Smart recipes. Happy cooking.Everyday made easier.

Kitchen Squirrel turns the recipes you already save into a week of dinners and one sensible shopping list.

One email when it lands on your phone. Nothing else, ever.

The Kitchen Squirrel mascot, in a green apron, holding open a Kitchen Squirrel recipe book.

The gap

There is no shortage of recipes. There is a shortage of dinners cooked.

Every step between the recipe you liked and the meal on the table is friction rather than inspiration.

Saved is not captured

A recipe bookmarked on Instagram is a video and a wall of caption. Finding the ingredients again on a Wednesday evening means scrolling a reel with your hands covered in flour.

Captured is not planned

A folder of two hundred saved recipes is not a decision about Tuesday.

Planned is not shopped

Five recipes means five ingredient lists, three of which want coriander, in quantities that do not match the packs the shop sells.

How it works

Capture, plan, shop — and the loop closes.

Ten seconds, start to finish: the recipe you saved, the week it turns into, the shop that follows, dinner, and what is left in the fridge afterwards.

Share it in, get a real recipe out

Share any recipe link into the app from the share sheet. It comes back as a proper recipe — title, servings, ingredients with quantities, method — not a screenshot and not a bookmark.

Instagram: it reads the caption, and if the caption links to a blog post it follows the link and uses that instead — the better source.
YouTube: it reads the description. If there is no written recipe there, it says so plainly rather than guessing.
Nothing is saved silently. Every capture shows you a review card first.
When it cannot read a page, it hands you a part-filled form rather than a dead end.

A week, not a database

A week grid, four cook-nights by default. Drag a recipe onto a night, or tap to assign it.

The evenings you are not cooking matter as much as the ones you are, so they are first-class: leftovers, takeaway, eating out, something simple, fasting. One evening has one nature.

Mark meals cooked or skipped as the week goes.
Both phones in a household share one library, one plan and one list.

The mascot with a clipboard, planning the week.

The list that earns its keep

One list for the week, combined across every recipe, grouped by supermarket aisle and scaled to the servings you actually chose.

Then the thing no other list does.

“This week uses 30 g of a 100 g pack of coriander. Two other recipes in your library use coriander.”
At most three of these a week, ranked. Never nagging.

It knows recipes ask for grams and shops sell packets, and tells you when those do not line up.
Tick items off as you shop. Ticks survive the list being regenerated.
Export the list as plain text to anywhere, including a Google Keep checklist.

The mascot pushing a trolley full of fresh vegetables.

Why it is different

Four things you will not find together anywhere else.

It respects the source

Recipes are never rehosted. Every view carries attribution and a link back to the creator who wrote it.

It knows what shops sell

The list is built against the pack sizes on the shelf, not the quantities in the recipe — so you see the waste before you buy it.

It works with no signal

Your library and this week's plan are on the phone. The supermarket dead spot does not matter. Only capture needs the network.

It has no opinions about your diet

Estimated macros are there when you ask for them, clearly labelled. Never a score, never unprompted, never a judgement.

Plainly

What Kitchen Squirrel deliberately is not.

Each of these was a decision rather than an omission.

Not a recipe feed. It works with the recipes you chose.
Not a nutrition tracker. Estimated macros exist; judgement does not.
Not a pantry tracker. Those only work if you log every tin, and nobody does.
Not social. No feed, no followers, no sharing to strangers.
Not watching your videos. It reads captions and descriptions, never audio or frames.
Not a supermarket middleman. Your list exports anywhere you like. That seam is deliberate.

The mascot at a chopping board, cooking.

Cook what you already saved.

Pop your email in and the app is yours — on the phone in your pocket, in the kitchen tonight.

One email when it lands on your phone. Nothing else, ever.