It’s Dinnertime! A meal planning app for working parents who need help getting dinners made.

Save the recipes your family actually eats, plan the week in one sitting, walk the store in aisle order, and cook hands-free.

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This Week in It’s Dinnertime!: four dinners planned, Breakfast for Dinner, Pizza Night, Grilled Skirt Steak with Chimichurri, and Roast Chicken and Root Vegetables, each with one of the app’s drawings and a Start cooking link

Everything but Pro is free: plan the week, save recipes, walk the shop with your list, and cook hands-free, with no account.

It’s Dinnertime! is on its way to the App Store, for iPhone and iPad.

Five moments, not forty features.

Every picture below is the app, not a mockup.

Save

Scan a page, or paste a link from anywhere.

Scan a page from a cookbook, on an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, or paste a link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook or Safari. The recipe is saved in its own words, and a scanned page is read on your phone and never uploaded.

The page’s own ingredients and steps, never a guess at them. Where it came from stays on the card, and every line is yours to edit. Coming from Paprika? Bring your recipes with you.

The Add a Recipe sheet in It’s Dinnertime!: Bring in any recipe, Scan a cookbook page, six recipe sources and a Recipe link field

Plan

The week in one sitting.

Tell the planner how many dinners you need and it fills the week from today forward. Planning is free, and by default it runs on Apple’s own models.

Share the week with your household and everyone sees the same plan.

This Week in It’s Dinnertime!: four dinners planned for the week, each with one of the app’s drawings and a Start cooking link

Shop

The list writes itself from the week, in aisle order.

Not sure your store is in the Kroger family? Put in your zip code and the app shows the stores near you, on a map.

Pro Prices, Past Orders and the Cart

With Pro, one tap does both: the week goes on your list, and the items you’ve matched to a Kroger product go to your Kroger cart. Live prices come from Kroger itself, at Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, King Soopers, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC and the rest of the family.

In the Kroger cart, things you count go in as counted, so three limes are three. Things you weigh go in as one, and the app tells you so.

Without prices the list still works.

Or press the Action Button and say the item.

Set the Action Button to Dinnertime and a press asks what should go on the list, then which of your store lists. Say it or type it, and it lands there without the app opening, even from the Lock Screen.

“Add eggs to my grocery list in Dinnertime.”

Also works by asking Siri.

Set it up once in Settings, Action Button, Shortcut, Dinnertime.

Add This Week in It’s Dinnertime!: the week’s groceries by aisle, each row showing whether a product is picked, with Add 31 to list and Add 31 to list, 24 to cart

Cook

One step at a time, in large type.

The timer and this step’s ingredients sit beside it.

Say next when your hands are covered in flour.
The timer follows you to the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island.
Cooking for more? Scale the dinner and the list follows.
What is coming up next sits under the step, so you can read ahead.

Cook Along for Pizza Night: step 1 of 3, Heat the oven as hot as it goes, with a running timer, the connected oven cooking at 400° F, and the next two steps below

Oven Alerts Pro

Your oven tells you when it’s preheated.

Connect a Samsung oven, range or cooktop through SmartThings once, in Settings. From then on Dinnertime tells you what it’s doing, even with the app closed and your phone in another room.

When it’s at temperature: “Your oven is at 400° F. Time to put it in.”
When it turns on, or a burner does.
When the oven’s own timer is done.
If it’s still on after dinner, or the door has been left open.
While you cook, its temperature sits on the cook screen and on the Lock Screen.

A real Dinnertime alert on an iPhone Lock Screen: A burner just turned on.

Each alert has its own switch, and all six start on. Dinnertime only reads your oven. It never turns it on or changes a temperature.

Needs Pro and a Samsung oven, range or cooktop that works with SmartThings. Alerts go to the phone that connected the oven.

The Your Oven sheet in It’s Dinnertime!: Preheating, 300°, Heating to 400°, with a progress bar, from SmartThings, read just now

Almost nothing about you leaves your phone.

Here is what does leave it, and where it goes. The privacy policy has the full list.

What goes where

Your phone Your recipes and your week live here.

Your own iCloud
Your recipes ride your own iCloud, drawn pictures included. No account. Only you can read it.
A price lookup
A search word and a store go out, product data comes back. Nothing about who asked is kept, beyond our host’s own request logs, which expire in about a day.
Open Food Facts
Scanning a barcode sends the barcode there to name the product.
An oven connection Pro
Only if you connect an oven. Details in the card below.

What the connection keeps, and when it is deleted, is in the privacy policy.

There is no account with us.

The app has no accounts and no tracking, and it sends us no analytics. Nothing is used for tracking, and none of it is sold or used for advertising.

Demo

Your own AI key Pro

Point the planner at your Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini account for a bigger model. The app tells you what leaves the phone.

The planner is free and runs on Apple’s own models by default. The week is planned by Apple’s own planner, on the phone or in Apple’s private cloud, which is built so that nobody, Apple included, can read your request.

The one exception: an oven connection Pro

Our server keeps that connection and deletes it when you disconnect, or on its own 30 days after the app last renewed the connection.

It keeps

Which connection is yours
The connection’s keys, encrypted
Where to send alerts: your phone’s address for them
Which alerts you want
The oven’s last reading, and only the last one

It never keeps

A history of readings
A log
Your name or your email
Your Samsung password
What you cooked

Your list lives in Reminders.

The list is kept in Apple’s Reminders, in a list you choose, so it can be shared with family the way Reminders are shared.

Straight to Apple Health.

Turn it on and the figures for each dinner you finish land in Apple Health, dated at the cook, estimates marked as estimates. That connection only writes. A separate, optional connection can show today’s totals from other apps beside your dinner; what it reads is displayed on the phone and forgotten. Free for everyone.

Every recipe gets a picture.

A recipe with a photograph keeps it. One without never gets a blank square.

On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, the app draws a picture of the dish, right on the phone, and keeps it with the recipe in your own iCloud, so your iPad shows the same one. On iOS 26 it draws one by itself for every recipe without a photo. On iOS 27 it is one tap per dish.

No picture? The dish gets one of 28 drawings, one for every kind of dinner, from soup to Caribbean.

Pictures are drawn on your phone and stay in your own iCloud. Rather not? Turn off Drawn pictures in Settings.

A drawing of a bowl of soup with a spoon — Soup, one of the 28 drawings the app ships with.

And the rest of it.

The smaller things a week needs.

A full nutrition panel.Pro

Published figures where a recipe has one, an on-phone estimate where it doesn’t, and every estimate says so.

The week’s calories and protein.

Calories and protein, plus the week’s shape day by day, free for every week.

Every nutrient, night by night.Pro

Every nutrient for the week with its percent daily value drawn as a bar, and each night opening into its own figures.

Nothing saved yet? Start from a free library.

Browse by what’s in the fridge or where you feel like starting, and the recipe saves with its own picture and credit.

Other cooks’ dinners, shared without a name.

Save one to your recipes, or put up one of yours. Nobody, including us, can see who posted what.

The timer follows you to the Lock Screen.

It rides the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. With a connected oven, so does its temperature (Pro).

Search by dish, or by what’s in the fridge.

Or filter by cuisine and rating.

Scan it anywherePro

One barcode, every store you use, checked by barcode at each of them. Only a store that carries the exact item shows a price, and a store with several matches lets you pick the right size.

Prices on the listPro

Every item priced, a total for each store, and the time each price was read. Kroger’s prices come from Kroger itself. The rest are read off your own signed-in store page, on the phone.

Running lowPro

Your own past orders, read back to you: what you buy most, and what is probably out.

Your own daily valuesPro

More protein, fewer carbohydrates, your calories. Every percentage in the app measures against your own goals once you set them. Leave a goal empty and the usual value stands.

You
One more

Free: room for two

With Pro: up to six

Share the week.

Everyone at home sees the same plan and can cross off a dinner they don’t want.

Share the week with your household.
Anyone can cross off a night they do not want, and the planner picks Change it or Keep it.
Send a recipe to someone at home.
Get a note when the plan changes. It is sent through iCloud, not our server.
Each person gets their own colored avatar.

If anyone in the house has Pro, it covers everyone, whether it is a Family Sharing Pro or their own. If Pro lapses or the Pro member leaves, nobody is removed. The household just cannot add people until it is back within the limit.

A household of two is free. Up to six with Pro.

Add someone any time in Settings, under Household. Everyone needs the app and iCloud.

Pro, honestly.

Three ways to have it. The app is the same whichever you choose.

Best value

Annual

$44.99 a year

Fourteen days free first. About $3.75 a month. Cancel any time.

Monthly

$6.99 a month

Fourteen days free first. Cancel any time.

Once

$99.99 once

Yours for good. No renewal, ever.

Family Sharing is on for all three, so one purchase covers the household. Subscriptions are handled by Apple, not by us. US only.

What stays free

Saving recipes from anywhere
Planning the week with Apple’s own models on the phone
The list in aisle order, and the shop walk
Hands-free cook-along, with timers on the Lock Screen
The Action Button and Siri shortcuts
Notes, ratings and your own photo after a cook
Sending cooked dinners to Apple Health
Menu PDFs for the fridge door
Nine color themes and your pick of heading type
A drawn picture for recipes without a photo
A library of starter recipes

What Pro adds

Live Kroger prices on your list
Product search and barcode scan, priced at every store you use
The items you’ve matched to a Kroger product, sent to your Kroger cart
Prices from Walmart, Costco, Whole Foods, Publix and Albertsons, where you are signed into your own account
The full nutrition label and the week’s whole table, every nutrient night by night
Your own daily values
Your past orders, read back to you, and what you are probably running low on
Alerts from a Samsung oven, range or cooktop through SmartThings
Your own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini key
A household of up to six, where free households have room for two

The honest answers.

There are sixteen questions in all, and a person answers anything else through Support.

Read all sixteen questions and answers

Do I need an account?

No. There is nothing to sign up for with us.

Where does my data live?

On your phone and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud storage that only you can read.

What if my store is not one of those?

Everything still works. The list, the aisle order, the shop walk and the cook-along never needed a price.

Do you make recipes?

Discover is a short list of recipes from food creators we have a written agreement with. It is free for people to browse and save.

Your name and a link back on every recipe, and on every copy someone saves.
A written agreement first, and you can ask us to remove a recipe any time.

Partner

Free Pro for a year, for you. In return you share sponsored posts about the app on your socials, clearly marked as a paid partnership.

Featured

Pay to have a recipe featured in the app, labelled “Ad”. $4.99 a week or $14.99 a month in Discover, or $9.99 a week for Recipe of the week. Featured placements are paid through the App Store, as an in-app purchase. Opening soon.

How it works

Apply with the form on the creators page.
We reply.
You read a one-page agreement.
You sign it online.
Your code arrives by email and unlocks it in the app.

Dinner, planned before you are too tired to plan it.