FamilyPlate
One shared meal library
Save the meals you actually cook. Everyone in the household sees the same library and can add, edit, and tag together.
The shared meal planner for iPhone
Stop deciding what's for dinner.
Plan the week together in 5 minutes — one shared meal library, one weekly plan, and a shopping list that writes itself.
No account needed to start · iPhone and iPad · Free 14-day Pro trial
Why FamilyPlate
Everything your household needs to eat well together
Plan the week, together
Pick a meal for each day. Changes reach every device in the household, and you get a quiet notification when someone else updates the plan.
Import recipes from a link
Paste or share a link from a recipe site and the ingredients and method fill themselves in. Saved a recipe on Instagram? Pro reads the post's caption.
Shopping list, with a cost estimate
With Pro, the week's ingredients land on one list, with a rough total in pounds or dollars for UK and US shoppers. It's our own estimate, not a shop's price.
Ask, with Pro
Ask about your own meals, like when you last had lasagne. Ask already knows your household, and it can fill in your week for you to approve. Pro also suggests tonight's meal, estimates calories, pairs a drink, and looks up recipes.
Private by default
No ads, no trackers, no selling your data. Just your household and the meals you love.
A look inside
Warm, calm, and built for real kitchens
How it works
Up and running in minutes
Open it and start
No account and no sign-up screen. Tap in a few dinners you already cook from the quick-start list, or paste a recipe link.
Plan and shop
Drop meals onto the week. With Pro, FamilyPlate turns the week into a shopping list, with an estimate of what it will cost.
Bring your household in
When you want to share, sign in with Apple and invite your partner or family with a single-use code. The meals and weeks you planned come with you.
Guides
Meal planning, worked through on real weeks
How to meal plan as a family
The five-step system: a list of dinners you already cook, one decision a week, one shopping trip.
The weekly meal planning template
A seven-row grid you can copy, with a filled-in example week.
How to make a grocery list from your meal plan
Four steps from a planned week to one list, shown on a real week.
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All guides
Sample weeks for budgets, picky eaters, new parents, slow cookers and more.
The fine print, up front
What FamilyPlate costs
| Free | The shared meal library, weekly plan, recipe import from recipe-site links, household sharing, and widget — free for everyone in the household. |
|---|---|
| Pro | $3.99/month or $39.99/year after a 14-day free trial, which starts when you sign in with Apple. Adds the shopping list with its cost estimate, AI meal suggestions, week generation, calorie estimates, drink pairings, recipe lookup, reading recipes from Instagram captions and cookbook photos, Ask (a chat about your household's own meals and plans that can propose changes for you to apply), and Siri shortcuts. |
| One subscription | Pro covers the whole household — when one member subscribes, everyone has it. |
| Which FamilyPlate | FamilyPlate for iPhone (getfamilyplate.com), App Store id 6766255454, made by David. Other apps and sites use the FamilyPlate name; the prices on this page apply only to this one. |
| Platform | iPhone and iPad, iOS/iPadOS 17.0 or later. |
| Account | None needed to start planning. Sign in with Apple (no passwords) only to share a household or start Pro. |
Ready when you are
Bring your household to the same table
Download FamilyPlate and start your free 14-day Pro trial today.
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