Meal planner for busy families

A week of meals and a shopping list in two minutes

Pick your days and Pempol lays out a menu from your own recipes, turns it into one combined shopping list — and then walks you through the cooking, step by step.

Collect Plan Shop Cook

  • Free, with no time limit
  • iOS & Android
  • Zero AI in planning
1

Collect your recipes

Type in your own favourites, or start from a ready-made pack by the Pempol Chefs.

2

Pick the days

From a single day to two weeks. The app lays out breakfasts, lunches and dinners with no repeats.

3

Do the shopping

Ingredients add up into one list, grouped by supermarket aisle. Works offline.

4

Cook

Prop the phone up by the stove: one step at a time, in big type, with a timer and the ingredients at hand.

What you get

Meet Pempol

Five chapters of your kitchen week — from recipe to plate.

01 — Meal plan

A week of dinners plans itself

Pick the days and Pempol lays out breakfasts, lunches and dinners from your own recipe collection — no repeats, in portions for the whole family.

  • From 1 to 14 days — gaps in the middle of the week are fine
  • “Plan it for me” or “I'll pick the recipes” — your call
  • List, week and month views — drag meals wherever you want them
  • Food-service mode for small catering — a daily menu instead of household meals

The generated plan is a starting point, not a verdict — swap any meal by hand.

Meal plan 7 days

Monday

🥣 Banana porridgeBreakfast 4 servings
🍝 Spaghetti bologneseLunch 4 servings

Tuesday

🥪 Egg sandwichesBreakfast 4 servings
🌽 Sweetcorn soupLunch 4 servings
No dish repeats this week
02 — Shopping list

One list instead of three trips to the shop

Ingredients from every planned meal add up automatically and scale to your number of servings. “Potatoes” and “spuds” become a single line.

  • Units convert themselves: kg↔g, l↔ml
  • Grouped by supermarket aisle — no walking back to the dairy twice
  • Share it with your partner by e-mail and tick items off together
  • Fully offline — nothing gets lost in a shop with no signal
Shopping list Mon – Sun

Fruit & veg

Tomatoes800 g
Onions3 pcs
Bananas6 pcs

Dairy

Milk1.5 l
Eggs10 pcs

Bakery

Rye bread1 loaf
Summed up from 14 planned meals
03 — Your recipes

A collection you build once

The plan comes from your dishes, not from some online database. Type them in, pull them off Instagram and recipe sites, or start from packs by real chefs.

  • Import from a link or a photo — ingredients, steps, servings and times are read for you (premium)
  • Starter packs by the Pempol Chefs — real authors with a trust badge, not a generator
  • Share by link — the other person opens the recipe in a browser, no account needed
  • Ingredient and unit suggestions while you write a recipe

You always tick the allergens yourself — that one field is never filled in automatically.

New recipe
By handType the name, ingredients and steps
From InstagramPaste a link to a post or reel Premium
From a linkBBC Good Food, Serious Eats and others Premium
From a photoA photo of the dish or of a recipe page Premium
You can edit an imported recipe before saving it
04 — Family & allergens

One plan for the whole household

Set up a family of up to 6 people: shared recipes, a shared plan and shared shopping lists. One person pays, the rest join with a code and use it for free.

  • The plan draws on every household member's recipes
  • Members can edit each other's recipes
  • Allergens add up — the plan skips any recipe containing an allergen of any member
  • The allergen filter is hard: not “probably free of”, but free of
Family 4 / 6
AK Annanuts
MK Markgluten
SK Sophiemilkeggs
JK Jack
The plan avoids nuts, gluten, milk and eggs
05 — Cooking mode

Cook step by step, not from a wall of text

After the shopping, the phone stays in the kitchen. Cooking mode shows one step at a time — in type big enough to read from over the pot — with the timer and ingredients close at hand.

  • One step on screen and big buttons — messy hands welcome
  • A timer read straight from the step — “fry for 10 minutes” becomes a button
  • The ingredients this step needs, scaled to your servings
  • The screen stays awake while you cook

The step's time and ingredients are read by a plain algorithm from your own recipe — deterministic, no AI, just like the planning.

Cooking Step 2 of 6

Fry the onion and garlic in olive oil until translucent — about 3 minutes.

Timer · 03:00

Ingredients in this step

Onion1 pc
Garlic2 cloves
Olive oil2 tbsp
The timer vibrates when the countdown ends
Our principle

Zero AI where your food is concerned

The meal plan and the shopping list are plain maths: recipe rotation, a hard allergen filter and ingredient totals with unit conversion. The same user and the same date always produce the same menu.

  • No invented ingredients

    Only what is genuinely in your recipes ever shows up on the shopping list.

  • Allergens are not guesswork

    The filter works on fields ticked by hand in the profile. A language model never sets allergens.

  • AI only for transcribing

    Importing from Instagram, websites and photos uses a model to read the content — but it happens outside planning, and you can always correct the result.

Pricing

Free is enough for planning

Premium adds two things: transcribing recipes for you, and a shared account for the household.

Free

No premium account, no time limit

  • Your own recipes and packs by the Pempol Chefs
  • Meal plans for 1–14 days
  • Shopping lists, sharing and offline mode
  • Allergen filter and meal calendar
  • Joining someone else's family with a code
Download and start

You buy and cancel the subscription in the App Store or Google Play — Pempol never stores your card details. Details in the terms of use.

Small print

A few more things

Details that only show up once you use it every day.

Meal calendar

List, week or month. The plan opens on today, and removing a meal from the calendar does not remove the recipe from your collection.

Food-service mode

Running a small kitchen or catering business? Switch the account over: a daily menu instead of household meals, with servings counted as dishes to prepare.

A recipe as a link

Share any of your recipes as a public link. The recipient opens it in a browser without an account, and with the app adds it to their menu in one tap.

21 European languages

The app speaks English, Polish, German, Ukrainian, Spanish and the Nordic languages among others — automatically, in your phone's language.

The list works offline

In a shop with no signal you tick items off as usual — changes sync once the phone is back online.

An account on your terms

Sign in with e-mail or an Apple or Google account. Delete the account at any time straight from the app, without writing to us.

A note from the maker
Pempol was born in a home where the question “what's for dinner tomorrow?” came back every evening. I wanted a tool that guesses nothing and makes nothing up — the same week and the same recipes always give the same plan, and no language model decides what ends up on my family's plates.

Grzegorz, maker of Pempol

Questions

Before you download

Seven things you ask about most.

Do I need my own recipes to start?
No. You can start from the starter packs — ready-made sets of dishes by the Pempol Chefs, real authors with a trust badge. You add your own recipes at your own pace, and the plan starts using them straight away.
Is the app free?
Yes. Meal planning, shopping lists, the calendar, the allergen filter and list sharing are free with no time limit. You only need premium to import recipes from links and photos, and to set up your own family — joining someone else's family is free.
How does the allergen filter work?
You tick the allergens once, in your profile. The plan generator rejects every recipe that contains them — hard, not “where possible”. In a family the allergens of all members add up, so the plan avoids anything that anyone at the table cannot eat.
Does Pempol use artificial intelligence?
Not for planning. The menu and the shopping list come out of deterministic algorithms, so the same user and the same date always give the same result. A language model only helps transcribe recipes from Instagram, websites and photos — and it never sets allergens.
How does the family account work?
The person with premium creates the family and gets a code. The others join with that code and use it for free — together, up to 6 people, you share recipes, the meal plan and shopping lists, and members can edit each other's recipes.
How does cooking mode work?
Open a recipe with steps and tap “Start cooking”. The phone shows one step at a time in big type, a timer read from the step text (“fry for 10 minutes” becomes a button) and the ingredients that step needs, scaled to your servings. The screen stays awake while you cook.
Can I delete my account and data?
Yes, at any time — straight from the app or through the account deletion form. How data is processed is described in the privacy policy.

Plan your first week

Get Pempol for iOS or Android and walk the whole week — from plan to plate.

Planning is free

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