Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — the free plan is free forever, no credit card required. You get the full planner grid, all 154+ recipes, light/dark mode, health badges, and a basic shopping list at no cost. We also offer a Pro plan that unlocks advanced features like unlimited templates, the nutrition dashboard, custom meals, copy & print on the shopping list, and more. Try Pro free for 7 days — still no credit card needed.

A free account is needed to save your meal plans, goals, and preferences. Takes about a minute to set up — after that everything saves automatically every time you make a change. If you want to try Pro, you can start a 7-day trial from your Profile page at any time without entering a credit card.

Create a free account, then click any empty slot in the planner to open the meal picker. Tap a recipe card to preview it, then hit Add to [Day] [Meal] in the footer to drop it into that slot. If you want a fast start, hit the Random button to fill your whole week automatically — then swap out anything you don't like. Open Profile to set your diet preferences and household size so future Random results get smarter.

Yes, it's fully responsive and works on phones, tablets, and desktops. Your plan syncs automatically, so you can plan on your laptop and check the shopping list at the store. On mobile you can also share your shopping list straight to Messages, Notes, or any app using your phone's native share sheet.

The planner shows a full week laid out by meal type — breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner — across all 7 days. Click any empty slot to open the meal picker, tap a meal card to preview the recipe, then hit the orange Add button in the recipe footer to place it. Your plan saves automatically as you go.

Tapping a meal card previews the recipe — it doesn't add the meal yet. The recipe modal opens with a prominent orange ✨ Add to [Day] [Meal] button in the footer. Click that button to place the meal in your planner. A toast confirms the placement. Close the modal without clicking Add if you change your mind — nothing is added.

Random fills your entire week in one click, pulling meals that match your profile preferences. Use the dropdown arrow next to the Random button to randomize just a single day instead of the whole week. Smart Random (Pro) personalises results further based on your Goals and Profile.

Yes — use the chevron arrows in the week navigator to move forward or backward through weeks. Each week saves independently, so you can plan ahead or look back at what you ate before.

Whenever you're viewing a past or future week, an orange ↩ Jump to this week button appears in the week-navigation row (next to the date range). Click it to snap back. When you're already on the current week, the button is hidden — keeps the header uncluttered.

Templates let you save a layout you love and reload it any time. There are two kinds:

Week templates save the full 7-day grid. Click Templates in the header to save the current week or load a saved one. Free users can save 1 week template; Pro users get unlimited.

Day templates save just a single day. Click the kebab menu (the ⋯ icon) in any day's header to Save as day template, Load day template, or Clear day. Day templates are Pro-only.

Tip: rotate between a couple of saved week templates to keep variety without planning from scratch each week.

Tap the ☆ star in the corner of any meal card to favorite it — the star fills in to confirm. To see just your favorites, click the ⭐ Favorites chip in the top filter row of the meal picker (it sits next to 👤 My Meals). Tap the star again to remove a favorite. Favorites work for both library recipes and your custom meals, and the feature is free — no Pro required, no limit on how many you save.

Yes. In the planner, tap the kebab menu (the ⋯ icon) on the source day's header and pick Copy day to…. A small picker appears — tap the day you want to copy to, and only that day's populated slots are copied over. If the target day already has meals, the picker shows Click again to overwrite as a quick safety check before replacing them. Copy Day is free for all users.

Yes — by default we send a quiet reminder email every Sunday morning if your upcoming week isn't fully planned yet. The subject changes based on your progress (“Your week is wide open” if you haven't started, or “Finish the week — [N] planned so far” if you're partway). The body links straight to the planner with shortcuts to Smart Random, Copy Day, and your Favorites so you can finish in a couple of taps. To turn it off, open Profile → Cooking Style → Weekly planning reminder and toggle it off. The reminder is free for all tiers.

Every meal has pre-loaded nutrition data — calories, protein, fats, carbs, fiber, and sodium. As you fill in your week, the stats bar at the top updates automatically so you can see your weekly totals and daily averages at a glance.

Yes. Open Goals from the header to set your daily calorie and daily protein targets. The Goals panel shows a live “how this week is tracking” readout that updates as you type — so you can see immediately whether a target is realistic for the week you've planned. The stats bar also compares your weekly average against your targets, and orange text means you're over budget for the week.

Click Summary in the header for a dashboard view of your planned week. It opens with a 7-day at-a-glance strip showing stacked dots (green / amber / red / empty) for calories and protein status each day, then hero cards showing your calorie and protein averages against goal with progress bars, then a 6-metric grid for good fats, bad fats, net carbs, fiber, sodium, and a weekly calorie delta. Pro users also see a full day-by-day table and can print the whole summary as a single page.

Health badges highlight nutritional benefits on each meal card. The stethoscope (🩺) means diabetic-friendly, the blood drop (🩸) means low glycemic, and the heart (♥) means heart-healthy. If you set health conditions in your Profile, warning badges also appear for meals that may not suit you — for example a high-sodium flag if you have hypertension, or a high-carb flag if you have diabetes.

The meal picker includes filters for Keto, Paleo, Mediterranean, Carnivore, Atlantic, Asian, Anti-Inflammatory, Italian, and Mexican. There are also filters for quick meals (under 30 minutes), comfort food, and date night recipes. Mix and match filters to find exactly what fits your goals. Paleo currently covers 30+ recipes and growing.

Yes. The meal picker has filters for cook time (quick meals under 30 minutes), calorie range, and protein content — alongside all the diet and cuisine filters. Stack them together to narrow down to exactly what fits your day.

Yes — click Add Meal in the header to create a custom recipe. The editor has a row-based ingredient list, a chip-style diet picker grouped by Diets / Cuisines / Moods, a USDA nutrition calculator if you need help with macros, and a live preview card with a net-carb keto indicator. Custom meals save to your personal library and appear in the meal picker alongside the built-in recipes.

Once saved, you can find your custom meals by clicking the 👤 My Meals chip in the picker filter row — it's pinned to the front of the row with a live count badge. Each custom meal card carries a CUSTOM pill and a kebab menu (⋯) with Edit and Delete actions. Creating and browsing custom meals is a Pro feature.

Once your week is planned, click Shopping in the header. The list is automatically built from your meals and grouped into four tinted category cards — Proteins (red), Produce (green), Dairy (amber), and Pantry (slate) — each with its own progress counter and a “Check all” shortcut. A sticky progress strip at the top shows overall completion plus a meal coverage row, so you can see at a glance how many meals and ingredients the list covers.

Under each ingredient you'll see up to two meal-name chips (“Tue Chili”, “Fri Fajitas”) so you know which meals each item belongs to. Pro users also see pantry-staple ghosting — common items like salt, olive oil, and cumin are faded and tagged so you can visually skip them if you've already got them.

Definitely. Set your household size in your Profile and the shopping list scales ingredient quantities automatically for 1 to 4 people. One plan, the right amounts for everyone. Household scaling is a Pro feature; the free shopping list shows base quantities.

Yes (Pro feature). Click Copy List to copy the full list to your clipboard as plain text, Print to send it to your printer, or 📤 Share on mobile to push it through your phone's native share sheet — straight to Messages, Notes, Slack, or wherever you want it. Free users can view the full grouped shopping list; copy / print / share and household scaling are what Pro unlocks.

Yes — Pro unlocks the advanced toolkit: unlimited week templates, day templates (with the kebab menu), the full Weekly Nutrition dashboard with per-day breakdown and print, Smart Random, the custom meal creator with USDA calculator, household scaling on the shopping list, copy / print / share on the shopping list, and the full Goals + Profile engine. See the pricing page for the full side-by-side comparison.

Sign up, go to Profile, and click Try Pro Free for 7 Days. You get full Pro access instantly — no credit card, no commitment. When the 7 days end, you drop back to the free plan automatically with all your data intact. If you love it, you can subscribe at any point during or after the trial.

Nope. Start the 7-day trial with just your email and password. We only ask for payment details if you decide to subscribe after the trial.

Open Profile → Manage Subscription and click Cancel. You keep Pro access until the end of your current billing period, then you revert to the free plan automatically. No phone calls, no hoops.

Your meal plans, custom meals, and saved templates all stay safe. You lose access to Pro features like the nutrition dashboard, unlimited templates, and the custom meal creator, but none of your data is deleted — if you upgrade again later, everything is right where you left it.

We accept all major credit and debit cards through Stripe. Your payment info is securely handled by Stripe — we never see or store your card details.

Share Everywhere turns any recipe, a single day of your plan, or a full week into a public link with a polished social preview image. The recipient doesn’t need a MyWeeklyMenu account — they open the link and see the plan. For day and week shares, we freeze a snapshot at the moment you create the link, so if you change the plan later, the shared version stays exactly as you sent it. Recipes always reflect the current library version.

Recipe link: open any recipe modal and hit Share. A small modal opens showing the public link with Copy / Open / native Share buttons.

Day link: in the planner, click the three-dot kebab menu on any day's header, then pick 🔗 Share this day.

Week link: click the 🔗 Share Week button in the week-navigation row (right next to the date range).

Yes. Open Profile → My Shares, find the link, and click Revoke. It’s a two-click confirm (no browser pop-up). After revoking, anyone visiting the link sees a “this share was revoked” page and the OG image 404s.

Yes. Open the shared recipe link while signed in to your account. At the top of the page you'll see an orange ✨ Save to My Meals button. Click it and the recipe is copied into your Custom Meals with a fresh id — it shows up in the picker under the 👤 My Meals chip. Your copy is editable, so you can tweak ingredients or macros without affecting the original. If you're not signed in, the button becomes Sign in to save this recipe → and returns you to the share page after you sign in.

Yes. Open the shared day or week link while signed in, then click ✨ Save to My Templates at the top. Day shares become Day Templates; week shares become Week Templates. Your own planner isn't touched — you load the template later from the Templates modal to apply it to whichever week you want. Any custom recipes embedded in the shared plan get copied into your Custom Meals first so the template resolves cleanly. Free users can save one week template; Pro gets unlimited.

Shares are unlisted — only reachable by someone who has the link or sees the social preview. Recipients don’t see your email, account info, or any of your goals / profile data. The snapshot only contains the plan itself (meal names, macros, serving sizes). If a link leaks or you change your mind, revoke it from Profile → My Shares.

Check your spam or junk folder first — confirmation emails occasionally land there. If you still can't find it, check that you typed your email correctly at signup, add support@myweeklymenu.com to your contacts, and try requesting the email again from the login page. If it still doesn't arrive, email support@myweeklymenu.com and we'll get you sorted.

On the login page, click Forgot password? and enter your email. You'll get a reset link within a minute or two. If it doesn't arrive, check your spam folder — same drill as confirmation emails.

Email support@myweeklymenu.com any time. We read every message and usually reply within one business day.

Click the Profile button in the header. From there you can set your diet type, health conditions (diabetes, hypertension, low blood sugar), foods to avoid, allergies, household size, weight goals, and activity level. The app uses this info to personalize Random results and show relevant health badges.

Yes, everything saves automatically whenever you make a change — your meal plan, goals, profile preferences, and templates. You can close the browser and come back later and everything will be exactly where you left it.

Inside the app, click the ? Help button in the header for a quick walkthrough of all the features, or visit the Full Help Guide for the deep tour. For anything else, email support@myweeklymenu.com — we're always improving the app based on feedback.