The smart meal planner for busy households

Let’s take dinner off your plate.

Build your recipe collection, tell DinDin how your household eats, and keep track of what you have on hand. Then quickly turn it all into a weekly meal plan and smart shopping list. Personalized AI suggestions can help you discover fresh ideas, create a classic recipe tailored to your household, or build out a complete dinner with appetizers, sides, desserts, and even drink pairings.

Build your recipe collection, tell DinDin how your household eats, and keep track of what you have on hand. Turn it all into a weekly meal plan and smart shopping list, with personalized AI to discover new recipes, tailor classics, or complete dinner with appetizers, sides, desserts, and drink pairings.

DinDin's week planner: a planned week with two nights adjusted around calendar events, and one night still open

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How a week actually goes

Already use AI or the web for recipes?

Give the good onesa place to live.

Ask DinDin to create a recipe and the important context is already built in. Your household, cooking setup, preferences, and recent meals come along automatically, while hundreds of recipe-specific rules and checks help with technique, quantities, timing, and real-life cooking needs.

Or bring recipes from anywhere else. Paste one from the web or add one of your own. However it gets here, every recipe lives in the same searchable library, ready to edit, scale, schedule, repeat, and plan with.

Three ways in

Paste a link
halfbakedharvest.com/tuscan-steak…
Write your own
Grandma's Sunday meatballs
Ask DinDin†
I have something in mind
“macadamia mahi mahi”
Inspire me
From my household + this week’s plan
Relevant household context included

One recipe library

Italian cuisine
Tuscan Steak with Marinated Cherry Tomatoes
MainItalianImported from web
Seared steak rested over garlicky marinated cherry tomatoes, with arugula and crisp potatoes.
15m prep, 15m cook
NewAdd to Ready ListSet repeat
Italian cuisine
Grandma's Sunday Meatballs
MainItalianMy recipe
Slow-simmered beef and pork meatballs in Sunday gravy, finished with ricotta and parmesan.
20m prep, 1h cook
NewAdd to Ready ListSet repeat
American cuisine
Macadamia-Crusted Mahi Mahi
MainAmericanAI Original
Crispy macadamia-panko crust over tender mahi mahi, served with rice and a bright slaw.
20m prep, 15m cook
NewAdd to Ready ListSet repeat

Personalized recipes.

Your household

EEmma · adultcooks most weeknights
SSam · adultweekend cook · medium spice
EEli · 4picky — no spice, will pick off onions
MMia · 7adventurous eater

House rules

Mild spiceMostly familiar meals45-min max prepLeftovers for lunch$150/week dinner budgetAir fryer availableChicken + salmon favorites

This week

MonSpaghetti & meatballs
TueBaked salmon & roasted potatoes
WedVeggie quesadillas
ThuHoney garlic chicken, rice & broccoliAI suggestion

Tell DinDin about your household, allergies, spice tolerance, appliances, budget, and dinner routine — once.

DinDin also considers what you’ve eaten recently and what’s already on your plan, so suggestions stay varied throughout the week.

By default, DinDin brings the household preferences and relevant meal context you’ve saved† into suggestions automatically. You can refine or ignore them whenever you want something different.

DinDin applies recipe-specific rules and checks intended to improve technique, quantities, timing, and consistency, and AI recipes include estimated nutrition per serving. AI results still deserve a quick review before you cook.

Never forget a favorite.

Set a repeat cadence on the meals your household loves. When one is due, it surfaces on its own — weekly tacos, monthly salmon, squash soup once each fall.

DinDin even suggests the night each one fits — shorter cooks land on your busy evenings.

Set it once
Pick a cadence on any recipe.
Chinese cuisineBang Bang Salmon Chinese · Main · 15m prep · 20m cookChinese · Main · 35mRepeats every 4 weeksSet repeat
A month later
It comes back on its own.
Due repeatsChinese cuisineBang Bang Salmon Due now · every 4 weeks

Plan the week in one sitting.

Work the guided flow — skip busy nights, set this week’s preferences, pull in the favorites that are due, and browse your library to drag in saved recipes or extra courses. AI fills whatever’s left.

The week stays visible up top the whole time, filling in as you go.

Your weekly routine
MONBlocked — “Chick-fil-A night”SKIPPED
THUNote — “Mia’s recital, eat early”NOTE

Skip nights you won’t cook, add placeholders for simple meals, or leave a note. Placeholders still guide DinDin’s suggestions, but don’t add ingredients to your grocery list.

Set the week’s mood.

Cuisines

ItalianMediterraneanJapanese

Use up

SpinachCreamScallions
Bring back what’s due.
Repeat: due nowSeason: summerCuisines: any
🐟Chinese cuisineBang Bang SalmonChinese · due — 32 days since last cook
Drag in anything you’ve saved.
Search your library — “skewers”, Italian, under 30 minutes…
🍤Argentine cuisineGrilled Shrimp SkewersArgentine · 25 min
🍅Italian cuisineCaprese SkewersItalian · 15 min
Borrow from cooks you follow.

Subscribed cooks bring their recipes and weekly plans right into this step.

M@marconiskitchenrecently
🍝Italian cuisineSunday Ragù over RigatoniItalian · low & slow, 3 hrs
Fill your week with AI.†
Original recipesCurated recipes
“something warming and filling, no pasta”…
Cuisine: AllSpice: MediumModerate effort
✦ Generate recipes for 3 days

Beyond the recipe.†

Ask AI for the appetizer, side, dessert, or pour that fits a night. Link the courses you love and they come back together.

Suggestions consider the main’s cuisine, its richness, and your household profile.

Tonight’s menu · Tuesday

Italian cuisineTuscan Steak with Marinated Cherry TomatoesMAIN
AppetizerBurrata with Roasted Beets✦ AI pick
SideAuthentic Cacio e Pepe🔗 linked to this main
DessertLemon Sorbetto✦ AI pick
PourChianti Classico Riservacherry & structured

After you plan

The plan keeps working after you’re done.

Dinner shows up next to soccer practice.†

The plan syncs to Google or Apple Calendar on its own, with prep time blocked.

Change the plan and the calendar follows — nothing to re-enter.

Google Calendar · Tuesday

4:30 PMSoccer practice — MiaRiverside fields
5:45 PMDinner: Bang Bang Salmonprep 15m · cook 20m · table at 6:15

Intelligent shopping list, seriously.

Pick the days you’re shopping for. The list builds itself, grouped by aisle — pantry staples already marked off.

Export the finished list to Reminders or your favorite list app in a tap.

Need to buy · 2

Meat & seafood

Ribeye steak (2)TUE

Produce

ArugulaTUE

Already in pantry · 2

✓Olive oil
✓Pecorino Romano

Tuesday's dinner starts the list.

Pricing

More time. Better meals.

Two paid plans, billed monthly or annually.

Choose how much help you want from DinDin. Pro gives most households everything they need to plan smarter and spend less time figuring out dinner. Max adds more AI power for households that want more flexibility and fewer limits.

Best for most households
Pro

Turn a week of dinner decisions into one simple plan, with personalized AI suggestions, calendar sync, and smarter tools that keep everything moving.

$7.20 / month

$86.40 billed annually

  • Up to 1,000 recipes
  • Calendar sync
  • AI meal generation
  • AI course suggestions
  • Dietary filter profiles
Choose Pro
More AI, more flexibility
Max

Everything in Pro, plus more AI features, more AI capacity, and a larger recipe library — for bigger households, busier weeks, and power users.

$15.20 / month

$182.40 billed annually

  • Up to 2,000 recipes
  • Everything in Pro
  • 4× AI token quota
  • AI drink pairings
  • AI credit top-ups
Choose Max
FreeStart with the basics

Save your recipes, plan the week, and build smart grocery lists — the core tools for keeping dinner organized without the AI extras.

$0 / month
  • Up to 250 recipes
  • Meal calendar
  • Smart shopping list
  • Pantry tracking
  • Subscribe to cooks
Choose Free

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† Some features, including AI, aren’t part of the Free tier and may require a Pro or Max subscription. See pricing for what’s included in each plan.