DinnerFlow
DinnerFlow is a free recipe planner app for families and households. Store recipes from websites, photos, or cookbooks; plan your weekly dinners on a calendar; and generate a smart grocery list, all in one place, shared across your whole household in real time.
Sunday's plan, on every phone
Most recipe apps stop at storing recipes. DinnerFlow keeps going, through the calendar, into the grocery list, and out to the supermarket with your whole household.
Four ways to build your library, paste a URL, photograph a cookbook, paste raw text, or write it by hand. DinnerFlow parses or extracts the full recipe and drops it in your library, ready to plan.
Four ways in
Start from a template or generate the list straight from your meal plan. Ingredients combine automatically, units convert, and Gemini AI sorts everything by aisle so you walk the supermarket in one pass.
One pass, one list
Invite your household with a single code. Everyone shares the same recipe library, meal plan, and grocery list, synced in real time across every device. Plan together. Shop together.
A shared kitchen
Select recipes for any day, or let the app decide. Plan a week, a fortnight, or a whole month at a glance.
A random recipe picker with configurable filters, for nights when no one can decide.
Full-screen step-by-step guide with wakelock, so the screen stays on while your hands are floury.
See what you actually made this month, and which recipes are quietly becoming household favourites.
Local-first architecture. Recipes, plan, and list are always available, even at the supermarket basement.
Also available in Dutch and German. With more languages on the way.
Whether you're a busy parent, a couple splitting grocery runs, or a household tired of takeout decisions, DinnerFlow brings recipes, the dinner schedule, and the shopping list into one shared place.
Plan the whole week's dinners on Sunday. Everyone in the household sees the plan, and the grocery list builds itself. No more "what are we eating?" at 6pm. How to plan a week of family dinners together →
One shared grocery list that updates in real time. When your partner checks off milk at the store, it's gone from your screen too, no more duplicate purchases. How couples share one grocery list →
Stop losing recipes in browser bookmarks or Instagram saves. DinnerFlow imports from any cooking website in seconds, paste the URL and the full recipe is in your library.
Use Surprise Me to get a random suggestion from your own recipe library, or browse filtered by what you feel like cooking. The decision fatigue ends here.
Sunday night to Saturday lunch, DinnerFlow follows the household through the week.
Import from any URL, photograph a cookbook with Gemini AI, paste raw text, or enter a recipe by hand. One searchable library.
Assign recipes to any day. See your full week at a glance, and adjust the plan in seconds.
Ingredients combined, units converted, items aisle-sorted. Share with your household and check off together.
Step-by-step guide, ingredient view, screen wakelock, follow recipes hands-free, even with floury hands.
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DinnerFlow is a free recipe planner app for households and families. It lets you store recipes from any source, plan your meals on a weekly calendar, and build smart grocery lists that sync in real time across every member of your household. DinnerFlow is available on Android.
For families, a good recipe planner app needs household sharing, a weekly dinner calendar, and a shared grocery list. DinnerFlow is a free recipe planner app built specifically for households: everyone shares the same recipe library and meal plan, and the grocery list syncs in real time across all family members so you can check off items while shopping together.
Yes. DinnerFlow has a Surprise Me feature that picks a random recipe from your personal library, with filters you can configure. You can also plan the whole week in advance on a calendar so you always know what's for dinner, and never face the "what should we eat tonight?" question at 6pm.
Create a household in DinnerFlow (requires a Pro subscription) and invite family members with a single code. Joining a household is free, members don't need a subscription. Once everyone is in the same household, the grocery list is shared automatically. When one person checks off an item at the store, it disappears from everyone else's screen in near real time, no more duplicated purchases or missed items.
Yes. DinnerFlow has a meal planning calendar where you assign recipes to specific days. You can plan any number of days in advance. Once your week is planned, DinnerFlow generates a combined grocery list from all the recipes with one tap, automatically merging ingredients and sorting by aisle.
DinnerFlow combines three things in one place: a recipe library with flexible import (URL, photo, text, or manual), a meal planning calendar for weekly dinner planning, and a real-time shared grocery list for households. Most recipe apps stop at storing recipes. DinnerFlow closes the loop from "what are we eating this week?" all the way to a checked-off grocery list.
Yes. DinnerFlow is free to download and use, with a recipe library of up to 50 recipes. An optional DinnerFlow Pro subscription unlocks unlimited recipes, grocery list templates, AI-powered aisle sorting, household sharing, and cloud image backup.
DinnerFlow is available on Android, and an iOS version is in development. There is no web or desktop version and none is planned, because DinnerFlow is built to be used in the kitchen and in the supermarket rather than at a desk. The Android app works fully offline, so your recipes, plan and grocery list are there with no signal, and syncs across every device in your household once you reconnect.
Yes. With DinnerFlow Pro you can create a household and invite everyone with a single code. All household members share the same recipe library, meal plan, and grocery list, with changes syncing in real time across every device.
Paste any recipe URL into DinnerFlow and it automatically parses the recipe, title, ingredients, and step-by-step instructions, from the page. It works with most cooking websites and blogs.
Yes. Photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten recipe card and DinnerFlow uses Gemini AI to extract the full recipe, including ingredients and instructions. You can also paste raw text or enter a recipe manually.
Generate a grocery list directly from your meal plan. DinnerFlow combines ingredients from all planned recipes, converts units automatically, and uses Gemini AI to sort items by supermarket aisle, produce, dairy, meat, pantry, and so on, so you move through the store in one pass. The list syncs in real time so everyone in your household can check off items as they shop.
Yes. DinnerFlow uses a local-first architecture, so your recipes, meal plan, and grocery list are always available offline. Changes sync automatically when you reconnect.
DinnerFlow is available in five languages: English, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French. The app follows your phone's language and you can also set it by hand in Settings. Recipe import understands all five, so a French or German cooking site is parsed in its own language rather than being read as English.
If you're not sure what to eat tonight, start with meals that match how much time you have and what ingredients you already have at home. Quick options like pasta, stir fry, or one-pot meals work well on busy evenings. DinnerFlow keeps your personal recipe library in one place so you can browse your own recipes and pick something that fits, without scrolling through the internet.
To plan meals for a week, choose 5–7 recipes that balance prep time and variety, then assign each to a day. Try to reuse ingredients across recipes to cut grocery costs. Once you have a plan, generate a single grocery list that combines everything. DinnerFlow automates this entire process: assign recipes to your calendar, then tap once to get a combined, aisle-sorted grocery list. For a longer walkthrough, see our guide on meal planning for families.
The easiest way is to plan your meals first, then generate a grocery list automatically. DinnerFlow does this in one tap: it reads all the recipes in your meal plan, combines their ingredients, converts units where needed, and sorts everything by supermarket aisle, produce, dairy, meat, pantry, and so on, so you can shop in one pass without backtracking.
Free to download, available on Android, with iOS to follow. Plan your first week in under ten minutes.