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Meal planning for iPhone

Dinner is already decided.

Big Spoon plans your week around what your household actually eats, then turns it into one grocery list sorted the way your store is. You just cook.

Coming soon to the App Store

One email, the day it goes live. Nothing else.

Roast chicken thighs with crispy potatoes, lemon and rosemary on a white plate.
The smash burger recipe in Big Spoon, with a photo of the double cheeseburger and fries, prep and cook times, and its ingredients.

You’ve had this afternoon before.

It’s four o’clock. Someone asks what’s for dinner and you’ve been half-thinking about it since lunch. You open three apps, scroll past recipes you’re never going to make, and order Thai instead.

Big Spoon does that thinking on Sunday so you don’t have to do it on Wednesday.

What it does

The whole job, from Sunday night to the stove.

Planning

Say “plan my week” and it does.

Little Spoon fills the week from recipes you already cook, plus a few new ones, and works around whoever won’t touch mushrooms. It won’t put chicken thighs on the table four nights running.

Rather do it yourself? Add meals to each day by hand. The assistant only plans when you ask.

This week’s plan in Big Spoon: buttermilk pancakes for breakfast, chicken noodle soup for lunch, spaghetti and meatballs for dinner.

Groceries

The list writes itself.

Everything on the plan lands on one list, with the onions from three recipes added up into one line. Each item says which meal it’s for.

Put the aisles in the order you walk your store and the list follows. Your partner checks things off from their phone while you’re in the next aisle.

The grocery list grouped by aisle, each item showing the recipes it’s for, some already checked off.

Cooking

Made for flour on your hands.

Cook Mode puts the steps and the ingredients on one screen and keeps it awake. Tick off each step as you go, so you never lose your place halfway through the sauce.

Cook Mode for smash burgers, with the first two steps and five ingredients ticked off.

Also in the box

Smaller things you’ll use every week.

Import from a link
Paste a URL from any food blog and you get the recipe without the eight paragraphs about the author’s trip to Sicily.
Or from a photo
Point your camera at a cookbook page or a card in your grandmother’s handwriting and Big Spoon types it up for you.
Say it once
Gluten-free, cooking for five, nobody in the house touches cilantro. Tell it during setup and every suggestion after that works around it.
Shared with your household
Your partner opens their phone to the same plan and the same grocery list. One subscription covers everyone under the roof.
A nudge at the right time
A reminder to plan on Sunday, one when it’s time to start dinner, and one the night before if the chicken needs to thaw.
The week in your calendar
Subscribe once and the plan shows up next to everything else in Apple or Google Calendar.
The Add Recipe menu: create manually, paste a link, scan from photo, paste recipe text, or ask AI to create.

How it works

Set it up on Sunday. Cook all week.

  1. Step 1: Tell it about your kitchen

    Your diet, how many you cook for, how confident you are at the stove, and the foods that are a hard no.

  2. Step 2: Fill the recipe box

    Import the ones you already love, add the family staples you know by heart, or ask for a few new ones.

  3. Step 3: Plan the week

    Put meals on the days yourself, or let Big Spoon fill them and change what you want.

  4. Step 4: Shop and cook

    The list is waiting when you walk into the store. Check things off, go home, make dinner.

Questions

Before you sign up.

Something else? Email support@bigspoon.app.

What does Big Spoon cost?
Big Spoon Pro is a subscription, and one subscription covers everyone in your household. You’ll see the price in the app before anything is charged, and you manage it through your Apple account.
Is there an Android version?
Not right now. Big Spoon is an iPhone app. If that changes, the waitlist hears first.
Do I have to use the AI features?
No. You can type in every recipe yourself and add meals to each day by hand. The AI is there for the nights you’d rather not think about it, and it only runs if you say yes.
Can my partner see the same plan?
Yes. A household shares its recipes, meal plan and grocery list, so you’re both looking at the same week. One subscription covers the household.
Where do my recipes live?
On our servers, so they follow you to any iPhone you sign in on. If you delete your account and it’s just you in your household, they’re deleted with it. If you share a household, they stay there for everyone else.

One email, the day it launches.

Big Spoon is in the last stretch before the App Store. Leave your address and we’ll tell you when it’s live.

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