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How MealCrew works – from your first crew to a recipe made with AI. Search for a word or pick a topic.
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Getting started
Sign in, create your first crew, add the people who eat with you and invite others – plus the four areas at a glance.
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Planning meals
Calendar by month, week, day and list with filters; entries for home cooking, deliveries and restaurant visits; wish list and insights.
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Recipes
Add recipes from a link, a photo with text recognition, pasted text or by hand – then cook, plan and shop.
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Guide – recipes with AI
Use the magic wand to get recipe ideas from ChatGPT, Gemini & co. and save them as a recipe with one tap – step by step.
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Guide – recipe pictures with AI
Have an image AI create a matching photo or illustration for a recipe and save it with the recipe.
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Cook from your pantry
Which recipes work with what is in the cupboard? MealCrew compares your pantry with your recipes and the MealCrew recipes – no AI needed.
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Shopping list
Type or scan items, take ingredients from recipes and the week, tick them off in the shop – together with your crew.
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Pantry
Know what is in the cupboard – with scanner, amounts, best-before dates, the "Expiring soon" warning and taking over what you bought.
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Profile and crew
Set name, language, view, AI and data use; manage your crew; MealCrew Plus; feedback, your data and your account.
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Frequently asked questions
Answers to questions people have actually asked us.
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Suggest meals
Plan lunch and dinner for the next few days at the push of a button – matching your crew's diets and your pantry, without the same dish over and over.
What MealCrew does
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Weekly plan at the tap of a button
The meal planner fills the free lunches and dinners of the next few days – matching diets, time and pantry, green-light recipes only if you like. Swap suggestions, plan the rest.
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Recipes with AI – including a picture
Say what you fancy: MealCrew writes the request for ChatGPT, Gemini & co. One tap turns the answer into a recipe, with a matching picture if you like. MealCrew itself sends nothing to the AI.
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Recipes from a photo, link or text
Snap a cookbook page or a screenshot – text recognition fills in ingredients and instructions. Or simply share a link from a food blog or recipe site.
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Shopping and pantry with a scanner
The shopping list fills itself from your weekly plan or a recipe, every item with its own symbol. Scan barcodes, keep a pantry with best-before dates – MealCrew warns you before something expires.
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Cooked, delivered or eating out
Home-cooked meals have a recipe and ingredients, a delivery has its service, a restaurant visit has place and rating. Each kind gets the details that fit it.
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Statistics
What did you eat most often, how often did you order, what did eating out cost? With MealCrew Plus the statistics show it for any period.
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Plan together
Invite family, flatmates or friends to your crew. Everyone sees the same plan and the same shopping list – in the app on the phone and in the web app in the browser.
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Ad-free
No ad banners and no tracking. Your data is stored in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.