What a meal planning app should do
A good meal planning app, or menu planning app, doesn’t just suggest recipes. It decides the week with you: which meals, for whom, in what quantity, when to shop and when to cook.
- Menus built around a goal: lose weight, build muscle or keep a stable weight.
- Each person’s portion, worked out and written in grams.
- A shopping list made from the menu and sorted by aisle.
- Cooking sessions placed in your week, with one box per preparation.
- Tracking of what you eat, including meals off the plan, described or photographed.
An AI meal planner you can check
An AI meal planner writes a menu from what you tell it. The useful question is what it gives back: a list of dishes, or the quantity for each person, a shopping list that matches the recipes, and a time to cook them.
A plan you can check is a plan whose numbers are written down: grams per portion, and the calories they add up to.
On your phone, without an app store
There is nothing to download: Sophia runs in your browser, on a phone or a computer. To put it on your home screen:
- On iPhone: open Sophia in Safari, tap the Share button, then “Add to Home Screen”.
- On Android: open Sophia in Chrome, tap the browser menu, then the option to install the app.
How much does a meal planning app cost?
Weigh the price of a meal planning app against what it saves you: the time spent deciding, the food bought twice, the takeaway on evenings when nothing was planned.