Ramekin Recipe Box and Meal Planner App

Overview

Ramekin is a recipe box for home cooks who collect recipes everywhere: blogs, cookbooks, captions and a parent's handwritten cards. Save one in seconds, cook it one step at a time with the timers its steps name, plan the week's dinners from your own recipes and shop from one list the household shares.

The look is bright and photo-led: a white page, near-black ink and one cobalt accent that marks what is chosen (tonight's dinner, ticked items, the running timer), with a designed dark mode where the food photos glow. A recipe without a photo gets a typographic cover instead of an icon.

Key features

• Today: tonight's dinner with Start cooking and Swap, the coming days and the list's progress

  

• Recipe: servings that scale, US or Metric, ingredients that tick, and Add to list

  

• Save a recipe: the reader's answer line by line, unsure amounts marked to check

  

• Cook mode: large step text, the step's ingredients and timers that keep running across steps

  

• Plan: the household's week, a dinner per day, Plan my week (Pro) and Shop for this week

  

• List: one list for the household, aisles in shop order, staples hidden, Clear bought

  

Screens

Welcome, onboarding (who you cook for and a first recipe), Today, Recipes with collections and search, a recipe, Edit and New recipe, cook mode and its done screen, Plan, a day's dinner, Plan my week, List, What can I make?, Save a recipe (link, photos, pasted text), reading and Check the recipe, the AI notice, Adapt with AI, Collections and a collection, Household with an invite code, Settings, Keep your kitchen, What you don't eat, Cooked history, the paywall, Terms, Privacy and About: 33 screens, light and dark.

AI and backend

Supabase keeps each household's recipes, collections, plan, list, cook logs and photos, readable only by its members; the plan and the list update live on every phone in the household. Each install signs in anonymously, and an email with a 6-digit code keeps the kitchen on a new phone. One Edge Function runs the AI tasks with Gemini (read a link, photos or pasted text, adapt a recipe, plan the week, read the fridge) against a daily allowance; scaling, unit conversion, timers and the grocery merge run on the phone without AI.

Monetisation

Ramekin Pro through RevenueCat, yearly with a 7-day free trial or monthly: Plan my week, Adapt with AI, What can I make? and 200 AI units a day instead of 3. Saving, cooking, planning and the shared list stay free.

Setup

It opens on a sample kitchen with no setup: a household of two, 18 recipes, this week's plan and a list. Connect Supabase for accounts and the shared kitchen, add your Gemini key for the AI reader, then RevenueCat for Pro. Reminders and kitchen timers are local notifications.