Seven dinners. One grocery run. Way less money.
A week of dinners that share ingredients. Less food, less waste — shopping list sorted by aisle.
GROCERY MART
The average American family tosses $3,000 of groceries every year.
Three taps from hungry to planned.
Bring your own recipes or start from ours. HelloMealio handles the rest.
Add recipes you love
Generate the week
Shop by aisle
My wife and I built HelloMealio for ourselves.
We were throwing out a shocking amount of food every week — the cilantro that never made it into a second dish, the half-block of feta going quietly fuzzy. So we built a tool that plans the week around ingredient overlap. We've been dogfooding it for months. Our grocery bill is down. We waste almost nothing. And the night I scorched a pan sauce, the AI Chef walked me through saving it with a splash of stock and a pat of butter. Dinner was still great.
If you cook most nights and hate the waste, this is for you. Try it. If it doesn't save you money in the first week, tell us — I read every note.
The planner does the thinking. You do the cooking.
Paste a link, get a recipe
Instagram Reels, TikTok, blog posts, YouTube — we read captions and descriptions, extract the recipe, and drop it in your library to review.
Scan a recipe photo
Point your camera at any recipe you've jotted down — a handwritten card, a family printout, a note on your phone. HelloMealio reads the ingredients and steps. No retyping.
Aisle-grouped shopping list
Produce, dairy, meat, pantry. One loop through the store. Check things off as you shop — the list stays with you on the phone.
AI Chef while you cook
Hands greasy? Ask out loud. "How much garlic again?" "Can I swap heavy cream for half-and-half?" "My sauce broke — what do I do?" The Chef answers.
Questions before you download.
Does HelloMealio have a free plan?+
Yes. HelloMealio has a free tier with core meal planning features and a Premium tier with AI-powered tools.
How is HelloMealio different from other meal planning apps?+
HelloMealio groups your dinners around shared ingredients so you buy fewer one-off items and actually use what's in your fridge. Most calendar templates just give you a grid of recipes with no connection between them. HelloMealio finds the overlap.
Can I use my own recipes in HelloMealio, or do I have to use pre-selected meals?+
Yes, HelloMealio is built around whatever recipes you already cook. Import by pasting a URL, snapping a photo of a cookbook page, or typing them in. You pick the meals, HelloMealio finds the ingredient overlap across your week.
How does the AI Personal Chef help while I am cooking?+
The AI Personal Chef is there while you cook. If you get stuck on a step, need a substitution from what you already have, or realize you forgot an ingredient, you can ask it for help without making another trip to the store.
Is HelloMealio good for shared households or couples?+
Yes. It's built around how shared households actually shop and cook -- practical grocery budgets, less waste from buying for multiple people, and making weeknight dinners easier to keep up.
Is HelloMealio really free?+
Yes. The free tier includes core meal planning features. Premium adds the AI Meal Planner and AI Personal Chef — and your first 14 days of Premium are free when you download the app.
Plan dinner once.
Save money every week.
Free to download. Try a week on us — if you don't save on your first grocery run, we'll refund your first month of Plus, no questions.