Bento: Recipes & Meal Planner

All your recipes, meal planning, and groceries in one place.

Save recipes from social media, websites, and photos. Plan your meals for the week. Let the grocery list build itself.

The Recipes screen in the Bento app

How it works

Three steps, then dinner

Saving a recipe takes about as long as sending it to a friend.

The Add a recipe screen in the Bento app

01

Send it to Bento

Share a post from Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook, paste a link, or snap a photo of the page.

The Recipe screen in the Bento app

02

Bento sorts it out

Ingredients, steps, times, and servings come back as a proper recipe. Everything remains easily editable.

The Meal plan screen in the Bento app

03

Cook it this week

Drop it on a day, send its ingredients to the grocery list, and shop by aisle.

What you get

Built to make cooking easy

Recipe organizing. Meal planning. Automatic grocery lists.

01

Import recipes from anywhere

Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, websites, photos, or create them manually.

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The Add a recipe screen in the Bento app

02

Meal plan to fit your life

Drag recipes onto your week, label by meal type.

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The Meal plan screen in the Bento app

03

Take control of your grocery list

Automatically add ingredients for recipes to your grocery list.

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The Groceries screen in the Bento app

Everything in one bento

Recipes in, dinner out

Save from anywhere

Share a post or a link straight into Bento and it comes back as a proper recipe.

Photos and screenshots

Scan a cookbook page or a screenshot and Bento reads the recipe off it.

Written down somewhere

Type in the ones that only exist on an index card, or fix anything an import got wrong.

Cookbooks

Sort your recipes into cookbooks: weeknights, baking, the ones your family asks for.

Meal plan by the week

Save time and effort by planning meals on the days you'll actually cook them.

Groceries by aisle

Ingredients arrive grouped by aisle, so you can spend less time at the supermarket.

Pro

Nutrition calculator

See what a recipe adds up to, so you can focus on your goals.

Pro

Cooking mode

A screen built to help you follow recipes with ease while you cook: large text, ingredients in reach, no scrolling back.

Pro

Print and export

Send a recipe to someone who really enjoyed your cooking!

Pricing

Free FOREVER, Pro when you want it

Everything below is easily cancellable in your subscription settings.

Free

Enough to keep a recipe collection going.

$0always

No card, no trial to remember.

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Bento Pro

Most picked

Unlimited imports, plus the tools for cooking night.

7-day free trialFreefor 7 days

Then $36.99 per year

30-day trial$1.99for 30 days

Then $36.99 per year

Monthly$6.99per month

Billed monthly

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What the Free and Pro plans each include
FeatureFreePro
Import recipes5 per weekUnlimited
Grocery listsIncludedIncluded
Meal plansIncludedIncluded
Nutrition calculatorNot includedIncluded
Cooking modeNot includedIncluded
Print and export to PDFNot includedIncluded

Prices in USD. Subscriptions are billed through the App Store and renew until cancelled.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Your bento is empty

Save your first recipe and it will live right here, ready for the next time you cook.

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Free to use. Pro is $36.99 a year after a 7-day trial.