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Budget mode
Set a weekly budget and see a rough cost per serving, per trip and per week.
The weekly meal planner for iPhone
Meal planning
made fun.
Let the bear plan your whole week. Dinners, packed lunches and a grocery list sorted by aisle, for everyone at your table.
Get early access
Coming soon to the App Store
No account. No sign-up. Just a bear.
Weekly meal planner✦Meal prep✦Batch cooking✦Grocery list by aisle✦Packed lunches✦Family meal plans✦Keto✦AIP✦Low-FODMAP✦Postpartum✦Vegan✦Budget friendly✦Pantry scan✦20+ themes✦
The bear does the thinking.
You do the eating.
Three steps a week. Most of them are the bear's.
- 1
Tell the bear who's eating
Ages, allergies, the foods your kids will actually eat, and the rules you choose to eat by.
- 2
The bear plans the week
Dinners, packed lunches and cook days, sized for your household and your budget.
- 3
Cook 3 times, eat all week
Shop once from a list sorted by aisle, then tick things off on Today.
Family meal planning
One plan for
the whole family.
Ages, allergies, kids' safe foods and grown-ups' own lunches, all in one week. Veto a dinner and the bear learns what everyone likes.
- Portions scale to your household
- Kids get safe foods, never a fight
- Grown-ups can pack their own lunches
- Skip a meal and the bear remembers why
Diets, traditions and your own rules
30+ ways to eat.
AIP, keto, low-FODMAP, halal-friendly, even postpartum. Mix them per person, or write your own. Every dish fits all of them at once.
AIPKetoPaleoWhole30MediterraneanLow salt & leanVegetarianVeganPostpartumLow-FODMAPLow-histamineLow-lectinLow-oxalateGAPSSCDCarnivoreRaw veganWhole-food plant-basedMacrobioticPescatarianFlexitarianHalal-friendlyKosher-styleHindu vegetarianJainBuddhist vegetarianItalDaniel fastOrthodox fastingGluten-freeDairy-freeCorn-freeNightshade-free+ make your own
Your food rules, your choice. MealBear plans around the rules you pick; it isn't medical or nutrition advice.
Make it fit
Any recipe,
made to fit.
Paste a recipe link from anywhere. The bear flags whatever breaks your rules and offers swaps that fit, starting with what's already in your pantry. Save it and it's yours to plan with.
- Hundreds of original recipes built in, from all over the world
- US regional cooking, from Cajun to Pacific Northwest
- Make your own rules, or edit any protocol to suit you
Make it fitKetoDairy-free
FROM A LINK
Weeknight Spaghetti Bolognese
- Spaghetti
- Ground beef
- Crushed tomatoes
- Butter
- Garlic & basil
- Parmesan
- Pinch of sugar
Swapped to fit! 
Batch cooking & meal prep
Cook 3 times.
Eat all week.
For people who'd rather cook four times a week than eleven. Dinners come in batches sized for your household, and packed lunches come in blocks.
- The longest stretch goes to a stew, braise or bake that keeps
- Lunch kits prepped once, eaten up to four days
- Reminders, kitchen timers and calendar cook days
- Nights off are allowed. Encouraged, even.
This weekSUN18MON19TUE20WED21THU22FRI23SAT24
🍲🍲🍲
TODAY · COOK DAY
Beef & Sweet Potato Stew
TOMORROW
Leftovers night!
MON · LUNCH PREP
Sage Pork, Apple & Kale Boxes
⏱ Roast apples 18:00Grocery list app, built in
One list,
sorted by aisle.
Every ingredient for the week, added up and sorted the way you walk the store. With a rough cost for every trip, in your own currency.
- Rough costs in 25 currencies, at local price levels
- Shopping days split fresh food from the rest
- Set a weekly budget and the bear plans under it
- Share the list or the whole week
ShoppingWEEK TOTAL~$0
THIS TRIP~$68
Produce
Meat & fish
Dairy & eggs
Pantry tracker
Scan your pantry.
Scan a barcode, type a name or tick your staples. Anything you already have comes off the shopping list. Got it already? Gone.
- As you cook, the bear counts down what each recipe used
- Running low? It asks before it goes on the list
- Plan changed mid-shop? "Put these back?"
Pantry
Rice
Garlic
OnionsHoney
Coconut milk
Peanut butterSTILL TO BUY
- 2 heads garlic
- 3 sweet potatoes
- Jasmine rice
- Bag of kale
- Coconut milk
- Limes
20+ hand-made themes
Dress it up.
A theme for every mood. Each one is drawn from scratch, with its own bear, its own art and its own little reward on Today. Pick one:
Sunny Side Up Included
Theme Pack themes are an optional add-on, sold separately.
Matching app icons
Your home screen
gets a bear too.
Every theme comes with its own app icon, so the bear dresses up outside the app as well.
Don't fancy it? Spin it.
Every theme has its own swap.
Tap Swap and the meal card turns into a slot machine. Tell the bear why and it learns. Each theme puts on its own show: clouds, ants, snow, a chocolate bar. Go on, give it a spin.
DINNER · SUN–MON
Creole Red Gravy with Meatballs
Some themes
are hidden.
You unlock them by doing things. The bear isn't saying which things. Can you find them?
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Cute on the outside.
Very thorough inside.
Somebody kept adding features. (It was me. I'm just typing for the bear.)
Prep style
Easy uses rotisserie chicken and pre-cut veg. Balanced and From scratch cook more from raw.
Packed lunch kits
Lunch box ideas in colour-coded blocks, each prepped once before the first day.
Veto and it learns
Skip a dish and say why. The bear steers away from it next time.
No repeats
Fresh dinners week to week, with an old favourite mixed in if you like.
World kitchens
Original recipes from dozens of cuisines, plus familiar dinners where you live.
Kitchen timers
Named timers right on the recipe, and gentle reminders before cook time.
Calendar & sharing
Add cook days to your calendar, or send the week to whoever's helping.
Cups or grams
Amounts and oven temperatures written the way your kitchen reads them.
Kid versions
A kid-friendly take on every dinner from the same batch, plus a safe food on the side.
Swipe to skip
Eating out tonight? Swipe a dinner away for a night off. The list, reminders and calendar follow along.
iPhone & iPad
Plan on the couch, cook from the counter.
No account.
No sign-up. No snooping.
Your plans stay on your phone. MealBear stores nothing about you on a server. The bear can keep a secret.
Be first in line
for the bear.
MealBear is coming soon to the App Store. Leave your email and the bear will tell you the day it opens. That's the only email you'll get.
Moving from another meal planner? Welcome. The bear has snacks.
Questions for the bear
How much does MealBear cost?
MealBear will have a small price, announced at launch. Waitlist people hear first. Extra art-directed themes come in an optional Theme Pack.
Which diets and ways of eating does it support?
More than 30, including AIP, keto, paleo, Whole30, Mediterranean, vegetarian, vegan, carnivore, whole-food plant-based, macrobiotic, low-FODMAP, low-histamine, gluten-free, dairy-free, halal-friendly, kosher-style, Jain and postpartum, plus your own custom rules. Pick more than one and every dish fits all of them. These are your choices; MealBear isn't medical or nutrition advice.
How does "cook 3 times, eat all week" work?
Day 1 covers days 1 and 2, day 3 covers days 3 and 4, and day 5 covers the rest, with the longest stretch going to a dish that keeps well, like a stew or a bake. Packed lunches come in blocks of up to four days, each prepped once.
Can it plan for picky kids?
Yes. Add each kid's age and safe foods, and the bear makes sure there's something on every plate they'll eat.
Do I need an account?
No. There's no sign-up, your plans stay on your phone, and MealBear stores nothing about you on a server.
Does it work outside the US?
Yes. Rough grocery costs in 25 currencies, store lists for the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, and amounts in cups or grams.
Is MealBear a good Mealime alternative?
If you liked guided weekly plans and a tidy grocery list, MealBear does both, then adds batch cooking, packed lunches, whole-family planning, 30+ ways of eating and a bear.
When can I get it?
Soon, on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Join the waitlist and you'll hear the day it opens.