The Meal Plan Vault is built for households, not solo cooks. Plan the week together with meal requests, voting, and shared grocery lists, and connect the AI assistant you already use.
The short answer
Recipe Keeper is a one-time-purchase personal recipe organizer. Pricing: $9.99 (one-time). Choose The Meal Plan Vault if more than one person decides what's for dinner — it adds household voting on meals, AI import for sites without recipe markup, and photo import for handwritten recipe cards, plus a built-in MCP server so Claude or ChatGPT can plan the week for you. Stay with Recipe Keeper if you only need a personal recipe box and prefer paying once over a subscription.
No credit card required. Free 7-day trial.
Recipe Keeper is a versatile recipe organizer that lets you import recipes from websites, scan from cookbooks, and manage your collection. Popular for its one-time purchase model.
$9.99 (one-time)
One shared place for a household's recipes, weekly plan, and grocery list, with meal requests and voting. A built-in MCP server lets Claude or ChatGPT work in it too.
Free trial, then $2.99/month or $29.99/year
See how Recipe Keeper compares to The Meal Plan Vault across key features.
Let everyone vote on meals
Track dietary needs per person
Scan handwritten recipes
Import from non-standard sites
Recipe Keeper works well for one cook. The Meal Plan Vault is built around a household planning together.
Everyone shares the same recipes, week, and grocery list, with admin, editor, and viewer roles so the right people can make changes.
Anyone in the household can request a meal for the week and vote on the others' requests, so whoever plans can see what people want.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor and it can fill in the week, import a recipe, and build the grocery list in your own account.
Set up a vault, invite the people you cook for, and put the first week on the calendar.
Start your free trialNo credit card required. Free for 7 days.
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