Meal planning · for home cooks planning a week of dinners
WeekPlate is a weekly meal planner for home cooks who want to plan the week's meals and shop from a single list. You save recipes by pasting the link of a recipe page or typing them in, drag them onto a grid of days and meals, and set the servings for each one. WeekPlate adds up every ingredient across the week, converts matching units, and sorts the result by store section. Your recipes stay on your phone with no account, so your plan does not depend on any service staying open.
Your saved recipes sit in a tray under the week. Drag one onto a day, set the servings, and the grocery list updates on the spot. Put Chicken Fried Rice on Thursday at two servings and six new items join the list, while the chicken, garlic and onion it shares with other dinners are combined into lines you already have.
Garlic from five dinners becomes one line, 13 cloves, with the days it came from in small print underneath. Matching units are converted before they are added, so 1½ lb of chicken on Tuesday and 8 oz on Thursday read as 2 lb. Items are grouped by store section and you tick them off as they go in the cart.
Many recipe pages carry structured recipe data behind what you see. Paste the link and WeekPlate reads that data, the title, servings, ingredients and steps, and shows it to you to check before saving. Pages without it, and the recipe card from your grandmother's tin, go in by hand.
Mealime has announced that its app will be discontinued on October 21, 2026. According to its closing notice, Mealime's own recipes are moving to Meals Hub inside the Albertsons Companies grocery apps, and personal data is deleted when the app shuts down. The notice does not describe any way to export the recipes you saved, the plans you built, or your grocery lists.
Because there is no export file, WeekPlate does not pretend to import one. What you can do is bring over the recipes you actually cook: if a recipe lives on a public web page, paste its link; if not, type it in. Start with the dinners you make most often. It is worth doing before the 21st, while you can still open the old app and read from it.
WeekPlate is not affiliated with Mealime or Albertsons Companies.
The main screen is seven days, each with a slot for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Recipes from your recipe box sit in a tray along the bottom, and you drag them into slots. A dinner you make twice goes in twice. A slot you leave empty is simply a night you are eating out, cooking from the freezer, or finishing leftovers.
Every slot keeps its own serving count. A recipe written for four can go on Tuesday at four servings and on Thursday at two, and the grocery list scales each one separately. When a week works well, Copy last week puts the same plan on the next seven days so you only swap the nights that change.
The list is not a pile of every recipe's ingredients stacked one under another. Lines for the same ingredient are merged, and units that measure the same kind of thing are converted first, so teaspoons, tablespoons and cups add together, and so do ounces and pounds. Under each merged line, small print shows how much came from each day, so you can see exactly where 13 cloves of garlic came from.
Amounts that cannot honestly be added, such as a can and a cup, stay on separate lines rather than being guessed. Items are grouped by store section, like produce, meat and seafood, dairy and eggs, frozen and pantry, so you walk the store once and tick items off as they go in the cart. Before you leave the house, you can tick off anything that is already in the cupboard.
On Sunday you open the week, tap Copy last week, and replace two dinners that nobody wants again. The salmon goes on Monday because fresh fish does not keep long in the fridge, and the pasta, built from the pantry, goes at the end of the week. A recipe your neighbor sent as a link is pasted in, checked, and dropped on Wednesday.
At the store you shop from one list in aisle order. On Thursday plans change and the fried rice moves to Friday; the list does not change, because the same ingredients are still needed. Your recipes live on the phone, so planning and shopping work in a basement supermarket with no signal. Only reading a recipe from a link needs a connection.
WeekPlate has no built-in recipe catalog or feed of suggested meals. The recipe box holds what you put in it, which keeps the app quiet and keeps the recipes yours. It does not count calories, track macros, or show nutrition panels, and it does not pick meals for you.
There is no account, no cloud sync, and no link to a grocery chain's store, prices, or delivery. The plan and the list sit on your phone, and the shopping happens wherever you like to shop.
Not as a file, because Mealime's closing notice describes no export of saved recipes, plans or lists. You can paste the link of any recipe that lives on a public web page, or type a recipe in by hand. Doing it before October 21, 2026 lets you read from the old app while it still opens.
Not every one. WeekPlate reads the structured recipe data that many recipe pages publish alongside the visible text. If a page does not include that data, nothing is filled in and you type the recipe instead. Either way you see the result before it is saved.
There is no account. The week, the recipe box and the grocery list all work offline because they are stored on your phone. Reading a recipe from a link is the one step that needs a connection, since the app has to open that page.
Yes. Each slot in the week has its own serving count. Set Thursday's fried rice to two servings and the grocery list uses half of every ingredient in that recipe, while the rest of the week stays as planned.
No. WeekPlate plans meals and builds the grocery list. It does not calculate calories, macros or nutrients.
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