Meal planning app
Plan weekly meals, build one grocery list, and cook what you already have.
Kitchgrow is a meal planning app for web and Android. Decide the week once, let the shopping list build itself, and keep the recipes that actually worked.
Free to start. No card required.
- 1,900+
- recipes in the app
- 22
- cuisines covered
- 10K+
- Google Play downloads
How it works
Three steps, once a week
The reason meal planning fails is rarely the recipes. It is that deciding, shopping and cooking are three separate chores that never talk to each other.
Plan the week
Fill breakfast, lunch and dinner across seven days. Repeat the meals your household actually eats instead of starting from nothing every Sunday.
Get one grocery list
Those meals become a single combined list, grouped so you can work through the shop in one pass rather than doubling back.
Cook and keep what worked
Search recipes by ingredient, diet or time, then save the ones worth repeating so next week starts from something.
One list, and it shows its working
Sixty-eight items here, assembled from twenty-one planned meals. Quantities are added up across recipes, so two dishes that both want carrots produce one entry, not two — and the meal each line came from stays attached to it, which is what makes the list safe to edit in the shop.
Anything already recorded in your pantry is set aside rather than added, so the list stops telling you to buy another jar of cumin.
Try it
Three meals in, one list out
This is the whole idea, running on real recipes from the catalogue. Pick the meals you would cook and watch the shopping list assemble — an ingredient two meals both need appears once, with the amounts added up.
Pick a few meals
Toggle any of them. The list on the right is rebuilt from whatever is selected — exactly what the planner does with a full week.
Your grocery list
29 items · 3 meals
- All-Purpose Flour1 tbspEnglish Cottage Pie
- Bay Laurel Leaf1 pcSenegalese Chicken Yassa
- Beef Chuck350 gTexas Chili con Carne
- Beef Stock2¼ cupTexas Chili con Carne · English Cottage Pie
- Brown Onion½ cupEnglish Cottage Pie
- Butter1½ tbspEnglish Cottage Pie
- Carrot½ cupEnglish Cottage Pie
- Celery¼ cupEnglish Cottage Pie
- Chicken Stock½ cupSenegalese Chicken Yassa
- Chicken Thigh500 gSenegalese Chicken Yassa
- Cooking Oil1 tbspEnglish Cottage Pie
- Dijon Mustard1½ tbspSenegalese Chicken Yassa
- Dried Oregano½ tspTexas Chili con Carne
- Garlic6 cloveSenegalese Chicken Yassa · Texas Chili con Carne
- Green Peas½ cupEnglish Cottage Pie
- Ground Beef300 gEnglish Cottage Pie
- Ground Black Pepper1 tspSenegalese Chicken Yassa · Texas Chili con Carne · English Cottage Pie
- Ground Cumin1 tspTexas Chili con Carne
- Habanero Pepper¼ pcSenegalese Chicken Yassa
- Lemon Juice3 tbspSenegalese Chicken Yassa
- Milk¼ cupEnglish Cottage Pie
- Neutral Oil3 tbspSenegalese Chicken Yassa · Texas Chili con Carne
- Onion2 pc + ¾ cupSenegalese Chicken Yassa · Texas Chili con Carne
- Paprika1 tspTexas Chili con Carne
- Potato450 gEnglish Cottage Pie
- Red Chilli Powder1½ tspTexas Chili con Carne
- Salt2¼ tspSenegalese Chicken Yassa · Texas Chili con Carne · English Cottage Pie
- Tomato Puree½ cup + 1 tbspTexas Chili con Carne · English Cottage Pie
- Wateras neededEnglish Cottage Pie
Nothing selected. Pick a meal and the list writes itself.
What you get
Everything the week needs, in one place
Weekly meal planner
Three meals a day, seven days, built around your schedule and the food your household already likes. Basic Auto Plan fills the gaps when you are out of ideas.
Automatic grocery list
The list is generated from the plan, not typed out again. Quantities combine across recipes, and your progress is saved as you shop.
Pantry tracking
Record the staples you keep in, so planning and search know what you already have and the list stops telling you to buy another jar of cumin.
Cook with what you have
Kitchen Match finds recipes from the ingredients already in your kitchen — useful on the evenings when shopping is not going to happen.
Your cookbook
Save recipes, see what you cooked recently, and stop hunting through screenshots and bookmarked links for the one that worked.
Preferences that stick
Set household size, diet and the ingredients you avoid once. Planning and search stay filtered to them without asking again.
Search that already knows your kitchen
Household size, diet and the ingredients you avoid are set once in your Kitchen Passport, and every search stays inside them without asking again. Filter further by eating style, diet trait or time when you want to.
Kitchen Match works the other way round: tell it what is in the kitchen and it returns what you can cook tonight — for the evenings when a shop is not going to happen.
The catalogue
Browse all recipesRead the whole method before you sign up
1,687 recipes are published as ordinary web pages — full ingredients, full method, no account. Every one of them can be dropped straight into a week's plan once you have one.
Nigerian Jollof Rice
Tajine Djaj (Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Apricots)
Classic American Cheeseburger
Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza
California Cobb Salad
Pão de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)
Vatapá (Bahian Shrimp Peanut Coconut Stew)
British Fish and Chips
English Cottage Pie
Chicken Tikka Stuffed Naan
Mumbai Street Style Masala Pav
Misir Wat (Ethiopian Red Lentil Stew)
Who it is for
Built for people who cook most nights
- Households cooking most nights who are tired of deciding at 6pm
- People cooking Indian food weekly, with regional recipes rather than a token handful
- One-person households, where planning is what stops food going to waste
- Anyone who batch-cooks and wants the shopping list to match the plan
Pricing
Free to use, Premium if you want more
Everything needed to plan a week, shop for it and cook it is on the free plan. Premium adds planner controls and premium recipes, and is bought in the Android app.
Free
- Weekly meal planner and basic Auto Plan
- Automatic grocery list from your plan
- Recipe search across the full free catalogue
- Pantry tracking and your saved cookbook
- Same account on web and Android
Premium
- Revise and Smart Swap planner controls
- Premium recipes
- Advanced prep reminders and custom meal slots
- Household scaling and shopping intelligence
- Purchased in the Android app
Questions
Common questions
Is Kitchgrow free?
Yes. Planning, the grocery list, recipe search, pantry tracking and your cookbook are all free to use on web and Android. Premium adds extra planner controls and premium recipes, and is optional.
Do I need the Android app, or does the web version do everything?
Both work, and they share one account. Plan on a laptop and shop from your phone if that suits you. Premium subscriptions are purchased in the Android app.
Does the grocery list build itself from my meal plan?
Yes. The list is generated from the meals you planned rather than typed out separately, quantities combine across recipes, and your progress is saved while you shop.
Can it suggest recipes from what I already have?
Yes. Record your staples in the pantry and Kitchen Match finds recipes you can cook from what is already in your kitchen.
What kind of recipes are included?
Over 1,900 recipes across 22 cuisines, with substantial coverage of Indian regional cooking alongside American, Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Thai, Persian, Peruvian and more.
Is my meal plan private?
Your plan, pantry, shopping list and cookbook are tied to your account and are not public. Publishing recipes to a public Kitchen is a separate, deliberate action.
Is there an iPhone app?
Not yet. Kitchgrow runs on the web in any modern browser, including on iPhone, and there is a native Android app on Google Play.
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