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 week of dinners and a grocery list sorted by store.
Set up your household, once.
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.
- Weeknight time. How long you've got with your hands on the food. Oven and wait time doesn't count.
- Your week. Which nights are packed: practice, lessons, late at work. Those get the fast dinners.
- How much cooking you want to do. From scratch, shortcuts, or a mix. Jarred sauce and rotisserie chicken count.
- Ingredients nobody will eat. Mushrooms, olives, whatever it is at your table.
- What you already make. Tap the dinners you already cook, and add a few of your own.
- Trying new things. How often you try a new dinner now, and how often you'd like to.
- Your kitchen. Slow cooker, air fryer, grill: anything beyond a stove and an oven.
- A grocery ballpark. Roughly what a week costs. It keeps the plan in range, not on a leash.
- Where and when you shop. Every store you use, including the butcher and the Costco run, and which day you go.
- 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 one (more on that below). No allergies? You skip straight past it.
- Breakfast and lunch. Who eats breakfast at home and whose lunch comes from home. Skip it if dinner's all you need.
Every question, step by step: Set up your household
Plan the week ahead.
Pick the day you like to plan, and UnBizzy asks then. Tap Let's Plan! on the home screen, and the week takes a few minutes.
Say what's different this week
Start with what this week holds: how many dinners you need, any nights eating out or ordering in, a leftovers night, which days need breakfast and lunch, and anything special. Nana's here Friday, it's Emma's birthday, nothing but comfort food.
The dinners come first
You start with a week of dinners already planned, not a blank page. Then talk it through the way you'd tell a friend: ask for something specific, or type or say “no fish this week.” It explains any meal it adjusted for your household.
Change anything
Swap a night, move a meal, make Tuesday takeout. A planned night off is a plan, not a gap.
Finalize
When the week looks right, finalize it. It writes the full recipes and builds your grocery list. That can take a minute: it would rather get it right than get it fast.
Shop once.
One grocery list covers the whole week, split by store, with the weekly things already on it.
By aisle, or by store
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.
Your usuals, pinned
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 grocery list.
Print it, or send it
Print the grocery list or send a picture of it for whoever's doing the run. They don't need the app, and you don't get a call from the cereal aisle.
Or fill an online cart
Shop at Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods? Send the grocery list and UnBizzy fills your Amazon cart. You check it, and you check out on Amazon.
Then the week runs itself.
You find out what's for dinner the same way everyone else does: you look.
A morning brief, and a nudge for dinner
If you turn them on: each morning, the day's meals; later, a nudge when it's time to start dinner. If something needs a head start, like a slow cooker dinner, the morning brief says so.
Swaps
Plans change. Open a night on the calendar to change the meal, move it, take the night off or ask for something else. Take a night off after you've shopped, and it asks what to do with the groceries: take them off the grocery list, cook it another night, or put it on next week's menu.
Leftovers
Ask for a leftovers night when you plan, and it turns an earlier dinner into round two for the busy night.
It gets better each week
Every so often it asks how the last few dinners went. Mention something worth keeping in the chat (“we don't do spicy on school nights”) and it offers to remember it.
Every screen, tab and button is on Features.
Allergies, handled the way your house handles them.
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.
Your first week, step by step
