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
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.
Never the same week twice
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 on Sunday replaces five what's-for-dinner decisions. Tell Simmerly about your week; it builds a plan that survives it.
Say what matters this week
Every week can have a different goal: prep ahead on a day off, stretch meals with leftovers, keep the grocery list short, hit your nutrition goals, try new things. Pick your priorities and the plan takes its shape from them.
Pick what to cook with
Start from what's in season, choose your proteins, and add anything that needs using up. Simmerly builds the week around your picks.
Choose the days
Busy Tuesday? Out Thursday? Pick breakfast, lunch, or dinner on any day, starting whenever you like. Simmerly plans only the meals you choose.
Review your plan
The plan comes back with a summary worth trusting: average cook time, how many of your requested ingredients made it in, the minutes prep saves each night, and the nutrition goals it hits. Swap anything, then preview the grocery list.
Prep ahead where it helps. Cook fresh where it matters.
Simmerly gathers every make-ahead step from your week's recipes into one guided session on your day off. Tuesday's dinner starts half done. Nobody eats the same thing five nights running.
- Chop every vegetable once, start every marinade, and mix the sauces in one go
- A chart shows each night's cooking time with and without prep, so you can see the minutes you get 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
Imagine not wondering what's for dinner this week.
Five minutes of planning today means one less thing to think about every evening.
★ 4.8 on the App Store · For iPhone