Mealime built a following by solving one specific headache: the 6 p.m. “what’s for dinner” moment that hits every household, every single night. Set a household size and a dietary style once, and it hands back a full week of dinners plus a grocery list that already accounts for every recipe. We liked that shape enough to build our own small version for the browser. It’s called Weekly Plate, it opens with a complete week of dinners already planned, and it runs entirely on your device with nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
Try Weekly Plate now
A full week loads the moment the page does. Adjust household size or diet, or tap Swap on any night you don’t want.
How to use it
The stepper at the top sets household size, from one person to six, and every recipe’s ingredient amounts scale with it immediately. Below that, a second stepper controls how many dinners you want planned this week, from three to seven. Days left over show as flex nights, for takeout or leftovers, instead of being forced into a plan you didn’t ask for.
The dietary style row filters the whole week to no restriction, vegetarian, vegan, or pescatarian. Change it and every meal that doesn’t fit gets replaced. Don’t like a specific night’s suggestion? Tap Swap on that card and it cycles to a different recipe without touching the rest of the week. The grocery list on the side recalculates every time, consolidating shared ingredients like garlic, rice, or canned beans across the whole week into single lines, with a separate “pantry staples” section for spices and oil you likely already own. Check items off as you shop. Everything is saved on your device only, so the plan is still there the next time you open the tab.
How it compares to Mealime
Weekly Plate keeps the part of Mealime that people actually talk about: set your preferences once, get a full week of dinners instantly, swap anything you don’t like, and let a grocery list build itself from whatever’s left on the plan. That loop is the whole reason the app has the following it does, and it’s the whole reason we built around it.
What we left out is everything that needs real infrastructure behind it. Mealime pulls from a large, professionally developed recipe database with photos, step-by-step cooking instructions, and nutrition information for every dish, and it syncs your plan across devices through an account. Weekly Plate has an original, smaller recipe set we wrote ourselves, no account, no cloud sync, and no nutrition tracking. There’s no cooking instructions either, just the ingredient list and a short description, since the point here is the planning loop, not a full cookbook.
Use Weekly Plate when you want a fast gut check on a week’s dinners, or a grocery list you can build in thirty seconds before heading to the store. Get the full app once you want a much deeper recipe library, step-by-step cooking directions, and a plan that follows you between your phone and any other device.
Get the full app
Mealime, by Mealime Meal Plans Inc, is free on Android and builds a personalized weekly meal plan from a large recipe database, complete with step-by-step instructions and a shopping list that syncs across your devices.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the official Mealime app?
No. Weekly Plate is an original tool we built, inspired by the weekly meal-planning problem apps like Mealime solve. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Mealime Meal Plans Inc in any way. For the real recipe database, cooking instructions, and account sync, get the official app from the store above.
Is my meal plan uploaded anywhere?
No. Weekly Plate runs entirely in your browser. Your household size, dietary style, and this week’s plan are stored in your browser’s local storage on your own device, and nothing is sent to a server. Clearing your browser data or switching devices won’t bring your plan with you, since there is no account behind it.
Can I use this as a free meal planner with no signup?
Yes. There is no account, no email capture, and no limit on how many times you can swap meals or start a new week. The page works the moment it loads and needs no server connection to plan a week or build a grocery list.
Does the grocery list actually combine ingredients across meals?
Yes. If two dinners in your plan both call for garlic, rice, or canned black beans, Weekly Plate adds the amounts together into one line instead of listing them twice. Basic pantry items like oil, salt, and dried spices get their own separate list, since most people already have those on hand.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. The layout stacks the week and the grocery list vertically on narrow screens and works with touch, keyboard, or mouse. Nothing needs to be installed, so it runs the same in any modern mobile or desktop browser.
