Features

Ten things ChefCart does remarkably well.

Built around real households. Every feature exists to remove one specific friction between deciding what to cook and putting food on the table.

01 · Meal planner

A week of dinners, in one view.

Drag recipes onto Monday through Sunday. ChefCart scales servings to who's home, plans leftovers when it makes sense, and lifts the cognitive load of “what's for dinner.”

  • Drag-and-drop recipes onto any day or meal slot
  • Per-day servings (just you, or 6 for Sunday roast)
  • Leftovers auto-roll forward to the next day
  • Thaw & prep reminders the night before
WEEK OF APR 13
This week
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Carbonara
Curry
Salmon
Short Ribs
SUNDAY · DINNER
Slow-Braised Short Ribs
Serves 6 · 3h 5min · 🥩 Butcher
02 · Shopping list

A list that writes itself.

Plan the week. The list appears — already deduped, scaled to your household, and sorted by store aisle. Add anything else as you go.

  • Auto-generated from your meal plan
  • Aisle-sorted for one efficient pass through the store
  • Smart dedupe — half a lemon plus half a lemon = one lemon
  • Manual items, notes, and brand preferences
Groceries
14 ITEMS
PRODUCE · 6
1 lemon ×2 recipes
2 onions
5 carrots
BUTCHER · 1
1.5kg short ribs €42.50
03 · Family sync

Real-time, for the whole household.

Up to 6 family members on one shared list. Claim items, assign tasks, and see who grabbed the milk in real time.

  • Live shared lists across iOS & Android
  • Assign items to specific people (“Lars, the wine”)
  • Activity feed — who added, checked, or planned what
  • In-list comments & notes per item
In the kitchen
J
Juno added Oat milk · 2m ago
T
Theo checked Carrot ×5 · 34m ago
L
Lars claimed Red wine · on the way home
M
Mara planned Short Ribs · for Sunday
04 · Cookbook scanner

Point. Scan. Saved.

Aim your camera at a cookbook page, screenshot, or handwritten card. On-device OCR pulls out the title, ingredients, steps, and times — cleanly formatted, ready to plan.

  • Works on physical books, magazines, and screenshots
  • Handles handwritten recipe cards (Mom's, Grandma's)
  • Auto-parses servings, times, and ingredient quantities
  • Everything stays on-device. No photos uploaded.
Short Ribs
2kg beef ribs
2 onions
3 carrots
500ml wine
thyme, bay…
Reading page…
05 · Smart scaling

Half a lemon? We round up.

ChefCart understands what scales fractionally (flour, butter) versus what doesn't (eggs, garlic cloves, lemons). Your list always reflects what you actually buy.

  • Smart rounding for whole-count items (eggs, lemons, heads of garlic)
  • Fractional precision for weights and volumes
  • Metric / imperial units, your call
  • Scale a 4-person recipe to 6 in one tap
CARBONARA · SERVES 1
2 egg yolks
×3
SCALED · SERVES 3
6 egg yolks
not 5.7
06 · Pantry tracking

Know what's already home.

ChefCart subtracts pantry items from your list automatically, so you stop buying the third bottle of olive oil. Restock when something runs low.

  • Track essentials with quantities and units
  • Auto-deduct from shopping list when planning meals
  • Low-stock alerts before you run out
  • Barcode scan for fast pantry intake
Pantry
42 ITEMS · 3 LOW
Olive oil500ml
Flour1kg
Butter · low50g
Eggs6
07 · Recipe library

Your cookbook, organized.

Save what you love. Tag what worked. Find it later. Search by ingredient, cuisine, time, or what's already in your pantry.

  • Favorites, tags, and smart collections
  • Search by ingredient or “what can I make with this?”
  • Cooking notes — what you'd change next time
  • Family-wide library, private notes per person
Slow-Braised Short Ribs
Charred Broccoli, Miso & Lemon
Carbonara for One
Banana Bread
08 · URL & notes import

From anywhere, in one paste.

Paste a recipe URL, share a TikTok video, or drop your raw cooking notes. ChefCart pulls out the recipe and stages it for review.

  • Recipe URLs from any cooking site
  • Share-sheet support — send from Safari or Chrome
  • Paste unstructured notes and let AI structure them
  • Always preview & edit before saving
https://nytimes.com/cooking/short-ribs
↓ extracted
Slow-Braised Short Ribs
9 ingredients · 5 steps · 3h 5min
09 · Aisle sorting

One efficient pass through the store.

ChefCart learns your local store's layout and reorders your list accordingly. Produce → butcher → pantry → dairy → out the door.

  • Customizable aisle order per store
  • Multiple lists (Groceries, Costco run, Pharmacy)
  • Store-aware reminders (“you're near Whole Foods”)
  • Big-tap shopping mode for the cart
Aisle order
01 Produce
02 Butcher
03 Fish
04 Pantry
05 Dairy
06 Bakery
10 · Price & budget

Budget rails, not a spreadsheet.

See running totals as items hit the cart. Set a weekly grocery budget and ChefCart shows you what's left without nagging.

  • Estimated prices that learn from your receipts
  • Weekly & monthly budget rails
  • Per-recipe cost breakdown
  • Cost-per-serving comparisons
THIS WEEK
€84.20
of €120 budget · 30% left
Butcher€42.50
Produce€18.40
Pantry€14.30
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