Meal planners with grocery lists
Apps that plan weekly meals from saved or imported recipes, track pantry stock, and generate aisle-sorted shopping lists for home cooks and households, with some outliers for dinner decision-making, shared grocery lists, and food storage tracking.
Built for: Home cooks, couples and families
Projects since May 04
195
Different builders
186
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-5%
AI is the core
15%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (63%), web app (34%), service (1.0%) · from r/SideProject, r/ShowYourApp, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- Tracks household food and water stock against family size and goals, flags expiring items, and suggests shopping lists and recipes.“Looking for beta testers for my prepped and food storage saas”
- Kaeli — Tracks pantry and fridge inventory, manages a shopping list, and suggests recipes from what you have on hand.“I built Kaeli - a pantry inventory + shopping list app for iOS”
- Cuicuit — Imports recipes from websites, text and photos, and builds a shopping list from ideas and missing items added to a sidebar.“Why are most recipe apps paid or unefficient? I made a free & open source app, Cuicuit 🐥”
- Pip — Plans a week of dinners from swiped favorites, sizes portions per person, and builds one grocery list.“I built a meal planner for my family that sizes every plate to each person, and I'm looking for beta testers”
- Disparu — Tracks pantry, fridge and freezer items with expiry dates, sends reminders, and manages shared grocery lists and household shopping expenses.“I made Disparu: pantry inventory, expiry reminders and a shopping list for Android”
- Helps a couple plan meals, store recipes, and build grocery lists together.“I built an app to help my GF and I cook more instead of eating out”
- SwapGenie — Scans grocery products, scores them against the user's diet settings, and suggests similar-tasting swaps that score better.“I built a grocery scanner that scores products based on your diet. Unlimited Scans in Basic. (Free)”
- MoodFood — Suggests recipes matched to the user's mood and can also suggest meals from fridge photos, quick meals, and weekly plans.“I made an app that suggests what to cook based on how you're feeling”
- Juniper — Plans a week of meals around dietary goals and pantry contents and sends the shopping list to an online grocery cart.“I got tired of spending longer planning meals than cooking them, so I built Juniper. A week of meals planned around your goals and sent straight to your shopping cart. This is my first side project, check it out.”
- Chef's special — Tracks dishes you eat out or cook yourself.“Chef's special - my personal pet project”
- SweetMargins — Organizes bakery recipes and tracks ingredient costs to monitor profit margins.“I built a simple tool to help my family’s bakery with their numbers. I just opened it up for other bakers to use.”
- Gacha Eats — Randomly picks a meal from a user-logged list of places and dishes, grouped into banners, with reroll.“I made a gacha machine that picks what to eat from places you actually go to. Looking for Android testers (built with Claude Code)”
- Bananarium — Imports recipes and provides a meal planner and shopping list, with pay-as-you-go imports instead of a subscription.“I got fed up with recipe app subscriptions, so I built my own”
- Sunday Fresh Plan — Plans gluten-free weekly meals, generates budget-friendly recipes, and builds grocery lists automatically.“I built a tool to solve the "Gluten-Free Tax" (Time, cost, and exhausting grocery planning). Core app is 100% free.”
- AI Meal Planner & Recipes — Generates recipes and multi-day meal plans with shopping lists from a user's cravings and dietary preferences.“I built an AI meal planner because I got tired of figuring out what to cook every day”
- Plaintext Pantry — Stores recipes, shopping lists and weekly family menus, with recipes created and edited through an LLM integration.“Plaintext pantry: local first, free, minimalist recipe, shopping list and weekly family menu planning app”
- Foods Randomizer — Randomly picks a meal filtered by diet, cuisine, budget, and cook time.“I got tired of 'what do you want to eat' turning into a 20-minute fight, so I built this"”
- Elevate Glizzy — Generates weekly hot-dog meal plans and pairs them with an incremental clicker game whose stats come from the meals.“I made a meal planner that only recommends hot-dogs as a joke and it ended up becoming a whole incremental clicker game”
- Cook Today — Plans daily dinners around household members and dietary restrictions, and builds a shopping list grouped by aisle.“Cook Today - an offline dinner planner that decides tonight's menu”
- Dieter — Generates meal plans with shopping lists built from them, and calculates calorie targets and recipe times.“I made a meal planner: ready-made diets, recipes, shopping lists that build themselves from the plan, 17 languages, and a free tier you can actually use. What is it missing?”
Most discussed
- Culiplan — Plans meals and recipes for users through a website.“Passed the 250 users”
- Helps a couple plan meals, store recipes, and build grocery lists together.“I built an app to help my GF and I cook more instead of eating out”
- RCPS — Imports recipes from URLs, builds weekly meal plans, generates shopping lists, and provides cooking timers.“Launched my first app ~5 weeks ago — 36 downloads, 0 revenue, and I’m trying to figure out what’s broken before I burn more time”
- Textual Chef — Provides free recipes along with a meal planner, aisle-ordered shopping list, photographable pantry, and servings-scaling shopping list.“2,000 recipes, 284 visitors, 0 conversions. I need to know why.”
- Plate — Generates weekly meal plans for weight loss and shows them behind a paywall.“hard gates convert 5x better than freemium and nobody talks about it”
- FoodMate — Manages kitchen inventory and food planning in a mobile app.“One month since launching my first app. Real numbers, what I got wrong, and the thing I wish I'd taken more seriously.”
- ok2eat — Reads grocery receipt photos with AI to populate a shared household fridge inventory, estimate expiry dates, and suggest recipes from what is on hand.“Solo-built ok2eat — snap a grocery receipt, AI populates your fridge in 10s. Roast my onboarding before my PH launch.”
- Dinner by Design — Helps plan dinners, judging by the name; the post does not describe its features.“So much time wasted and so little to show for it, until...”
- Tasty Note — Organizes family meal plans and recipes, importing recipes from social media videos and generating recipes and meal plans with AI.“My first app!”
- FlavorShare — Shares recipes socially and combines them with meal planning, a shared grocery list, and nutrition tracking.“I built a social recipe app (recipes + meal planning + nutrition) and now I am looking for my first 10 Premium users before I register it as a real business for the mobile application”