A meal-planning app is only useful if the pieces talk to each other. A plan that doesn't know your pantry sends you to buy things you own. A shopping list that doesn't know what you cooked goes stale by Wednesday. Hearth ties planning, shopping, cooking, and inventory into one loop, so each step feeds the next.
1. Build your favourites
Browse 850+ recipes — each one cleaned, nutrition-checked, and priced — and save the ones your household actually eats. Bring your own from anywhere: paste a recipe link or a TikTok or Instagram caption, upload a PDF or Word document, or snap a photo of a handwritten recipe card — Hearth reads the ingredients and steps, you check them, and it's saved (already costed and nutrition-checked). Your imported recipes stay private to your household. Reading a link, photo or PDF for you costs us money, so it's capped: 100 during the free trial, then 100 a month. Typing a recipe in yourself is unlimited.
2. Plan the week, get one smart list
Drop recipes onto your weekly plan (or hit Randomize). One tap turns the whole week into a shopping list that's already done three things for you:
- Combined — the same ingredient across three recipes becomes one line, in the right total amount.
- Cross-checked against your kitchen — anything already in your pantry, fridge, freezer, or spice rack is left off. No second jar of cumin.
- Sorted by store section — produce together, dairy together, so you walk the store once.
Everyone in the household shares the same list. The kids add cereal, your partner adds shampoo, you add Thursday's dinner — and whoever's heading to the store already has all of it.
3. Cook step-by-step, scaled to your household
Set your household size once and every recipe scales automatically — amounts, servings, everything. Cooking for two tonight and six on the weekend? Change it in Settings and the whole app follows. The cook view walks you through one step at a time, with the ingredients shown right where you need them.
4. Your kitchen updates itself
This is the part other apps skip. When you tap "Cooked it," Hearth deducts what the recipe used from your inventory — by real package math, not guesswork. The 900 g of ground beef becomes what's actually left. The jar of sauce you opened is now a partial jar.
Because the pantry stays true, your next plan knows what's on hand, your next shopping list doesn't double-buy, and the "Tonight?" page can show what you could cook right now with zero shopping.
What you get that most apps don't
- Cost per serving on every recipe, from Canadian grocery price data — shown as a range, and deliberately cautious at the low end. Treat it as a comparison between recipes, not a quote for your till receipt. See exactly how the cost is worked out →
- "On sale this week" — Hearth flags recipes whose main ingredient is discounted in your local flyers, and which store is cheapest. Flyer coverage is currently Winnipeg and Toronto; if we don't have your area yet you'll see the baseline region until we add it.
- Expiry awareness — it flags what's about to go off and suggests recipes to use it up, instead of letting good produce wilt.
- Installs like an app — add it to your home screen on iPhone or Android in a few taps and it opens full-screen. Your shopping list and the recipe you're cooking stay readable if the signal drops in the store.
No ads, no selling your data, and no upsells once you're in — the price you see is the whole product. Try it for 30 days without entering a card; if it isn't for you, export your recipes and go.