Planning the week

Tell it how the week looks, and it plans the dinners. Change anything you like before it’s set.

The planner chat

Tap Let’s Plan! on Home. Tell it how the week looks: who’s home, which nights are busy, what’s already in the freezer. Say it the way you’d tell a friend, and swap anything you don’t like.

The dinners come first, then breakfast and lunch if you want them. Type it or say it. Ask for changes as often as you like, because nothing’s set until you finalize.

The UnBizzy planning chat for one week. It proposes six dinners around a takeout night and a leftovers night, swaps Saturday when asked for something else, then plans breakfasts, packed lunches and snacks, and locks the week in.
  1. The parent asks: can you pick something else for Saturday? UnBizzy swaps in slow cooker honey garlic chicken thighs and lists the rest of the week as it was.

The calendar

Every dinner gets its row, with breakfast and lunch underneath.

Open a night to change the meal, take the night off, move it, or ask for something else. Hold a dinner to drag it to another day.

Try it here: open a night.

This week · Oct 24–30

  1. SAT 24Pulled Pork Sandwich with Red Cabbage
  2. SUN 25Chicken Parmesan
  3. MON 26Ground Beef Tacos
  4. TUE 27Chicken Stir-Fry
  5. WED 28Fridge dinner. Kitchen stays clean.
  6. THU 29Baked Ziti with Garlic Bread
  7. FRI 30Kitchen’s closed. Someone else is cooking.

Hold a dinner to move it. Want something different? Ask me.

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  • Quick setup for the week Start with what this week holds.

    How many dinners you need, any nights eating out or ordering in, a leftovers night, and which days need breakfast and lunch.

    Add anything else it should know this week. Holidays are already on the week, as a day off.

  • Busy nights Practice, lessons, late at work: the packed nights get the fast dinners.

    Tell it how much hands-on time you’ve got on a weeknight (oven and wait time doesn’t count), and which nights need less.

  • Nights off Takeout, eating out or a leftovers night. A night off is a plan, not a gap.

    Keep your takeout spots in the cookbook, or look one up. On the night, call the place, order online, or open your delivery app.

    Take a night off after you’ve shopped, and it asks what to do with the groceries: cook it another night, take them off the grocery list, or put it on next week’s menu.

  • The meal card Everything about one dinner: the ingredients, the steps, and where the recipe came from.

    Mark it cooked, star it, ask for it again, or say never again. Your own recipes can be edited and given a photo.

  • Breakfast and lunch Dinner is where a plan earns its keep, but breakfast and lunch can come along.

    Pick the days that need them, and say who eats breakfast at home and whose lunch comes from home. Pin the usuals to the grocery list, or settle them in the chat each week.

Smarter dinners

It learns. Every week you plan, cook and tell it how dinner went, it knows your family a little better.

The Hive

Everything it knows about your house, in one place. The Hive is what UnBizzy plans from: who’s eating, how you cook, your tastes, the lines it never crosses, and what’s been working.

Tell it a rule once and it keeps it. If it notices something, it asks you there first, and nothing changes until you say so.

Tap a topic to see what lives there.

The Hive

All quiet. Nothing waiting on you.

Tell me something once

Say it like you’d say it in chat. I’ll show you what I’d keep before I keep it — then it lives under Every week, below.

Your house

  • How you cook
  • Tastes
  • Every week
  • What’s been working
  • Who’s eating
  • Lines I never cross
  • Shopping
  • This week

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Your cookbook

Your favorites, your weeknight winners and the kid-approved meals each have their own place. And UnBizzy’s own Catalogue comes stocked with meals families love, to get you started.

What gets made comes back: the dinners you star and cook again come up more often, and the cookbook fills in as you go.

The UnBizzy cookbook on its Weeknight winners tab, between Favorites and Kid-approved. Under “Classics to get you started”: spaghetti and meatballs, meatloaf, ground beef tacos, cheeseburgers and fries, sloppy joes, each with its hands-on time and a Plan it button.
The UnBizzy cookbook on its Imports tab: a box that reads “Find a recipe, or paste a link” with a camera button, and the note “Anything you type, paste or photograph. Nobody else sees these.” Below, the family’s own recipes, some starred.
  1. Favorites“Star a dish. I plan these more often.”
  2. Weeknight winners“Quick dinners for a busy week that you’ve cooked a few times.”
  3. Kid-approved“Flip Kids’ favorite on a dish, on its card or under How’d it go?”
  4. Family recipes“Mark it a family recipe when you add it, or on its card.”
  5. Imports“Anything you type, paste or photograph. Nobody else sees these.”
  6. Past meals“Cooked one time, not starred. Fills itself.”
  7. Catalogue“This isn’t the whole catalogue. Want something in particular? Ask me.”
  • How’d it go? Mark a dinner cooked, and tell it how it went.

    Before you plan, it asks how the last few dinners went: Made it, or Didn’t make it.

    Star the ones your family loves, and they come up more often. One tap on Never Again and that meal is gone for good.

  • Report a response If a reply or a recipe looks wrong, tell us.

    Press and hold a reply in the chat, or open the menu on a recipe. Say what’s wrong: an allergen, something unsafe, something offensive, or something that’s just wrong.

Allergies

We’ll swap the flour. You check the label.

Tell UnBizzy which allergies your household has, and how you handle each one: keep it out entirely, swap the ingredient, make a separate portion, or let that person have something else that night. It plans accordingly and tells you when it’s made a substitution.

What it can’t do is read the package in your hand. Ingredients change, labels change, kitchens cross-contaminate. If someone in your family has a serious allergy, the last check is always yours, and we’d rather say that plainly than bury it in the terms.

The same goes for everything else at your table: the ingredients nobody will eat, how much hands-on time you have on a weeknight, and the kitchen gear you’ve got. Say it once, and every week is planned around it.

Connected to your world

Your stores, your kitchen and your day. The plan goes where you do.

The grocery list

Everything the week needs, split by the stores you shop at and sorted by aisle inside each one.

By aisle walks you down the aisles. By store splits the grocery list by where you buy what, so the Costco things are on the Costco list.

Try it: switch it to By store, then pick a store.

Week of Oct 24–30

By aisleBy store
FreshFrozenPantryHousehold

Produce

  • Broccoli1 lbCostco: CO
  • Garlic1 headStop & Shop: SS
  • Onion2 countStop & Shop: SS
  • Avocado2 countWhole Foods: WF
  • Lemons1 countWhole Foods: WF
  • Asparagus1.5 lbTarget: TA

Meat

  • Chicken breast1 lbCostco: CO
  • Beef chuck roast2 lbCostco: CO
  • Salmon fillets4 countCostco: CO

Dairy

  • Milk2 galCostco: CO
  • Butter1 lbCostco: CO
  • Sour cream1 containerCostco: CO

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Kitchen check

Some things you almost always have: the oil, the salt, the dish soap. UnBizzy assumes they’re already in the kitchen, so they stay off the grocery list.

Before you shop, the kitchen check shows you what it’s assuming. Tap anything you’ve run out of and it goes on the grocery list. Then tap Looks right, and you’re ready to shop.

Try it: tap something you’re out of.

Check the kitchen

I’m assuming you have these 10. Tap anything you’ve run out of and it goes on the list.

PantryHousehold
  • Olive oil
  • Kosher salt
  • Black pepper
  • Garlic powder
  • Soy sauce
  • Flour

Looks right

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Home, and reminders

Home is the day at a glance. The top card follows the day: tonight’s dinner, what to grab on shop day, or planning when the week needs it. The rest of the week sits underneath.

Each morning it lays out the day: what’s for dinner, and what’s for breakfast. Then it tells you when dinner goes on, so that’s one less thing to remember.

If something needs a head start, like a slow cooker dinner, the morning brief says when to start it. And on the day you like to plan, it reminds you.

The UnBizzy home screen on a Sunday: today it’s chicken Parmesan, dinner goes on at 4:10, breakfast is eggs, toast and fruit. Below, the week’s dinners and the grocery list by store.

Sunday, Oct 25

  1. MorningToday’s plan Today it’s chicken Parmesan. You know the drill.
  2. 4:10Start dinner Time to start chicken Parmesan.

Dinner goes on at 4:10.

  • Pinned usuals Pin the things you buy every week, and they’re on every week’s grocery list.

    Fresh and frozen things you pin, like milk or berries, come back ready to buy.

    Pantry and household things, like rice or trash bags, come back as already in the kitchen, so they wait in the kitchen check. Run out? Tap it there, and it’s back on the list.

  • Start the trip One store at a time, full screen, aisle by aisle.

    Tick things off as you go, and mark anything you couldn’t find. The screen stays on, so you’re not unlocking your phone mid-aisle.

  • Online carts Send the grocery list straight to an online cart at select national grocery stores.

    Look it over, swap anything you’d rather have, and check out with the store. Or take the grocery list to the store and tick things off as you go.

  • Printing Whoever’s shopping doesn’t need the app.

    Print the grocery list or send a picture of it, sorted by store and aisle, with boxes to tick.

    It prints the week, too: a menu card for the fridge, or the menu and the grocery list together as one pad.

  • Recipe import Bring your own recipes.

    Snap a photo of a handwritten recipe card, paste a link, or share a recipe straight from your browser, and it’s in your cookbook, ready to plan. Or type it in.

    For a linked recipe, it opens the original site when it’s time to cook, so you get the real instructions and support the creators.

Made for your family

Set up once, for the people at your table and the recipes that are yours.

Your household

Everyone in the house, including you, with a nickname and an age range. No last names, no birth years.

Dinner is planned for the whole table. For breakfast and lunch, you say who eats at home, and whose lunch comes from home.

Who you cook for

  • Me Adult
  • Sam Adult
  • Kid 1 6-12 years
  • Kid 2 2-5 years
  • Kid-approved Flip Kids’ favorite on a dish, and it’s on the Kid-approved tab.

    In houses with kids, the dinners they’ll actually eat are one tap away on a busy night.

  • Family recipes The recipes that are yours get a tab of their own.

    Mark a recipe as a family recipe when you add it, or on its card.

  • More than one phone Sign in to the same account on another phone, and the week is there too.

    The plan, the grocery list and the cookbook are on your account, and reminders go to every phone that allows them.

    A change on one phone shows on the other the next time it opens. Recipe photos stay on the phone that took them.

Use it your way

On your phone, signed in the way you like, with a guide for the first few weeks.

  • iPhone and Android

    The same app on an iPhone or an Android phone.

  • Sign in your way

    Apple, Google, Facebook or email.

  • The planning guide

    A step-by-step guide for your first three weeks: plan the week, look it over, check the kitchen, shop the list.

    Each screen has a short tour, and an info icon whenever you want a refresher.

Something you’d like to see?

The families using UnBizzy now are shaping what it becomes.

Send an idea to justin@unbizzy.com.

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