We're building the meal planner
we wished we had.
Mise (mēz) — French, from mise en place: 'everything in its place.' It's the prep that makes a kitchen calm. We think weeks of cooking deserve the same.
Why we're building this
Mise starts the way most kitchen apps don't: in actual kitchens. We were tired of stitching together five different fitness apps, a Pinterest board, and three open Notion pages just to answer "what's for dinner this week?"
We wanted a planner that got it: the marathon block, the picky kid, the one bunch of cilantro about to die in the crisper. Something that planned the week, not the recipe — then walked you through cooking it.
Today's Mise does that. It builds your week, talks back as Sage when you want a swap or a substitute, walks you through dinner in Cook Mode, and reads a photo of your fridge to keep your pantry honest. The AI is the engine, not the product — the product is a calmer week of dinners.
Four small principles that have done a lot of work.
Cook first.
Software cannot improve cooking from a distance. Every contributor cooks something Mise plans every week.
The week is the unit.
Recipes are tiny tactical objects. Weeks are the scale of habit, money, waste, and joy.
Privacy is a feature.
We don't train on your data. Your health metrics live on your device unless you explicitly share them.
Calm software.
Mise should never panic you. No streak shaming, no notification roulette, no dark patterns.
Josh Strauss
I'm building Mise around a simple goal: help you decide what to cook, use what you already have, and get dinner on the table with less planning.
Looking for an intro? hello@getmise.org
Things people ask before downloading.
- Mise Plus ($9.99/month or $79.99/year) connects your weekly plan to pantry scans, recipe imports, meal swaps, grocery updates, and Sage. It is designed for people who cook regularly and want help adjusting the week as plans change. Start with Free to see whether the workflow fits; Plus is there when you want more help with the week.
- You can keep the tracker you already use. Mise helps turn your protein target, pantry, and cooking schedule into meals and a grocery list. Optional Apple Health sync supplies supported body metrics; Plus adds workout context. Mise does not automatically import another tracker's food logs or targets. Enter your chosen targets in Mise and use each app for the part of your routine it supports.
- Free includes catalogue-backed meal plans, Cook Mode, manual pantry and grocery lists, saved recipes, Apple Health body-metric sync, cooking streaks, and the Learn library. Its AI feature maxima are 1 plan every 14 days, 5 Sage messages per rolling 30 days, 1 Photo → Pantry scan per rolling 30 days, and 2 photo-label Product Fit scans per rolling 30 days; those maxima share a fair-use AI safety allowance. Barcode and cached Product Fit checks remain available under an abuse guard. The app opens recipes through your plans and saved cookbook; the public recipe collection can be explored on the website. Mise Plus ($9.99/mo or $79.99/yr) adds meal swaps, full-plan regeneration, recipe generation and import, receipt and menu scanning, smart grocery pricing, and pantry expiration reminders. Paid AI access is for normal personal use with safety safeguards.
- US prices and 14-day free trials have been in effect since October 18, 2026. Public App Store release remains pending. Eligible subscribers get 14 days free on monthly and annual Mise Plus and Family Plus plans. After the trial, Plus renews at $9.99/month or $79.99/year, and Family Plus renews at $14.99/month or $119.99/year. Annual plans charge the full yearly amount at renewal. The App Store determines eligibility. One introductory trial per subscription group; switching plans does not give you another trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Cancel in App Store subscription settings at least 24 hours before the trial or current billing period ends. Trial feature maxima are 3 complete plan generations (including regenerations), 30 Sage messages, 5 combined pantry, receipt, menu, or product-label photo scans, 5 AI meal swaps, and 3 combined custom recipe generations or imports, with matching cover generation when needed. Those maxima share a trial-wide AI safety allowance. Plus trial allowances apply per subscriber. The staged Family release uses one shared allowance per Family household, not per member; Family trial sharing is not active yet. Confirm your localized renewal price and offer on the App Store purchase screen.
- Mise launches on iPhone first (iOS 17+), with a companion Apple Watch app. Apple has approved the app; the public App Store release is pending. Visit the Get Mise page for launch availability. Android is planned and is not available to install yet.
- No. Mise works great with manual entry. If you connect Apple Health, Mise reads weight and body-composition signals so plans adapt as you do — but it's not required.