Your family’s week of dinners, planned around your real calendar. Busy night? It already knows. You approve the week once, and the list and the recipe are handled.
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Coming soon to iPhone and iPad. The private beta opens October 26.
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The Week, Planned Around Your Real Life
Tell it how many dinners you need and it fills the week from the recipes your family already likes. It reads your calendar on your phone and points out the busy evenings, like the night with practice at 5:30. One tap makes a busy night easier, or makes it takeout.
Everyone Sees the Same Plan
Share the week with the people who help get dinner made. Whoever is home tonight can see what is for dinner and cook it.
The List Writes Itself
Every ingredient for the week lands on one list, in aisle order, in Reminders, where you can share it. Shop at a Kroger-family store? One tap fills your Kroger cart.
Not sure your store is in the Kroger family? Put in your zip code and the app shows the stores near you, on a map.
Pro Prices, Past Orders and the Cart
With Pro, one tap does both: the week goes on your list, and the items you’ve matched to a Kroger product go to your Kroger cart. Live prices come from Kroger itself, at Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, King Soopers, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC and the rest of the family.
In the Kroger cart, things you count go in as counted, so three limes are three. Things you weigh go in as one, and the app tells you so.
Without prices the list still works.
Or press the Action Button and say the item.
Set the Action Button to Dinnertime and a press asks what should go on the list, then which of your store lists. Say it or type it, and it lands there without the app opening, even from the Lock Screen.
“Add eggs to my grocery list in Dinnertime.”
Set it up once in Settings, Action Button, Shortcut, Dinnertime.
One Step at a Time, Hands-Free
Large type, one step on the screen, and the timer beside it. Say “next” when your hands are busy. The timer follows you to the Lock Screen.
Paste a link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook or Safari, or scan a page from a cookbook. The recipe is saved in its own words, and it can be on next week’s plan.
Scanning a cookbook page needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, and the page is read on your phone and never uploaded. Coming from Paprika? Bring your recipes with you.
Hi, I’m Samantha.
I have a job I love that asks a lot of me, a husband who also works, and three little girls: a four-year-old and two-year-old twins. On paper I am very good at running things. I manage a lot at work and I rarely drop the ball there.
Then 5pm comes.
Everyone is hungry, somebody is crying, one of us has a late call or is on a plane, and I am standing in front of the fridge with no plan. I can’t tell you how many nights dinner was chicken nuggets for them and whatever was left on their plates for me.
It was never that I didn’t know how to cook or what a good dinner looks like. I knew exactly what to do. I just had no room left in my head to do it. Dinner isn’t one job. It’s remembering who is home, what is in the fridge, what the girls will eat this week, what needs to be ordered, and which night is the crazy one. I had too many tabs open in my brain, and this one never closed.
And I felt guilty about it, which made it worse. I wanted to do this part well for my family, and most nights I felt like I was phoning it in.
I tried the apps. They gave me more recipes, when what I needed was fewer decisions.
So I kept describing what I wished existed to my husband, Anthony. Something that looks at our real calendar and already knows Tuesday is a mess. Something that plans the week, writes the grocery list, and lets whoever is home that night, me or him or a grandparent, open it and just cook. Something where takeout on Thursday counts as a plan and not a failure.
Anthony builds software. Earlier this year he was laid off from a company he had been with for thirteen years, and in between figuring out what came next, he started building it. For me, at first. Then for us.
That’s what this app is. It was built in our house, around our week, and it gets better every time dinner goes sideways at our own table, which is often.
It won’t make you a different person, and it won’t cook for you. It takes one thing off the list you carry around in your head, and it gives you a plan before you are too tired to make one.
If you write to us, one of us will answer. Usually after bedtime.
Samantha and Anthony, Georgia
There is no account with us and no tracking, and nothing about you is sold or used for advertising. Your recipes and your week live on your phone and in your own iCloud. Your calendar is read on your phone and never sent anywhere.
Included: room for two
With Pro: up to six
Everyone at home sees the same plan and can cross off a dinner they don’t want.
If anyone in the house has Pro, it covers everyone, whether it is a Family Sharing Pro or their own. If Pro lapses or the Pro member leaves, nobody is removed. The household just cannot add people until it is back within the limit.
A household of two is included. Up to six with Pro.
Add someone any time in Settings, under Household. Everyone needs the app and iCloud.
Two small demos. Scale the dinner, then check the list. This is a demo, not the live app, and nothing you do here is saved.
Demo
×1 makes 4 servings.
A drawn picture is what the app gives a recipe with no photo. This card is a demo of the effect.
Demo
Nothing checked yet.
Customization
Four colors, and your choice of typeface for dish names and titles. Try them here.
In the app, both are in Settings, under Appearance. Every color has its own light and dark.
The smaller things a week needs.
Pick from eight common allergens in Settings and the planner steers around them. The app can tell you when it finds one in a recipe. It can never tell you a dish is free of one, so check the ingredients yourself when it matters medically.
Browse by what’s in the fridge or where you feel like starting, and the recipe saves with its own picture and credit.
Published figures where a recipe has one, an on-phone estimate where it doesn’t, and every estimate says so.
Calories and protein, plus the week’s shape day by day, for every week.
Every nutrient for the week with its percent daily value drawn as a bar, and each night opening into its own figures.
Turn it on and the figures for each dinner you finish land in Apple Health, dated at the cook, estimates marked as estimates. That connection only writes.
A recipe with a photo keeps it. After you cook, add your own. A recipe without one gets a drawing.
Connect a Samsung oven, range or cooktop through SmartThings and the app tells you when it is at temperature, when its timer is done, and if it is still on after dinner. It only reads your oven. It never turns it on or changes a temperature.
Save one to your recipes, or put up one of yours. Nobody, including us, can see who posted what.
It rides the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. With a connected oven, so does its temperature (Pro).
Or filter by cuisine and rating.
It finds the exact item and its price. Where there are several matches, you pick the right size.
Every item priced, a total for each store, and the time each price was read. Kroger’s prices come from Kroger itself. The rest are read off your own signed-in store page, on the phone.
Your own past orders, read back to you: what you buy most, and what is probably out.
More protein, fewer carbohydrates, your calories. Every percentage in the app measures against your own goals once you set them. Leave a goal empty and the usual value stands.
Pricing will be announced before launch. The beta is free.
There are nineteen questions in all, and a person answers anything else through Support.
Read all nineteen questions and answersNo. There is nothing to sign up for with us.
On your phone and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud storage that only you can read.
Everything still works. The list, the aisle order, the shop walk and the cook-along never needed a price.
Discover is a short list of recipes from food creators we have a written agreement with.
Fair terms, agreed in writing. We are settling these with our first creators now and will share them when you write to us.
On its way to the App Store, for iPhone and iPad.
Developed by Smart Home Life LLC.
Follow along on Instagram @itsdinnertimeapp
