Forked for Mealie vs Pantry Next

Forked turns your self-hosted Mealie recipe library into a weekly meal plan and one grocery list, on your iPhone. Your recipes stay on your server. No Forked account, no ads, no tracking. NEW: HOST A MEAL WITH FORKED PRO Plan a big meal for a date and your guests. Dishes scale to your guests, the timeline works back from serving, and appetizers or dessert can come out at their own time. Cook Together runs every dish's steps at once. NEW: COOK WITH YOUR IPHONE IN REACH Start Cooking shows the ingredients each step needs. Step timers run on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, several at once, and you can stop one without opening Forked. Widgets show what's next to cook, your plan, and what's left to buy. YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY Browse every recipe as photo cards, search ingredients, steps, and notes, and filter by favorites, rating, cook time, tags, or what fits your Chef Profile. Recipes are saved for offline reading, and servings scale the amounts. EDIT, FAVORITE, AND RATE Edit recipes, add new ones, replace photos, favorite, and rate. Changes save to your Mealie server, wait safely while you're offline, and never overwrite someone else's edit without asking. HOUSEHOLDS Cook from one plan with the people you live with. A Forked Pro owner can invite up to four people for free to share a meal plan and shopping list through iCloud. Credentials, dietary preferences, and Plan History stay private. DECIDE WHAT TO COOK Swipe through Quick Picks from your own recipes to save, pass, or favorite. Suggestions are ranked by your Chef Profile and your favorites and ratings. PLAN YOUR WEEK Generate a multi-day plan from your library, choose a vibe, swap any meal, or pick any recipe yourself. Ask Siri what's next to cook, and find recipes in Spotlight (iOS 18 and later). SHARE THE MENU Send meals from your plan as a menu card with photos and a note. With Host a Meal, the card also shows when each dish is served. ONE GROCERY LIST Add a plan, saved picks, or your own items, like "2 lb chicken thighs", to one Shopping list. Quantities combine, items group by store section, and foods are suggested as you type. IMPORT FROM A LINK Bring in a recipe from almost any cooking website. Forked reads the page on your iPhone, and you check the recipe before it saves to Mealie. CHEF PROFILES FOR EVERY DIET Record allergies, diets such as vegan, halal, and gluten-free, and the ingredients you love or avoid. Allergies and diets that leave something out remove recipes whose ingredients, title, or a "Contains" tag name it; other diets, like keto, put tagged recipes first. Filtering cannot guarantee allergen safety: always check ingredients and labels. Shared and reused meals may not match your current profile, and Household members' dietary profiles are not combined. WORKS WHEN YOUR SERVER DOESN'T After your first sync, saved recipes, plans, Quick Picks, and Shopping stay ready while your server is slow or unreachable. Changes on your server arrive within minutes. FORKED PRO A $9.99 one-time purchase, shareable with Family Sharing. Pro adds Households, Host a Meal with Cook Together, Plan History, Use This Plan Again, Reuse Ingredients, and Avoid Recent Meals. Everything else in Forked stays free. Optional tips unlock nothing. Household members each need Forked, iCloud with iCloud Drive, and their own access to the same Mealie library. Turning on or accepting sync shares the Plan or Shopping list, and accepting replaces that list on your device. BUILT FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver, Voice Control, Larger Text, Reduce Motion, status that doesn't rely on color, and light and dark appearance throughout. Requires a self-hosted Mealie server; editing, importing, and other changes need Mealie 3.21 or later. Complete ingredients, tags, and categories give better suggestions and shopping lists. Forked is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Mealie project.

Your cookbook. Finally in one place. Grandma's handwritten card, the cookbook lying open on the counter, the two hundred bookmarks in your browser — Pantry Next brings them together and keeps them where they belong: on your device. No server, no account, no subscription. TAKE A PHOTO. THAT'S IT. Point the camera at a cookbook page or a handwritten card — Pantry reads out the ingredients and the steps, right on your device. No page ever leaves your phone. From iOS 26 on, the app reads the page as a document and the ingredient column as a list. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the model turns the page into a finished recipe on the device itself. Without either, Pantry still reads it — just a little rougher. You always see a draft first. Nothing is saved until you have confirmed it. RECIPES COME IN OTHER WAYS TOO • From the web: found a recipe in your browser? Tap share, pick Pantry • By hand: write it, photograph it, group it into sections • From another Pantry: "Share nearby" sends a recipe straight to a device in range — no server, no internet WHEN YOU'RE AT THE STOVE Turn 2 servings into 6 and the amounts follow live — all the way to the shopping list. Halfway through step 7 and forgot how much coconut milk? Tap the step and the ingredients slide up for a peek. The screen stays awake while you cook. And "potatoes" finds every recipe with potatoes, because the search looks inside the ingredients and not just the title. PLAN THE WEEK, SHOP ONCE Drop recipes into your week with a tap, then collect a whole week's ingredients onto the list at once. Several lists side by side, and matching items are added up for you: 500 g flour and 300 g flour become 800 g. On your home screen, widgets in three sizes show what is cooking today and what is still missing. And Siri knows: "What's on my shopping list in Pantry?" PASSING IT ON To other Pantry users, lossless, with photo, sections and nutrition. To everyone else as a PDF that looks like a recipe page — on a single page, nutrition beside the ingredients. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES iCloud keeps iPhone and iPad in step — if you switch it on. Keep a backup in Files, with a preview of its size. Where your recipes travel is your decision: nothing leaves the device on its own. WITH MEALIE, IF YOU LIKE If you run a Mealie server (mealie.io, open source and self-hosted), Pantry syncs with it. On top of that you can add the servers of friends and family — their recipes appear marked next to yours, and their ingredients land on YOUR shopping list. You sign in with a username or an API token; credentials live in the Keychain and your password is never stored. None of it is required. BUY ONCE, KEEP IT Try everything for 7 days, then a single one-time purchase unlocks the app forever. No subscription, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your recipes are yours. Pantry Next is an independent app and is not affiliated with the Mealie project.