Plan your week around your macros. Then shop it aisle by aisle.
Preplate is a meal planner for people who actually track. Set your targets, fill the week, and the grocery list writes itself. Now with AI meal planning and photo logging.
What is Preplate? Preplate is a free iOS meal-planning app from Cooper Industries for people who track calories and macros. It combines a weekly meal planner, a macro tracker with photo and barcode logging, a recipe library, and a grocery list that generates itself from your plan and sorts by store aisle. Premium adds AI planning and costs $2.99/month or $14.99/year.
Plan it. Track it. Shop it.
Most meal planners stop at the recipe. Preplate carries your targets all the way through to the checkout lane.
Fill the week. Every day lands on target.
Assign recipes to lunch and dinner slots and watch each day's calories add up against your goal. Meal Prep mode fills Monday to Friday in one tap and scales the batch to match. Save the week as a template and reuse it.
- Per-day calorie totals right on the calendar
- Meal Prep mode for cook-once weeks
- Templates for the weeks that work
Log it however is fastest.
Search a food database, scan a barcode, photograph your plate, or just type "two eggs and toast." Calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium against the targets you set, with a training-day and rest-day toggle.
- Nutrition data from FatSecret and Open Food Facts
- Recent foods one tap away
- Everything you log is saved to Apple Health
The list writes itself. In aisle order.
Every recipe on the week becomes a shopping list automatically: quantities scaled to your servings, duplicates merged across recipes, recurring staples added, everything sorted by aisle. Each item shows which recipes need it. At Kroger-family stores it follows the real physical aisle order of your store.
- Merged: three recipes that need avocado become one line
- Group by category or by your store's aisles
- Export to Reminders and check it off on your watch
Describe your week. Get a plan.
"Four dinners, high protein, chicken twice, nothing over 40 minutes." The AI planner proposes a week of dinners that hit your targets, adds the new recipes to your library, and applies them to the calendar in one tap. Regenerate until it's right.
- Every meal shows calories and protein before you apply
- An AI coach that answers questions about your log
- An AI recipe creator for "high-protein, no dairy, 20 minutes"
Point it at the menu. See what fits.
At a restaurant, snap the menu. Preplate reads it, looks at the calories and macros you have left today, and ranks the dishes by how well they fit. Tap one to log it.
- Works on printed menus and menu boards
- Also photographs a plate and estimates what's on it
Built for people who track.
If any of these sound like you, Preplate was built around your week.
And the rest of the kitchen
The details that make a planner stick.
Free to start. Premium when you want more.
The planner, tracker and shopping list are free. Premium removes ads and unlocks the AI and power features.
- Weekly meal plan & Meal Prep mode
- Macro dashboard, search & barcode logging
- Auto-generated shopping list
- Recipe library with cooking mode
- Apple Health, widget, water & weight
- A monthly taste of the AI features
- Banner ads
- Everything in Free, with no ads
- AI coach & AI meal planner
- Photo & restaurant menu logging
- Recipe import from URLs
- Shop by your store's real aisles
- Recurring shopping items
- Household sharing
- Export to Reminders
- Meal plan templates
Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. See the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Questions, answered.
Is Preplate free?
Yes. The weekly meal planner, macro tracking, search and barcode logging, recipe library and auto-generated shopping list are free, supported by banner ads. Premium removes ads and unlocks the AI features, photo and menu logging, store-aisle shopping, household sharing and more for $2.99 a month or $14.99 a year, with a one-week free trial.
What macros does Preplate track?
Calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, fiber and sodium, each against a daily target you set. Logged nutrition can also be written to Apple Health.
How does the grocery list work?
Preplate reads every recipe on your weekly plan, scales quantities to your servings, merges duplicate ingredients, adds your recurring staples, and sorts the result by aisle. At Kroger-family stores it can follow the real physical aisle order of your store.
Does Preplate work with Apple Health?
Yes. Preplate writes logged nutrition to Apple Health and can optionally read steps, active energy and body weight.
Can I log food by taking a photo?
Yes. With Premium you can photograph a plate, snap a restaurant menu to see which dishes fit the macros you have left, or simply describe what you ate in plain words.
Where is my data stored?
On your device and, if enabled, in your own iCloud account. Optional features such as AI planning, food search and store lookup send only what that request needs, through a relay server we run that forwards it without keeping a copy. Details are in the privacy policy.
Can I share a meal plan with my household?
Yes. Premium household sharing syncs your plan, recipes and shopping list with the people you cook for through iCloud.
How do I cancel Premium?
Subscriptions are managed by Apple. Open iOS Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and cancel Preplate Premium. You keep Premium until the end of the current period.
Your macros, planned. Your list, sorted.
Free on the App Store. Premium is a week free to try.
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