MealOS Lab
Paras Chitrakar Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
MealOS Lab is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Paras Chitrakar. Rated 4.7/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 13, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.7
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 58 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 13
- 2026 · v1.0.2
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About MealOS Lab
Three real dinners a week. No nightly planning, no guesswork, no dinner that finishes twenty minutes late in pieces. MealOS Lab is a kitchen tool built for people who want to cook a few solid meals a week and stop thinking about food the rest of the time. It builds your week, times your cooking, and adapts to the equipment you actually own. Start cooking without an account Browse every dinner, set your taste profile, and run the full cooking timeline as a guest. No sign-up, no email, no wall in front of the app. Create a free account only if you want your week plan, shopping list, cooking history, and dinner photos saved and synced across devices — and anything you cooked as a guest comes with you when you do. Plan the week in minutes Start from ready-made bundles, let the app auto-build your week, or drag nights into the order that suits you. When plans change, so does the week — no starting over. Decide tonight, fast Not sure what to cook? Answer a few quick questions with the Meal Finder, or tap Dinner Now for an instant pick. Either way, you're cooking in minutes, not scrolling. Everything lands together The real problem with weeknight cooking isn't the recipes — it's the timing. MealOS Lab schedules every component backwards from your dinner time, with a live timeline, so the rice, the protein, and the vegetables all finish at once. No more cold sides waiting on a slow protein. Cooks around your kitchen Turn on the oven, air fryer, pressure cooker, or rice cooker you actually own, and the steps reroute automatically. Recipes adapt to your equipment — not the other way around. Built around how you actually eat Set a taste profile with strict allergy blocking, smart dislike swapping, diet filters, and spice comfort. The app quietly adjusts recipes to fit, instead of asking you to filter every time. Shopping and pantry, handled A shopping list generates itself from your week, tracks what's already in your pantry, and remembers your recurring weekly favorites so you're not re-adding the same staples every time. Confidence in the kitchen Step detail is written for beginners, with a plain-language cooking glossary for anything unfamiliar. Log each dinner with ratings, notes, and an optional photo, so your favorites are easy to find again. You stay in control of your data Your account and everything in it can be deleted from inside the app at any time, from the account icon on the Today screen. No email, no support ticket, no waiting. No feed. No subscription. No social pressure. Just a calm, practical tool that helps you cook three real dinners a week and get on with everything else. Download MealOS Lab and let dinner run on time.
What’s new
Version 1.0.2 · Updated October 13, 2026
28 new Instant Pot dinners, plus clearer cooking steps. - New: 28 Instant Pot family favorites, from pot roast, chili and chicken & dumplings to chicken and lamb biryani. - New: "One pot, endless dinners" on Today shows every Instant Pot dinner and how little hands-on time each one takes. - Biryani nights: use store-bought crispy onions, or make your own in the air fryer for less. - Air fryer times now match the manufacturers' charts and grow with the number of servings. - Swaps carry through: pick a substitute and every step, timer, reminder and spoken line uses its name. - The ingredients check now lists the basics too: oil, salt, pepper and water. - Important tips stand out in a red callout and say what to do if it won't all fit. - A more natural reading voice and plain, step-by-step appliance guides.
App privacy
The developer, Paras Chitrakar, 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:
- Health & Fitness: Health
- User Content: Other User Content, Photos or Videos
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Contact Info: Email Address
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: 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:
- User Content: Audio Data
Used for: App Functionality
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