Save recipes from anywhere, plan the week in a sentence and buy only what you’ll cook. Then cook step by step, with timers on your wrist.
Free for your first two weeks.
What’s for dinner?
Plan the week
Paste it, snap it, say it or share a link. We turn it into a recipe you can fix before it’s saved.
What you paste
grandma’s lentil soup!!1 onion + 2 carrots chopped2 cups red lentils1 tsp cumin, saltfry onion & carrot ~5 min, add lentils + 6 cups water. simmer 25ish
What you get
Saved to your Cookbook
Bring it in from
From the plan to the last pan, everyone works from the same week.
Type or say what the week needs: only chicken at night, something light on Friday.
You get a plan you can edit dish by dish. Move it, swap it, change the portions.
Amounts add up across the week and turn into what the store sells: 3 × 1 kg packages, not 2,550 g.
Check things off as you shop. Pantry keeps track of what’s already home.
Not sure what “until set” means? Ask. The answer knows the recipe and the step.
Type it or say it, mid-cook.
Search for what you crave, like spicy soup, or browse by meal.
Save what looks good straight to your Cookbook.
Step-by-step cooking, with timers on iPhone and Apple Watch.
Choose what you’re cooking this week. Mellowpan adds up every recipe and turns it into what the store sells, so two chicken dinners become one line and you don’t buy chicken twice.
From 2 dinners
Pick a dinner to start your list.
Mellowpan buys for the dinners you’ll actually cook and keeps track of what’s already home, so less of your grocery money ends up in the bin.
Your list comes from the dinners you picked, in the sizes your store sells.
Your pantry keeps track of what’s home, and the list flags what you may already have.
Not sure what to make? Ask what you can cook with what’s in your pantry.
Skip a dinner and it waits in your week. Anything you didn’t buy moves to your next list.
Mellowpan is a meal planning and cooking app for iPhone, Apple Watch and Android. It keeps your recipes in one Cookbook, plans the week’s meals for your household, turns the plan into one grocery list and walks you through every recipe step by step.
Tap Add a recipe and paste a link from a recipe site or social post, snap a recipe card or cookbook page (several photos work for long recipes), say it out loud, or paste any text. Mellowpan turns it into ingredients and steps you can edit before it’s saved.
Yes. Describe the week in a sentence, like “only chicken at night” or “something light on Friday”, and you get a plan you can edit dish by dish, with portions for everyone. Invite the people you cook for with a link so everyone sees the same week and the same list.
Yes. Mellowpan adds up the ingredients across every recipe in the plan and rounds them to what the store sells, such as 3 × 1 kg packages instead of 2,550 g. The list is grouped by category and you check things off as you shop.
Yes. Your grocery list comes from the dinners you plan, so you buy what the week needs. Your pantry keeps track of what’s already home, and the list flags what you may already have. You can ask what to cook with what you have, a dinner you skip waits in your week, and anything you didn’t buy moves to your next list.
Yes. In cook mode, steps and timers follow you to Apple Watch, so you can pause, restart or move to the next step without touching your phone.
Yes. Ask about the step you’re on, by typing or speaking, and get an answer that knows the recipe and the step.
Yes. Searching and discovering recipes, saving them to your Cookbook and building collections are free. Mellowpan Premium adds meal plans, grocery lists built from your plan, recipe import from links, photos and voice, and help while you cook. It starts with a free trial, and you manage or cancel it in your App Store account.
Yes. The app and this site are available in English and Spanish.
Invite the people you cook for. Same week, same list, and nobody has to ask what’s for dinner.
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