Meal Planning App
Plan meals from your own recipes: imported from any website, scanned from any cookbook, or chosen from 200+ built-ins. The shopping list builds itself.
Your recipes. Not ours.
Keeps your pantry out of the list
Mark items as pantry staples as you shop and discover what you have. They collapse out of your buy list automatically every week. No more buying olive oil you already own.
Your week, on autopilot
Build a weekly meal template once, reuse it forever. Every time you load the week, the shopping list builds itself. No thinking, no recipe site ads, no hunting for what to make.
Lives in your pocket at the store
Your shopping list is organized by store section and stays live while you shop. Check items off in the aisle. No chat window, no copy-paste.
Now on iOS & Android
Plan your week, build your grocery list, and order via Instacart. All from one app.



Every cuisine and skill level covered: 20-minute weeknight dinners to weekend projects. Handpicked, not generated on the fly.
Paste a recipe link, snap a cookbook page, or photograph a handwritten card. useLadle extracts the real ingredients, ready for your shopping list.
Your plan builds a categorized list instantly. Pantry staples you already own are pulled out automatically, so you only buy what you actually need.
Every recipe you save (imported, curated, or handwritten) exports as a beautiful PDF. Your personal cookbook, built over time.
Plan on your laptop, shop from your phone. Your recipes, plan, and list stay in sync. Pick up exactly where you left off.
Exclude ingredients you don't eat, set how often meal types repeat, and filter by cuisine. The plan fits your household, not a generic one.
Import from any website, scan a cookbook page, or photograph a recipe card. Or browse 200+ built-ins. Your collection, not a catalog we chose for you.
Add recipes to your plan, adjust servings, save weeks you like as templates, and reload them any time.
A categorized shopping list is ready the moment your plan is. Pantry staples are filtered out automatically, leaving only what you actually need to buy.
Android users subscribe here on the web.
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Full feature breakdown for every plan.
Smart weekly scheduling
Generate a full week of meals in one tap, balanced across cuisines and cooking times.
Save and reuse meal templates
Found a week that worked? Save it as a template and reload it any time. Great for rotation weeks you've already curated.
Flexible plan editing
Swap individual meals, remove and re-add to any day, or clear the week and start fresh.
Avoids repeats automatically
useLadle tracks what you've cooked recently so the same recipe doesn't keep showing up.
Ratings shape your plan
Rate recipes after you cook them. Higher-rated dishes surface more often; duds fade out.
Meal frequency settings
Control how often each recipe type appears: fewer proteins, more vegetarian, more variety.