MealBound

Meal Planning Made Simple

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Plan the week, cook one step at a time, and shop by aisle. New in 2.1: Cook Mode with timers, meal reminders, Siri, and an Apple Watch app. MealBound is your complete home meal planning companion. Build your recipe collection, plan the week ahead, cook one step at a time, and shop by aisle, all on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. BUILD YOUR RECIPE COLLECTION Add recipes by hand, import them from any cooking website, or snap a photo of a printed recipe and let MealBound read it for you. Each recipe stores times, ingredients, step-by-step instructions, a photo, notes, dietary tags, nutrition, and your star rating. Change the servings and every quantity scales. Every recipe stays fully editable, so tweak it to your family's taste. Search your library or filter by meal type, rating, time, or diet, and share a recipe with another MealBound user, email it, or print it. DISCOVER NEW RECIPES Browse recipes from online recipe databases with nutrition, dietary tags, and serving size, then save any discovery to your collection with one tap. PLAN YOUR WEEK Assign meals to every breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack slot on a scrollable day-by-day planner. Auto-Plan fills your week in one tap. It avoids recent repeats for as long as you choose, skips slots you've marked busy or eating out, and keeps weekend-only recipes for the weekend. Copy Last Week repeats a plan you liked, filling only empty slots. Re-roll a day you don't like, or print your week at a glance for the fridge. LEFTOVERS NIGHT Mark any meal as leftovers, with suggestions from the last two nights' dinners, or choose a leftovers night for Auto-Plan to leave open. Leftovers add nothing to your grocery list. COOK STEP BY STEP Start Cooking turns a recipe into one big, clear step at a time, with the screen kept awake while your hands are busy. Times written in a step, like "simmer 20 minutes," become one-tap timers. Run several at once and get an alert even when MealBound is in the background. SMART GROCERY LISTS Generate a list from your planned meals, or build one by voice or with quick-add chips. Ingredients are merged so you never buy duplicates. Lists group into store sections like Produce, Dairy, and Pantry, in the order you walk the store, and you can change any item's aisle. Pantry staples such as salt and oil stay off generated lists, and you control the list: add, edit, or remove staples in Settings, or swipe an item to say you always have it. Set your shopping days and MealBound splits your list into trips. Export to Reminders, or share by AirDrop or Messages. REMINDERS, SIRI, AND APPLE WATCH Get a note with tonight's dinner, and a heads-up the evening before about tomorrow's meals, at times you choose. Ask Siri "What's for dinner in MealBound?" to hear tonight's plan. On Apple Watch, see the next few days of meals and check items off your grocery list from your wrist. A Home Screen widget shows today's meals at a glance. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account to create and no MealBound server. Your recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists stay on your device and sync through your own iCloud. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. MealBound works offline, apart from Discover and importing from a web address. MEALBOUND PRO Free to download, with up to 20 recipes, the weekly planner, grocery lists with voice input, iCloud sync, and the widget. A one-time MealBound Pro purchase unlocks unlimited recipes, Auto-Plan, recipe discovery and import, and printing. No subscription. KEY FEATURES · Import recipes from websites or photos · Recipe scaling, notes, ratings, and nutrition · Auto-Plan, Copy Last Week, and leftovers night · Cook Mode with one-tap timers · Grocery lists by aisle, with editable pantry staples · Voice input, shopping-day trips, and Reminders export · Meal reminders, Siri, widget, and Apple Watch app · iCloud sync, dark mode, and accent colors Privacy Policy: https://rohrsoftware.dev/mealbound/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://rohrsoftware.dev/mealbound/terms/

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Version 2.1 makes cooking and shopping easier. COOK MODE · Tap Start Cooking on any recipe to see one big step at a time, with the screen kept awake. · Times written in a step, like "simmer 20 minutes," become one-tap timers that alert you even if MealBound is in the background. SHOP BY AISLE · Grocery lists now group into store sections like Produce, Dairy, and Pantry. You can change any item's aisle. · Pantry staples: salt, oil, and other things you always have stay off generated grocery lists. Edit the list in Settings, or swipe an item to say you always have it. PLANNING · Copy Last Week to repeat last week's plan on the week you are looking at. · Mark meals as leftovers, and choose a leftovers night for Auto-Plan to leave open. · Meal reminders: a note with tonight's dinner, and a heads-up the evening before about tomorrow's meals. SIRI AND APPLE WATCH · Ask Siri "What's for dinner in MealBound?" · New Apple Watch app: see the next few days of meals and check items off your grocery list from your wrist. ALSO · A new app icon, and the widget now shows it. · Fixed "Last cooked" counting meals that were only planned for later.

Version 2.1

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    Information

    Seller
    Alexander Rohr
    Size
    4.6 MB
    Category
    Food & Drink
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 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.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 Alexander Rohr
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    • Family Sharing

      Some in-app purchases and subscriptions may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled. Learn More

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