Plan to Eat: Meal Planner

Plan to Eat

About this app

Pen and paper planning in your pocket! Store all your recipes in one place, auto-generate a shopping list for your week, and let Plan to Eat help you find joy in meal planning again. Plan to Eat is the meal planning app designed with the planner in mind.

Try Plan to Eat FREE for 14 days, no payment information required at sign-up. After that, annual subscriptions can be purchased for $5.95/month or $49/year.

Key features of the app include:

- ALL YOUR RECIPES IN ONE PLACE: Tap the share icon in your web browser to import recipes from the web, or enter your family recipes manually in the app.

- PERSONALIZED PLANNING: Create meal plans that work for you and your schedule. You can scale servings, reschedule recipes, plan leftovers, and track frozen meals.

- UPGRADE YOUR SHOPPING LIST: The shopping list auto-generates an organized grocery list based on the ingredients in your meal plan. You can also add extra items to your list, add frequently purchased items from the staples list, customize and re-order your list categories, and create lists for specific stores.

- SHARE WITH FRIENDS: Connect with friends and family to share recipes and saved menus, or send a recipe by text or email.

- STEP-BY-STEP COOKING: Tap "Start Cooking" when viewing a recipe to get step-by-step recipe instructions that make cooking easy.

- FIND THE PERFECT RECIPE: Search your recipe book based on title, ingredients, course, main ingredient, tags, recipe rating, and more!

- STAY IN SYNC: Your Plan to Eat account automatically syncs your recipes, planner, and shopping list across all of your devices, and your family's, too! Sign in on all of your mobile devices, and at plantoeat.com, to share recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists.

If you want to feel more organized, save a ton of money, and share your favorite recipes easily, sign up today!

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Ratings and reviews

This is the one. I spent years-years!-on another app. But compared to this one, it sucked. Plan to Eat makes it simple and easy to add and import recipes from a wide variety of formats, to adjust the number of servings for recipes, to handle the grocery list and to share it, and the way they have the staples list set up actively helps you not to forget things. It's also outstandingly un-buggy.

I've been using it for 10 years. It started out great, now it is cluttered with stuff that the paying user can't get rid of, e.g., PTE Recipes (12); information on when you imported the recipe and last prepared it is before the method instead of at the bottom. They upped the price, but aren't giving the user enough options for customizing their recipe box. EDIT: 11/6/2025: More stuff on the page that you can't control. AI for recipes? And you can't hide? Going downhill. Sad.

I've used this app almost daily for close to eight years, I think. It was given to me as a gift and I've renewed every year since. Functionality is nearly seamless. It's intuitive to use whether importing or free writing recipes, using as a step-by-step guide during cooking, building a menu, or creating a shopping list. Thanks to the developers for making it so easy to use! Fully worth every penny. Highly recommended.

What’s new

- We fixed a bug that was occasionally causing friends' recipes to be duplicated.
- We updated your account page so you can easily toggle whether your subscription auto-renews.
- We streamlined the UX of ingredient substitution recommendations.