# Chefless: Recipe Meal Planner — Family cookbook & grocery list

> Home cooks save, share, and plan recipes together in shared kitchens. (iPhone/iPad app by SAHAB LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chefless-recipe-meal-planner/id6760949571 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [SAHAB LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1832217463)
- Category: Food & Drink, Social Networking
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 5 App Store ratings · 3 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 69 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, European Spanish, Turkish
- Released: 2026-05-15
- Data updated: 2026-10-18
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chefless-recipe-meal-planner/id6760949571/reviews.md

## What is Chefless?

Chefless keeps the recipes you cook, helps you plan your meals, and turns that plan into a shopping list. Use it on your own or with the people you cook for.

Bring in recipes from anywhere
Paste a link from a recipe website, or from a public social media post with the recipe in its caption. You can also paste the recipe text, or take photos of a cookbook page, a screenshot, or a handwritten card, up to four pages at a time. You check each recipe before you save it. Chefless marks anything unclear for you to look at and leaves a missing amount blank for you to fill in.

Keep recipes the way you like them
A recipe can hold up to five photos, ingredients, steps, cooking times, servings, and tags for diet, cuisine, and meal. You decide whether each recipe is private or shared. Sign your recipes in your own handwriting and group them into cookbooks. You can also make your own version of another cook's recipe, called a remix, and their name stays on it as the original.

Plan meals together in a Kitchen
A Kitchen is a shared space where your household plans meals and shops together. Everyone sees the same meal calendar. Members suggest meals, and the Kitchen lead, or someone the lead chooses, approves them. Members can say whether they are coming to a meal, and the lead can tell everyone the food is ready with one tap. People join with an invite code, and your private recipes stay visible only to you.

Plan the week and shop once
Look at your plan by week, month, or year, and give each planned meal its own number of servings. Make one shopping list from your plan or your Kitchen's plan for the days you pick, and Chefless adds repeated ingredients together. When the plan changes, update the list. It keeps the items you checked and the things you added yourself.

Cook mode
Cook mode shows you one step at a time. Start a timer and Chefless alerts you when it finishes, as long as you allow notifications. The amounts follow the servings you choose and can show in metric or imperial units, and your screen stays on while you cook.

Find something new to cook
Follow other cooks and see what they make. Browse For You, Trending, Friends, and Seasonal, or search by cuisine, dietary need, meal, and cooking time. Chefless lists cuisines from your part of the world first, using the region setting on your phone. Comment on recipes, post a photo of a dish you made, and rate the recipes you cook. Your passport collects a stamp for each cuisine you cook.

Your language and your privacy
Chefless works in English, Arabic, Turkish, and Spanish. You can make your account and your recipes private, and report a recipe, comment, or profile that should not be there. You can also delete your account and its data from Settings. You will not see ads.

Free and Chefless Premium
A free account includes up to five recipes (your own and saved ones together), one remix, one cookbook, planning from two days before today to two days after, and a Kitchen with up to two members. Cook mode, shopping lists, following other cooks, and the passport cost nothing.

Chefless Premium gives you unlimited recipes, remixes, and cookbooks, the full calendar, and unlimited members in a Kitchen you lead. You also get the AI Recipe Helper to write a recipe from ingredients you have, suggest swaps for a dietary need, or turn rough notes into a tidy recipe. It shares a limit of 20 uses a day with imports that read a photo, a caption, or pasted text. Pantry and Cook What I Have show you the recipes you can make with what is in your kitchen, and a chef hat badge appears on your profile. Chefless Premium costs $5.99 a month or $34.99 a year. Your subscription renews until you cancel it. To stop the next charge, cancel in your account settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date.

Questions or ideas: admin@chefless.org

Privacy Policy: https://chefless.org/privacy
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Save personal recipes with notes and signatures
- Share recipes privately or publicly
- Fork and modify existing recipes
- Collaborate on meal plans in shared Kitchens
- Track cooking progress and year in review
- Offline recipe access
- AI Recipe Helper (Pro feature)

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chefless Pro Monthly | $5.99 | per month |
| Chefless Pro Annual | $34.99 | per year |


## Is Chefless safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Chefless.

## Is Chefless legit?

Chefless: Recipe Meal Planner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chefless is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (3 of 3)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chefless-recipe-meal-planner/id6760949571/reviews.md

### 5/5 — .

*2026-05-22*

Amazing app

### 5/5 — Too GOOD!!!

*2026-05-17*

Best and most useful cooking app on the App Store by far!

### 5/5 — Unlike anything I’ve seen before

*2026-05-15*

This app is extremely helpful; for someone who doesn’t cook but really wants to learn, this made it so much easier and quite the enjoyable process. Taste the world feature is a fun family activity

## Frequently asked questions about Chefless

### What is Chefless?

Chefless is a mobile application designed for home cooks to save their personal recipes, share them with others, and plan meals collaboratively. It focuses on a clean interface without ads or lengthy introductions before recipes.

### How does Chefless handle recipe sharing?

Recipes are private by default in Chefless. Users can choose to share them with specific 'Kitchens' (groups of people), individual friends, or make them public. Users have granular control over their recipe privacy on a per-recipe basis.

### What are 'Kitchens' in Chefless?

Kitchens are shared spaces within Chefless where users can invite family, roommates, or friends to collaborate. Within a Kitchen, users can build weekly meal plans together and share recipes that others in the group can access.

### Does Chefless have ads?

No, Chefless is ad-free. The developers explicitly state that they do not run ads and do not sell user data. This ensures an uninterrupted cooking experience.

### What features are included in Chefless Pro?

Chefless Pro offers an AI Recipe Helper for tasks like scaling dishes or swapping ingredients, unlimited recipes and Kitchens, higher resolution photo uploads, and early access to new features. It is available via a monthly or annual subscription.

### How much does Chefless Pro cost?

Chefless Pro is available for $5.99 per month or $35.99 per year. These subscription plans unlock advanced features and remove limitations on recipe and Kitchen creation.

### Can I use Chefless offline?

Yes, Chefless works offline. This feature allows users to access their saved recipes in the kitchen, even in areas with poor Wi-Fi connectivity, ensuring recipes are always available when needed.

### What age rating does Chefless have?

Chefless has an age rating of 12+. This indicates that the content and features are generally considered appropriate for users aged 12 and older.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.2 — 2026-10-11

New in Settings, Privacy: Show my recipes in search. After a date we will announce, your shared recipes can have a page on the web and appear in search engines, and you can turn this off at any time. Private recipes never appear. Recipe links now open the app on Android too, and Rate Chefless opens the store's review page. Fixes: the Tonight widget now loads on Android and shows a sign in note when you are signed out, and Mark as cooked works reliably again.

### 1.4.1 — 2026-10-07

Chefless now has an App Store page in Spanish, Arabic, and Turkish, matching the four languages the app already speaks. Everything from 1.4 is here: the calmer Home, the Tonight widget, and cook timers on your lock screen.

### 1.4 — 2026-10-05

A calmer look: a new Home built around tonight's meal, a floating menu bar, and your recipes on a cookbook shelf.
Add the Tonight widget to your home screen, and see cook timers on your lock screen.
Checked items move to your cart at the bottom, and you can send what is left to buy to anyone.
Chefless opens right away and returns to where you left off.
Block someone, rate a recipe as you finish cooking, and quick add understands "2 eggs".
Many fixes, including two shopping list crashes.

### 1.3 — 2026-09-18

Import a recipe from photos, screenshots, or handwriting, or share a screenshot straight into Chefless.
Ask a question about the recipe you are cooking.
Plan leftovers, copy last week's meals, and get ideas for an empty day.
Each planned meal has its own servings, and your shopping list tells you when the plan changed.
Badges you earn are yours to keep.
A calmer look, more dietary needs, and many fixes.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-13

Added support for comments on recipes
Added support to generate meals to cook given the items in your fridge
UI/UX Improvements
Bug Fixes

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