Plan to Eat is the all-in-one meal planner, recipe organizer, and grocery list app for busy families. Save your favorite recipes from any website or photo, create weekly dinner menus, plan meals on a budget, and auto-generate organized shopping lists, all in one place.
Whether you're planning healthy weeknight dinners, cooking freezer meals for the month, or building a weekly menu around what's already in your pantry, Plan to Eat gives you the tools to make meal planning simple and enjoyable.
Try Plan to Eat FREE for 14 days, no payment information required at sign-up. After that, annual subscriptions are available in the app.
SAVE RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE
Import recipes from any website with a single tap using the share button in your browser. Snap a photo of a recipe from a cookbook, magazine, or handwritten card and Plan to Eat will save it to your collection. Or enter your family's favorite recipes manually. Organize your personal cookbook by course, cuisine, main ingredient, tags, and more. Whether it's a keto dinner recipe, a vegan lunch idea, or grandma's holiday dessert, your entire recipe collection stays searchable and organized, whether you saved it from a food blog, a photo, or typed it in yourself.
PLAN YOUR WEEKLY MEALS
Drag and drop recipes onto a flexible calendar to build your weekly meal plan. Schedule breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for every day of the week, or plan an entire month at once. Scale servings up or down, reschedule meals, plan for leftovers, and track frozen meals from your freezer stash. Create reusable menu templates to save time on weeks when you're busy.
GROCERY DELIVERY & SHOPPING LISTS
Your meal plan automatically generates a detailed, organized grocery list sorted by store aisle. Similar ingredients merge together so you buy exactly what you need, saving money and reducing food waste. Order grocery delivery right from your list, add extra staple items, customize list categories, and even create separate lists for different stores.
SHARE WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS
Connect with friends and family to share recipes and saved menus. Your Plan to Eat account syncs your recipes, planner, and shopping list across all your devices, and your family's too. Everyone stays on the same page, whether you're at home or at the grocery store.
STEP-BY-STEP COOKING MODE
Tap "Start Cooking" when viewing any recipe to get clear, step-by-step instructions. Follow along easily while you cook, with no need to scroll through a food blog to find the recipe.
FIND THE PERFECT RECIPE
Search your recipe book by title, ingredients, course, main ingredient, tags, rating, and more. Filter your collection to find exactly the right recipe for tonight's dinner or your next family gathering.
Plan to Eat is designed for home cooks who love collecting recipes and want a powerful, flexible tool to organize them. Whether you're feeding a family on a budget, exploring healthy eating habits, or just trying to get dinner on the table every night, Plan to Eat helps you save time, save money, and enjoy cooking again.
Helps me stay organized so I have more energy for other things!
Rbstout
I really don’t know how long I have had this app, but I know it’s been several years. Being able to add recipes I find on different sites is great. And I appreciate being able to plan a week or month’s worth of meal plans at a time. In the last year, I started freezer cooking, and Plan to Eat has been invaluable! My recipes are right there, and I can add or modify things as needed. I usually plan to make about 3-4 freezer meals for each week of the month. Planning and cooking ahead saves me effort and energy so I can be with my family in the evenings instead of being exhausted. I like the “add to freezer” feature with Plan to Eat. This has helped me plan further ahead, so I am only concentrating on meal planning about once every 8 or 9 weeks. I also appreciate the grocery list functions. I don’t use them as much right now, but in the past depended on them to get my lists ready for our weekly grocery adventure. Plan to Eat is literally my favorite app! I use it daily and my family knows how to log in and access the app to find their favorite recipes. My daughter is using the app right now for a class project. She is collecting “tried and true” recipes and almost all of ours are on Plan to Eat. There are probably other things I could say, but I will end by saying that I love this app and heartily recommend it!
This app keeps my life on track!
Mom Beth
I have been a type 1 diabetic since I was 11 months old. In October of 2013, my kidneys failed and I started dialysis. Needless to say, food is extremely important to my well being and in fact, my life. Add to that, 2 boys and a husband. One gluten free and one with heart issues. I plan my menus a month at a time, print them and post them on the refrigerator for everyone to see. The import feature allows me to add recipes from my dialysis center’s website and the nutrition calculator has helped with knowing the carbohydrate in each serving so I can successfully use my insulin pump to give the correct amount of insulin.They say that knowledge is power, and in this case, it is a lifesaver as well. The organization that the Plan to Eat app allows me to have is a true time and energy saver. In addition, I can plan my monthly meals, convert that to a shopping list, and even order my groceries from that list so that I’m sure that I have everything I need when I go to cook it.When I have needed support for the app, I simply send an email and the staff literally gets back to me the same day and has answered my questions, each and every time. When I’m in the kitchen, I simply look at my scheduled meal, click on it, the recipe comes up and I can start cooking. I highly recommend this app, the company, the features and will continue to use it for years to come.
What a great app for storing, using, planning and shopping from for your favorite recipes
Mizzmazz6
I have been using this app for at least four years now and by far it is to only thing I use to cook from anymore. I love that I can choose which recipes I want in this collection along with any ones that I make up. I can download from the internet, take a picture of ones from my favorite cookbooks or create my own. The end result is a collection of recipes of only what you want. As you prepare recipes, if you decide to alter the recipe you can make a change without having to start from square one or simply add a note at the end to show what you solid different. You can take pictures of your own creations to better see the result. If you are a planner, the menu planning option is a great way to structure your meals for a day, week, month or what ever your needs are. I am not generally a big user of this part as a general rule but when I am doing a special meal or have guests for a weekend or week, I can have the food part planned out so I can spend more time with friends or family. The shopping part helps to make sure that you don't forget important ingredients and is best used in combination with the planning part. I truly love this app and would encourage you to try it. I think if you did, you, too, would be sold on it.
Makes my life easier
TJ456235
I’ve had this app for over 4 years and have recommended it to all my friends. I love that I can drag my recipes into each day of the week and it generates a shopping list. I go through the shopping list and anything I already have on hand I delete and then I take use the list at the store. If your using the list on the app on your phone ( or you can print it) once you check the box for the item it disappears ( the have a button to bring it back if you make a mistake) but it makes it simpler to see what you still need as the items you checked off disappear. The items can be arranged by categories produce, canned items, etc. I have mine organized in order as they appear in the store. You can also generate list for different stores. It does take a little time when you first start because you have to upload your recipes but it’s supper easy to do if they are online you just copy and paste and it generates them for you. If they are from a cookbook you have to type them in but honestly it’s worth it because you save so much time in the end. I I personally plan 1-3 weeks ahead of time and I never scramble to figure out what’s for dinner last minute. I first heard about this app from a moms group I was in and it’s helped me stay organized and save time and I’ve recommended it so many times.
- We patched an issue in 3.7.4 that was affecting users with older devices.
Version 3.7.5
The developer, Plan To Eat, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Plan to Eat, LLC
Size
19.2 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.