Intent - Meal Planner Reviews

by Furhdab

Intent is almost amazing. They have a ton of food choices that aren’t ridiculous like some other app. The things I want to see though:
1. Allow you to pick your sides before it adds them. The sides are clearly chosen from an algorithm that bases it off calories but they don’t even match the meal or you’ll have a yogurt bowl and then it’ll add yogurt as a side choice. And with that, let you search through actual sides. There are so many more things than just the 6 fruits they pick.
2. Allow you to meal prep with your partner.
3. Allow you to edit the portion amounts for meals.
4. Let you say you’re having a meal somewhere else so it doesn’t increase your portions in the meal to meet your calorie intake for the day.

by Lexioca

This is literally the best meal planning app ever, and it’s FREE! You get to choose what recipes you like for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for however long you need. You get to list foods you don’t like to ensure those recipes won’t include them. So it plans out what you eat everyday based on recipes you chose (it can account for leftovers too!), then the best part in my opinion, is it compiles a grocery list of every ingredient for every recipe + snacks and side dishes!!! That way you don’t buy groceries you won’t need and you know exactly what amounts of everything to buy. (You can check off each item on the grocery list too!!!) It’s a perfect app that makes my life so much easier.

From a technical standpoint, there isn’t anything wrong with it either. It hardly ever glitches and almost always runs smoothly. There are in app purchases and you can get the premium version for access to certain locked recipes (not too many & if you want it that bad you can look it up) or add your own recipes. Not necessary though and Intent has full functionality without paying a dime!

Get Intent if you’re single and don’t know how to cook for only one person, or if you have a family, you get to choose the servings!!! It’s seriously the best.

by Need My Netflix

Absolutely love everything about Intent. I have always struggled with meal planning, consistently eating healthy, and eating the right macro nutrients. Intent solved all of those problems and made groceries more affordable with less food waste. I lost 8 lbs in one month thanks to Intent and now i’m only another 8 lbs to my target and it actually feels achievable. I love that it has snacks and tells me extra calories if I want to pick up an extra snack or have some candy. The meals are absolutely delicious and have a lot of options for those who don’t eat meat, fish, dairy, eggs, or other allergies. I also love the option to change the amount of people eating at a meal and how many times you want to have leftovers. Will forever be using Intent because it works, is delicious, and so easy to use.

by ZoeyBus

This application is excellent in providing health conscious recipes for a variety of dietary needs from Keto to vegetarian. I’m using the Flexitarian mode where it focuses on heart healthy recipes with less meat and more vegetarian options. Intent allows you to modify portions, modify the number of people eating at each meal to ensure accurate portion sizes, then cumulates a grocery list. The staff for Intent have been proactive in getting feedback and critique on the apps and are actively responding and making changes. I see Intent becoming a whole inclusive dietary monitoring system. Highly recommend to anyone trying to take their health into their own hands.

by Jouj3945727272739495

Intent is really great. Firstly, it helps me prep meals and takes away the stress of what to eat. Second, I love how many options there are and how it helps me achieve my weight goal. Third, the recipes included are delicious, easy to make and a great place to learn how food works together healthy. Fourth, it’s affordable. Not only is Intent at a fair price, but their grocery lists for the week for in person do not exceed $100. That comes out to being less than $10 a day on all my meals! Fifth, I’m actually minimizing food waste as old recipe ingredients are built into next weeks recipes & it teaches me when I can eat leftovers. Sixth the recipes are catered to feed however many mouths you’re trying to feed. So instead of shopping for a family and wasting all my food, I’m actually eating for just me. It helps me strategize meal planning too. Seventh, all recipes are quick so even after a long day of teaching, I can come home, cook and relax reasonably. Finally their customer support is with you the whole way, they’ll listen to your needs, wants and just converse with you on how Intent is working. Deff would recommend if you’re looking to learn how to budget, food manage, cook and eat healthy!

by Jsb81614

Stumbled across Intent the other day and I wish I had found it sooner! I have been struggling with meal prep and eating healthier recently (working 60+ hours a week). Trying to plan healthy meals, figure out the grocery list, make sure you’re hitting any nutrition or weight loss goals takes HOURS and Intent does it almost instantly! I immediately felt a huge weight off my shoulders.

Another huge plus - the developers are extremely responsive and definitely seem to care about each user’s experience and input. 😊

There are a few things that could be added to make Intent even better - being able to choose from a database to add any snack you want would be ideal. Other things that would be nice would be a spot to log that you ate the meals, maybe a tracker to see overall macros for the day/week and to log and track weight (or the option to). But these aren’t make or break it things - there are other apps that do that - would just be nice to have it all in one.

Highly recommend Intent .

by Mfbermuda

Intent is amazing! I love that if I have a certain diet to stick to they give you that option. The meals are fantastic and the actual layout of Intent is amazing! Problems that I have had with other apps is it’s not easy to get rid of certain meals (example: most apps make you put down a breakfast, but Intent I can delete breakfast or only delete certain days, etc.) and the customer support team is amazing, and very quick to respond. Mind you, I have only reached out to customer service to make recommendations or ideas that I feel would help make Intent even better. I have gotten many of family to get on board with Intent you should too!

by Jess9870

This food tracking app is awesome. It starts by asking you what your weight and then goal weight, what type of diet/restrictions you may have and any dislikes for food. Then, it gives you the option for how many meals it wants to plan for you, for how many people, and wherever or not you want leftovers. From that, it sets a calorie goal for you and automatically creates recipes. All of this is awesome, but I haven’t even gotten to the best part. Once it picks your recipes for the week based on your preferences, IT AUTOMATICALLY MAKES AN INTERACTIVE GROCERY LIST THAT YOU CAN CHECK OFF AND MODIFY SERVINGS BASED ON WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE AT HOME. This is, by far, my favorite feature. It makes it so easy to utilize Intent. It’s also very affordable. I would recommend Intent to anyone and everyone!!

by Kristin M. 666

I’ve tried a lot of “meal planner” apps but they were difficult to navigate and had way to many b.s. steps. This one is great. It’s easy to follow, give you the complete meals, and the recipes are delicious. I can edit them!! Like you can change out and add sides and portion size. This is a great app if you don’t know what to eat but know how to cook but want to go grocery shopping but don’t know where to start. They did a great job with the starter selection of recipes. I’m waiting for a couple more features before I buy the “pro” version but will —happily— pay to save an hour of “I don’t know do you want to eat” during my weekends. The customer support is totally awesome as well, they genuinely listen to their users comments. Overall try it out. I liked it.

by CitrusCrown

I know this sounds dramatic but I cried when I found Intent. I have struggled with my health and with an eating disorder and I need to plan healthier meals but the more time I spend trying to plan the meal, the more stressed I get and I end up not eating.
Intent takes every problem I have with meal planning(like calculating calories and macros, finding vegetarian recipes, trying to figure out a grocery list and portions) and solves them all in one app. I was so scared they would waste my time with the quiz just to ask for money but there are so many features available for free. I am considering getting the premium version in the near future because I do want to add my own recipes to Intent and unlock the bonus recipes too. Intent can quite literally change my life and I am so happy I found it.

by Rayn.A

Perfect! Easy to use, easy access,
extremely user friendly. I love how it's
literally customizable to each
individual needs with the questions. I
am very picky with food and I’ve used app similar to this was but this is the first time I able to choose my dislikes and cuisines that I like and dislike as well. Of course the amazing variety of dishes which is beyond
fantastic and kudos to all the chefs for
the amazing recipes found on this
app!!! I'm a chef myself and I have a
very busy schedule to pre-prep, think
about what to cook and then cooking.
Intent has a grocery list set for the
dishes I picked for a whole week and
honestly it makes budgeting so much easier! Intent is amazing and I will say it
again and again I feel like it's made
just for me with how much the
accuracy of the dishes are to my
liking and how effective it is with the
budget and just everything is
wonderful! Thank you and to
everyone who put time and energy into Intent!

by Law1218

You know how working out is so hard to get started because half of the time, you’re figuring out what exercises to do? Then you get an exercise plan to follow and it’s so much more less daunting? That’s what Intent does for your meals. No more last minute fast food because figuring out dinner is too much work.

I tried Intent to help me avoid the five-days-in-a-row lunch meal prep routine that I was not enjoying (read “not sticking to”). But I also needed meals that weren’t exhausting to make in the middle of the week either. Intent has that. It also has more complex meals for dinner that my husband and I have loved so far.

One of my favorite features is the grocery list. You pick all of your meals for the week and it combines all the ingredients into one grocery list, so no more flipping back and forth between recipes in the grocery store.

by Dairy Air 5960

Intent has been a phenomenal so far! If I had found Intent last year when I tried Keto I probably would have be successful in my diet. Usage of Intent is super simple, I told it what diet I wanted to do, what foods I like, allergies if you had any and it creates a complete meal plan week by week, exactly how much to eat, what to eat with all kinds of different meals, as well as a complete weekly grocery list. It’s literally took all the complication out of dieting and just tells you what to do. Exactly how to prep and cook the meals. It’s so easy. And by telling you exactly what and how much to buy each week completely cuts out food waste as long as you cook the amount it says and eat what your supposed to eat each meal. So far everything that I have tried has tasted great and I look forward to meal times again.

by Emade

I’ve been looking for a meal planner that lets me import recipes, has a recipe bank (and allows users to modify the recipes), and uses the ingredients to create a shopping list. After trying literally 12 different apps, I was finally fortunate enough to find this one. Its ability to help you plan your week, set the number of meals you want to track per day, and grocery list generator all make Intent stand apart from its competition. I had one minor issue with a recipe I tried to import and reached out to the developer through Intent . They had taken care of the issue with a few hours. They are very responsive and invested in having the best product out there.

I tried Intent for a few days (to make sure it really worked for me) and then very happily subscribed.

by HayHay122020

I have actually had Intent for only a couple minutes and I’m. In. LOVE! I have to admit, I had my doubts while going through the beginning questionnaire, because every app like this that had looked promising, required a subscription right after answering the questions. Well guess what? This didn’t! It gives the option to subscribe (of course) but you can have Intent without a subscription! And the free version is all I need! The free version offers weekly meal plans that are tailored to you! There are some recipes that are for premium members, but not enough to make it impossibly to have diversity in the meal plans. The grocery list is so helpful as well! I’m moving out on my own soon, and need to save as much money as I can. this app offers the option to have their meal plans not require costly trips to the store! So far, this is a 10/10 app!

by Petals'n'thorns

So, I’m 14 and I cook for my family, my moms getting older and my brother can’t cook. One of my problems is knowing what to cook, Intent really helped with that. It’s got easy to follow recipes from many different regions, awesome mechanics and a wonderful layout! It looks clean and refreshing and the recipes are set it in a really cool way, instead of having to scroll up to the top of the page for recipe amounts it’s listed right under the directions, which is nice. I also really like the sides feature, instead of having to pick sides yourself it has a wide selections of sides and you can pick your own quantities of the side, but if you don’t like the side it picked for you you can go in and change it, which is very easy to do. I also really enjoy the grocery list feature, while I don’t use the in-app grocery list I transfer the items that I don’t have in stock to my own grocery list. All-in-all it’s an easy to use app that I would recommend to anyone.

by Flereuj

So far I have no complaints and couldn’t even make one even if I wanted too. I struggled for awhile trying to loose weight/meal prep./ cook healthy all while trying to eat nutritious. You can’t go wrong with Intent. It helps you figure what to eat with variety. I can eat different meal and do leftovers in case I’m being lazy lol. It also helped with seasoning which another issue I have, I tend to over-season or use wayyy too much oil/butters/Pam sprays in my meal and this fixes that. They also have a variety of meal plans from flexitarian, vegetarian, keto; even helps if you have allergens and reminds you in case you click on one of your allergens. Including a grocery list they make and it doesn’t pressure you too pick a specific brand. You can pick the one your comfortable with. Also the questions are very specific and truly help with figuring out what’s best for you. I could write forever on how I feel, don’t let me be the only one enjoying Intent try it out I would rate it 10/10 👍🏾

by Mikeyplz

i love Intent so much. as a college student, i don’t have a lot of time or money to spend thinking about food. with Intent, i can choose how many times a week i want to has leftovers (which saves me time and money!) and i never have to worry about what i’m going to eat that week. the grocery list is such a life send because i usually never stick to it but this helps so much!
you can even choose if you want to lose or gain weight, any allergies or dislikes, and even if you’re on a special diet (keto, pescatarian, etc).
one thing i appreciate is how great the basic plan is (if you don’t wanna spend money), without sacrifice the great things about Intent. if you choose to get a premium account, you can see your macros, premium recipes and more!
i also like how you can input your own recipes and arrange your meal schedule. it also reminds you when to go grocery shopping!
love Intent and i cant wait to see what more comes. without Intent i would be eating pasta every night!

by Phoenix 1031

If you’re looking for a meal prep app this is it. My husband and I would usually bicker around dinner time because neither of us knew what we wanted to eat. We were tired of constantly cooking the same 10 recipes or ordering take out. We tried other apps like Meals or Noom, but we were constantly having to take trips to the grocery store, and honestly, who has time for that?

With Intent, we plan our meals ahead of time, and we can customize the dishes to fit our needs and preferences. At the end, Intent generates a grocery list with all of the portion sizes you’ll need for the week. It is so comforting to know what we’ll be eating each day and that everything is in the fridge or pantry ready to go. Since my husband works from home, I set the dinner option to three people so that he has leftovers for lunch. No more having to run to the nearest take out stand between meetings. Intent has saved our wallets and waistlines.

Also, my husband and I cook together for dinner now. No more bickering or arguing in the evening. It’s heaven. Thanks to all the ppl who made Intent. 😘😘😘

by Nicoleanne23

I never write reviews because honestly, I’m pretty lazy and rarely anything is worth a good review anymore because most apps are just meh. You pay for it and never use it again after a week or two because it’s basically irrelevant. However, Intent is a lifesaver for busy people, especially parents. I had just about given up on making dinner because it became so much work to try and figure out what to eat after 4 hours of sports after school. It was easier to just throw chicken nuggets in the air fryer and call it good because I never had any idea what to make. And then I’d find myself just snacking instead of eating anything substantial and I’d wake up starving. Intent figures it all out for me. It allows me to pick my meals, how many people will eat those meals, tells me what to get at the grocery store, allows me to filter recipes that have foods my family doesn’t eat, and gives me the macronutrients for each recipe so there’s literally no guessing for me.

If you’re struggling with what to make for your daily meals and sick of eating the same things over and over or just snacking your way through the day: this is Intent for you. Well worth the money.

by Nina Tennent

This apps pretty helpful with meal planning. You’re able to select a plan that fits your dietary needs and aligns with your health goals the most. There are specific meal plans like vegetarian and vegan options but those require a subscription. You can still use Intent for a basic meal plan but you’ll have to look at the ingredients yourself to determine if it’s appropriate for your dietary needs. It even has a section where it shows you all of the ingredients you need to shop for and you can check them off if you already have them in your kitchen. Overall it’s a pretty good app the only problem is the subscription to get the full effect of it.

by Jlk9119

I am so excited to use Intent! I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time! I get so stuck trying to decide what to cook each week. This takes all the hard parts off of me! I keep finding new features and it just keeps getting better and better!

Grocery day is tomorrow. Super stoked!!

You guys really have thought of everything!! Only thing I would like is to add is my own recipes into Intent . But that’s literally the only thing missing. Easy enough to turn off dinners for a couple days, so it definitely won’t stop me from using it!

by Jenchamale

I love Intent!! Such a great tool! The hard part about cooking isn’t the action of cooking, it’s the planning and organizing. Well Intent takes care of that by helping you choose meals for your schedule and by creating a super organized shopping list. By far the best feature! Other cool feature... in the recipe instructions, it tells you the measurement of the ingredients you need, which saves you from having to scroll up each time to view quantities and getting your sticky fingers all over your screen.

by Ciceecicee

I have never left even as much as a Yelp review in my life. But when Intent asked for a review I had to do one. I work different hours every week so I never know what my week will look like. I sometimes make meal plans but it takes at least an hour and then I have to write the grocery list. Intent has taken the entire process down to 5 minutes once a week. I have a vegan diet and Intent has plenty of options for me. Plus, every recipe has been delicious so far.

by Toxicpinkbaby

I always had a difficulty with maintaining healthy meals due to my busy schedule and finding the time or even the right recipes to best suit my needs. Intent at first was incredible and blew me away but with every button blew me away even more. Intent is so good to be true and worth having the premium. Having something tailored to my needs and planned and basically set for me have changed my life and made having a routine amazing. Thank you for bringing Intent to life

by Asyouwish00x

I have to say that Intent helps in so many facets of my lifestyle.

1. Removes the decision of what I’m going to eat every day and week for food
2. Recommends recipes that fit for my dietary needs with the options of choosing what I want.
3. Gives me the list of groceries I need to get so I don’t have to do the thinking!
4. Getting me to try new foods and everything I’ve made is delicious
5. Better than a meal delivery service. Why? Becuase I still have others to feed in my family and I’ll still need to go to the grocery store with meal delivery.

Definitely enjoying Intent as it removes all the stresses about eating and eating well if you so choose. Something that was always a hard chore in my household and something I didn’t want to do after making decisions all day at my job.

by Fa Os

I really like Intent! I have always hated meal plans because it doesn’t match how I eat at all, but Intent lets you pick which meals you want, and how many recipes you want to cook. I usually don’t eat breakfast and don’t like to cook every single day so it made it pretty easy - I usually pick 2 recipes a week and have the same thing for lunch and dinner. It’s nice, I definitely recommend it! (Also I’m a vegetarian and they had good recommendations).

by Aurs25

I’ve bought so many cookbooks over the past few years that I dread going through because for some reason picking meals has always been a challenge for me. This does all the work for me! I love that everything is catered to your unique diet and goals and even gives options to help save money on groceries in the long run. Wishing I could return all those old cookbooks that I’ll never use!

by Jojocon

Intent is a great start to a keto diet. It is simple and easy to use. I love the fact that I can switch out items on my meal plan and adjust the amounts as well as set a calorie target. The grocery list and sending the list directly to a grocery delivery service is so convenient and time saving. I am using Intent in combination with a calorie counter app. It's the perfect combo. I lost over 7lbs in the first week alone.

by Happycustomer123456789

They really thought of everything with Intent! Whether you have the free or premium version you get a great experience. They made meal planning so easy from all of the amazing options that allow you to try something you might not have to the super easy grocery list they make for you! No more stressing about what you’re going to make for dinner!

by Jetplant

this app was quick and easy! In a minute or two I had my meal plan for the week w all my favorite foods, yummy easy recipes, all heathy food, perfectly portioned and planned in detail for each day of the week. My favorite is the grocery shopping list....I don’t have to think about any of this, just follow the plan!! No more filling up on random
Food items I find last minute in the kitchen!

by LeahCimer

I don’t know why but I do spend a lot of time everyday on figuring out what to eat. Intent saved me tons of time. It provides a customized meal plan based on my diet goal, weight, food preferences, etc.. I can go straight to the grocery store with Intent open and find everything I need for the next week. Really helpful and convenient!

by EV_13

I have so far tried quite a few different types of meal planning, recipe, and grocery list type apps. I really love how genuinely easy to navigate Intent is, as well as the creative and practical meal plans. As a vegetarian, finding solid meal options can be difficult, and Intent does a great job laying out multiple options!