Kitchen Squirrel Get the app

Every step of dinner, sorted.

Save recipes from anywhere, plan the week in a minute, shop from one list and cook without the faff, together with everyone you live with.

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Now on iPhone and Android. Free to download.

The Kitchen Squirrel mascot, in a green apron, holding open a Kitchen Squirrel recipe book.
What it does

From “that looks good” to dinner on the table.

  • Save any recipe in seconds.

    Seen something good on Instagram, TikTok or a website? Even a page of a cookbook? Share it to Kitchen Squirrel, or snap the page, and it’s saved, ingredients and all.

  • Never stuck for ideas.

    Browse recipes other kitchens have cooked and rated, find what’s in season or ready in 30 minutes, and add one in a tap.

  • Plan the week in a minute.

    Drop recipes onto the calendar and that’s dinner sorted.

  • Let the family vote.

    Stuck on tonight’s dinner? Put two or three contenders to a vote. Everyone’s phone pings, they tap their favourite, and the winner is queued up on the plan.

  • One shopping list that writes itself.

    It’s built from your plan and sorted by aisle, with all the garlic in one place.

  • Cook without the faff.

    Step-by-step cook mode keeps your screen on and starts timers with a tap. Missing an ingredient? It suggests a swap.

  • Shared with your household.

    Same recipes, same plan, same list, so nobody comes home with the third bag of onions.

  • Nothing forgotten in the freezer.

    It remembers the leftovers you’ve stashed in the fridge and freezer, and flags what needs eating first.

The problem

You already have the recipes. Getting them onto the table is the hard part.

“I’ve saved hundreds. I cook the same five.”

The ones you liked are scattered across Instagram saves, screenshots and open tabs. Kitchen Squirrel keeps them as real recipes, in one place, in front of you when you’re deciding.

“What are we having Tuesday?”

A folder of two hundred saved recipes is not a decision about Tuesday. Put the week’s dinners down in a minute, and count the nights you’re not cooking too.

“Who’s got the list?”

Five recipes means five ingredient lists, and everyone shops from a different one. Kitchen Squirrel makes one list from the plan, in aisle order, on everyone’s phone.

How it works

Save it, plan it, shop it — and use up what is left.

Ten seconds, start to finish: the recipe you saved, the week it turns into, the shop that follows, dinner, and what is left in the fridge afterwards.

Save recipes from wherever you find them

Share a link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or a food blog, or photograph a page of a cookbook, and it comes back as a proper recipe: ingredients with quantities and the method, plus a link back to where it came from when you saved it from the web. You check it on a review card before it’s saved.

More detail on saving recipes
  • Instagram, TikTok and Facebook: it reads the post’s caption, and if the recipe isn’t there but the caption links to it, it follows the link.
  • YouTube: it reads the description. It never watches or listens to a video, so if the recipe is only in the video, it says so rather than guessing.
  • Bring a collection over from Paprika, Mela or Crouton.
  • When it can’t find a recipe, it says what was missing and lets you paste the text or type it in, with the link kept as the source.

A week, not a database

Anyone in the house can queue up a recipe they fancy, so the shortlist is waiting when you sit down to plan. Tap a recipe, tap a night. The nights you’re not cooking count too: leftovers, takeaway, eating out or something simple.

More detail on planning the week
  • Can’t agree? Put two or three recipes to a vote, and the winner joins the shortlist.
  • Mark meals cooked or skipped as the week goes.
  • Everyone’s phone shows the same library, the same plan and the same list.
The mascot with a clipboard, planning the week.

One list, in aisle order

Pick the meals you’re shopping for and the list builds itself, scaled to the servings you planned. Each line keeps its recipe’s own words, and lines for the same ingredient sit together under one heading.

More detail on the shopping list
  • Tick things off as you shop, and everyone else sees it.
  • Tap the i beside a line to see which meal it’s for and when you last bought it.
  • Add the things you buy every week as regulars, and they’re on every list.
  • Someone without the app doing the shop? Send them the list on WhatsApp or by text.
The mascot pushing a trolley full of fresh vegetables.

And what is left does not get lost

Mark a meal cooked and stash what’s left in the fridge or freezer. It comes back as an evening you can plan, not a tub you rediscover in a fortnight.

More detail on the stash
  • Give a box an eat-by date and the soonest sits at the top.
  • Eating from it takes the portions off the shelf, so the count stays honest.
  • It holds the dishes you cooked, never the ingredients in your cupboards.
The mascot putting a tub of leftovers into the fridge.
Built differently

Some things it does on purpose, and some it never will.

It respects creators

Every recipe saved from the web keeps its creator’s credit and a link back to the original. Recipes are never rehosted.

It works with no signal

Your recipes, this week’s plan and your shopping list are kept on the phone, so a dead spot in the supermarket doesn’t stop you.

It’s built for a household

One library, one plan, one list, on everyone’s phone. Anyone can add a recipe or tick something off in the shop, and everybody else sees it.

  • No feed to scroll. It’s built around the recipes you chose to save.
  • No pantry to log. Those only work if you record every tin, and nobody does.
  • Not a nutrition tracker. Estimated macros when you ask for them. No score, no judgement.
  • Not tied to a supermarket. No sponsored products, no basket to check out. Take the list to any shop you like.
The mascot at a chopping board, cooking.

Cook what you already saved.

Free to download on iPhone and Android.

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