# Chef Gaston - Plan. Shop. Cook — Calm dinner ideas for tonight.

> Calm dinner ideas for tonight. (iPhone/iPad app by Jonas Egeskov Nielsen.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chef-gaston-plan-shop-cook/id6764765306 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jonas Egeskov Nielsen](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895908037)
- Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 22 MB
- Languages: American English, Danish
- Released: 2026-08-26
- Data updated: 2026-09-26

## What is Chef Gaston?

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

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chef Gaston Pro | $3.99 | per month |


## Is Chef Gaston safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Chef Gaston.

## Is Chef Gaston legit?

Chef Gaston - Plan. Shop. Cook appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chef Gaston is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-09-24

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: support@chefgastonapp.com

### 1.2 — 2026-09-21

Bring your own recipes. Point Gaston at a cookbook page, a TikTok, an
Instagram Reel, a YouTube video, a recipe website or a pasted caption, and
he turns it into a recipe in your book. Cook Mode, timers, Ask Gaston and the
shopping list work on it like on any other recipe. Tap the plus on the
Recipes tab.

Copied a link? Open the app and Gaston offers to import it straight from
your clipboard.

Your imports live under "My recipes", private to you, with a link back to
where they came from.

Importing is part of Chef Gaston Pro, like Cook Mode.

Ask Gaston what to cook. A new tab in the middle of the bar: tell him what
you've got — or snap a photo of it — how you'd like to cook it and for how
many, and he writes you a recipe on the spot. One message a day is free;
Pro keeps the conversation going.

Dinner, decided. At 4:30 PM Gaston reminds you what's on tonight — tap it
and Cook Mode opens. Nothing planned? He'll nudge you to tell him what's in
the fridge.

Feedback: support@chefgastonapp.com

### 1.1 — 2026-09-08

Dansk. The whole app and all 178 recipes now speak Danish — pick your language when you start, or switch any time in Settings.

Measurements your way. Grams and decilitres, or cups and ounces. In Settings.

Your plan no longer hides. A plan started mid-week runs into next week, and the app now says so and shows you what's waiting there instead of leaving it off the screen.

Plan from Monday if you'd rather have a clean week, and see the real dates before you generate.

Pantry: swipe to remove an item, or clear a whole shelf at once.

Allergies are now filtered before the plan is written, not after.

Onboarding fixes: the preview plan shows your real recipes and real photos, and every screen has a way forward.

Feedback: support@chefgastonapp.com

### 1.0 — 2026-08-26

No release notes.

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