DineCraft

DineCraft is an AI meal planner that builds a week of meals around calorie and macro goals, then produces an aisle-sorted shopping list and a step-by-step cook mode. Pro meals are checked against USDA data.

DineCraft is a meal planning app that generates a full week of meals around a person's calorie and macro targets, then turns the plan into an aisle-sorted shopping list and a guided cooking view. It uses AI to propose meals, which is how it avoids the repetition that plagues fixed recipe databases. The product is aimed at households that want dinner decided in advance, and at macro-trackers and athletes who count grams. The workflow follows four stages. Goals come first: a TDEE calculator, presets for cutting, maintaining or bulking, or manually entered macros, with a weekly tolerance so a single heavy day does not break the plan. Next, a Generate Week screen lets the user fill only empty slots, wipe and regenerate everything, or pick specific cells, mixing meals from a saved library with newly generated ones. Variety options include no repeats within the week, cuisine mixing and optional snacks. The shopping list deduplicates ingredient totals, groups them by supermarket section, filters by day and shows price estimates. Cook mode presents one step at a time with timers, a tick-off ingredient list and a screen that stays awake. Two modes cover different needs. Simple mode takes a chat-style request such as a craving or an ingredient on hand and returns a recipe with macros in seconds. Pro mode runs a three-stage pipeline in which a researcher finds a recipe, a refiner scales ingredients to the target macros and a validator checks each ingredient against the USDA food database. Meals outside Pro are labelled as estimates. Allergy exclusions and taste preferences are set once and applied to every generated meal, and a public recipe library can be browsed without an account. Among alternatives, DineCraft sits between manual calorie trackers, which log food but do not plan it, and generic recipe or meal-kit services, which rarely respect precise macro targets. Its distinguishing points are the USDA validation tier and the connected loop from goals through shopping to cooking. A free tier exists, with paid Pro and Max plans raising generation limits.