Eating well shouldn't cost a fortune
The macro meal planner that also holds your grocery budget. Built from the dishes you're actually craving.
Your full weekly menu, solved: calories and protein recalculated to the gram, carbs and fat adjusted around your targets — on our recipes or ones you bring in yourself. Every price has a traced source and sharpens with every receipt. Verified to the gram, not eyeballed. No more chicken-rice-broccoli on repeat.
Proof, not promises
Your macros and your budget, held together. Move the sliders.
Lower the budget and pricey protein gives way to something cheaper — trout for salmon, chicken for beef. Raise the protein and portions rewrite themselves to the gram. When the math stops working, we say so. No menu gets dressed up to hide it.
Teriyaki salmon, brown rice, edamameoily fish · omega-3$4.20
Chickpea curry, spinach, basmati ricelegumes$2.05
Beef stir-fry, soba noodles, bell pepperslean red meat$3.80
Feta & tomato omelet, rye breadeggs$1.90
Red lentil dahl, whole-wheat naanlegumes$1.60This demo shows the principle across 5 sample dinners. In the app, Macro Recipe works on your full week, your dishes, your local prices, sharpened with every receipt entered.
The deliverable
A real weekly meal plan, not three demo recipes.
Lunch, dinner — and breakfast too if you want — sorted together. Turn off any meal you'd rather keep free. BATCH tags mean cook once on Sunday; Macro Recipe counts the leftovers.
| Day | Lunch | Dinner | The day, to the gram |
|---|---|---|---|
| MON | Pasta salad, tuna, olives612 kcal · P34 | Teriyaki salmon, brown riceBATCH ×2570 kcal · P44 | 2,180 kcal · $6.05 |
| TUE | Quinoa bowl, egg, avocado545 kcal · P38 | Chickpea curry, basmati riceBATCH ×2526 kcal · P26 | 2,154 kcal · $5.15 |
| WED | Teriyaki salmonLEFTOVER570 kcal · P44 | Beef stir-fry, soba noodles528 kcal · P41 | 2,190 kcal · $5.50 |
| THU | Chickpea curryLEFTOVER526 kcal · P26 | Feta omelet, rye bread456 kcal · P32 | 2,118 kcal · $4.20 |
| FRI | Miso soup, rice, edamame498 kcal · P28 | Lentil dahl, whole-wheat naan476 kcal · P24 | 2,142 kcal · $4.45 |
| WEEK · target 2,150 kcal/day ± 5% · protein ≥ 130 g/day | Σ $25.35 / $26 — HELD | ||
The other half of the product
A grocery list priced to the cent, every price traced to its source.
Aggregated by aisle, quantities exact, and every price traced to its source — ranked by how much we trust it:
- YOURS — your real receipts, entered in two taps
- LOCAL — the average across users in your country
- OPEN DATA — open data from Open Prices (OpenFoodFacts) — pending activation
- AI EST. — an estimate, replaced the moment a real price comes in
Every corrected price sharpens the menus for the whole country.
Never the same plate twice
High-protein recipes that change every week. Your macros don't.
9,400+ dishes backed by 3,500 nutrition ingredients. Macro Recipe doesn't just pad a rice portion at random — every menu is checked so calories and protein land exactly right — to the gram.
Pick your goal
Menu catalogs for every goal.
Bulking, cutting, balanced eating, batch cooking or a tight budget: every weekly menu starts from your targets — calories, protein, grocery cap — and holds them to the gram.
Bulking
3,000+ kcal menus, protein to the gram
Cutting
deficit held, protein protected
Balanced eating
balanced plates, nothing to weigh
Batch cooking
cook on Sunday, the week is counted
Tight budget
hard cap, priced grocery list
Gym rat
big portions, high protein, no fuss
Halal
complete menus, filtered at the source
Pantry
cook with what you already have
Sunday night
Your actual week resets the next one.
A three-question check-in compares the plan to reality: what you actually cooked, your real protein intake, what the groceries actually cost. Macro Recipe takes the gap and recalibrates your targets — next week's menus factor it in. The app adjusts to your life. Never the other way around.
$1.10 over → week 30 targets $24.90. No lectures, just numbers.
In your pocket
Open the recipe, already sized to you.
Every recipe card shows YOUR quantities, your macros, your price per serving. Suggested swaps are marked ✎ with their real impact — one tap to swap, and Macro Recipe recalculates everything.
- Recipe card — personal quantities, nutrition score, swap impact
- Menu editing — lock in what you love, regenerate the rest
- Step-by-step cooking — built-in timers, your quantities a thumb's reach away at every step
Put the ledgers side by side
Everyone keeps one column. No one keeps both.
| What matters | Macro apps* | Menu apps** | Macro Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macros locked to the gram | ✓ | — | ✓ kcal & protein to the gram |
| Grocery budget in dollars | — | budget per recipe | ✓ cap held |
| Menu already built | logging first | ✓ | ✓ + your proportions |
| Real, local prices | — | partner retailer's basket | ✓ every price traced to its source |
| Zero daily logging | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| France · CIQUAL | global databases | partial | ✓ enriched |
| * MacroFactor, MyFitnessPal, Lifesum — ** Jow, Mealime, HelloFresh & co. Based on their public pages, July 2026. | |||
Why we're building this
Nutrition apps ask you to be the accountant of your own plate: weigh it, scan it, log it, feel guilty, start over. Menu apps hand you pretty recipes that ignore your numbers — your macros and your bank balance both. In between sits your actual life: a target measured in grams, a budget measured in dollars, zero interest in spending your evenings on either.
Macro Recipe keeps the ledger for you, building each week's menu to land exactly, to the gram, on your calories and protein and your grocery cap. The same dish another user gets, but your proportions. Every price comes from a traced source — your own purchases, your local market, or an estimate that sharpens with every real receipt. Not a national average from 2019.
We're not promising to "transform your life." We're promising that Thursday night, dinner will be good, it'll fit your numbers, and you won't have thought about it once.
— The Macro Recipe teamPARIS · 2026
The price, plain and simple
No hidden pricing. No fake "67% off."
Here's the indicative pricing; your exact price, in your currency, shows on the App Store listing. A 3-day trial, cancel anytime: judge for yourself.
- Weekly menus solved to the gram, under your grocery cap
- Every recipe adapted — ours or yours
- Cancel in 2 taps, anytime
- Everything in Weekly
- Itemized grocery list, every price traced to its source
- Unlimited weekly check-ins & recalibration
3-DAY TRIAL · CANCEL IN 2 TAPS · NO CHARGE DURING THE TRIAL
FAQ
The questions we see coming
Another calorie-counting app?
Nothing to weigh, nothing to look up in a database — the menu already arrives solved. One tap per meal is all it takes, and only if you want to feed your weekly check-in. Tracking apps keep only 3 to 4% of their users after 30 days, because logging everything wears people out. Macro Recipe works the other way: it builds the menu that hits your macros, and all you do is cook.
Are your prices accurate?
Right now, yes for France: a database of 1,400 market ingredients that sharpens with every real price users correct. Rollout to other countries is underway — we'd rather say that plainly than promise local pricing we can't yet back up everywhere.
What do you do with my data?
Your prices stay private by default. If you choose to share them, they only feed an anonymous average over a short window. Nothing else leaves your account.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
Ask a chatbot for a menu: the numbers look fine, but nobody checks them. At Macro Recipe, every menu is checked line by line — calories and protein to the gram, grocery cap held. The difference between a suggestion and a commitment.
Can I get a bulking or a cutting meal plan?
Yes. Set your targets — 3,000 kcal and 160 g of protein for a bulk, a controlled deficit for a cut — and each weekly menu is built to hit them, to the gram. Goal-based menu catalogs (bulking, maintenance, batch cooking, halal…) give you the starting point; your targets do the rest.
What about meal planning on a budget?
Set your grocery cap — $30, $50, whatever works. The menu is built under that cap, priced grocery list included. And if your macros can't fit the budget, we say so instead of dressing up the numbers.
How is this different from MyFitnessPal or Yazio?
Trackers count what you already ate; figuring out what to cook stays on you. Macro Recipe works the other way: it builds next week's menu in advance to hit your calories, protein and grocery budget — no daily logging.
When can I get it?
Available on iPhone — download the app and generate your first menu in three minutes. Android comes next.
¹ Ducrot et al., NutriNet-Santé cohort, 40,554 adults, IJBNPA 2017. · ² INSEE, food CPI April 2026; Eurostat 2025. · ³ 30-day retention benchmarks, Health & Fitness apps (Adjust/AppsFlyer). · Photos for illustration only.
Guides
Guides: weekly menus, macros & grocery budget
How to build a weekly menu that fits your goals and your grocery budget — with example menus, one grocery list and honest comparisons.