MealBoard Overview
What is MealBoard? MealBoard is an app that helps users organize their recipes, create meal plans, generate grocery lists, and keep track of their pantry inventory. It allows users to import recipes from various sources, organize them by categories, and search them by name or ingredient. Users can also create meal plans, set up recipe prep notifications, and export meal plans to the Calendar app. The app generates a grocery list based on the meal plan, and users can check off items as they shop. The pantry inventory feature helps users keep track of what they have in their pantry, specify expiration dates and inventory locations, and move out-of-stock items to the shopping list.
Features
- Recipe management: import recipes from recipe websites, scan recipes from cookbooks and magazines, organize recipes by categories, search recipes by name or ingredient, scale recipes by specifying the number of servings, convert between metric and imperial measurements, link related recipes together, manage recipes through the web interface.
- Meal planning: create meal plans organized by day and meal type, reuse meal plans by creating templates, set up recipe prep notifications, mark meals as leftovers, export meal plans to the Calendar app, check off ingredients and directions while cooking, disable screen lock while viewing recipes.
- Grocery list: generate grocery list from the meal plan, smart shopping list aggregation, scale grocery quantities, input grocery prices and see the total price, add product photos, support for multiple grocery stores, check off grocery items as you shop, move bought items to the pantry.
- Pantry inventory: keep track of what's in the pantry, specify expiration dates and inventory locations, use the barcode scanner to input items, move out-of-stock items to the shopping list, find recipes with ingredients that will expire soon.
- Share: share recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists via email or text messaging, import recipes and meal plans sent by other MealBoard users, print recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists, sync data across multiple devices.
- Customizable: manage recipes, ingredients, food categories, meal types, stores, store aisles, grocery items, and more.
- Tutorials: detailed screenshot tutorials available on the MealBoard website.
- Restrictions: the free version is limited to 20 recipes, cloud syncing requires an in-app purchase for the full version.
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Product Details and Description of
Organize your recipes, create meal plans and grocery lists, keep track of your pantry inventory. All in one app! Recipe Management • Import recipes from recipe websites, or add you own recipes • Scan recipes from cookbooks and magazines • Organize recipes by categories • Search recipes by name or ingredient • Scale your recipe by specifying the number of servings you need • Convert between metric and imperial measurements • Link related recipes together • Manage your recipes through the web interface (Log in at www.this app.com from your computer) Meal Planning • Create meal plans, organized by day and meal type • Reuse meal plans by creating templates • Set up recipe prep notifications to remind you of tasks ahead of time • Mark meals as leftovers • Export meal plans to the Calendar app • Check off ingredients and directions while cooking • Screen lock disabled while viewing recipes Grocery List • Generate your grocery list from the meal plan you created • Smart shopping list aggregation that combines similar ingredients and organize them by aisle • Scale grocery quantities • Input grocery prices and see the total price you're spending • Add product photos • Support for multiple grocery stores • Check off grocery items as you shop • Move bought items to your pantry Pantry Inventory • Keep track of what you have in your pantry • Specify expiration dates and inventory locations • Use the barcode scanner to input items • Move out-of-stock items from the pantry to the shopping list • Find recipes with ingredients that will expire soon! Share • Share your recipes, meal plan and shopping list via email or text messaging • Import recipes and meal plans sent by other this app users • Print your recipes, meal plan and shopping list • Sync your data across multiple devices (You will need to create an account. Doing so will also back up your data.) this app is fully customizable. You can manage your recipes, ingredients, food categories, meal types, stores, store aisles, grocery items and many more! To understand how the app works, detailed screenshot tutorials can be found at https://www.this app.com NOTES: • This app is preloaded with a few recipes that are for illustration purposes only. Users are expected to input/import the recipes that they use. • Cloud syncing requires that you upgrade to the full version. The full version is an in-app purchase (it is a one-time purchase, not a subscription). • This free app is restricted to 20 recipes only. Upgrade to the full version to have an unlimited number of recipes. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Top Reviews
By Momma Cook6
Love this app!!!
I’ve been using this app daily for several years. This is my favorite app on my phone. While it comes with recipes, I entered all my own recipes and it was worth the time spent. I add recipes I want to make for the week, sync with my grocery list, and use the grocery list while shopping, checking off items I put in my cart. Sometimes, I stop at a grocery store without a shopping list prepared and add meals while there onto the meal calendar and sync with my grocery list and I’m all organized. No more forgetting what is in a recipe or forgetting to buy certain items. I can also email the shopping list to another family member to shop for me. If I want to text a shopping list, I just copy it from the email into a text. Each day, I can look at the calendar and see what I had planned to make, and then view the recipe for ingredients and directions. No need to pull out the cook book. This is also handy when I’m cooking on vacation or at someone else’s home. I can also easily edit the recipe to add important tips I discover as I’m preparing it. If I want to share recipes with friends, I can email them right from the app. If I want to print a recipe so my child can make it without looking at my phone, I can do that right from the app as well. I absolutely love this app!
By Fitwalker913
Best recipe and shopping app ever
I have loved using this app ever since my cousin told me about it a few years ago. Our family of four each have it on our phones, linked, so no matter who is shopping, alone or multiple people at once, we can sync as we shop and get everything on our list correctly. The recipe import function was great and has gotten better with some recent updates such as the option to import ingredients as a text list. The “description “ field is a little hit or miss in terms of what is brought over from web pages. The one thing I always add manually to the description is a note of how many servings are in the original recipe, so that I can refer to that if there’s some part of the directions that makes reference to a specific quantity, especially when ingredients are meant to be divided (such as “add 1/3 cup of the flour”). I also routinely edit directions to add alternative instructions for Instant Pot and for Thermomix, two favorite appliances in our kitchen which take a little experience to know how to convert instructions. this app makes it so easy for the whole family to shop and cook as a team! My only wish is that it be developed for other platforms so all my friends and cousins can use it.
By J4nnin4tor
Love It!
I absolutely love this app. It is so very customizable and I’ve been importing / entering recipes for two days straight now. About 20 years ago I tried a meal planning software called MasterCook. It was great for its time, but it was so unwieldy that I soon gave up. Because of that poor experience I have avoided this type of app until now. I use it on my iPad, which means I have a beautifully laid out recipe card to follow. I love that it generates a customizable shopping list that I can send directly to my printer. I’m sure that if I were more organized I would find the pantry portion something I couldn’t live without.... but I’m not there yet. Plus, I’m 67 and if I want something from the store I simply send my husband. For some reason he enjoys getting out of the house! The other thing I just love is that for recipes that I key in myself the app lets me browse and find whatever picture I want to use. And I found some really, really nice pictures. Makes me look like a star! And, last but not least, to be able to back everything up to the cloud so I don’t lose everything the next time I drop my iPad in the pool..... perfect. So, thank you. I almost never ever pay fir an app... but this one is worth every penny.
