Aioli Chef
For households that plan every week.
- 7-day meal plans
- Unlimited plan generation
- An image for every meal
- Local price estimates on the shopping list
- New cuisines and quality refinements as they ship
Dinner, sorted — for your actual family.
Tell Aioli about your family — picky eaters, allergens, the cuisines you want in rotation — and get a week of dinners with full recipes and a single shopping list. iOS only.
How it works
Three answers and a plan.
01
Tell Aioli the awkward stuff.
Eight quick questions: who's eating, the diet pattern, the allergens, the cuisines you want, the city for pricing, and how adventurous this week feels.
02
Get a week of meals back.
Plans come in with images and full recipes streamed as they generate. Each recipe has step-by-step instructions written like a friend wrote them.
03
One shopping list, priced.
Aggregated across the whole plan. Aioli Chef shows local price estimates so the trip doesn't surprise you at checkout. Tap items off as you grab them.
What it actually does
Built around your kitchen, not the abstract idea of one.
No more 6 p.m. fridge stares.
Open Aioli, generate a plan, the week is decided. Three days on the free tier, seven on Aioli Chef. Either way the daily "what should we eat tonight?" conversation goes away. The thing that takes the most energy was the deciding, not the cooking.
Tuned to who's actually eating.
Eight quick questions: how many people, how many days, which meals to plan, allergens, dietary preferences, your city for pricing, the cuisines you want in the rotation, and how adventurous you're feeling this week. The plans come back specific — built around your family, not a template.
Recipes, not just meal titles.
Every meal opens to step-by-step cooking instructions and a clear ingredient list. No clicking through to a recipe blog with twelve paragraphs of backstory. No mystery weeknight dish that turns out to need an hour you don't have.
One shopping list, prices included.
Aioli aggregates ingredients across the whole plan into one shopping list. Aioli Chef shows local price estimates in your currency, so the weekly trip stops being a surprise at checkout. Tap items off as you grab them.
Pricing
For the weekly cook.
Meal planning runs on a seven-day cycle — that's how groceries, schedules, and weekday dinners actually work. Aioli Chef is built around that cycle and is the ongoing product. The free tier is a short sample, enough to see the shape of an Aioli plan before deciding the full week is worth it. Pricing is set per country in the App Store; we don't list it here because the App Store handles localization better than we can.
Free sample
For checking the fit before paying.
- 3-day plan
- One plan per day
- Every recipe and the shopping list
Notes from the kitchen
Comparisons, honest ones.
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Frequently asked
What does Aioli do?
Aioli generates personalized weekly meal plans on iOS. You answer eight short questions about your family — who is eating, what they do not like, where you live, the cuisines you want — and Aioli builds a plan with full recipes and a single aggregated shopping list.
How is Aioli different from a recipe app?
Recipe apps are libraries you browse. Aioli is a planner that decides for you. You tell it the constraints; it returns a week of dinners that fit them. If you already love browsing recipes and curating your own plan, Aioli is probably not the right tool. If your bottleneck is the deciding, it is.
Does Aioli work for picky eaters?
Yes — that's a core reason it exists. The eight-step setup includes allergens, dietary preferences, and adventurousness — and the cuisine list lets you bias toward what your family actually eats. It is not magic. A kid who only eats four foods is going to get plans built around those four foods, which is the honest answer.
Is Aioli free?
There is a free sample — a three-day plan, one generation per day, full recipes and the shopping list — meant for checking the fit before paying. The actual ongoing product is Aioli Chef: seven-day plans, unlimited generation, an image for every meal, and local price estimates on the shopping list. Pricing is set per country in the App Store.
What countries is Aioli available in?
Ten markets at v1.1 — English (US), Spanish (Mexico), French (France), German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Russian. Aioli works in other places too, but the localization and price estimates are not tuned for them yet.
Does Aioli help with grocery budget?
Aioli Chef shows local price estimates on the shopping list — useful for ballparking the trip before you go. They are estimates, not real-time scraping; treat them as "is this a $50 week or a $150 week" rather than receipt-accurate.
Is Aioli on Android?
No, and not soon. There is a hard tradeoff between shipping iOS well and shipping two platforms badly. iOS only for now.
The position
Aioli does meal planning differently, and describes it honestly.
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