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ForkTasker offers two plans:
Both plans include a 7-day free trial with no credit card required to start.
Yes — every new account starts with a 7-day free trial. No credit card is required to sign up. You get full access to your chosen plan's features during the trial so you can actually test it before paying.
Your trial lasts the full 7 days and includes 5 AI actions. AI actions cover My Chef conversations, pantry photo scans, receipt scans, and recipe imports. Once you've used all 5 AI actions, AI features pause for the remainder of the trial — but you can still browse recipes, build meal plans manually, and manage your pantry for the full 7 days. After 7 days, you're prompted to subscribe to continue.
Yes, ForkTasker is a monthly subscription — $9.99/month for Basic or $19.99/month for Premium. There are no annual contracts. You're billed month-to-month and can cancel at any time from your account settings.
Your subscription renews automatically each month on your billing date. Stripe sends a receipt email after each charge.
Yes, absolutely. Cancel anytime from Profile → Manage Subscription inside the app. There are no cancellation fees and no hoops to jump through.
When you cancel, you keep access until the end of your current billing period. Your saved meal plans and recipes remain on file — if you resubscribe later, everything is exactly as you left it.
Account data is retained for 90 days after cancellation, then removed. This gives you a window to return with your personalized plans and preferences intact.
AI Credits power the features that require real-time AI processing — My Chef conversations, pantry photo scanning, and recipe photo import. Each plan includes a monthly AI credit allowance bundled into the subscription price.
Most users never hit the limit. If you're a heavy My Chef user or scan a lot of pantry photos, you can purchase additional credits (starting at $2.99) from Profile → AI Credits. Purchased credits never expire.
Your meal plan, recipe library, shopping list, and Instacart/Walmart cart are always available regardless of credit balance.
Basic gives you automated weekly planning — you set your preferences, choose your cuisines and meal types, and ForkTasker builds your week and shopping list automatically.
Premium adds the conversational AI layer: My Chef lets you plan through natural conversation ("quick dinners this week, no red meat, something from my pantry tonight"), Smart Plan scores recipes by what's already in your pantry to minimize your grocery bill, and the scanning features keep your pantry current automatically.
If you just want a solid weekly plan and shopping list, Basic is plenty. If you want a genuinely intelligent cooking companion, Premium is the upgrade.
Right now ForkTasker is one account per household. During onboarding (and anytime in your preferences) you set your household size — adults and children with ages — and ForkTasker adjusts serving sizes, recipe complexity, and kid-friendliness accordingly. Multi-seat family accounts are on the roadmap for a future release.
No — ForkTasker can plan any combination of meal types across any days. When building a plan you can choose:
With My Chef (Premium), just say it conversationally: "dinners every night and a couple of lunches for the week, no breakfast."
ForkTasker plans by week — each plan covers a Monday-to-Sunday period. You can build plans for multiple weeks in advance, and each week's plan is saved to your account independently so you can look back at any time.
With My Chef, you can plan multiple weeks ahead in one conversation — just ask for the weeks you want and it will build and save each one. Month-view planning (a true 30-day calendar view) is on the product roadmap.
Yes. During onboarding and in your preferences, you can set dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, halal, keto, and more) and specific allergies. ForkTasker filters the entire recipe library accordingly so you only ever see meals that fit your household.
With My Chef you can also give one-off instructions per plan: "skip anything with shellfish this week" or "keep it vegetarian for the next two weeks."
Yes. ForkTasker's recipe library spans 20+ world cuisines — American, Italian, Mexican, Thai, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Mediterranean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, French, Greek, and more. You set your favourites and cuisines to avoid in preferences, and your plans will always stay within those boundaries. You can change them anytime.
Yes. Every meal slot in your plan has a swap button — one tap picks a new recipe that fits your preferences and doesn't repeat anything else from your current week. With My Chef you can also swap conversationally: "replace Wednesday dinner with something Korean" or "I don't feel like pasta tonight, find me something else."
You set your household size in preferences (1–8+ people) and ForkTasker uses that as the default serving count when displaying recipes and scaling shopping lists. You can also ask My Chef to plan for a specific number of people — handy when you're hosting guests.
Yes. ForkTasker includes a curated library of 10,000+ real recipes spanning 20+ world cuisines. Every recipe includes full ingredients with quantities, step-by-step instructions, prep and cook times, serving sizes, dietary tags, and a cuisine label.
With 10,000+ recipes across 20+ cuisines, variety is built in — you have years' worth of meals to rotate through.
Yes. My Recipes is your personal collection. You can add recipes manually, import them from a photo of a cookbook page (Premium), or have My Chef save a recipe you described in conversation. Saved recipes appear in your plan pool alongside the ForkTasker library and show up in your shopping list like any other recipe.
Yes — three ways:
The library is intentionally broad — it spans everything from quick weeknight staples and family comfort food to lighter meals and special occasion dishes. What counts as "healthy" depends on your goals, so ForkTasker doesn't impose a definition. Instead, you can filter by dietary tags (keto, low-carb, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc.) and set a maximum prep time to find recipes that fit your lifestyle. The rest is up to you.
No — ForkTasker's plan builder enforces variety within each week so you won't see the same recipe twice. It also mixes up your cuisine rotation to keep things fresh. With My Chef (Premium), you can plan multiple weeks at once and it automatically avoids repeating recipes from your previous weeks. With 10,000+ recipes across 20+ cuisines, you have years of variety available.
Yes — automatically. Once your meal plan is set, tap "Build Instacart Cart" or "Build Walmart Cart" in My Plan. ForkTasker combines every ingredient from every recipe in your week, deduplicates quantities (so "1 cup onion" across three recipes becomes one consolidated quantity), and sends it directly to your Instacart or Walmart cart ready to checkout.
Always review your cart before checking out. ForkTasker populates it based on your recipes — if an ingredient you already own (like salt or olive oil) wasn't in your pantry inventory, it will appear in the cart. A quick scan before you confirm saves you from buying things you don't need.
You can also print or export a plain text shopping list if you prefer to shop in person.
ForkTasker builds and sends your cart to Instacart or Walmart — the actual delivery is handled by those services. You complete checkout on their platform (selecting delivery window, tipping, etc.) and they handle the rest. ForkTasker's job is to make sure your cart is built correctly from your meal plan so you don't have to type out every ingredient yourself.
Keep in mind that product availability varies by region and store. Instacart and Walmart will fill your cart with what's in stock in your area — specific brands, sizes, or cuts may differ from what a recipe calls for. We recommend reviewing your cart and making any substitutions before placing your order.
ForkTasker uses the Instacart and Walmart APIs to push your ingredient list directly into a pre-filled cart on those platforms. When you tap the cart button in ForkTasker, a link opens with your cart already populated — you review it, make any adjustments, and check out. No copy-pasting required.
A few things to be aware of:
Yes. You can build and maintain a pantry inventory on any plan. Basic users can add and manage pantry items by typing them in manually. Premium adds photo scanning — photograph your fridge, pantry shelf, or a grocery receipt and ForkTasker reads the image and adds the items automatically.
Either way, when you build your shopping list, ForkTasker automatically deducts what's already in your pantry so you only buy what you actually need. My Chef (Premium) also uses your pantry when suggesting recipes — it finds meals that use what's already there first.
Absolutely. The Instacart and Walmart cart options are convenience features — you're never required to use them. You can print a plain shopping list, view it on screen and shop in-store, or copy it to your own list app. The meal planning, recipe library, and all other features work completely independently of the grocery integrations.
My Chef is a conversational AI powered by Claude (Anthropic's AI). It knows your taste profile, your pantry, your household size, and your dietary preferences — and it can search ForkTasker's recipe library in real time to find exactly what fits your situation.
You talk to it like you would a real personal chef: "Quick dinner tonight using what's in my fridge, feeds three people" or "Build me a week of Mediterranean dinners with one Asian night." It pulls real recipes, builds real plans, and saves everything to your account — no hallucinated meals.
Yes. ForkTasker remembers your set preferences (cuisines, dietary restrictions, household size, max prep time) permanently. My Chef also builds personal notes over time — if you mention you have picky kids or that you loved a particular recipe, it remembers for future sessions and gets smarter about what to suggest.
A regular meal plan picks recipes that match your cuisine and dietary preferences. Smart Plan goes a step further — it scores every candidate recipe by how many ingredients you already have in your pantry, then chooses recipes that share ingredients across the week. The result is a plan that minimizes what you need to buy, reduces food waste, and gets you more mileage out of what's already in your kitchen.
Ask My Chef: "Build me a smart plan for the week" or "Use my pantry — minimize my shopping list."
Yes. My Chef handles both full weekly plans and single on-the-fly requests equally well. "I'm in a rush — find me a 30-minute dinner tonight using my pantry" gets you one specific recipe with a pantry match summary. You can then ask for the full instructions, add it to your plan, or just cook it tonight without saving anything.
Photograph your fridge, pantry shelf, or kitchen counter with your phone camera and upload the photo in ForkTasker. The AI reads the image and identifies every food ingredient visible — listing them by name in plain English. You confirm or edit the list, and the items are added to your pantry inventory. The same works for grocery receipts: snap the receipt after shopping and it parses every food item automatically.
One important limitation: the AI can see what is in the photo, but it cannot determine how much you have. It will identify "milk" or "olive oil" but won't know if you have a full gallon or just a splash left. Quantities default to a generic amount — you'll want to review and adjust them after scanning so your shopping list stays accurate. Think of the scan as doing the heavy lifting on identifying items; the fine-tuning is up to you.
ForkTasker is currently a web app that runs in any browser — no download required. Native iOS and Android apps are on the roadmap. In the meantime, you can add ForkTasker to your phone's home screen directly from your browser for a full app-like experience:
This gives you a dedicated launch icon and quick access from your home screen.
Yes — ForkTasker is fully responsive and optimized for phones and tablets. The meal plan grid, recipe cards, My Chef chat, pantry scanner, and grocery cart builder all work on mobile. Most users do their weekly planning and chatting with My Chef on their phone.
ForkTasker works in all modern browsers — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge on both desktop and mobile. For camera-based features (pantry scan, receipt scan, recipe photo import) you'll need a browser that supports camera access, which all major mobile browsers do.
ForkTasker is a PWA (Progressive Web App) that caches itself locally for fast, offline-friendly access. When we ship an update, the new version downloads in the background the next time you open the app — most of the time you don't need to do anything.
If a new feature isn't showing up, a force-refresh will pull the latest version:
If you're ever unsure whether you're on the latest version, opening ForkTasker in a regular browser tab (not the installed PWA) always runs the most current version with no caching in between.
Meal kit services are a delivery product — they send you pre-portioned, pre-selected ingredients (and sometimes pre-prepped components) on a subscription schedule, typically priced per serving. You cook what arrives. ForkTasker is a completely different category: it's a meal planning and recipe tool.
ForkTasker helps you decide what to cook, builds your shopping list from real recipes, and pushes that list directly to your Instacart or Walmart cart — but you buy your own groceries at regular store prices. The recipes are based on what you want to eat, what's in your pantry, and your household's preferences — not a fixed rotation chosen for you.
The result is full flexibility with no delivery markups: no locked-in weekly menus, no minimum orders, no penalty for skipping a night. You're cooking from real ingredients you chose and bought yourself.
Yes. Email us at support@forktasker.com and we typically respond within 24 hours on business days. Premium subscribers receive priority support with faster response times. We don't yet have live chat, but it's on the roadmap.
Yes. Your account data — meal plans, pantry, preferences, and My Chef conversation context — is stored on our own servers and never sold to third parties. We protect it with encrypted HTTPS transmission, bcrypt password hashing, and row-level access controls so each user can only access their own data.
Your conversations with My Chef are processed by Anthropic's Claude API. Anthropic's privacy policy prohibits using your conversation data to train their models. You can review it at anthropic.com/privacy.
We do not share your personal information with grocery partners. When you build an Instacart or Walmart cart, only ingredient names are sent — no account details, no name, no email.
See our full Privacy Policy for details.
Your meal plans, saved recipes, and account data remain on file after cancellation. If you resubscribe, everything is exactly as you left it. Account data is retained for 90 days after cancellation, then permanently removed — so you have a full window to return with your personalized plans and preferences intact.
You can request permanent deletion of your account and data at any time by emailing support@forktasker.com.
On the login screen, tap "Forgot password?" and enter your email address. You'll receive a reset link within a few minutes (check your spam folder if it doesn't appear). The link expires after 1 hour for security. If you run into issues, email support@forktasker.com.
Yes. Plan changes (upgrade/downgrade) are managed from Profile → Manage Subscription inside the app, powered by the Stripe customer portal. Email address changes are currently handled by contacting support — email us at support@forktasker.com and we'll update it for you.
Share your unique referral link from Profile → Refer & Save inside the app. When a friend signs up through your link and subscribes, both of you get a reward:
Credits are applied automatically to your next ForkTasker bill — no claiming, no codes, no manual steps. You can refer as many friends as you like and credits stack.
Find your referral link inside the app: open ForkTasker → Profile → Refer & Save.
The discount applies at the moment your friend subscribes — not during the free trial. Here's the exact sequence:
So they pay full price for nothing — the discount is baked into their very first payment.
You earn your credit when your friend's subscription auto-renews for the second month — not at sign-up, and not at month one. This is intentional: it confirms your friend is a genuine ongoing subscriber, not someone who signed up for the discount and left.
The credit amount is 15% of what your friend paid on that renewal:
If your friend subscribes but cancels before their second bill, no credit is issued — but you can still re-invite them later once they're ready to stick around.
Your credit is added to your ForkTasker account balance automatically — you don't need to do anything. On your next billing date, Stripe deducts the available credit from your charge before it runs. You'll see the reduced amount on your Stripe receipt.
If you've referred multiple friends, credits stack and carry forward month by month until fully used. Your in-app Refer & Save card always shows your current balance and which referrals have qualified.
No cash payout — referral rewards are applied as bill credits that reduce your monthly ForkTasker subscription cost. There are no cash transfers and no tax forms (1099s) issued. This keeps it clean and simple for everyone.
No cap — you can refer as many friends as you like. If you refer 10 friends who all stay for a second month, that's 10 credits stacking up against future bills. Refer enough and your subscription pays for itself.
Credits remain on file if you cancel — they'll be waiting if you resubscribe within 90 days.
Our team is happy to help — or just start your free trial and try it yourself. No credit card needed.
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