Great dinners.
Even on your busiest week.
Simmerly plans dinners you'll look forward to, built around your taste, your schedule, and the season. All the thinking happens before the week starts.
★ 4.8 on the App Store · For iPhone
A week you'll look forward to, and have time to cook.
Tell Simmerly how much you want to cook, how you feel about leftovers, and how much time you have to prep. It builds a week of dinners around you, so the meals stay interesting and the busy nights stay easy.
A mix of new meals and leftovers.
Up to 2 hours of prep for shorter weeknights.
-
Sun
CookSteak Quesadillas -
Mon
CookFresh Corn and Black Bean Salad With Corn Chips -
Tue
LeftoversSunday's quesadillas
-
Wed
CookChicken Salad with Cucumber, Red Pepper, and Honey-Mustard Dressing -
Thu
CookGrilled Pork and Onion Tacos -
Fri
LeftoversWednesday's chicken salad
-
Sat
LeftoversThursday's pork tacos
on an average night, with prep and leftovers
saved a night, compared with cooking from scratch
Leftovers save 8 of those minutes and prep saves 9.
Dinners you'll be excited to cook.
A plan only works if you want what's on it. Simmerly starts from your taste and the season, so the week ahead reads like a menu, not a chore list.
It learns what you like
The dinners you save, cook, and come back to teach Simmerly your taste. Plans start from what you already love and skip what you don't eat.
Cook what's good right now
Plans lean into the market: corn and tomatoes in July, squash and braises come October. Peak-season produce does half the work of a great dinner.
More variety. Still your favorites.
Old favorites when you want them, something new when you're up for it. One adventurous night or a whole new menu, at your pace.
Plan once. Coast all week.
Five minutes of planning replaces five what's-for-dinner decisions. Tell Simmerly about your week; it builds a plan that survives it.
Tell it the basics
Pick the meals to cover and how much to lean on leftovers. Set a prep budget, from none to an afternoon; Simmerly plans around whichever you choose. Add anything in the fridge that needs using up.
Pick a few dishes you're excited about
Simmerly lines up recipes from your Want to Make list, your go-tos, and the ingredients you picked. Choose a couple to build the week around, or tap Surprise me and let it choose.
Review, swap, go
The plan comes back with a summary: minutes per meal, how much prep and in how many sessions, how many meals you cook versus reheat, and the nutrition goals it hits. Swap anything you're not excited about, then check the grocery list.
Prep ahead where it helps. Cook fresh where it matters.
Simmerly gathers the make-ahead steps from your week's recipes into guided prep sessions on the days that fit. Tuesday's dinner starts half done. Nobody eats the same thing five nights running.
- Prep is optional. Set the budget to none and every meal gets cooked when it comes up
- Chop every vegetable once, start every marinade, and mix the sauces in one go
- See the minutes per meal with and without prep, so you know what the session gives back
- The Storage Guide tracks every container through the week: what it holds, where it goes, and how long it keeps
The grocery list writes itself.
One trip, one list, built straight from the plan.
- Sorted by aisle, merged across recipes
- Plans favor overlapping ingredients, so the list stays short
- Swap a recipe and the list updates itself
- What's already in your pantry stays off the list
Know what a recipe really asks of you.
Most apps store recipes. Simmerly reads them the way a cook does: what's active, what's waiting, what scales, what keeps, what can start ahead. Every recipe knows how it fits into a real week.
Active time vs. waiting time
Every recipe gets a timeline: 35 minutes of real work, 20 minutes of waiting. You know exactly what a Tuesday night costs before you commit to it.
Steps with the ingredients built in
Each step carries its own quantities, so there's no scrolling back to the top with wet hands.
Search by how you actually eat
Under 30 minutes, in season, keeps well for lunch. Filters that match real weeks.
Four burgers or eight
Scale any recipe and every quantity follows, right down to the units.
Leftovers that don't taste like leftovers
Every recipe is rated for the fridge and freezer. The plan schedules leftover nights, so one good dinner quietly covers two.
Bring the recipes you keep saving.
Saving recipes and actually cooking them are two different hobbies. Paste a link and Simmerly closes the gap: the same clear steps, timelines, make-ahead notes, and leftover intelligence as everything else.
- Paste a link, get a recipe that fits your plan
- Imports can be searched, planned, and scaled like everything else
- Or cook from more than 30,000 recipes from publishers you already trust
Put better dinners on next week's menu.
A plan built around food you love and the week you actually have.
"I've tried a few meal planning apps and Simmerly is the one I actually use."
★ 4.8 on the App Store · For iPhone
Subscription required. Plans and any introductory offer are shown in the app.
- Do I have to prep ahead?
- No. Set the prep budget to none and Simmerly plans meals you cook when they come up. Prep is there for the weeks you want lighter evenings.
- What if my week changes?
- Plan only the meals you want covered, starting any day. Swap a meal whenever plans shift, and the grocery list updates with it.
- Can I use my own recipes?
- Yes. Paste a link and the recipe gets the same timeline, make-ahead notes, and leftover ratings as everything else, so you can plan it like any other dish.