Gusto — Planner & Recipes is a free lifestyle app that feels like having a personal meal planning assistant on your mobile device. It is a helpful tool for anybody juggling multiple meals a day for a whole family, or anyone trying to stick to a particular diet.

Gusto — Planner & Recipes comes with recipe suggestions, plus tools for planning meals day by day or even for the whole week, so you’re not stuck wondering what to cook at the last minute. It helps take away that everyday pressure of thinking about what’s for lunch or dinner.

Less stress in everyday cooking

There are plenty of recipe ideas available in Gusto — Planner & Recipes. This makes it easy to find something new to try. What makes it more fun is how it learns your taste—just swipe right on recipes you like and left on ones you don’t, almost like a dating app. Over time, it gets better at suggesting dishes you’ll actually enjoy.

You’re also not limited to just browsing—you can save your own recipes too. It’s useful for keeping track of dishes you’ve tried or love, and you can share them with others. You can add step-by-step directions, servings, cooking time, and ingredients so everything is clear and complete. The only downside is the lack of deeper nutrition tracking features, especially for users who want detailed macro or calorie breakdowns.

You don’t need a separate notes app for your grocery list. Items from your meal plan are automatically added to the built-in shopping list, including the exact ingredients and quantities you’ll need. It also has a pantry tracker for monitoring items like condiments, almost like a mini-inventory system on your mobile device. You can even scan barcodes to add products, but that feature is only available on the premium version.

A practical tool

Overall, Gusto — Planner & Recipes helps make meal planning feel more organized and less stressful in everyday life. With recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists all in one place, there’s no need to switch between different apps, which keeps things simple. While its limited advanced nutrition tracking might not be ideal for users who need detailed diet monitoring, it's still a convenient all-in-one solution for home cooking.