ChefPal - AI Meal Planner
Carson Stark Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
ChefPal - AI Meal Planner is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Carson Stark. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 77 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v1.0.9
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About ChefPal - AI Meal Planner
ChefPal is your AI meal planning assistant for deciding what to cook, creating personalized recipes, organizing groceries, and using what you already have. It learns your tastes, goals, and cooking habits so every meal plan feels made for you. Instead of searching through recipes you've cooked before or planning meals from scratch, just tell ChefPal what you need. Ask for high-protein dinners, quick lunches, budget-friendly meals, family meals, low-carb options, or send a photo of what you have on hand. ChefPal turns your request into a flexible meal plan with recipes, servings, cook times, and an organized grocery list. Capture recipes from links, photos, or social media posts into your digital cookbook. *Chat With Your AI Chef* ChefPal is built around a real cooking conversation with your very own personal chef assistant. Ask for dinner ideas, paste a recipe link, send a photo, change your mind, or ask what to do with ingredients you already have. Get new recipes generated directly in chat at any time. Your chef remembers your preferences over time, so every answer gets more personal and useful. *Plan Your Entire Week* ChefPal builds meal plans using your diet, disliked ingredients, favorite cuisines, budget, cooking skill, serving needs, weeknight time limits, and the meals you actually want planned. It can also consider your pantry, expiring ingredients, recent meals, and whether you prefer repeat favorites or fresh ideas every time. *Turn Inspiration Into Dinner* Paste a TikTok, Instagram, or web recipe link, or add photos and videos for ChefPal to turn into practical meal ideas. Recipes include ingredients, cookware, steps, nutrition estimates, images, and source references. *Shop Smarter* ChefPal plans with overlapping ingredients in mind, balancing meal variety against grocery-list size so you are not buying a new set of ingredients for every dish. Your shopping list is automatically grouped by store category, sized with realistic package options, and adjusted for what you already have. *Keep Your Pantry Working For You* Track fridge, pantry, and freezer items with quantities, packages, freshness, expiration dates, and freezer shelf life. Scan items from photos or video, use up expiring ingredients first, and avoid buying duplicates to reduce food waste. *Cook Step By Step* Open immersive cooking mode for large, clear instructions, per-step ingredients, cookware, smart timers, and adjustable servings. ChefPal saves your cooking progress, helps mid-recipe in chat, and can update your pantry when you finish. *Build A Kitchen That Learns* Choose your chef personality and let ChefPal remember your preferences, disliked ingredients, favorite cuisines, cooking skill, and weeknight limits. The more you plan, shop, and cook, the more useful your meals become. Save all your favorite recipes in one place. Key features: • AI-powered meal planning through chat • Personalized weekly meal plans with breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, or snacks • Pantry-aware recipe suggestions • Auto-generated grocery lists organized by category • Pantry inventory and freshness tracking with expiration alerts • Populate your pantry inventory automatically with an image • Step-by-step cooking mode with timers • Ask your chef questions about a recipe as you cook • Recipe details with ingredients, cookware, nutrition, and instructions • TikTok, Instagram, and web recipe link support • Dietary, cuisine, budget, and cook-time preferences • Multiple chef assistant personalities • Assistant memory for saved preferences ChefPal is built for real home cooking: flexible plans, readable recipes, smarter groceries, and less time spent figuring out what to eat. Stop scrolling for dinner ideas. Ask ChefPal what to cook next. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://chefpalapp.com/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.0.9 · Updated October 19, 2026
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
App privacy
The developer, Carson Stark, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID, User ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Other Usage Data
- Health & Fitness: Health
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Other User Content
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Other Data: Other Data Types
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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