Mealmento's Features
Preserve the stories, flavors, and people behind the recipes that shaped your life.
The digital cookbook for family & friends, not ads & algorithms.
Keep your favorite recipes, stories, and photos all in one place. Share them privately with family or out in the open—your choice. Plan gatherings without the chaos, scale servings with ease, and see your week come together on a single calendar. Shop smarter with connected grocery lists, get dinner ideas when you’re out of inspiration, and save recipes from anywhere online. With Mealmento, your cookbook finally feels like home.
1. Preserve Recipes & Memories
Every family has a few dishes that feel like home—recipes scribbled on old cards, tucked in drawers, or passed along in stories told while stirring a pot. But those details fade with time, and what made those meals special often gets lost in translation. Too many modern apps treat recipes as data points, not memories.
Mealmento was designed to capture more than just ingredients. You can add recipes with clear ingredient lists, directions, and serving sizes, then enrich them with photos, stories, or step-by-step cooking videos. Every instruction can be bookmarked to a moment in your video—so family can watch exactly how Grandma folded her dough or how Dad whisked that perfect sauce.
Over time, your recipe book becomes something deeper: a living archive of your family’s story. From handwritten notes to kitchen bloopers, it’s a place where the love, laughter, and lessons of cooking are preserved for the next generation. It’s your digital family cookbook, built with heart.
2. Share on Your Terms
Recipes are personal. They hold history, heritage, and sometimes a few secret tricks we’d rather not publish to the internet. Yet most recipe-sharing sites make it all or nothing—public or private, with no middle ground. That doesn’t work for families who want connection without exposure.
With Mealmento, you decide exactly who gets a seat at your table. Keep recipes private, share selectively in Tables with friends and family, or make them visible in the Mealmento Kitchen for others to enjoy. Granular privacy controls like Allow External Link and Allow Stories in Tables put every decision in your hands.
Whether you’re guarding Grandma’s secret pie crust or sharing your signature chili with the world, your recipes stay protected and yours to manage. Mealmento lets you share the joy of food without surrendering ownership or privacy—a modern way to connect on your terms.
3. Gather Without the Chaos
Group cooking should feel joyful—but more often it’s a logistical headache. Between long email threads, missing ingredients, and two people accidentally making the same dish, gatherings can turn stressful before they even begin.
Mealmento simplifies everything. Inside your private Tables, you can invite family and friends, assign recipes, and organize Table Gatherings with clarity. It even highlights potential allergy or cuisine conflicts automatically, so everyone feels seen and included.
Planning a reunion, holiday dinner, or Sunday potluck becomes as easy as setting the table. No spreadsheets, no stress—just shared dishes and shared memories. It’s digital planning with the warmth of a family kitchen.
4. Scale Effortlessly
Whether you’re cooking for two or feeding a crowd, scaling recipes can turn a calm kitchen into a guessing game. Too little salt, too much flour—suddenly your trusted family favorite doesn’t taste quite right.
That’s why Mealmento includes a built-in Serving Size Calculator. It automatically adjusts ingredient amounts for any serving size, keeping ratios and flavors perfectly balanced. You can even save scaled versions as new recipes for next time—no messy notes or second-guessing required.
Cooking should feel creative, not mathematical. With the Serving Size Calculator, you can cook confidently for any table, from quiet nights to holiday feasts. It’s precision made simple—just cook, serve, and enjoy.
5. Plan With Peace of Mind
Busy weeks make it hard to stay intentional about what we eat. Without a plan, groceries go to waste, meals repeat, and dinnertime stress creeps in when you least expect it.
With Mealmento’s Meal Planning Calendar, you can map out breakfasts, dinners, and everything in between in one clear view. Drop in recipes, plan around allergies* or preferences, and automatically generate shopping lists from your plan.
It’s a calmer, more mindful way to cook. Your week is laid out before you, your ingredients are ready, and your meals align with your life. Every evening feels a little lighter when your plan is already plated.
6. Shop With Purpose
Grocery shopping shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. Juggling paper lists, forgotten staples, and duplicate buys wastes time and money. For home cooks, that constant friction adds up.
Mealmento turns recipes and plans into organized Grocery Lists that sync with how you actually shop. Merge ingredients from multiple recipes, mark pantry staples you already own, and check off items as you move through the store using Grocery Cart Checklist mode on mobile.
The result? Fewer forgotten items, less waste, and a calmer kitchen. Shopping becomes intentional, efficient, and satisfying—like crossing off the final item on a list that makes life just a bit easier.
7. Say Goodbye to Dinner Stress
We all hit the “what’s for dinner” wall—scrolling aimlessly through options, too tired to decide. It’s decision fatigue disguised as meal planning.
The Recipe Picker takes the weight off your mind. It pulls from your saved favorites, family recipes, and even new ideas from your Tables to inspire the next meal. Whether you’re craving comfort food or something adventurous, the suggestions feel personalized and familiar.
Suddenly, dinner feels fun again. You rediscover forgotten favorites and spark fresh ideas without the stress of overthinking. It’s mealtime made simple—one tap, one great idea at a time.
8. Quickly Export Your Recipes
Most digital tools keep your content trapped behind logins and paywalls. If you ever leave, your data disappears. That’s not how family history should work.
Mealmento gives you full ownership of your content. Export your entire recipe library—including ingredients, instructions, and stories—as a CSV file anytime. You can print a family cookbook, create backups, or archive your legacy for safekeeping.
Your recipes aren’t just data—they’re part of your story. Keeping them accessible ensures that story is never lost, no matter how technology changes.
9. Easily Import Recipes from URLs
The internet is full of inspiration, but copying and pasting from food blogs quickly becomes a mess. Formatting breaks, measurements vanish, and the joy of discovery turns into frustration.
With Import from URL, you can save any online recipe directly into your Mealmento collection. The system automatically captures the title, prep time, servings, and full ingredient list, ready for you to customize with photos, stories, or family tweaks.
It’s the perfect bridge between the web and your personal cookbook. You discover new dishes anywhere—and keep them organized, meaningful, and truly yours.
*Allergy notice: Mealmento highlights potential allergens based on user profiles, but we can’t guarantee the accuracy of any recipe or any ingredient information. Always verify all ingredients and preparation methods yourself before preparing or serving food. If you or anyone else experiences an allergic reaction or medical emergency, immediately seek professional medical assistance or contact your local emergency services.