The app I cook from

I planned meals in Notion for years: recipes in one database, the week's plan in another, a grocery list I rebuilt by hand most Sundays, and enough relations holding it together that changing one part meant repairing three others.

It worked, which is why it lasted as long as it did. What it couldn't do was get out of its own way: every screen was a database view doing an impression of an app. The distance between what I wanted the thing to do and what a Notion page can be kept widening.

So I built the one I'd been describing.

It plans a week of meals and produces the grocery list for it, which is the easy half to describe. The parts I care about are underneath.

Recipes live in a library I can add to by pasting a link: the importer reads the page and fills the fields. Adding something I found online is one step rather than twenty minutes of retyping. The pantry tracker separates what I buy every week from what I restock once in a while, which is the distinction that stops a grocery list asking whether I need olive oil. The list itself splits by store section, or by store, which matters when half of it comes from a specialty market.

There's a guided flow that filters by mood and fills a week in seconds. There's a cook mode that holds the screen awake and walks a recipe one step at a time, and it takes a photo of the finished plate without making me leave the page.

It loads fast, the navigation is short, and it works on whatever device is nearest. None of that is a feature exactly - it's the condition for using the thing at all, because a meal planner you have to wait for is a meal planner you stop opening.

Last shipped on 26 August 2026. I still cook from it.