MealPartner

The AI recipe app for iPhone

MealPartner

A cookbook written for one kitchen: yours.

Recipes, weekly plans, and shopping lists made for your taste, your family, your skill, and your budget, with a chef in your pocket while you cook.

Download on theApp Store

Free to download14 days of Premium included

Open the book

For everyone who has stood at an open fridge at six o’clock and asked, what’s for dinner?

Foreword

Most cookbooks are written for everybody. This one is written for you. Tell MealPartner who is at your table, what you can’t eat, what is in your kitchen, and how sure you feel at the stove. It takes it from there: it finds the recipe, plans the week, writes the shopping list, and stays beside you while you cook. Think of it as a chef in your pocket who also remembers what’s in your fridge.

Your partner in the kitchen

Frontispiece

Home

Home tab in the evening. Greeting and date, the four doors (Recipe, Plan, Photo, Upload), the “Tonight” photo tile, and the first row of “Ideas from your kitchen”.

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MealPartner home screen: four doors to create a recipe, a plan, a photo scan or an upload, tonight’s dinner with a large photo, and ideas from the kitchen.
Frontispiece Your kitchen, at a glance.

Chapter One

What’s for dinner?

Ask the way you would ask a friend who cooks. “Something with chicken, no nuts, under forty minutes.” A handful of ideas come back, each one built around your diet, your allergies, and the equipment you own.

Serves
whoever is at your table
Time
about a minute

You bring

  • A craving, or no idea at all
  • Your diet and allergies, set once
  • The equipment you own
  • Your voice, if your hands are full

it never forgets the peanut thing

Method

  1. Type or say what you feel like eating.
  2. Flip through the ideas and tap the one that looks good.
  3. The full recipe arrives with ingredients, steps, and nutrition. Save it for later, for today, or for a day you pick.

Plate I

Ask the cook

Create tab (AI cook chat). One request bubble, for example “Something with chicken, no nuts, under 40 minutes”, and the recipe ideas pager below it with a photo card in front and its “Make recipe” button.

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The MealPartner chat: a greeting, a request for a chicken dinner without nuts, and a recipe idea card with a photo, Chicken Piccata with Lemon-Caper Pan Sauce.
Plate I Ask, and ideas arrive as cards.

Chapter Two

The week ahead

Sunday-night planning, done in the time it takes the kettle to boil. Say how many days, how many people, and how hard you want to work. Keep the ideas you like and the week fills itself in.

Serves
1 to 10 people
Makes
up to a week of meals
Time
under a minute

You bring

  • How many days, and how many people
  • Portions: Small, Normal, Medium, or Large
  • Your skill: Easy, Medium, or Hard
  • Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or all three
  • A budget, leftovers to use up, a cuisine you miss. Say it in your own words.

Method

  1. Set your options: how many dinners, how many people, portions, and skill.
  2. Tap Get ideas. Ten meal ideas come back. Keep the ones you like, or ask for ten more.
  3. The plan lands on your calendar with every recipe written and its shopping list ready for the cart.
  4. When life happens, move a meal, skip a day, or push the whole week forward by one.

Plate II

Start options

Plan builder, “Start options” sheet. Rows for Schedule, People, Portion size, Cooking skill, and Meal type, with the sage “Get ideas” button in view.

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The meal plan options sheet: number of dinners, people, portion size, cooking skill, meal type, and start date.

Plate III

The plan, ready

A finished meal plan sheet. Hero photo, plan title, and the Day 1 to Day 3 rows, each with a photo, the time, and the calories.

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A five-day meal plan, Coordinated Comfort Week, with one dinner for each day and a photo, the cooking time, and the calories for each.
Plates II & III A few choices in, a week of dinners out.

Chapter Three

The shop & the kitchen

MealPartner keeps two lists so you don’t have to: what you need to buy, and what you already have. Each one updates the other. Nothing goes to waste.

Serves
the whole household
Saves
a second trip to the shop

You bring

  • A plan, or a few recipes
  • A photo of your groceries, or the receipt
  • Whatever is already on your shelves

“Pantry only” = no trip to the shop

Method

  1. Add recipes or a whole plan to the cart. It sorts itself by aisle.
  2. Check things off as you shop. One tap moves them into your kitchen.
  3. Cooking a recipe uses its ingredients up. Anything close to expiring gets flagged, so you cook it first.
  4. Short on ideas? Pick a few things you have and ask what they could become.

Plate IV

Your kitchen

Kitchen tab. Groups for Produce, Protein, and Pantry with real items, and at least one item flagged in terracotta as expiring soon.

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The kitchen inventory with produce items, one flagged to use in five days, and a card to cook from the kitchen.

Plate V

The cart

Cart tab. The “to go” and “in basket” counts, aisle groups such as Produce and Protein, three rows checked, and the sage “Move 3 to kitchen” button.

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The shopping cart grouped by aisle, with three checked items and a button that moves them into the kitchen.
Plates IV & V What you have, and what is left to buy.

Chapter Four

At the stove

One step on the screen at a time, in type you can read from across the counter. Stuck? Ask. The assistant knows which step you are on.

Serves
as many as you scale it to
Units
original, imperial, or metric

You bring

  • Any recipe in your cookbook
  • Reasonably clean hands
  • Questions, as they come up

yes, you can ask if the chicken is done

Method

  1. Set the servings and the units. Every amount follows.
  2. Tap Cook Step-by-Step. Each step shows only the ingredients it needs.
  3. Ask about the step in front of you: “Is it done?”, “Need a swap”, “Fix a problem”.
  4. Finish the last step, and the meal is marked as cooked on your plan.

Want it vegetarian, spicier, or quicker? Ask the recipe’s assistant, then keep the new version or update the original.

Plate VI

The recipe page

A recipe sheet at full height, scrolled to the top. Large photo, title, time · servings · difficulty, the rating stars, the nutrition tiles, and the start of the ingredients.

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A recipe page: a large photo, the title, time, servings and difficulty, the rating, nutrition values, and the start of the ingredient list.

Plate VII

Cooking mode

Cooking mode on a middle step. The step label, the time and heat chips, the open “For this step” card, the step text, and the “Ask about this step…” composer.

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Cooking mode: step three of seven in large type, with the time and the heat, the ingredients for the step, and a field to ask about the step.
Plates VI & VII Make the recipe yours, then cook it step by step.

Chapter Five

Your cookbook

Every recipe you love, in one place, for good. The reel you saved last night, the page from your mother’s cookbook, the card in your grandmother’s handwriting.

Keeps
on your phone, for good
Works
offline

You bring

  • A link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or any recipe site
  • A photo of a cookbook page or a handwritten card
  • A photo of a finished plate
  • The recipes you made with the AI cook

Method

  1. Share the link to MealPartner, or paste it in.
  2. If the creator left out the steps, tap Fill in with AI.
  3. File it. Make categories by hand, or smart ones that fill themselves by cuisine, time, or main ingredient.
  4. Search finds it again, even when you only half remember the name.

Plate VIII

The cookbook

Cookbook tab. The “This week” plan card, the “Your library” doors, the category folder tiles, and the first row of recipe photo tiles.

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The cookbook tab with folders for favorites and plans and a grid of recipe photos.

Plate IX

Import from a link

Cookbook tab with the “Import from URL” sheet open. The link field names Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or website.

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The Import from URL sheet over the cookbook, with a field for a link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or a website.
Plates VIII & IX From a saved reel to a recipe you can cook.

Chapter Six

The day on a plate

Describe what you ate, or take a picture of it. MealPartner estimates the calories and the macros, and keeps count of the day for you.

Takes
a sentence or a photo
Shows
the day, week, month, and year

You bring

  • A few words, or a photo of the plate
  • How much of it you ate
  • Goals, if you have them

Method

  1. Describe the meal or photograph it.
  2. Check the estimate, set your portion, and log it.
  3. See today against your goals, and the week, month, or year behind it.

Plate X

The day’s nutrition

Daily nutrition view. The calorie ring part filled, the macro lines for protein, carbs, and fat, and two or three logged meal rows.

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The daily nutrition view: a calorie ring at 1,260 of 2,000, progress for protein, carbs and fat, and three logged meals.
Plate X Snap it, log it, see your day.

Recipe cards

A few nights we had in mind

Six ordinary evenings, and how MealPartner handles each one.

  • Recipe for

    The six o’clock fridge stare

    Pick what you have: chicken thighs, rice, a lime. Choose Pantry only. You get dinners that use those and nothing else.

    Serves anyone too tired to shop

  • Recipe for

    A table of five

    Set people to five and portions to Large. The plan, every recipe, and the shopping list scale together.

    Serves five, with seconds

  • Recipe for

    The tight month

    Tell the planner your budget in your own words. It builds the week around it and reuses ingredients across meals, so less gets thrown out.

    Serves your grocery bill

  • Recipe for

    The nut allergy

    Add it to your profile once. From then on, ideas, recipes, and weekly plans leave it out.

    Serves everyone at the table

  • Recipe for

    The first real dinner

    Set your skill to Easy. Cook one step at a time, and ask “Is it done?” whenever you are unsure.

    Serves a brand-new cook

  • Recipe for

    Grandma’s handwriting

    Photograph the card. It becomes a recipe you can scale, switch to metric, and cook step by step.

    Serves the family, for good

Kitchen notes

Fair questions

The things people ask before they let a new cook into the kitchen.

What does it cost?

MealPartner is free to download, and every new cook gets 14 days of Premium. After that you can stay on the Free plan, or subscribe by the month or the year. Cancel anytime.

Do I need to be a good cook?

No. Set your skill to Easy and the recipes stay simple. In cooking mode you see one step at a time, and you can ask about the step you are on.

Can it handle allergies and diets?

Yes. List them once in your profile, and every idea, recipe, and plan works around them. AI can still make mistakes, so read the labels when an allergy is serious.

Does it work without a signal?

Your recipes, plans, cart, and kitchen are stored on your phone and work offline. Asking the AI cook needs a connection.

Can I bring the recipes I already have?

Yes. Share a link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or any recipe site, or photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten card. Each one becomes a full recipe in your cookbook.