The hardest part of dinner is deciding.
Tastease takes the nightly “what's for dinner?” off your plate. Plan the week in one sitting, shop from one list, and cook with step-by-step help.
No credit card required · plan the week's dinners in about 5 minutes.
It's 6pm and nobody has a plan.
The fridge is full of ingredients that don't add up to anything, the group chat says “whatever's easy,” and you're scrolling recipes with one shoe on. Figuring out dinner every single day is a part-time job nobody applied for.
What if the week was already planned?
That's the whole idea behind Tastease. You plan once, on the couch with coffee in hand, and every night after that, dinner is just the next thing on the list.
A week with Tastease
Here's what a real week looks like.
Plan the week
Put last week's hits back on the calendar, add one new thing, and the week is set.
One list, sorted by aisle
Every ingredient from every meal, already added up. Walk the store once and check things off one-handed.
Cook without guessing
The app says what's for dinner and walks you through it one step at a time, timers included.
And if you don't really know how to cook? Good. Nothing is implied, nothing is rushed, and the basics are always spelled out.
A plan that meets you halfway
The week fills itself in.
Set a few rhythms and the planner meets you halfway: the right meals on the right nights, everyone at the table happy, and cover for the nights you didn't plan at all.
Tuesday already knows it's taco night.
Give any night a standing theme: tacos on Tuesday, pizza on Friday. The planner suggests meals that fit. A week with a rhythm is a week you barely have to plan.
Different plates, same table.
Some nights one dinner won't please everyone. Split the household into meal groups: parents, kids, the spice-averse. Plan a meal for each, side by side on the same day.
Didn't plan? The fridge has ideas.
Tap what's on hand and What can I make? shows recipes you can cook right now. Anything you're missing goes straight onto the shopping list.
Then the week just happens.
Planning was the hard part. Everything after is downhill. The list is already written, and dinner comes with directions.
The shopping list
The list writes itself.
The moment your week is set, every ingredient lands on one list. It's combined across recipes, sorted into the order you walk the store, and labeled with the meal it belongs to. Check things off one-handed, cart in the other.
Shop at Kroger? Send the list straight to your cart.
Connect your Kroger account and the week's list lands in your Kroger cart. Items are matched to real products you can swap before they go, ready to check out for pickup or delivery.
The cooking wizard
It tells you when to start the rice.
One step at a time, in big glanceable type. Timers live right inside the steps, and while something simmers it hands you the next useful thing to do, so the waiting doesn't go to waste.
The recipe library
Paste a link. Keep the recipe.
Found a keeper on a food blog? Drop the URL and it becomes a clean, structured recipe: just the ingredients, steps and times, ready to cook. Grandma's handwritten card can be typed in too.
On iPhone
Your kitchen, in your pocket.
Timers on your lock screen
A running cook timer stays on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can put the phone down.
Save recipes from anywhere
Share a recipe link, a caption or screenshots to Tastease and it builds the recipe for you.
Cooks offline
A recipe you've started keeps working with no signal, so a weak kitchen connection doesn't stop dinner.
The same week everywhere
Your plan, shopping list and cookbook sync with the web app.
Coming soon to the App Store
More about the iPhone app →
Built for households like ours.
I started Tastease in my own kitchen, on the fourth night in a row of standing in front of the fridge asking the same question. So I built the planner I wished existed: one that plans with you, writes the list, and talks you through the cooking. I eat from it every night.
I'm building this in my spare time, so you won't find a wall of five-star reviews here yet. What you will find is a free plan that's actually free, no time limit, and someone who reads every note you send.
Emit, who builds Tastease
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready.
No credit card to get planning, shopping and cooking, for everyone at your table. Premium adds their own logins, recipe imports, Kroger checkout, theme nights and unlimited recipes.
- Up to 10 saved recipes
- Plan the current week
- Aisle-sorted shopping list, written for you
- Step-by-step cooking wizard with built-in timers
- Add everyone at your table, each with their own dietary preferences
- Import recipes from any recipe site
- Unlimited saved recipes
- Give your household their own logins, so everyone can plan and shop with you
- Send your shopping list straight to Kroger
- Theme nights & meal groups
- Plan any week, not just this one
- Sunday planning reminders and household updates, pushed to your phone
Cancel anytime. Your recipes and plans are kept, not deleted.
Questions, answered
Not at all. That's exactly who Tastease is built for. The cooking wizard walks you through one clear step at a time, timers are built into the steps, and a glossary is a tap away whenever a word trips you up.
Free gets you up to 10 saved recipes, planning the current week, your aisle-sorted shopping list and the full cooking wizard. No credit card, no time limit. Premium adds importing recipes from the web, unlimited recipes, sharing your household across logins, theme nights, and sending your list straight to Kroger.
Household sharing is a Premium feature. Send an invite link from settings and everyone gets their own login to the same plan, shopping list and recipe library. Meal groups even let different people eat different plates on the same night. On the free plan it's one login for now.
Both. Tastease has an iPhone app, and it also runs in any browser, so Android phones and laptops work too. Plan on the big screen, then shop and cook from your pocket. The week stays in sync everywhere.
From you. Type in the recipes you already know by heart, on the free plan or Premium. Upgrade to Premium and you can also paste a link from any recipe site to import it as a clean, structured recipe automatically. Either way, your library is yours.
Your recipes and plans live in your account and stay yours. We collect what's needed to run the app, and the plain-English details are in the privacy policy linked below.
Yes, in a couple of taps. Tastease itself is free to use: no credit card, no time limit. If you upgrade to Premium, that starts with a 7-day free trial, and cancelling just drops you back to the free plan. Nothing is deleted, so your recipes and plans are preserved.
Ready when you are.
About 5 minutes of planning on Sunday, one list for the store, and step-by-step help at the stove.
No credit card required · cancel anytime