Planners and AI

Choose Who Plans Your Week

Dinnertime plans your week with the planner you pick. The free ones stay on your phone or in Apple’s private cloud. With Pro, Claude plans it with nothing to set up. Here is what each one is, where your week goes, and which are free.

Pro is free during the beta, and that includes Claude planning.

Which One Should I Use?

  1. Want it private and free?Use Apple’s planner. It runs on your phone, or in Apple’s private cloud for a bigger week.
  2. Want nothing to set up?Use Claude, which comes with Pro. Pick it in Choose how to plan and it plans the week.
  3. Already pay for Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini?Use your own account. That is free in Dinnertime, and you pay that company directly.

Where Your Week Goes

On Your iPhone

Free

Apple’s planner, running on the phone. It is the fastest, and it works with no signal.

  1. Your phone
Where your week goes
Nowhere. It never leaves the phone.
What we keep
Nothing.
In Dinnertime
Free. Needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence.

Apple Intelligence and privacy

Apple’s Private Cloud

Free

The same Apple planner, using Apple’s own servers when the week is bigger. It is more powerful, and just as private.

  1. Your phone
  2. Apple’s servers
Where your week goes
To Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, which is built so that nobody, Apple included, can read the request.
What we keep
Nothing.
In Dinnertime
Free.

How Private Cloud Compute works Apple Intelligence and privacy

Claude, Included With Pro

Pro, free during the beta

Claude plans the week and writes recipes, with nothing to set up and no account to connect. Up to 30 week plans a month.

  1. Your phone
  2. Our server
  3. Anthropic
Where your week goes
Through our server to Anthropic, the company that makes Claude. Anthropic doesn’t train on it and deletes it within 30 days.
What we keep
Only a count of how many plans you’ve used this month. Nothing about what was in them.
In Dinnertime
Pro. Free for every beta tester.

Anthropic: training on your data Anthropic: how long it keeps data

Your Own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Free

Already have an account? Paste your key in Settings and plan with it. You pay that company directly.

  1. Your phone
  2. That company
Where your week goes
Straight from your phone to that company, under your account and its terms. It never passes through our server.
What we keep
Nothing. Your key stays in this phone’s Keychain.
In Dinnertime
Free.

On Google’s free tier, Google may use what you send to improve its products, and people may read it. A key billed to a paid Google account is covered by different terms.

Anthropic: training on your data OpenAI: data controls Google: Gemini terms

Also With Claude in Pro

Claude also helps in six more places, with the same rules: only the recipe, photo or list you are working on goes through our server to Anthropic.

Rescue a recipe that failed to import.

When Apple’s reader can’t find a recipe in a post, Claude reads it again.

Ask while you cook.

Ask about a step by voice or by typing, and hear a short answer.

Import a photo or a handwritten card.

Snap a cookbook page or a family recipe card and Claude reads it.

What can I make tonight?

Say what you have and get three dinners that fit your household’s diet and allergies.

Adapt a recipe.

Make it dairy-free or kid-friendly. You see what changed, and your original stays.

Tidy the grocery list.

Combines near-duplicates, like 2 onions and half a cup of diced onion.

The links go to each company’s own pages, which we don’t control. Anthropic’s page explains the narrow exceptions to its 30 days, for law and safety.

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