In private beta · Free while in beta

What's for dinner?
Your kitchen already knows.

FoodGenie is the AI-powered kitchen for people who actually cook. It plans your meals, tracks what's in your fridge, builds your shopping list, and never lets the basil wilt unnoticed.

Invite-only betaFree while in betaYour data stays yours
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10min
to plan a full week of meals
$40/wk
average grocery savings from less waste
347×
fewer “what's for dinner?” arguments
The intelligence loop

One connected kitchen.
Six things that finally talk to each other.

Every meal-planning app does one or two of these. FoodGenie does all six — and the magic is they share the same brain.

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01 · Import
Recipes
URL, photo of a cookbook, or paste plain text — parsed in seconds with confidence chips.
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02 · Curate
Your menu
A restaurant-style catalog of what your family actually eats — your source of truth.
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03 · Plan
Weekly meals
Drag, auto-fill, or let the Genie suggest. Considers what's expiring + last week.
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04 · Shop
Smart list
Subtracts what's in your kitchen. Departments. Cost estimates. Kroger-ready.
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05 · Cook
Hands-free mode
Big text. Inline timers. The Genie answers “what's next?” while your hands are messy.
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06 · Track
Auto inventory
Cooked it? Inventory deducts. Bought it? Inventory adds. Expiring? You're alerted.
What's inside

The stuff you'll actually use.

Not 40 features no one touches. Six tools that earn their place in your weekly rhythm.

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Signature feature
The Genie

An AI sous-chef that knows what's in your kitchen, what you like, and what you've already planned this week.

  • “Substitute buttermilk?” → 3 dietary-aware options
  • “Quick dinner from what I have?” → 4 matches
  • “Set a 12-min timer” → done
See the Genie →
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Weekly rhythm
Smart planner

Drag dishes into a 7-day calendar. Auto-fill from your menu. Surfaces what's expiring and what you haven't cooked in weeks.

  • Drag-and-drop calendar grid
  • “Use it up” expiry-aware mode
  • Cuisine balance + repeat detection
See the planner →
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Less driving back
Smart shopping

Department-organized. Inventory-subtracted. Retail-rounded. Kroger and Instacart ready in one tap.

  • Deducts what's already in your kitchen
  • Tap-to-checkoff in-store mode
  • Post-shop sync to inventory
See shopping →
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No more waste
Auto inventory

The mythical unicorn. Updates as a side effect of cooking and shopping — never as a chore.

  • 10 input channels, all optional
  • Expiry alerts that suggest recipes
  • Weekly gamified audit (5 min)
See inventory →
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Cook anyway
Magic substitutions

Out of buttermilk? Vegan? Allergic? The substitution graph is curator-built — not LLM-guessed — so you don't poison yourself.

  • Allergen-aware filtering
  • Dietary-pattern matching (vegan, keto…)
  • Cuisine-aware ranking
See substitutions →
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Pro feature
Recipe Clipper

Snap a photo of a cookbook page, magazine clipping, or grandma's index card. Parsed and added in 15 seconds.

  • Cookbook OCR with confidence review
  • Handwriting recognition
  • Auto-detects servings + cook time
See the Clipper →
The Genie

Like having a chef-friend who knows your fridge.

Ask anything. The Genie answers using your menu, your inventory, your dietary profile, and what you've already planned. No more “I have 4 ingredients, what can I make?” rabbit holes.

What's a quick dinner using just what I have?
Can I substitute yogurt for buttermilk in this recipe?
Why is my pasta water this cloudy?
Try the Genie →
Honest pricing

Free to start. Pro when you're hooked.

No surprises. Cancel anytime. Annual saves 29%. Household plans share with up to 6 family members.

Free forever
Starter
$0/month
No card · No expiry
  • Up to 25 recipes
  • Full menu + planner
  • Inventory tracking
  • 3 Genie messages/day
  • 1 substitution per ingredient
  • MyChefs social
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Pro · Annual
FoodGenie Pro
$4.99/month
$59.88 billed yearly · save 29%
  • Unlimited recipes + Genie chat
  • Smart planner auto-fill
  • Recipe Clipper (cookbook OCR)
  • Voice mode in cooking
  • Multi-substitution dietary filtering
  • Ad-free everywhere
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Household · Annual
Family
$7.49/month
$89.88 billed yearly · up to 6 members
  • Everything in Pro
  • Shared inventory + planning
  • Per-member dietary profiles
  • Child profiles
  • Fair Play contributions
  • Real-time collaborative planner
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Pricing applies after public launch — beta is free.
From the beta kitchen

What we're hearing from early testers.

Beta-tester notes
“It's the first meal-planning app where the AI actually feels useful. The Genie suggested using my wilting basil before I would have noticed.”
From our beta-tester notes · on the Genie
Beta-tester notes
“Saturday morning planning used to take 40 minutes of arguing. Now it's coffee + 10 minutes. The shopping list literally writes itself.”
From our beta-tester notes · on planning
Beta-tester notes
“I have a tree-nut allergy and every other recipe app eventually suggested almond butter. FoodGenie never has — that's the standard.”
From our beta-tester notes · on allergens
Common questions

Things real people ask.

Is FoodGenie really free?+
Yes — the Free tier is a real product, not a demo. You get unlimited menu, inventory, planner, and shopping list. The cap is 25 imported recipes and 3 Genie messages/day. We make money when power users upgrade to Pro for unlimited everything.
Do you sell my data or use it to train AI?+
No. Never. Your recipes, plans, and Genie conversations stay yours. We have signed Data Processing Addendums with our LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI) that explicitly prohibit training on your data. You can download or delete everything from your settings page.
How is FoodGenie different from Mealime, Paprika, AnyList, or Whisk?+
Most apps do one piece of the kitchen well — recipe storage (Paprika), shopping lists (AnyList), or auto-generated meal plans (Mealime). FoodGenie connects all six pieces — import, menu, plan, shop, cook, track — so they share one brain. The Genie chat is the difference: it knows your inventory, your menu, and your dietary needs, and it answers in seconds.
Can my whole family use one account?+
Get the Household plan ($7.49/mo annual). It supports up to 6 members with their own dietary profiles, child profiles, and a real-time collaborative planner. Inventory and menu are shared. There's even a “Fair Play” contributions tracker so cooking duties don't fall on one person.
Will it work on my phone?+
Yes. The web app is mobile-responsive — everything works in your phone's browser. Native iOS and Android apps are in beta now and add the camera tools (Recipe Clipper, barcode scanner, receipt OCR), voice mode for cooking, and offline support.
What about food allergies?+
Allergen-aware everything. Set your profile once and recipes are filtered, hidden allergens (e.g. “natural flavors” containing dairy) are flagged, and substitutions are filtered to match. Allergen data in our Food Wiki is curator-locked — never LLM-generated. We take this seriously because it's literal safety.

Stop staring at the fridge.

You'll have a full week of meals planned, a shopping list ready, and an AI sous-chef on call — in less than 10 minutes from now.

Invite-only beta · Free while in beta · Your data stays yours
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