Hedgehog Chef: Meal Planner

Hedgehog Chef Apps

About this app

Hedgehog Chef is a recipe box, meal planner and shopping list for you and the person you cook with. Save the recipes you love, plan the week's meals and shop one list that stays in sync for you both.

Tonight at a glance
Today shows what's for dinner tonight and the next seven days. Nothing planned yet? You get a few ideas from your own recipes, and the recipes you added lately are one tap away.

Save recipes from the web
Share a recipe link to Hedgehog from Chrome or any app with a share button, or paste a link or the recipe's text. You see what was found before you save it.

Your recipes, ready to cook
Search your whole collection, keep favorites close and scale a recipe up or down. Check off ingredients as you go and start timers right from the steps.

Cook mode
One step at a time, with the screen kept awake. Timers ring when they're done, even when you leave the app or lock the phone. If you step away, your place is saved for next time.

Plan the week
See the week by breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Add a recipe to any day, move it, mark it cooked, and put the whole week's ingredients on your shopping list at once.

One list for two
Items sort by aisle, in the order you set. Tap to check things off, and you both see it at once. Store mode makes the rows bigger and keeps the screen on. Open the list before you go, and check-offs made without signal sync when you're back.

Shared with the people you cook with
On the Family plan, two people each get their own login in the same kitchen, with the same recipes, plan and list. Invite the other person with a link.

Reminders
Notifications nudge you to thaw something or to start cooking, and tell you when a timer is done.

AI that asks first
Some features use AI: reading a recipe from a messy web page, and making a photo for a recipe that has none. The app asks before using them, and one switch in Settings turns them off.

Also on the web
Your account works at hedgehogchef.com too, where you can edit recipes, keep a pantry, see nutrition estimates, plan with the AI planner and connect Claude.

Nutrition
Nutrition numbers on hedgehogchef.com are estimates and general information, not medical or dietary advice. This app is not a medical device. If you have allergies or a medical condition, check recipes and labels yourself.

Private by design
No ads and no trackers. Your kitchen is visible only to the people in it. You can delete your account in Settings at any time, or at hedgehogchef.com/delete-account.

Good to know
You need a Hedgehog Chef account. New accounts start with a 14-day free trial; after that, the app needs a Hedgehog Chef subscription. Hedgehog Chef is for adults (18 and over) in the United States.

Questions or problems: [e-mail]

What’s new

• Hands-free cooking: say "next", "repeat" or "start timer" in cook mode.
• Steps can be read aloud in a natural voice.
• Scan barcodes with the camera in Pantry and Shopping.
• Turn and crop photos and scanned pages.
• Import libraries, spreadsheets, PDFs and screenshots.
• Drag recipes onto days on the Plan tab.
• Print recipes and send them as a file.
• Shopping changes and favorites kept offline.
• Download all your data in Settings.