Chef Gaston - Plan. Shop. Cook
Jonas Egeskov Nielsen Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Chef Gaston - Plan. Shop. Cook is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Jonas Egeskov Nielsen. Requires iOS 17.6. Updated September 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 22 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 24
- 2026 · v1.3
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About Chef Gaston - Plan. Shop. Cook
Chef Gaston is the weeknight dinner app I built because meal planning should take less time than ordering takeout. PLAN. Tap once, and Gaston builds a run of dinners tuned to your pantry, your favorites, and what your household actually eats. Pick three, five or seven days. Every recipe in the catalog is 60 minutes or less, and half are 35 minutes or under. No 22-ingredient weekend projects, no mystery cuts, no bland "healthy" salads. SHOP. Your shopping list writes itself from the plan minus what is already in your pantry, grouped the way a supermarket is laid out. Tap an item to check it off and it moves into your pantry with a sensible expiry date. Share the whole list as plain text to Notes, Messages, or whoever is doing the shopping. COOK. Tap tonight's meal and Cook Mode takes over — big-text steps, per-step timers, and your screen stays awake with wet hands. Stuck on a technique? Ask Gaston and he answers in a sentence or two, not a lecture. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down when you're done, so the next plan is better than the last. Your pantry deducts what you used, automatically. IMPORT. Found a recipe somewhere else? Scan the cookbook page, paste a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link, or paste the text, and Gaston rewrites it as a Chef Gaston recipe: Cook Mode steps, timers, a shopping list. It lives under My recipes, private to you. 178 recipes, every one of them read before it shipped. Browse them all, filter to what you can make right now from your own shelves, and favorite the ones that work. In English and Danish, with all 178 recipes translated — not machine-dumped. Choose your language when you start, or change it any time in Settings. Measurements in metric or US customary, your pick. Browsing recipes, your pantry and your shopping list are free, always. A subscription covers AI meal planning and Cook Mode. No ads. No social feed. No streak nagging you at 9pm. Just dinner. SUBSCRIPTION Chef Gaston Pro costs $3.99 per month after a 7-day free trial, and unlocks AI meal plan generation, Cook Mode, and Ask Gaston. The trial begins when you start it, not when you download the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://chefgastonapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://chefgastonapp.com/terms
What’s new
Version 1.3 · Updated September 24, 2026
Cook Mode keeps up with you. Timers keep running when you move to the next step, and they ring when they're done. Tap the microphone and say "next step" or "start the timer", or ask Gaston a question with your hands full. A shopping list for the whole plan. It now covers every dinner you've planned, even when your week runs into the next one, and it no longer mixes up look-alikes: garlic powder doesn't count as garlic. Cooked it? It counts. Finishing a planned dinner from its recipe now marks it cooked, so its ingredients leave the list and your pantry stays right. Gaston's answers don't get lost. If your connection drops while he's writing, the app picks up his reply as soon as it can. Safer with allergies. The allergy check now catches more hidden ingredients, such as curry paste and anchovies. Turning off auto-renew keeps Pro until the end of the period you've paid for. Plus fixes across sign-in, onboarding, recipe import, the pantry and the plan. Feedback: [email protected]
App privacy
The developer, Jonas Egeskov Nielsen, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- User Content: Other User Content
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: 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:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- User Content: Photos or Videos
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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