By Glassly

20 August 2026 · 3 min read · Updated 24 September 2026

An app for your recipes and weekly meal plan

Keep your own recipes, scale servings, plan meals and build a shopping list. What the free template includes, and what a shared family cookbook would need.

A chef plating a dish with fresh greens
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The recipe you want is often a screenshot, a note or a card in a drawer. A recipe app can put your own cooking collection beside a weekly meal plan and a shopping list. The recipes and meal planner template is a free starting point for that personal collection.

What the template includes

Browse the supplied recipe collection, add your own recipes and photos, scale servings, plan meals and build a shopping list from the plan. The shopping list combines compatible quantities and keeps ingredients visible when they do not have a numeric amount. It does not order groceries from a supermarket or import a recipe from a web link.

What sharing means here

People can create their own accounts in the app. The supplied collection is available to them, but recipes they create are private to their own account. The template does not include shared family editing, comments or ratings. If you want a collaborative family cookbook, treat sharing and access permissions as a change to request and test.

Try a real dinner plan

Create the template, complete the free colour setup, and make an account inside the preview. Add one recipe you have permission to use, plan it for a day this week and inspect the resulting shopping list. Change the serving count and check the quantities. That gives you a concrete flow to evaluate before adding the rest of your collection.

Make a focused change

You could ask for a collection label for family recipes or a dinner suggestion button. These are ideas for additional work, not features promised by the template. Changes use credits and need checking. See pricing for credit estimates and how it works for the full process.

For iPhone installs through Glassly, connect your own Apple developer account (standard fee $99/year, paid to Apple). Android installs from a link, subject to device permissions and developer verification. Publishing on Google Play needs your own developer account ($25 once, paid to Google). Test the phone build if you plan to use photo capture or cook from the app. Keep a separate copy of recipes and photos you want to preserve; a source-code export does not include your live content.