# Ladle for Mealie — Recipes, meal plan & cart > Recipes, meal plan & cart (iPhone/iPad app by Jessica Hart.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ladle-for-mealie/id6825056537 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jessica Hart](https://appshunter.io/developer/6822119824) - Category: Food & Drink, Shopping - Price: $2.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-22 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Ladle for Mealie? Ladle is a home for your Mealie recipes on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it fills your grocery cart too. Connect it to your own Mealie server and everything you've saved is right there: your recipes, your meal plan and your shopping lists. Then fill your Walmart or Kroger cart from the week's recipes in one tap. Ladle used to be called MealieCart. COOK WITHOUT THE MESS • Cook mode shows one step at a time in big, easy-to-read text • Your screen stays on while you cook, so you don't have to touch it with messy hands • Tap a time in a step ("simmer for 15 minutes") to start a timer that rings even when Ladle is closed • Change the servings and every amount changes with it. Fractions read like a cookbook: 1½ cups, not 1.5 PLAN THE WEEK • See the week's breakfasts, lunches and dinners at a glance • Add a recipe or a quick note ("Leftovers", "Pizza night") to any day • Put the whole week's ingredients on your shopping list in one tap SHOP TOGETHER • Your Mealie shopping lists, sorted by aisle • Tap to tick items off; changes from the rest of your household show up within seconds FILL YOUR CART IN ONE TAP • Link each ingredient to the exact Walmart or Kroger product you buy, once: the right brand, size and count • Whenever that recipe is on your list, Ladle already knows what to add • Cart review shows every product with its pack count. Switch items off or change counts • Tap Add to Walmart cart or Add to Kroger cart, then check out yourself. Ladle never checks out or pays for anything • Mark pantry staples, like salt or olive oil, and Ladle skips them in every recipe • At Kroger and its family of stores, see your store's prices and choose pickup or delivery • Done shopping ticks those items off your Mealie list BRING THE HOUSEHOLD IN • Invite someone with a QR code: they point their camera at it and make their account right in the app • Choose who can invite people, manage the household or organize recipes RUN YOUR MEALIE FROM YOUR PHONE • Admins can add and remove people, set a new password for someone who forgot theirs, and unlock accounts • Manage households and groups, and make, download and restore backups SAVE RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE • In Safari, tap Share, then Ladle, and your Mealie saves the recipe MADE FOR SELF-HOSTERS • Works with Mealie 2.0 and later, on your home Wi-Fi or on the internet • Sign in with your password, single sign-on, or an API token • Product links and pantry staples sync between your devices through your own iCloud • No accounts, no ads, no tracking No Mealie yet? Tap "Look around with sample recipes" to try everything first, cart included. Mealie is a free, open-source recipe manager (mealie.io). Ladle is an independent app and isn't made by or affiliated with Mealie, Walmart or Kroger. ## Chart rankings - #52 in Top Paid · Food & Drink (US App Store) ## Is Ladle for Mealie safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Ladle for Mealie. ## Is Ladle for Mealie legit? Ladle for Mealie has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ladle for Mealie is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 2.0.1 — 2026-10-31 A new icon: a fork crossed with a ladle of tomato soup. ### 2.0 — 2026-10-28 MealieCart is now Ladle for Mealie: everything MealieCart did, plus a whole app for your Mealie. • Your Walmart and Kroger product links, pack counts and pantry staples are all still here. • The first time you open it, Ladle signs in with your MealieCart connection, so there's nothing to set up. • The cart is in the new Cart tab: This week and Cart review, with Add to Walmart cart and Add to Kroger cart, just like before. • Grocery store, your Kroger sign-in and pantry staples are in Settings → Groceries. • New: browse and search your recipes, cook one step at a time with timers that ring, plan the week, tick off your shopping list with your household, and save recipes from Safari. • New: link a recipe's products from its page with Grocery products. • Admins can manage people, households and backups right from the app. ### 1.1 — 2026-10-27 New: Kroger! • Shop at Kroger and its family of stores, like Ralphs, Fred Meyer and King Soopers, as well as Walmart. Choose your store in Settings. • Sign in to Kroger on Kroger's own page and pick your store by ZIP code. • Find on Kroger shows your store's products with photos, prices and sales. Tap one to link it. • Add to Kroger cart puts every product and pack count in your Kroger cart in one step, then opens your cart. Choose pickup or delivery. • Each ingredient keeps its Walmart and Kroger products separately, so switching stores never loses a link. Also: • Dark mode now works throughout the app. • Kroger searches recover on their own when Kroger's servers are busy. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-22 No release notes. ## More apps by Jessica Hart - [bloop: nutrition](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bloop-nutrition/id6822119822) All apps by Jessica Hart: https://appshunter.io/developer/6822119824 ## Related topics [mealog](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/mealog) · [mealieswift](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/mealieswift) · [mealie recipes](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/mealie-recipes) · [gourmet for mealie](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/gourmet-for-mealie) · [mealie share](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/mealie-share) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-06.*