How it works
The whole week, planned in one sitting.
UnBizzy is a meal-planning app for families. You tell it about your household and it hands back a plan and a shopping list sorted by store.
This page walks through what the app does, how to set it up, what a normal week looks like, and where everything lives once you're in. Read it top to bottom, or jump to the part you need.
What UnBizzy does
Three jobs, done together so none of them has to be done twice.
Plans the week with you
You talk it through in a chat — who's home, which night is a mess, what everyone's sick of. It proposes dinners (and breakfasts and lunches, if your house wants them), you push back on anything that doesn't fit, and it settles the plan.
Builds the shopping list
Every ingredient from the plan, plus the things you buy every week anyway, on one list. Sorted by aisle or split by store, ready to check off, print, or send to an online cart.
Remembers your household
Allergies and how you handle them, ingredients nobody will eat, your weeknight time, your favorites, the meals you never want again. You say it once. It stays said.
Setting up
The first time you open UnBizzy, it asks a short run of questions — most of them a tap. These are the things that change every plan it makes, so it only asks them once.
- Who you cook for. Everyone in the house, including you, with a nickname and an age range. No last names, no birth years.
- Food allergies. Which ones, and how your house handles each — more on that below. No allergies? You skip straight past it.
- Ingredients nobody will eat. Mushrooms, olives, whatever it is at your table.
- Weeknight time. How long you've got with your hands on the food. Oven and wait time doesn't count.
- How much cooking you want to do. From scratch, shortcuts, or a mix. Jarred sauce and rotisserie chicken count.
- Breakfast and lunch. Who eats breakfast at home and whose lunch comes from home. Skip it if dinner's all you need.
- A grocery ballpark. Roughly what a week costs. It keeps the plan in range, not on a leash.
- Your kitchen. Slow cooker, air fryer, grill — anything beyond a stove and an oven.
- Where and when you shop. Every store you use, including the butcher and the Costco run, and which day you go.
Planning a week
Tap Let's Plan! on the home screen. From there it's four steps.
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Check the setup
A quick look at this week before the chat opens: which days need dinner, and anything special — Nana's here Friday, it's Emma's birthday, nothing but comfort food.
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Talk it through
Say it the way you'd say it to a friend. It suggests meals and explains any it adjusted for your household. Ask for something specific, or type or say “no fish this week.”
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Change anything
Swap a night, move a meal, make Tuesday takeout. A planned night off is a plan, not a gap, and no reminder fires for it.
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Finalize
When the week looks right, finalize it. It writes the full recipes and builds your shopping list. That can take a minute — it would rather get it right than get it fast.
Planning on a Thursday? Then you mean next week. UnBizzy plans ahead without touching the week you're still cooking — this week's dinners and half-checked list stay put until the new week begins.
During the week
Five icons along the bottom of the app, and two round buttons on the home screen. Here's what each one is for.
Home
Tonight's dinner and the rest of the week at a glance. Tap a meal for the recipe, ingredients and steps, or to swap it out.
Calendar
The planned week day by day — including the takeout and leftover nights, shown as the plan they are.
Shopping list
Everything the plan needs plus your pinned items, by aisle or by store. More on it below.
Recipes
Favorites, past meals, family recipes, imports and the Catalogue. More on it below.
Carts
Send your list to an online store's cart. Each store is its own order, and anything you've already checked off is left out.
The chat
The round button for planning, re-planning, or asking for something specific. It knows your household, so you don't start from scratch.
The Hive
Everything the plan is based on, in one place: your household, allergies, weeknight time, favorites, and the things you asked it to remember.
Reminders
If you turn them on: a nudge when it's time to start dinner, and a morning brief of the day ahead. Just those two.
Shopping
You'll spend ten minutes planning and forty in the store. The list is built for the forty.
By category, or by store
By Category walks you down the aisles. By Store splits the list by where you buy what, so the Costco things are on the Costco list.
Pinned items
Milk, coffee, trash bags, dish soap — the things that never make it onto a meal plan. Pin them once and they're on every week's list.
Swipe for the rest
Swipe a row left to mark it Already have, move it to another store, or take it off. Use + for anything the plan missed.
Print it, or send it
Print the list or share it as a PDF for whoever's doing the run. They don't need the app, and you don't get a call from the cereal aisle.
Keep the screen on
A setting that stops your phone locking mid-aisle while your hands are full.
Online carts
Shop Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods? Send the list from Carts and it fills the cart for you. Amazon picks the products, not us — you'll see what it matched beside each item.
Recipes
Every meal UnBizzy plans comes with a full recipe. The Recipes screen is where they collect, along with your own.
- Favorites
- Your shortlist. Swipe a recipe right to add it, and it'll come back around in future plans.
- Past meals
- Everything that was on a finished week. Meals land here once their week is over.
- Family recipes
- The ones that are yours. Add one with + and flip on This is a family recipe.
- Imports
- Paste a link to a recipe online, or snap a photo of a recipe card or a cookbook page. It reads it into a proper recipe.
- Never Again
- Swipe a recipe left to banish it. It won't be suggested again. Change your mind later and you can bring it back from Settings — no judgment.
- UnBizzy Recipes
- The Catalogue: dishes you haven't had yet, a handful at a time, for when the week needs something new.
How it gets better
Week one is good. Week six is better, because it has been paying attention.
A quick check-in
Every so often it asks how the last few dinners went: Made it, Skipped it, or Made something else. One tap each, or skip it. It helps next week's plan.
Things it noticed
If it spots a pattern — a dish that keeps getting skipped, say — it suggests a change in the Hive and asks first. Nothing about your preferences changes without you.
Things you told it
Mention something in the chat worth keeping (“we don't do spicy on school nights”) and it offers to remember it. Everything it's remembering is listed in the Hive, in your words.
Allergies, handled the way your house handles them.
For each allergy, you choose what your household does about it: keep it out of the house entirely, swap the ingredient, make a separate portion, or let that person eat something else that night. UnBizzy plans that way and says so on the recipe when it has made a substitution.
It can't 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.
Why it helps
What changes once the week is planned.
5pm stops being a question.
Dinner is decided before the week starts. You find out what's for dinner the same way everyone else does — you look.
One shop, not four.
A list that covers the whole week, split by store, with the weekly things already on it. Fewer mid-week runs for the one thing you forgot.
You stop re-explaining.
Who's allergic, who hates onions, how long you've got on a Tuesday. It's all carried forward, every week.
Real weeknight dinners.
Plans fit the time you actually have and the cooking you actually want to do. Frozen patties are a legitimate dinner.
Less repetition.
Favorites come back around, banished meals never do, and the Catalogue brings in dishes you haven't had.
Everyone can pitch in.
Print or share the list and someone else can do the shop without the app, or the phone call.
Nothing to sell you.
We don't take money from grocery stores or brands. What ends up on your list is there because it fits your plan.
Your family's details stay minimal.
Nicknames and age ranges, never last names or birth years. We only ask for what changes the plan.
Testing UnBizzy
Thank you for helping. Testing is free — you may still see the free-month and subscription screens during setup, but you won't be charged.
Once you're in
The most useful thing you can do is use it for a real week — set it up for your actual household, plan a week you'll actually cook, and take the list to the store.
A few things worth trying along the way:
- Plan a week with at least one awkward night in it, and see how it handles it.
- Swap a meal you don't like, and banish one you never want again.
- Import a recipe from a link, and one from a photo.
- Shop from the list in the store, by store and by category.
- Plan next week before this one is over.
When something breaks, confuses you, or just feels off, write to support@unbizzy.com. Tell us what phone you're using and roughly when it happened — that's usually enough for us to find it. We read everything, including “this bit is annoying.”
Plan on Saturday. Shop once.
Stop deciding at 5pm.