# Ollie for Meals: Meal Planning — Healthy recipes & grocery list

> AI-powered family meal planner with personalized recipes and smart grocery lists. (iPhone/iPad app by Confabulation Corporation.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ollie-for-meals-meal-planning/id6480014476 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Confabulation Corporation](https://appshunter.io/developer/1737881860)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 932 App Store ratings · 133 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 86 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2024-12-13
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ollie-for-meals-meal-planning/id6480014476/reviews.md

## What is Ollie for Meals?

Ollie for Meals is your family's AI meal planner, from the team behind Ollie AI, the most powerful personal assistant for families. With this app, you will get personalized meals for your family. For the full family assistant, visit ollie.ai. 

Ollie for Meals offers:

Healthy Eating, Without the Mental Load
Feeding a family every day can feel like a full-time job. Ollie makes it effortless. With just a few taps, Ollie creates personalized meal plans, healthy recipes, and grocery lists — all tailored to your family’s tastes, routines, and health goals. Save time, save money, and get back the headspace you deserve.

Meal Plans Made for Families
 • Weekly plans designed around your schedule and family preferences
 • Breakfast, lunch, dinner — even snacks — all in one place
 • Adjust anything instantly, or let Ollie handle the planning for you

Healthy Recipes, Personalized Nutrition
 • Ollie learns your family’s needs and makes healthy eating automatic — and delicious
 • Recipes written just for you using AI — not pulled from a generic database
 • Perfect for picky eaters, dietary needs, and busy weeknights

Smart Grocery Lists, Less Stress
 • Organized lists auto-generated from your meal plan
 • Tap once to order from Instacart or Amazon Fresh
 • Waste less food, spend less money, and skip the last-minute stress

Use What You Already Have
 • Snap a photo of your fridge or pantry
 • Get instant ideas for healthy meals you can cook right now
 • Reduce food waste while saving time and money

Learns With Your Family
The more you cook with Ollie, the better it gets. Every rating, tweak, or request helps Ollie fine-tune meals that fit your family’s unique lifestyle.

Dinner, Solved
And breakfast, lunch, and snacks too. Ollie takes the planning off your plate — so you can enjoy the eating, spend more time with your family, and keep everyone healthier and happier.

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Subscription Terms and Pricing:
The Ollie app offers a free trial that converts into an auto-renewing subscription, which gives you full access to the entire experience and app features for your trial and as long as you maintain an active subscription. A form of payment is required to start a free trial. Payment will be charged to your Apple account once your trial expires and will auto-renew at the applicable price and frequency (e.g. monthly, annually) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings > Manage Membership after making a purchase.

This app and its pricing are separate from the Ollie AI personal assistant for families. For more information on the personal assistant, visit ollie.ai.


Terms of Service: https://ollie.ai/terms-of-service/
Privacy Policy: https://ollie.ai/privacy-policy/

## Key features

- Personalized weekly meal plans
- AI-generated healthy recipes
- Smart, organized grocery lists
- Recipe suggestions from pantry items
- Integration with grocery delivery services
- Learns family preferences over time

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ollie Plus | $9.99 | per month |
| Ollie Plus | $79.99 | per year |
| Ollie Plus | $19.99 | per month |
| Ollie Plus | $169.99 | per year |
| Ollie Plus | $9.99 | per month |
| Ollie Plus | $79.99 | per year |
| Ollie Plus | $28.99 | per 3 months |


## What do users think of Ollie for Meals?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Flexible and quick for busy people
- 🚀 Streamlined meal planning and grocery shopping
- 👍 Helps eat more veggies and try new flavors
- 👍 Family-approved meals
- 👍 Convenient and customizable
- 👍 Reduces stress of daily meal planning
- 👍 Helps use up ingredients on hand
- 👍 Accommodates dietary needs and restrictions
- 👍 Generates grocery lists
- 👍 Saves time and money
- 👍 Introduces new recipes and expands meal options
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 👍 Customizable to preferences

**Cons**

- 🐛 Does not have a list of recipes to choose from, must rely on AI

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Promised gift card not received

**Most requested features**

- Integrate with online grocery ordering
- Expand to include breakfast and lunch recipes

## Recent user reviews (10 of 133)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ollie-for-meals-meal-planning/id6480014476/reviews.md

### 3/5 — So much to love but not quite there

*2026-05-16, version 1.0.110*

The AI meal planning and customization features are genuinely great. The ability to modify meals on the fly is the kind of thing that makes you wonder why other apps haven’t done it yet.
The grocery list is where things fall apart. A few specific issues:
	•	Old meals linger in your list and have to be manually deleted, which takes the app several minutes to process (took me 15 min to delete last weeks list so I could add this week’s groceries). 
	•	while grocery shopping, it’ll show quantities in cups, oz, etc instead of item count. So 2.5 cups bell pepper instead of number of bell peppers. Also, manually added items you’ve crossed off don’t clear
	•	Adding a meal later repopulates everything you’ve already checked off

If you grocery shop with your partner while they’re using the same list on their phone, you have to refresh the list constantly to see their updates. 

While grocery shopping, the items you mark off drop to the bottom of that category but stay in the list so scrolling through it is pretty annoying. 

The AI also has a hard time remembering preferences and incorporating them all in your next week’s meal even if they’re in your preference list. Seems like persistent memory is hit or miss. 

Overall, the bones are there but it’s still working on the kinks.

AnyList has the best grocery shopping experience I’ve seen. And Ollie has the best meal creation part.

### 1/5 — Not open about pricing scheme

*2026-05-05, version 1.0.107*

Honestly sounded like a great app. I was super excited to try it but was hesitant since the pricing is just a find out in the app situation. So I turned to google and everything I looked at said $10 a month or $80 a year which I was willing to pay the monthly to try with the option to switch to yearly. Imagine my surprise that it’s actually $20 a month or $170 a year! Double the price of reports as recent as March! Definitely not worth it for $20 a month, not in this economy. Maybe if they went back to the $10 a month but this is getting out of hand really.

### 5/5 — So worth it!

*2026-04-26, version 1.0.107*

My husband and I used to use ChatGPT to meal plan but honestly things got stale quickly, it wouldn’t follow directions and kept giving us very similar meals which is why we wanted to try something new. While Ollie isn’t free, for a mom with 2 toddlers trying to lighten the mental load this has been SO worth it! I love that it makes a grocery list and that I can just text it and it will sync to my app. So happy we found this!

### 5/5 — Life saver secret bf

*2026-04-04, version 1.0.105*

Just started using Ollie. I made a few recipes that have been great. He’s helped me plan Easter and the following week’s meals, and he answers all my questions! I’m in love! 😍

### 5/5 — Love love love!

*2026-03-12, version 1.0.104*

I love everything about this app! Modifying a recipe is so simple, I love that I can text questions, and the ease of importing recipes!

### 1/5 — Not Free

*2026-03-04, version 1.0.104*

Just advertise that it’s subscription based. I feel lied to by the ad that said it’s free with a premium upgrade. I deleted as soon as I saw the subscription come up.

### 2/5 — Struggles with calories

*2026-02-14, version 1.0.102*

I have told Ollie multiple times that my servings need to be under 600 cal. Sometimes it does that. But too often the calories are higher. When I tell it to make adjustments to get it lower, it claims that it has done so, when in fact the calories still show as higher.

### 5/5 — Actually useful

*2026-02-07, version 1.0.101*

I never write reviews, but this app has been awesome for me.  It takes all the prep work of having to plan for meals and create a grocery list, and just does it for me.  It is also really good at sticking with my preferences and learning what I like.  Exporting my grocery list to Whole Foods is also a really nice feature.  Overall I’m very happy and plan to continue using this!

### 4/5 — Love the app. Suggestion to put it over the top.

*2026-02-05, version 1.0.101*

Love the app, but it desperately needs a personal notes field on recipes for ingredient swaps and cooking adjustments.”  
This would significantly improve usability for repeat cooks and long-term users.”

### 5/5 — Ollie: Time and money saver; sanity restorer!

*2026-01-30, version 1.0.100*

As a busy mama with picky eaters, I was thrilled to find Ollie.  I tell Ollie what foods we love, and which foods to avoid (due to allergies  or picky eater preferences); how many people I’m cooking for, and voila! A full list of menus pops up.  A shopping list is available, and that saves me time and money. I can even order the items straight from the app.

If we have an unexpected dinner guest, no problem! I simply change the number of servings, and Ollie celebrates new measurements.  

No more asking my family for the umpteenth time, “what do you want for dinner?” Or eating the same meals each week.  Ollie makes it fun to try new recipes (which is a great way to introduce new food items to picky eaters!). 

There’s an Ollie Ai, where I can easily ask questions, swap ingredients, or ask clarify cooking instructions (e.g.: the instructions say, “ simmer stew.” Should I simmer with or without a lid?). 

Lastly, Ollie’s Customer Service is fast, friendly and helpful. Yay! Thank you Ollie and team for making cooking for my family so much easier and making dinnertime even more enjoyable for me and my family!

## Frequently asked questions about Ollie for Meals

### What does Ollie AI do?

Ollie AI is a family meal planning application that uses artificial intelligence to create personalized weekly meal plans, generate healthy recipes tailored to your family's tastes and dietary needs, and produce organized grocery lists. It aims to reduce the mental load of feeding a family, save time and money, and minimize food waste.

### How does Ollie AI personalize recipes?

The app learns your family's preferences, dietary requirements, and health goals over time. It uses this information to generate recipes specifically for you, rather than pulling from a generic database. This makes it suitable for picky eaters and various dietary needs.

### What are the subscription terms for Ollie AI?

Ollie AI offers a free trial that converts into an auto-renewing subscription for full access to all features. A payment method is required to start the trial. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings to avoid charges after the trial period.

### Can Ollie AI help reduce food waste?

Yes, Ollie AI helps reduce food waste in several ways. It generates grocery lists based on your meal plan, preventing overbuying. Additionally, it can suggest meals using ingredients you already have by allowing you to snap a photo of your fridge or pantry, helping you utilize existing food items.

### What devices is Ollie AI compatible with?

While specific device compatibility isn't detailed in the description, the app is available on mobile platforms, indicated by its presence on an app discovery website. Users typically access such applications via smartphones and tablets running iOS or Android operating systems.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.110 — 2026-05-10

Introducing the Ollie texting agent! The most powerful personal assistant for families.

Tap "Your Family's Personal Assistant" in your profile to learn more

### 1.0.109 — 2026-05-06

Updated App Icon

### 1.0.108 — 2026-05-05

Design and branding update

### 1.0.107 — 2026-04-06

We’ve updated Ollie to improve performance and continue doing more of the job for you, so you have more time for what matters.

### 1.0.106 — 2026-04-04

We’ve updated Ollie to improve performance and continue doing more of the job for you, so you have more time for what matters.

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