Scan cookbook recipes
Use the recipe scanner to turn cookbook pages, printed recipes and meal-kit cards into editable meal ideas.
Free to start · Premium £4.99/year
Plan. Cook. Shop. Together.
Scan cookbook recipes from photos, import recipes from websites, organise saved meals, plan the household's week and build one shared shopping list from one Android app.
Everything connected
A family meal planner from recipe idea to checkout aisle
Import recipe websites
Import recipes from websites and save the title, ingredients, method and nutrition where the page provides it.
Weekly meal planner
Give each date its own breakfast, lunch or dinner layout for a clearer weekly meal planner.
Shared shopping list
Add recipe ingredients, combine quantities and check items off in a shared shopping list.
Family sharing
Use Meal Planner as a family meal planning app with roles for parents, teenagers and children.
Nutrition information
Keep nutrition with recipes when it is available from scans or imports.
Recipe scanner
Recipe scanner for cookbooks, meal-kit cards and printed recipes
Meal Planner is designed to scan cookbook recipes, meal-kit cards, screenshots and printed recipes. It can extract the recipe title, ingredients, cooking instructions and nutrition where available, then lets you review and edit before saving.
Browse your recipes
Browse your organised recipe collection.
Edit or create a recipe
Open an existing recipe or create a new one.
Select cookbook pages
Choose one or multiple recipe pages from your gallery.
OCR analyses the photos
Meal Planner scans the selected pages and extracts recipe data.
Scan complete
Review exactly what was found before importing.
Imported recipe
Ingredients, servings and measurements are automatically populated.
Cooking method
Step-by-step instructions are imported and ready to use.
How it works
Recipe organiser, weekly meal planner and shopping list in one
1. Save and organise recipes
Keep meal ideas in a recipe organiser so they are easy to find later.
2. Plan meals
Choose what goes on each date without changing every future week.
3. Build the shared shopping list
Send ingredients to the shared shopping list and tick them off in store.
For real households
Family meal planning with shared planners and shopping lists
Parents can manage meals and shopping. Teenagers can contribute. Children get a simpler controlled experience. Family voting helps turn suggestions into planned meals, keeping everyone working from the same family meal planner.
Parents
Manage the household planner, meal ideas and shared shopping list.
Teenagers
Add meal ideas, vote, react and help with the shopping list.
Children
Use a simpler experience controlled by the family setup.
One Family Premium subscription removes ads for the household.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when the household needs more.
Premium is yearly, covers the family and removes ads, including OCR scan adverts for Premium households.
Free
£0
- Manual recipes and planning
- Shopping lists
- Family features available
- Limited daily OCR scans
Family Premium
Premium Yearly
£4.99/year
- Covers your entire family
- Removes ads for every family member
- Unlimited OCR scans for Premium users
- Restore through Google Play
Practical details
Built for everyday planning, with control when you need it.
Android availability
Meal Planner is built for Android and distributed through Google Play.
Secure accounts
Sign in to sync supported data across your own devices and family group.
Privacy and deletion
Privacy, support and account deletion routes are available from the app and website.
Manual editing
Scans are reviewable. You can always edit recipes, ingredients and methods manually.
Ready to make mealtimes easier?
Start with your next recipe, your next weekly plan or the shopping list you already need to make.
Get Meal Planner on Android