Chef Gaston - Plan. Shop. Cook
Calm dinner ideas for tonight.
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Chef Gaston is the weeknight dinner app I built because meal planning should
take less time than ordering takeout.
PLAN. Tap once, and Gaston builds a run of dinners tuned to your pantry,
your favorites, and what your household actually eats. Pick three, five or
seven days. Every recipe in the catalog is 60 minutes or less, and half are
35 minutes or under. No 22-ingredient weekend projects, no mystery cuts, no
bland "healthy" salads.
SHOP. Your shopping list writes itself from the plan minus what is
already in your pantry, grouped the way a supermarket is laid out. Tap an
item to check it off and it moves into your pantry with a sensible expiry
date. Share the whole list as plain text to Notes, Messages, or whoever is
doing the shopping.
COOK. Tap tonight's meal and Cook Mode takes over — big-text steps,
per-step timers, and your screen stays awake with wet hands. Stuck on a
technique? Ask Gaston and he answers in a sentence or two, not a lecture.
Thumbs-up or thumbs-down when you're done, so the next plan is better than
the last. Your pantry deducts what you used, automatically.
IMPORT. Found a recipe somewhere else? Scan the cookbook page, paste a
TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link, or paste the text, and Gaston rewrites it
as a Chef Gaston recipe: Cook Mode steps, timers, a shopping list. It lives
under My recipes, private to you.
178 recipes, every one of them read before it shipped. Browse them all,
filter to what you can make right now from your own shelves, and favorite
the ones that work.
In English and Danish, with all 178 recipes translated — not
machine-dumped. Choose your language when you start, or change it any time
in Settings. Measurements in metric or US customary, your pick.
Browsing recipes, your pantry and your shopping list are free, always.
A subscription covers AI meal planning and Cook Mode.
No ads. No social feed. No streak nagging you at 9pm. Just dinner.
SUBSCRIPTION
Chef Gaston Pro costs $3.99 per month after a 7-day free trial, and unlocks
AI meal plan generation, Cook Mode, and Ask Gaston. The trial begins when you
start it, not when you download the app.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The
subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours
before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in
your Apple Account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://chefgastonapp.com/privacy
Terms of Use: https://chefgastonapp.com/terms
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Cook Mode keeps up with you. Timers keep running when you move to the next step, and they ring when they're done. Tap the microphone and say "next step" or "start the timer", or ask Gaston a question with your hands full.
A shopping list for the whole plan. It now covers every dinner you've planned, even when your week runs into the next one, and it no longer mixes up look-alikes: garlic powder doesn't count as garlic.
Cooked it? It counts. Finishing a planned dinner from its recipe now marks it cooked, so its ingredients leave the list and your pantry stays right.
Gaston's answers don't get lost. If your connection drops while he's writing, the app picks up his reply as soon as it can.
Safer with allergies. The allergy check now catches more hidden ingredients, such as curry paste and anchovies.
Turning off auto-renew keeps Pro until the end of the period you've paid for.
Plus fixes across sign-in, onboarding, recipe import, the pantry and the plan.
Feedback: support@chefgastonapp.com
The developer, Jonas Egeskov Nielsen, 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:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Jonas Egeskov Nielsen
- Size
- 23.5 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Danish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Chef Gaston Pro $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jonas Egeskov
