What is Eten used for?

Eten is a meal planning app for iOS and Android that imports recipes from links, photos or videos, plans the week and builds combined grocery lists. It is a good fit for planning a week of dinners and saving recipes from social video.

Yes. Eten has a free plan. Free to download with up to 7 recipe imports per week; a Pro plan adds unlimited imports and advanced meal planning.

No. Eten is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Productivity category, open-source options include Mealie, Tandoor Recipes and Obtainium.

What are some alternatives to Eten?

Eten competes with AutoMealPlanner.

Eten: features, pricing and alternatives

About Eten

Eten is a recipe, meal planner and grocery list app for home cooks. You can import a recipe by pasting a web link, photographing a cookbook page or sharing a video from TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, and the app extracts the title, ingredients, steps and cook time.

Recipes can be placed on any day of the week to build a meal plan, with personalized suggestions. One tap adds a recipe's ingredients to the grocery list, scaled to the serving size, and items are combined across recipes so duplicates show as a single entry. A step-by-step cooking view shows which ingredients each step needs, and saved recipes can be searched and filtered by cuisine, meal type or dietary needs.

The app is available on the App Store and Google Play, and recipes and plans sync across devices. Saved recipes work offline, but importing needs a connection because processing happens in the cloud. It is free to download with up to 7 recipe imports per week, and a Pro plan removes that limit and adds more advanced meal planning.

Key features

Recipe import from links, photos and videos
Weekly meal planner with suggestions
Grocery lists scaled to serving size
Ingredients combined across recipes
Step-by-step cooking view
Offline access to saved recipes

Good fit for

Planning a week of dinners
Saving recipes from social video

Tags: meal-planner; recipes; grocery-list; ios; android; cooking; recipe-import

Eten: questions and answers

What is Eten used for?: Eten is a meal planning app for iOS and Android that imports recipes from links, photos or videos, plans the week and builds combined grocery lists. It is a good fit for planning a week of dinners and saving recipes from social video.
Is Eten free?: Yes. Eten has a free plan. Free to download with up to 7 recipe imports per week; a Pro plan adds unlimited imports and advanced meal planning.
Is Eten open source?: No. Eten is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Productivity category, open-source options include Mealie, Tandoor Recipes and Obtainium.
What are some alternatives to Eten?: Eten competes with AutoMealPlanner.