Most meal planners ask you to pick seven dinners out of thin air, then hand you a shopping list for all of it. Kitcha starts from what is already in your kitchen — so the plan costs less and wastes less.
Planning is easy on Sunday afternoon and hard on Tuesday at 6pm. The plans that survive have three things in common: they were quick to make, they used food that was already in the house, and they bent when the week did.
The plans that die are the ones where you did twenty minutes of typing, bought a full week of new ingredients, and then ate out on Wednesday and watched half of it go off in the drawer.
It plans from your kitchen, not from a catalogue. Kitcha already knows what is in your pantry, fridge and freezer, because your grocery receipts stocked it. Ask what to cook and the suggestions are things you can make tonight, weighted towards whatever needs using up first.
Planning takes a tap. Drop a recipe onto any day. Add plain items from your kitchen for the nights that aren't a recipe. Missing ingredients jump straight onto your grocery list — duplicates merged, sorted by aisle.
Cooking updates the kitchen. Tap “Made It” and Kitcha subtracts what you used, with real unit conversions, and shows you a summary of what came out. Your inventory stays honest without a second round of data entry.
It bends. Drag a meal to another day, or hit “Save for another day” and everything attached to it moves with it. Nothing leaves your kitchen count until you actually cook.
Leftovers count as a plan. Kitcha auto-expires leftovers, reminds you they are there, and suggests ways to turn them into something else instead of a bin liner.
On the night itself, Kitcha reads the recipe aloud step by step and answers questions while your hands are covered in flour — in whichever of eight voices you pick. On iPhone you start her by saying “Hey Kitcha”; on Android you tap the mic. She listens while the app is open and your phone is nearby — she is not listening to your house in the background.
This is home cooking on a phone: iPhone and Android only, no web or tablet version, no macro or calorie tracking, and no restaurant or catering features. Dietary preferences (gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, low-carb and your own) are applied to suggestions as a convenience, not as medical, nutritional or allergy advice.
Seven days free, then $14.99 a month or $139.99 a year, everything included. Full pricing here.
Let you put meals on days, turn the missing ingredients into a grocery list, and keep up when the week changes. The ones that fail are the ones where planning is pure data entry with nothing given back.
Yes — that's the point. She keeps a live count of your pantry, fridge and freezer, so suggestions come from what's in the house, starting with what needs using first.
Drag the meal to another day, or use “Save for another day”, which keeps everything attached to it. Nothing is subtracted from your kitchen until you tap “Made It”.
There's a 7-day free trial, then $14.99 a month or $139.99 a year. No permanently free tier. See pricing.
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