Your whole household on one meal plan and one grocery list

A good free meal planning app turns your weekly plan into a grocery list without retyping anything. MealBright does this on the free plan: pick your meals for the week, and MealBright builds the grocery list and sorts it by aisle.

With MealBright Plus, you invite the people in your household, and everyone sees the same meal plan and grocery list on their own phone. When one person checks something off, it disappears from everyone else’s list. One subscription covers the whole household.

MealBright is free, and Plus brings in your whole household. Signing up takes an email and a password, or your Apple or Google account. Storing your recipes, planning the week, your grocery list and cooking mode are free, with no card and no time limit. Plus puts everyone in your household on their own phone, and adds collections, every week you have planned and every meal you have cooked, a list for each store, planning further ahead, and all of the AI tools. It is $3.99 a month for the whole household, or $39.99 a year, and the first 30 days are free.

No. One subscription covers everyone in your household, each on their own phone. Anyone in the household can subscribe, but only one person needs to.

They stay yours. Your recipes, photos, notes, ratings, collections, and grocery lists are all kept, and you can keep using MealBright for free for as long as you like. Your past weeks and cooking history are saved too, waiting for you if you come back to Plus. If you share your household, everyone still sees the same recipes, plan, and list, and editing stays with the household’s owner until someone subscribes again, and anyone in the household can do that. You can download a copy of everything at any time.

Yes. MealBright has an iPhone app in the App Store and an Android app on Google Play. It also runs in any web browser at app.mealbright.app, with the same account, recipes, plan, and list everywhere.

Tap Share on the post and pick MealBright. MealBright reads the recipe out of the caption, or follows a recipe link the creator left in it, and saves it with ingredients and steps you can edit. A Pinterest pin works the same way: MealBright follows the pin to the recipe it points at. A pin that is only a picture, with no link behind it, has nothing to follow, so use the photo import for those. The same works for YouTube and Facebook posts, photos of a cookbook page, pasted text, and a link to any recipe site. Reading a recipe from a post, a photo, or pasted text is one of the AI tools in Plus, and you can try each one 3 times free. A link to a recipe site is free.

Yes. MealBright works for one person, and you can invite someone later with Plus if you want to.

MealBright lets you download everything in your household as a file at any time, from Settings, then Your data.

You can try each one 3 times on the free plan, to see what it does for you. After that, the AI tools are part of Plus: tidying a messy recipe, reading one from a photo, a social post, or pasted text, bringing in a whole PDF or Word file of recipes, making a recipe photo, planning the week for you, and sending your list to a store. Importing from a recipe link or by typing a recipe in yourself is unlimited on both plans. Your first 30 days of Plus are free.

No. MealBright’s AI tools are there when a recipe comes in messy or has no photo, and the app tells you what changed before you save. A photo made by AI is labeled as AI in the app, so nobody mistakes it for the real dish. Everything else works without AI.

Yes. The MealBright grocery list works with no signal. Check things off with no bars and the list catches up when you have signal again. When you do have signal, checking something off removes it from everyone else’s list within a second or two.