Meal Plan List is a free personal project — I built it for my own kitchen, and I'm glad if it helps yours too. The full planning and shopping workflow stays free. Plus just covers the real cost of cloud sync, automatic backups, Live Shopping Links, and AI-assisted recipe parsing.
The whole planning and shopping workflow, free
Unlimited recipes — no cap on how many you save or plan
Configurable weekly planner, inventory, and automatic shopping list
Copy, static share, print, image, and JSON import/export
Paste recipes as plain text — no AI needed, plus one free AI parse when signed in
Saved in your browser, with a safety backup before major destructive changes
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The few things that cost me money to run
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Cloud sync across all your devices
Daily automatic cloud backup
Live Shopping Links
100 AI recipe parses per month, instead of one
Shared household planning, still on my list
I build Meal Plan List on my own, so I’m not promising a date until it’s ready.
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Clear, honest answers about how Meal Plan List works and what it is designed to do.
When you assign recipes to your planned days, the app gathers all required ingredients. Untracked items appear on your list automatically, while tracked inventory compares planned use against what’s on hand to recommend only the missing amounts. You can then adjust quantities to whole store packages and split items between To Buy and Buy Later.
Yes. You can configure active planning days to match your routine, whether that means planning Monday to Friday, including weekends, or choosing just 3 or 4 specific cooking nights. You can also plan across multiple weeks.
Yes. Planned meals are instances of your recipes. If you want to double the garlic, swap a vegetable, or increase portions for a dinner party, you can edit that meal directly on the schedule without changing the master recipe in your library.
Any user can generate a free shopping list snapshot to send to a partner or open on a mobile phone at the store. Changes to the snapshot do not sync back to your planner.
No. Meal Plan List is intentionally focused on the core planning and shopping workflow. It does not generate AI recipes, provide calorie or nutrition tracking, connect to grocery delivery services, or support multi-user family accounts yet. You plan with your own recipes, and guest use requires no account or sign-up.
It is free to use. Planning, recipes, inventory, and your shopping list all work without paying — I built this for my own kitchen, and I am glad if it helps yours. Plus only covers the parts that cost me money to run: cloud sync, automatic backups, Live Shopping Links, and a larger AI-parsing quota. You do not need any of that to plan your week, and you do not need AI to add recipes either — paste them as plain text and the built-in parser reads them.