings → Stores. Each item comes up with the store’s aisles as buttons, so it’s one tap each. Skip at the top leaves an item for later, New Aisle adds an aisle, and Undo in the message at the bottom takes back the last one.
• From the item. Edit the pantry item and tap Stores. Under each store tap Set aisle and choose (Add aisles if the store has none yet). To add a store, tap it further down the screen. Tapping an item’s price or amount on your list does the same.

When Menu Planner 2 can tell where an item goes, it offers that aisle first: under Suggested in Pick Aisle, and in Assign Aisles as the Suggested Aisle — tap Use This Aisle, or tap a different aisle below. It works from what you’ve done before: an item that shares an aisle with others at one store probably sits with them at the next, and an item you check off just before things from one aisle is probably near it. On a device with Apple Intelligence, Assign Aisles can also suggest from the item’s name.

The stores and aisles on your items are what organize your shopping list.

While your list is showing one store, Menu Planner 2 notices which aisles you check items off in first. After three trips to a store, if that isn’t the order of the store’s aisles, a card on your list and on the store’s screen offers to change it.

Review shows the store’s order (Now) beside How You Shop. Use This Order changes the store’s aisles; when you opened it from the store’s screen, save the store afterwards. Keep My Order leaves them alone, and the same order isn’t offered again.

A trip ends when you haven’t checked anything off for a few hours. Trips are remembered on the device you shop with, and only while the list is showing that one store.

Open the item, tap the pencil button (Edit), then Nutrition. Enter the values from the package, tap Scan a nutrition label to read them with the camera, or tap Look Up Nutrition Online.

1. Tap Scan a nutrition label and fit the whole label inside the frame. Each value gets a checkmark as it is read. If the label is hard to read, tap the light at the top right.
2. The scan finishes by itself, or tap Review What Was Found.
3. Compare the values with the label and fix any that are wrong. A value that looks too high or too low is pointed out.
4. Tap Use These Values. Nothing is changed before that, and Undo on the Nutrition screen puts the old values back.
5. Go back and tap the checkmark (or Done) to keep the item’s new nutrition.

No camera handy? Tap Choose a Photo Instead to read the label from a picture you already have.

• Labels with two columns — choose the column to use, such as one serving or the whole container.
• Labels printed per 100 g or per 100 ml — the values can be saved for one serving, worked out from the serving size, or for 100 g. When typing values yourself, choose Per 100 g or Per 100 ml above the values; it needs a weight or a volume in the serving size.
• Labels in other languages — labels in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese are read, and salt is turned into sodium.

Set the item’s Serving Size too — it lets recipes turn the amount they use into nutrition.

For water or ice, turn on It has no nutrition. It shows while no values are filled in.

1. Open the item, tap the pencil button (Edit), then Nutrition.
2. Tap Look Up Nutrition Online.
3. It searches for the item’s name. Change the words if you need to, then tap the matching food. A food that matches the item’s barcode is listed first, under Matches this item’s barcode.
4. Go back and tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

The item’s Serving Size screen has the same button. Choosing a food replaces the item’s serving size and nutrition. If the food’s values are per 100 g, you’re asked to choose what one serving is.

You don’t need an account to look up nutrition. The food database is online, so it needs an internet connection.

Open the recipe, tap Edit, then Nutrition (or open the recipe’s Nutrition and tap Edit Nutrition). With Calculate from ingredients on — the starting choice for new recipes — nutrition is added up from the linked ingredients and divided by the servings. The line at the top says how many ingredients were counted.

Turn it off to type the values yourself or Scan a nutrition label. To type the totals for everything the recipe makes, choose Whole recipe above the values; they’re divided by the servings when saved. Recipes imported from a website keep the website’s values until you turn it on.

Tap the checkmark (or Done) to keep your changes. In the recipe editor, go back first.

A recipe’s nutrition is for one serving. To know how much one serving is, weigh everything the recipe makes once it’s cooked.

1. Open the recipe, tap Edit, then Nutrition. Or open its Nutrition and tap Edit Nutrition.
2. Under Weigh the finished dish, type what it all weighs, in grams, beside Finished dish.
3. Tap Set Serving Weight. The button shows what one serving comes to, like Set Serving Weight to 250 g.
4. Tap the checkmark (or Done) to save. In the recipe editor, go back first.

The recipe’s Nutrition then shows one serving’s weight above the calories, like Per serving · 250 g. To start again, tap Clear beside Weighed at ….

Serving size on the same screen says what one serving is, like 1 cup or 2 wraps. Fill it in if you use this recipe inside another one.

Before you weigh it, the weight shown may be worked out from the ingredients (about 250 g). Cooking loses water, so weighing is more accurate.

Open a recipe and tap Nutrition at the top — if you don’t see it, tap More (•••) first. The Nutrition button on the recipe’s nutrition card opens it too. It shows what one serving has in it.

• When your profile has nutrition goals, Daily Goals shows one serving against them. Tap it to open or close it. There’s no % Daily Value: your own goals take its place.
• The big number is the calories in one serving. When your device’s region is the UK or elsewhere in Europe, it’s in kcal with kilojoules underneath, and sodium is shown as salt.
• Under it, each value has a line of its own, grouped the way a food label groups them: fats, carbs, protein, sodium (or salt), then vitamins and minerals. The parts of a value, like saturated fat, are in italics under it.
• Tap Makes … servings at the bottom to change how many servings the recipe makes.
• Not known lists the values nothing was recorded for, so they aren’t shown as 0.
• Calories from each ingredient lists each ingredient’s share. Tap one that looks wrong to check it.
• Edit Nutrition changes how the recipe’s nutrition is worked out.

A pantry item’s screen has See Nutrition Facts once it has nutrition. On the meal plan, tap the values in a meal’s header, then the line that opens, to see the same for that meal.

Calculated nutrition only includes ingredients that are linked to a pantry item, have nutrition values, and have a serving size the recipe’s amount can be converted from.

Open the recipe’s Nutrition. If something wasn’t counted, a note at the top says how many — tap Show to see Check these ingredients. Tap one to fill in what it’s missing, often just a serving size in the unit the recipe uses. Serving sizes found online are suggested; check it’s the same food and tap Use. For water or ice, tap Has no nutrition.

The same ingredients are listed when you edit the recipe’s nutrition, under Needs Attention and No nutrition data.

Cups and spoons aren’t the same size everywhere. Nutrition totals, meal plan servings and pantry amounts all use the sizes chosen in Settings → Cups and Spoons. To get there, tap your picture at the top left, then Settings.

• 240 ml cup · 15 ml tablespoon — the United States and Brazil.
• 250 ml cup · 15 ml tablespoon — the UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Europe and most other countries. In the UK and Ireland, pints and fluid ounces are imperial.
• 250 ml cup · 20 ml tablespoon — Australia.
• 200 ml cup · 15 ml tablespoon — Japan and South Korea.

Until you choose, the sizes for your device’s region are used. A teaspoon is 5 ml and a dessertspoon 10 ml in every choice. All your devices, and everyone in your household, get the same choice.

With anything but the US sizes, a recipe shows millilitres after an amount in cups, pints or fluid ounces, like 1 cup (250 mL). Unit lists put metric units first, and vitamins A and D show in µg, unless you use the US sizes on an iPhone set to the United States or to US measurements.

Haven’t picked yet? A recipe’s nutrition shows Your Cups and Spoons once, with the sizes it’s using. Tap Change to pick yours.

Pick the choice whose numbers match the ones printed on your own measuring cups.

1. Tap your picture at the top left, then tap your profile at the top of Profile & Settings. For someone else, tap Manage Profiles and choose them.
2. Tap Nutrition & Goals.
3. Turn on Show Nutrition on Meal Plan. Under On Your Meal Plan, tap Add Nutrient to pick up to five, then tap one to give it a goal.
4. Go back and tap the checkmark (or Done) to save.

You can choose calories, the fats, carbs, sugars, fiber, protein, cholesterol, sodium, vitamins A, C and D, calcium, iron and potassium. A goal can be At least, At most or Between two amounts. Under Reference, a nutrient’s screen shows the official figure for it; tap Use to take it.

Fill In Recommended Values uses the FDA’s Daily Values and recommended ranges for adults on 2,000 calories a day — when your device’s region is the UK or elsewhere in Europe, the Reference Intakes printed on food labels. Goals you’ve already set stay as they are, and you can change any of them. Other Goals (tap Add a Goal) appear in the day’s nutrition details but not on the meal plan itself; Foods That Fit uses them too.

Under Foods That Fit, What to Aim For chooses which goals Foods That Fit aims for, keeps under or leaves out.

On the Meals tab, the gear on a day’s nutrition card opens these settings too.

Once a profile shows nutrition, open a day on the Meals tab. A card at the top shows the day’s totals — a bar for each nutrient with a goal, and a small tile with the amount of each nutrient you track. On a bar, a dotted line is an amount to reach, and a solid line is a limit not to go over. When there isn’t room for both, swipe the card sideways to see the tiles. Tap the card for the full day, where you can swipe between days and tap Edit Goals.

Under the totals, Find Foods That Fit says what’s still to go and suggests foods that get the day closer to its goals.

Each meal’s header shows its first values; tap them to open that meal’s nutrition line, and tap the line for its Nutrition Facts. On iPad, the week view shows a small chart for each day above the week.

When the profile has goals and something is planned for today, Home shows today’s totals too, under Planned Today. Only meal types with Count in Nutrition Totals turned on are counted.

The Nutrition Today widget shows the same totals on your Home Screen.

Foods That Fit shows what’s left of a profile’s nutrition goals for the day, and foods from your kitchen that get you closer without going past a limit — each with how much to have.

1. Tap Find Foods That Fit under the day’s nutrition — on Home under Planned Today, or at the top of a day on the Meals tab. For one meal, tap ••• beside the meal’s name and choose Foods That Fit….
2. Under Add to, choose the meal. A checkmark beside one means it already has food.
3. Tap Add beside a food, or Add Both for two together. Changed your mind? Tap Undo.

• Left for Today shows where you stand on each goal: how much is still to go, how much room is left under a limit, or Goal reached. When other meals are still to plan, the meal you chose gets only its share.
• Fits Your Goals lists foods you usually have at that meal, and More From Your Kitchen adds others. Each says what it adds and which goals it finishes. Tap the amount to choose a different one.
• Two Together pairs two foods that get you further than any one food can.
• The line that says how many foods might fit opens foods with some values not filled in. Tap Fill In Nutrition (or Open Recipe) to fill them in.

It uses the profile you’re planning for and only counts meal types with Count in Nutrition Totals turned on. Foods you chose Don’t Suggest for in Suggest Meals, or with a tag set to Never in Suggestion Settings, are left out. To change which goals it aims for, tap the row that says what you’re Aiming for.

Adding food the usual way? In the food list under Add food, tap the up-and-down arrows and choose Fits What’s Left Today (or Tomorrow, or the day’s date). The foods that fit come first, each with what one serving adds.

Anyone can see the foods that fit. Adding them from this screen needs Premium — without it, the button at the bottom says Unlock Foods That Fit with Premium.

Foods That Fit uses each nutrition goal the way it’s set: it tries to reach an At least goal, keeps under an At most goal, and stays inside a Between goal. You can change that for each goal.

1. In Foods That Fit, tap the row that says what you’re Aiming for. Or open the profile’s Nutrition & Goals (or the gear on a day’s nutrition card) and tap What to Aim For.
2. Tap a goal and choose how it’s used.
3. For a nutrient without a goal, tap Add a Nutrient, choose it, then More Is Better or Less Is Better.

• Aim For — foods that get you closer come first.
• Keep Under — nothing suggested takes you past it.
• Ignore — not used when finding foods.
• A Between goal can also be Stay Between, Reach the Low End or Stay Under the High End.
• More Is Better and Less Is Better only change the order, since there’s no number to stay under.

Your choices also guide the Fits What’s Left Today sort and the nutrition goals switch in Suggest Meals. To change the goals themselves, tap Edit Your Goals (or Edit and the profile’s name) at the bottom.

Choices save as soon as you make them. They’re kept with the profile, so with Premium + Sync your other devices use them too.

1. On the Home tab, tap the chart button at the top right (Reports).
2. Tap Nutrition Trends.
3. Choose 7D, 30D or 90D at the top, and a profile if you have more than one.

For each nutrient on your meal plan that has a goal, you see how many days landed inside it and your daily average, and a note when it runs over or low on weekends. When you go over a limit, it also lists the foods that added the most. Nutrients you track without a goal show their averages under Other Tracked Values. It counts what was planned, not what was eaten.

The report needs goals. Set them with the report’s Set Goals button, or in the profile’s Nutrition & Goals.

1. Touch and hold an empty spot on your Home Screen and tap Edit, then Add Widget. On the Lock Screen, touch and hold, tap Customize, then tap the widget area.
2. Search for or scroll to Menu Planner 2 and pick one.

There are widgets for Today’s Meals, Shopping Checklist, Running Low, Missing From List, Store Count, Frequent Adds, Recipe of the Day and Nutrition Today. On the Lock Screen you can add Today’s Meals, Store Count, Running Low and Nutrition Today.

Frequent Adds needs Premium. Running Low and Missing From List are free to look at, but their buttons that add to your list need Premium. Running Low needs Keep Count of What I Have turned on in Settings → Keeping Count.

The Shopping Checklist widget shows a store’s items from the list you’re using in the app, and lets you check them off without opening it. Tap an item to check it off. When there’s room, checked items show under In cart; tap one to put it back.

Frequent Adds puts the things you buy most on that list with one tap. It needs Premium, and fills in after you’ve cleared your cart a few times.

With Premium + Sync, items you check off in a widget reach your other devices, and everyone in your household, the next time you open Menu Planner 2.

Touch and hold a widget and tap Edit Widget.

• Store Count and Shopping Checklist: pick a Store, All Stores, or leave it empty to follow the store you picked in the app. The Checklist can also Group by Aisle.
• Running Low: Hide Items on List shows only what still needs adding.
• Recipe of the Day: choose which Recipes — Favorites, Forgotten Favorites, Never Planned or All Recipes. On the medium size, tap Another for a different one.

Today’s Meals and Nutrition Today follow the profile you’re using in the app.

On iOS 18 or later, you can add Open Shopping List or Scan a Barcode to Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action button on iPhones that have one.

• Control Center: open Control Center, tap the plus button (+) at the top left, tap Add a Control, and search for Menu Planner 2.
• Lock Screen: touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, then Lock Screen. Tap the minus (−) on one of the buttons at the bottom to take it off, then tap the plus (+) in its place and choose the Menu Planner 2 control.
• Action button: in the Settings app, tap Action Button, swipe to Controls, and choose the Menu Planner 2 control.

Open Shopping List opens your list in Menu Planner 2. Scan a Barcode opens the barcode scanner, to find a pantry item or add a new one.

Say “Siri” and then one of these:

• “Add to my Menu Planner 2 list” — Siri asks what to add and puts it on the list you’re using in the app.
• “What’s on my meal plan in Menu Planner 2” — reads out today’s meals for the profile you’re using.
• “Open my Menu Planner 2 list”
• “Scan a barcode in Menu Planner 2”

On iOS 27, you can also just say what you want and name the list, for example “Add eggs to my Costco list in Menu Planner 2”. Siri can check items off, take them off and make a new list the same way (more than one list needs Premium).

In the Shortcuts app, Menu Planner 2 has actions to Import Recipe from Website, Import Recipe from Text, Add to Shopping List, What's on the Meal Plan, Open Shopping List, Scan a Barcode, Open Recipe and Search Recipes and Items. Use them in your own shortcuts, or put one on the Action button.

On iOS 18 or later, your recipes show up when you swipe down on the Home Screen and search. Tap one to open it in Menu Planner 2.

Recipes that came with a list or meal plan someone sent you aren’t included.

Open Menu Planner 2 in more than one window — your meal plan next to your shopping list, for example. Open another window the same way as in any iPad app, such as dragging Menu Planner 2 from the Dock onto the screen.

Each window remembers its own tab, and a change made in one shows up in the others.

You don’t need an account to use Menu Planner 2. It opens ready to use, and without an account everything stays on this device.

A free account is needed for Premium + Sync — syncing between your devices and cloud backup — and to start or join a household. Looking up foods and barcodes online, and opening links people send you, don’t need an account.

1. Tap your picture at the top left to open Profile & Settings, then tap Sign In / Sign Up.
2. Enter your email and tap Email Me a Code. Type the code from the email and tap Sign In — or Create Account if the email is new.
3. Or tap Continue with Apple or Continue with Google.

With Premium + Sync, your account’s recipes and plans then come to this device. While they arrive, Home shows Getting your recipes and plans, with what your account has and how far it has got. You can keep using the app. If this device already has recipes or plans of its own, you’re asked first what to do with them.

There’s no password to remember — a new code is emailed each time you sign in with your email. It can take a minute to arrive; if you don’t see it, check your junk folder or tap Send a New Code.

If you have Premium + Sync (on this device or on your account) and sign in to an account that already has recipes and meal plans, while this device has some too, Menu Planner 2 asks what to do with what’s on this device. Nothing changes until you choose.

• Add to My Account — combines what’s on this device with what’s in your account. Your account’s settings, profile and theme stay as they are. Meal types, stores and pantry locations you haven’t used on this device are replaced by your account’s.
• Use My Account Only — deletes what’s on this device and uses what’s in your account. Tap Remove and Use My Account to confirm. This can’t be undone.

If your account is in a household with other people, what’s on this device can’t be added to it. It shows whose household it is and who’s in it. Tap Use the Household’s, then Remove and Use the Household’s, to replace what’s here with the household’s.

To keep what’s on this device instead, tap Leave the Household Instead… (unless you own the household). Choose Go Back to My Own or Keep a Copy of the Household’s, just as when you leave from the Household screen. Nothing of the household’s comes to this device, and you’re then asked about this device’s recipes and plans as you would be with your own account.

Once you’ve chosen, your account’s recipes and plans come to this device. While they arrive, Home shows Getting your recipes and plans, with what your account has and how far it has got, and the Kitchen, Lists and Meals tabs say what’s on its way instead of looking empty. You can keep using the app. Closing the card on Home doesn’t stop anything arriving.

After Add to My Account, Home also shows Added to your account, with what this device added, until you close it.

Closing this screen signs you out again and keeps everything here as it was. When only one side has anything, there’s no question: an empty account gets what’s on this device, and an empty device gets what’s in the account.

1. Open Profile & Settings and tap your email.
2. Tap Change Email, enter the new address and tap Email Me a Code.
3. Type the code from that email and tap Change Email, then Done.

Nothing changes until you enter the code. Your other iPhones and iPads will ask you to sign in again with the new email.

If the code was right but Menu Planner 2 couldn’t finish, you’ll see Your Email Hasn’t Changed Yet. Check your internet connection and tap Try Again, or tap Keep My Current Email and sign in again with it.

If you sign in with Apple or Google, the Account page says so instead of showing Change Email — your email comes from that account and can’t be changed here.

1. Open Profile & Settings and tap your email.
2. Tap Sign Out, then Sign Out again.

Everything stays on this device, but syncing stops. The welcome screen then opens: tap Sign In to use another account, or Continue Without an Account.

In a household, the household’s recipes and plans stay on this device but stop updating. If someone else’s subscription gave you Premium, it stops until you sign in again.

Now and then — and once after updating from an older version that used a password, or after your email was changed on another device — Menu Planner 2 opens on Please sign in again (or Signing in is simpler now). Your recipes and plans are still on this device.

• If it shows your email, tap Email Me a Code and type the code from the email. There’s no password any more.
• If you used Apple or Google, tap Sign In.
• To use another account, tap Use a Different Email (or Use a Different Account).

Syncing starts again as soon as you’re signed in. Continue Without an Account keeps using what’s on this device, without syncing. Profile & Settings then shows Sign In / Sign Up instead of your email — tap it whenever you’re ready to sign in again.

1. Open Profile & Settings (your picture at the top left) and tap your email under Account.
2. Tap Advanced.
3. Tap Delete Account and All Data, then Delete. Type DELETE and tap Delete again.

This deletes your account and removes everything from this device. It can’t be undone, and it needs an internet connection.

If you’re not in a household, everything is removed from online storage too. In a household with other people, the household keeps its recipes and plans. If you started it, the person who has been in it longest becomes the owner. If you joined someone’s household, the recipes and plans you had before you joined are deleted.

Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a subscription. Cancel it first with Manage Subscription on the Account page.

1. Sign in with the same Menu Planner 2 account on each device.
2. Make sure the account has Premium + Sync, or that someone in your household does. One subscription covers every device signed in to the account.

Your meal plans, recipes, pantry, stores and lists then stay up to date on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, and on any other phone or tablet you sign in on. To check, open Profile & Settings, tap your email, and look at Last synced. The Sync switch there turns syncing off and on.

The first time you sign in on a new device, Home shows Getting your recipes and plans while they arrive. During any big transfer, the Account page shows how far it has got. You can keep using the app meanwhile.

Start following a recipe on your iPhone and carry on with it on your iPad, or the other way round. It opens on the same step, and in Cook Mode if you were cooking.

1. Open the recipe on the first device.
2. On the other device, open the App Switcher (iPhone) or look at the right end of the Dock (iPad).
3. Tap the Menu Planner 2 button there that says it’s from your other device.

This uses Apple’s Handoff. Both devices need to be signed in to the same Apple Account, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on and Handoff turned on in the Settings app (under General). The recipe has to be on both devices too, so both need to be signed in to Menu Planner 2 with Sync on, which needs Premium + Sync.

If you see This Recipe Isn’t Here Yet, it hasn’t synced to this device. Wait a moment and try again. A recipe you’re cooking without saving it (Cook Now) isn’t handed over.

Check these on both devices:

• Both are signed in — to the same account, or to two accounts in the same household. In Profile & Settings, tap your email: it should say Premium + Sync, and Sync should be on.
• The account has Premium + Sync. In a household, anyone’s subscription covers everyone; if nobody has one, syncing pauses for the whole household until someone subscribes.
• Both are connected to the internet.
• Low Power Mode is off. Syncing pauses while it’s on and picks up again afterwards.
• Both have the latest version of Menu Planner 2. A device on an older version can’t sync until it’s updated.

A warning triangle on your picture means syncing has hit a problem, or you pay for sync but aren’t signed in. Open Profile & Settings and tap your email to see what’s wrong.

Home tells you too. Sync is turned off means the Sync switch is off on this device: tap Turn On. Sign in to start syncing means you pay for Premium + Sync but aren’t signed in: tap Sign In.

Still stuck? Open Profile & Settings → Help, tap Report a Bug, and leave Include Technical Details on.

With Premium + Sync, while you’re signed in and Sync is on, your meal plans, recipes, pantry and lists are backed up to the cloud automatically. To get them back on a new iPhone or iPad, sign in there with the same account.

Without it, everything you add stays only on this device — a free account alone doesn’t back anything up, and deleting the app deletes everything in it. Your iPhone’s own backup (iCloud Backup or a computer) does include it.

If one iPhone or iPad has everything right and your others don’t, you can make it the copy everyone gets. On that device, open Profile & Settings, tap your email, tap Advanced, then Replace My Account’s Copy (in a household, Replace the Household’s Copy) and Continue.

This deletes everything saved online and saves what’s on this device in its place. Your other devices, and everyone in your household, then get what’s on this device. It needs Premium + Sync, and in a household only the owner can do it.

Try the steps in “My changes aren’t showing on another device” first, or contact support.

A household lets other people, like family, a partner, friends or a roommate, use Menu Planner 2 on their own devices, each with their own sign-in. Everyone sees the same recipes, meal plans, shopping lists and pantry, and an item checked off in the store shows up for everyone within moments.

You and each person you invite need your own free Menu Planner 2 account. To start one:

1. Open Profile & Settings (tap your picture at the top left) and tap Household. If you’re not signed in, tap Sign In or Create an Account there first.
2. Tap Invite Someone. You’ll get a code that works for one person, for one day.
3. Tap Send the Code to send it in a message, or let them scan the QR code with their device’s camera. They need Menu Planner 2 on their device first.

Inviting needs Premium + Sync, and only the household’s owner can invite: the person who started it, unless they’ve made someone else the owner. One subscription covers everyone in the household, up to six people, whichever Apple Account each person uses, and gives everyone the Premium features too.

When you invite your first person, your recipes and plans become the household’s. Anyone in the household can add, change or delete things, just as you can.

After your first code is shown and you close it, you’re asked which profile is you. If you close that too, your first profile (the one Menu Planner 2 started you with) is yours. To change it later, tap your own name under People on the Household screen and pick another profile.

Each person picks their own profile when they join, so their device opens on their own meal plan and reminds them about their own meals, and shopping lists show who added what. To take back a code nobody has used, swipe left on it under Invite and tap Cancel Code.

1. Sign in to Menu Planner 2 with your own account. It’s free to make one.
2. Open Profile & Settings (tap your picture at the top left), tap Household, then I Have an Invite Code.
3. Enter the code and tap Continue. Check whose household it is, then tap Join Household.
4. Pick which profile is you, or tap Add a New Profile.

Picked the wrong one? Open Household again, tap your own name under People and pick another profile.

If you were shown a QR code, scan it with your device’s camera instead: Menu Planner 2 opens with the code filled in.

Your own other devices, like an iPad, don’t need a code. Sign in on each one with the same account and it’s in the household too.

Joining is free, and needs an internet connection. Your own recipes and plans aren’t added to the household: they’re saved in your account, just as they are, and come back if you leave.

If the code doesn’t work, it may have run out (a code lasts one day) or been used already. Ask the person who invited you for a new one. A household can have up to six people, and you can be in only one household at a time.

To leave, open Profile & Settings → Household and tap Leave Household. Then choose what to keep:

• Go Back to My Own — the recipes and plans you had before you joined come back, just as you left them.
• Keep a Copy of the Household’s — you take a copy of the household’s recipes, meal plans, lists and pantry. It replaces what you had before you joined, which is deleted.

If you had nothing of your own before you joined, the choices are Keep a Copy of the Household’s or Start Fresh.

The household’s owner is the person who started it. The owner can remove someone: swipe left on their name under People, tap Remove, then Remove from Household. Whoever is removed gets their own recipes and plans back, and can keep a copy of the household’s instead.

The owner can’t leave while other people are in the household. First swipe left on someone under People, tap Make Owner, then Make Owner again. If you’re the only one in it, tap Stop Sharing, then Stop Sharing again; your recipes and plans stay just as they are.

Deleting your account doesn’t delete a household other people are in. They keep its recipes and plans, and if the owner deletes their account, the person who has been in it longest becomes the owner.

Tap the link on a device with Menu Planner 2. You’ll see what was sent and can add it to your app. You need Premium and an internet connection, but you don’t need to be signed in. Links expire after 48 hours.

Things that came from someone else can’t be shared on to another account, though you can still print them or save them as a PDF.

• Adding meals from Suggest Meals and foods from Foods That Fit to your meal plan (anyone can see what they suggest)
• More than one shopping list, and more list icons
• More than one profile — one for each person — a color and emoji for each profile, and meals shared between profiles with Who’s Eating
• Photos for pantry items, and pictures from image search
• Sharing lists, meal plans, recipes and pantry items as a Menu Planner 2 link, and opening links others send you
• Printing or saving a PDF of many recipes at once from the Kitchen
• Show Meals in Calendar — your meals in the Calendar app, kept up to date as your plan changes
• Themes other than Default and No Theme, your own colors, and more app icons
• The Frequent Adds widget, and the add-to-list buttons in the Running Low and Missing From List widgets

Premium + Sync adds syncing between your iPhone, iPad, Mac and any other device you sign in on, cloud backup, and a household: invite up to five other people to share your recipes, meal plans, lists and pantry. Everyone in the household gets Premium + Sync from one subscription.

Free for everyone: planning meals, recipes, lists and pantry, Start Cooking (Cook Mode), saving recipes from websites or other recipe apps, Export All Recipes, Show Amounts In, Print or Save PDF for a recipe, a list or your meal plan, adding one meal at a time with Add to Calendar, scanning a barcode, looking up foods online, and joining a household someone invited you to.

To see everything, open Profile & Settings and tap See What’s Included. If you already have Premium, tap your email, then See Premium — or tap Upgrade if you aren’t signed in.

• Premium · Lifetime — one purchase for every Premium feature on iPhone and iPad, for good. No syncing, cloud backup or household.
• Premium + Sync — Monthly or Annual: every Premium feature, plus syncing between your iPhone, iPad, Mac and any other device you sign in on, cloud backup, and a household of up to six people on one subscription. Sync needs a free Menu Planner 2 account.

A Premium + Sync subscription covers every device signed in to your account. Premium bought once is different: it’s for iPhone and iPad, and doesn’t unlock Menu Planner 2 on a Mac.

To compare the plans and see prices in your currency, open Profile & Settings, tap See What’s Included (or Upgrade), then See Plans. Tap Choose on a plan to buy it.

If you use Apple’s Family Sharing, the people in your family group get the plan you bought too, on their own Apple Account.

Bought Premium + Sync before signing in? Sign in or create an account straight afterwards: nothing is backed up until you do. Everything already on this device stays, and is added to your account when you sign in.

Once you’ve paid for eight months of Premium + Sync in all, the Premium features stay unlocked for good at no extra cost, even if you cancel later: everything except syncing, backup and household sharing. The months don’t have to be in a row, and a year counts as twelve, so buying Annual once is enough.

Premium kept this way belongs to your Menu Planner 2 account, so it stays on every device you sign in on. Months you paid for on different devices count together. Without signing in, a device keeps it only from what was paid for on that device.

Only months you paid for yourself count. Premium + Sync that reaches you through someone else’s subscription, in a household or through Family Sharing, doesn’t.

Sync, cloud backup and household sharing stop when the subscription ends.

Open Profile & Settings, tap See What’s Included (or Upgrade), then See Plans, and tap Restore Purchases at the bottom. Make sure you’re signed in to the App Store with the Apple Account you bought it with.

If someone in your household pays for Premium + Sync, there’s nothing to restore: sign in, and it covers you too.

Open Profile & Settings, tap your email, and tap Manage Subscription. Subscriptions are handled by the App Store, so you can always manage or cancel in the Settings app: tap your name, then Subscriptions.

If someone else in your household pays, they manage it on their own device. If the Account page says Bought on another device, manage it on the device you bought it on.