The week is the home screen
Seven nights, each marked Cook, Leftovers or Takeout. Cook nights go on calmer evenings; leftovers and takeout cover the busy ones.
Meal planning · kitchen inventory · recipe cards
Family dinners, planned one week at a time.
WeekThyme plans the week from what's already in your kitchen, scales every recipe to whoever's at the table, checks everyone's allergies, and puts tonight's recipe on the wall.
In development. Built first for one family, ready for more.
- SunCookWhite bean & sausage stew
- MonLeftoversStew, glass L, 10 min
- TueCookLemon garlic chicken
- WedLeftoversChicken, oven 15 min
- ThuTakeoutFrom your favorites
- FriCookCuban pork
- SatLeftoversCuban sandwiches
What it sets out to do
Most meal planners hand you recipes. WeekThyme plans around how a busy family actually eats: cook two or three nights, eat the leftovers the next night, and order in the rest. The aim is less food thrown out, fewer "what's for dinner?" conversations, and no one at the table eating something that isn't safe for them.
Check marks decide everything
Tick who's home for dinner. That one tap sets the servings, the allergy check and the shopping quantities.
Use it before you lose it
Every container in the fridge is scanned once when it's sealed, so WeekThyme knows what's there and what to use first.
Every recipe is also data
The same recipe drives the printed card, the scaling, the allergy check and the shopping list. Nothing gets re-typed.
How it works
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Shape the week
Pick two or three cook nights. WeekThyme lays out the week around your calendar, and you drag nights around until it fits.
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Say what sounds good
For each cook night, tap a protein, a cuisine and a way of cooking: Chicken Asian Sheet pan. Or leave it blank and let WeekThyme decide.
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Choose from three
WeekThyme recommends three recipes from your own library for each night, each with a reason: "Uses the spinach before Wednesday." "Reheats well for tomorrow." "Slow cooker, so start it before practice."
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Shop once
Confirm the week and the shopping list builds itself: scaled for both nights of every recipe, minus what you already have and your pantry staples, converted to what the store actually sells, with gluten-free swaps written in. Send it to Instacart, pick your store and check out there, or share it to your phone and take it to the store.
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Snap the haul
Take a photo of the groceries or the receipt. WeekThyme checks it against the list, flags what's missing and dates everything that will go off.
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Cook, seal, reheat
Tap Mark cooked, seal the leftovers in a vacuum container and scan the lid. Tomorrow, WeekThyme tells you which container to pull and how to reheat it.
On the kitchen wall
Two small e-ink displays show the plan without anyone opening an app. They refresh a few times a day, cost nothing to leave on, and use the same colors as the app: green to cook, outlined green for leftovers, blue for takeout. Red only ever means one thing: use this soon.
Household supplies, too
Food isn't the only thing that runs out. WeekThyme also keeps track of the everyday things a house goes through, like toilet paper, paper towels, dish soap, trash bags and pet supplies. It learns how fast you use each one and puts it on the right list before you run out.
A five-minute count
Twice a month while it learns, then once a month. Items appear in walking order, room by room: tap a number for rolls and bags, or Full, Half, Low or Out for bottles. Or photograph a shelf and let WeekThyme count the packs.
It learns your pace
Counts and purchases add up to how fast each item really goes. Fast movers ride along with the weekly groceries; the rest wait for a monthly order or a quarterly stock-up. If something suddenly goes twice as fast, WeekThyme says so instead of quietly ordering more.
- Weekly with the groceries
- Monthly first weekend
- Quarterly stock-up
A backup cabinet that speaks up
Keep one spare of the essentials in one cabinet, with a small door sensor on it. If someone opens it, the regular supply ran out sooner than expected: WeekThyme asks what was taken, adds it to the next list, and plans for a little more next time.
Safe by design
Gluten-free first
Every recipe is checked against everyone at the table, guests included.
- ✓ Safe nothing anyone needs to avoid
- ⇄ Swap a known swap, written into the list
- ⚠ Verify an ingredient to confirm once
- ✕ Contains left out for anyone with an allergy
Rules cap the AI on food safety
Claude, Anthropic's AI, does the planning and reads the photos. Food-safety rules set a ceiling on every use-by date: Claude can make a date earlier, never later, and raw meat and fish never get extra days for being vacuum-sealed.
Every change can be undone
The AI works only through the same actions a person can take. Each one is logged with who did it, and any of them can be reversed with one tap.
Private by default
Your recipes, photos and allergy details stay in your household. Households can link into a family circle to share recipes, and the database itself keeps every household walled off from the others.
Wherever you are
iPhone
Scanning, check marks and reminders, day to day.
Web
Sunday planning on a laptop, and for anyone not on an iPhone.
Kitchen tablet
Today's meal and a scan button, mounted on the wall.
E-ink panels
Tonight's recipe card and the week, always on.