A meal-planning app for families
Solari drafts the week from your cookbook and your household’s food rules. You make the last few choices. The shopping list and day-of cook follow from there.
Founding families are using Solari now. They are planning real weeks, making shopping lists, and cooking from the app. Invitations go out slowly while I fix what they find.
Monday, 5:12 pm. Nothing planned.
How it works
The point is not to give you another place to organize. It is to remove the blank page that shows up every week.
There’s a real cookbook in the app on day one, and it keeps growing. Then you send Solari anything you want: a reel someone shared with you, a photo of a handwritten card, a recipe ChatGPT wrote you, or one you make with Solari itself.
Out of town Thursday? Need to use up the ground beef? Say it or type it before the draft, and the week comes back planned around it, with a note about what it heard. There’s more of this back-and-forth on the way.
Every ingredient from the week’s dinners, added up and sorted by aisle. If three recipes need onions, you see one line for onions. Then order the groceries without retyping a thing: Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods, or the Kroger family of stores (Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Harris Teeter, and more).
When it’s time to cook, the screen goes dark and calm. One step at a time, big enough to read from across the counter. The ingredients for each step are right there, and it sets the timer. And if your younger kids eat plainer, Cook Mode can carve out a kid’s plate along the way, so one dinner works for everyone.
What I’m protecting
Solari gives you a starting point. You accept, change, or reject it before anything becomes the week’s plan.
Allergies and household rules shape every draft. When a dish conflicts, Solari flags it plainly and suggests a swap, so trying a new cuisine does not mean guessing. It never silently decides that a substitution is safe.
The curated cookbook will add creator recipes only through a written pilot agreement, with clear credit and a source link.
A note from Jeremy
I started Solari because planning dinner kept landing on one person in our family, and the work began long before anyone turned on the stove. We built it for our own kitchen first, and we genuinely plan every week with it. A small group of families is now using the iPhone beta and telling me where it helps, where it gets in the way, and what still feels unfinished.
I answer the email, read every beta note, and make the next version. That is the company at this stage.
Read the full storyFounding families
I’m adding a few families at a time. Tell me who you cook for and I’ll write when there is room in the next TestFlight wave.
Planned launch pricing
Beta access is free. Launch pricing can still change before the App Store release, and I’ll make that clear before anyone pays.
Questions
Solari is in a small iPhone beta through TestFlight. It is not yet in the public App Store. Request an invitation above and I’ll write when another beta wave opens.
No. The current product is iPhone only. I do not have an Android release date to promise yet.
Yes. The beta supports selected recipe links, photos, and the iPhone share sheet. Imports are reviewed by you before they are saved because recipe pages are not always structured cleanly.
No. Solari does not sell personal information. The privacy notice explains what the beta and website collect, why it is needed, and which service providers help run them.
It is one small, permissioned design-partner pilot. No creator is being asked to promote the beta. The scope, credit, link, approval, and removal process are written down before any recipe is added. Read the creator invitation.
