Nala's Kitchen
Shopping, meals, inventories
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Nala keeps the whole household on the same page: a shopping list that sorts itself by aisle, a meal plan everyone can see, and a recipe book that cooks with you.
Nala is the shared home organiser for the people you actually live with. One household, one set of lists and recipes, kept in step on everyone's devices.
EVERYTHING UNDER ONE ROOF
Shopping, recipes, meal plans, pantry inventories, family calendars and the bin days — in one place, shared with everyone in the house.
A RECIPE BOOK FOR THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD
Keep every dish you cook in one shared library. Write a recipe, paste a link to a recipe page, or open one someone sent you from Nala. Sort recipes into collections, mark favourites, and scale any recipe up or down — every amount changes with it. Put a recipe on the meal plan, or send its ingredients to the shopping list in a tap.
A LIST THAT SORTS ITSELF
Type the way you'd say it. Nala reads the quantity, fixes the odd typo, and files each item under the right aisle. Add "2 lemons" and it lands under Produce, already counted.
MEAL PLANS THAT SURVIVE REAL LIFE
Drop meals onto days and drag them around when plans change. Attach a recipe and a note to any meal. Flag a meal as frozen and Nala reminds you the night before.
KEEP TRACK OF THE CUPBOARD
Count the cupboard, fridge and freezer. Run something down to zero and it's on the shopping list with a tap.
EVERYONE, IN SYNC
Invite the people you live with and everything appears on their devices too. Add milk in the kitchen and it's on their list before they reach the shop. Everyone uses their own Apple Account — there's no Nala account to make.
ASK SIRI
"What's for dinner?" "Add pasta to the Costco list." Nala answers and acts through Siri, and your lists, meals, inventory and recipes turn up in Spotlight. Type or say several things at once — "eggs, bread and two milk" — and each lands on the list on its own.
BINS AND CALENDARS
Set your collection schedule once and see what goes out tonight on the home screen, beside events from the family calendars you choose.
BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD
A home screen widget for today's meals, a share extension for recipes you find on the web, and five accent colours to make it yours.
YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
Nala has no accounts, no analytics and no ads. Everything syncs through your own private iCloud, using Apple's CloudKit — we can't see any of it. Smart features use Apple Intelligence, on your device wherever possible, with no third-party services.
NALA PRO
Nala is free, and everything above stays free, including the recipe library, unlimited households and sharing with everyone you live with.
Nala Pro is one optional payment that unlocks seven extras, for the lifetime of the app. No subscription:
• Cook now — follow a recipe step by step with the screen kept awake, and step timers that ring like the Clock app and run on your Lock Screen.
• Scan recipes — photograph a cookbook page and Nala reads the title, ingredients and method into a recipe, and lets you fix anything it got wrong.
• Bring your recipes — move your collection over from Paprika, collections and photos included, or import recipes from PDFs.
• Nutrition — calories, protein, carbs and fat per serving, worked out from each recipe's ingredients on your iPhone.
• Siri & Reminders — two-way sync with Apple Reminders, so "Hey Siri, add milk to my shopping list" works everywhere, including HomePod.
• Meals in your calendar — mirror the meal plan into its own calendar.
• Talk to your list — say everything in one go, fix it as you talk ("actually, make that three"), and check it before it goes on the list.
Try Pro free for 14 days — no payment details, nothing renews. Family Sharing is supported, so one purchase covers your whole family group.
Nala needs an iCloud account to sync between devices and household members. Camera access is used only for scanning recipes, the microphone only for voice input (recognised on your device), Alarms only so cooking timers can ring, and Reminders and Calendar only for the Pro sync features. All are optional and asked for only when you use the feature.
Ratings & Reviews
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Recipes and Cook now feel smoother in this update. On a recipe, the Ingredients and Method tabs stay pinned as you flip between them and take you back to where you were reading, and the photo drifts away behind the page. In Cook now, the photo folds up into the title bar as you scroll a long step, with your progress bar in glass beneath it.
Also in this release:
• Text follows your Dynamic Type size throughout, and VoiceOver reads more of the app
• Recipe photos, shopping lists and ingredient reading are noticeably faster
• Meals move to the new day when the date changes
• Fixes for crashes with duplicate collection names and with Siri
• Short everyday words are no longer mistaken for groceries
The developer, Fred Whitten, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Fred Whitten
- Size
- 16.4 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Nala Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Fred Whitten

