# Lilara

> Lilara is a family meal planner app for iOS. Households plan the week's meals together in real time, generate a full week with AI Smart Plans, import recipes from a link, keep shared recipes and an automatic aisle-sorted shopping list, see per-recipe and per-day nutrition, keep allergens and disliked ingredients off the plan, and get meal reminders in 10+ languages. Home and lock screen widgets show the day's meals at a glance.

> Lilara's free tier is not a trial and carries no advertising. Real-time shared planning for up to 4 people, personal recipes, import from a link, nutrition, allergen and dislike filtering, curated recipe packs, meal reminders, widgets and Siri all cost nothing, with no expiry date. Free accounts are capped at 4 family members, 14 Smart Plan days per month, a 14-day planning horizon and editing meals up to 3 days back; the calendar month view, grouping meals by member, custom reminder times and generating the shopping list from the plan are Pro-only. Pro is optional and sold monthly, annually, or as a one-off lifetime purchase.

## Guides

- [The Complete Guide to Family Meal Planning](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/family-meal-planning-guide/): The comprehensive guide to running family meal planning as a shared system — the routine, the roles, the shopping and the different eaters.
- [How to Plan Your Family’s Meals for the Week](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/how-to-plan-meals-for-the-week/): A step-by-step guide to weekly meal planning — from picking recipes to filling in your planner in under 15 minutes.
- [10 Family Meal Planning Tips That Actually Work](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/family-meal-planning-tips/): Simple, practical strategies to get your household meals organised without the Sunday-night stress.
- [What Should I Make for Dinner Tonight?](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/what-should-i-make-for-dinner-tonight/): Beat the 5pm "what's for dinner?" freeze with a quick decision framework and a list of fallback family dinners.
- [Meal Planning for Beginners: A 15-Minute Weekly Routine](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/meal-planning-for-beginners/): How to plan your first week of family dinners in 15 minutes — and actually stick to it.
- [A Free Weekly Meal Planner Template for Families](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/weekly-meal-planner-template/): A family-friendly weekly meal planner template — with a "who's cooking" column and a matching shopping list.
- [Meal Planning for Busy Families](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/meal-planning-for-busy-families/): How two-parent, over-scheduled households plan dinners: one shared plan, a real-calendar match, and a rotation of go-to meals.
- [How to Feed Your Family on a Budget](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/feed-your-family-on-a-budget/): The systematic UK guide to a cheaper food bill: cost-per-portion dinners, shopping the offers, batch cooking and the plan that ties it together.
- [Feed a Family of 4 for £50 a Week: A Full Costed Plan](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/feed-a-family-of-4-for-50-a-week/): A real seven-day dinner plan and full shopping list that feeds a UK family of four for under £50 — with per-meal costs and honest trade-offs.
- [Why Is My Food Bill So High?](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/why-is-my-food-bill-so-high/): The five behavioural leaks that quietly inflate a UK family food bill — and the four-receipt audit that shows you exactly where your money is going.
- [Meal Planning to Reduce Food Waste](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/meal-planning-to-reduce-food-waste/): Fridge-first meal planning, an eat-me-first shelf and a leftovers slot: the workflow that turns binned food back into money for a UK family.
- [Feeding Picky Eaters: A Calmer Plan That Actually Works](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/feeding-picky-eaters/): Why children get fussy, and how a simple weekly plan — safe foods, no-pressure new foods, one shared meal — makes feeding them calmer.
- [Toddler Won't Eat Dinner? Here's What's Really Going On](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/toddler-wont-eat-dinner/): Why your toddler won't eat dinner but wants a snack, and how set mealtimes, a snack gap and a guaranteed safe food reduce the refusals.
- [How to Stop Cooking Separate Meals for Your Kids](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/stop-cooking-separate-meals/): How to stop cooking two or three dinners: build meals around a safe component, serve them deconstructed, and plan the safe food in advance.
- [Family Dinners Everyone Will Actually Eat](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/family-dinners-everyone-will-eat/): 10 flexible family dinners everyone will actually eat, with simple per-person tweaks — one meal, cooked once, adapted at the table.
- [Dinner Ideas for Working Parents: Build a Weeknight System](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/working-parents-weeknight-dinners/): A repeatable weeknight system for working parents — plan once, shop once, share the load, and get dinner on the table in 20 minutes.
- [The Mental Load of Meal Planning — and How to Actually Share It](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/mental-load-of-meal-planning/): Name the invisible work of feeding a family — deciding, remembering, tracking — and a practical checklist for sharing it instead of carrying it alone.
- [Quick After-School Teas: Beating the 3:30–6pm Rush](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/quick-after-school-teas/): Survive the after-school rush with 15-minute teas, the snack-vs-tea call, and a few prep-ahead moves that win the evening before it starts.
- [How to Share Meal Planning With Your Partner](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/share-meal-planning-with-partner/): How couples share a meal plan for real — one shared source of truth, a fair split of the cooking, and a shopping list you both can see.
- [Batch Cooking for Families: One Sunday, a Week of Dinners](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/batch-cooking-for-families/): How to turn one 2–3 hour Sunday session into a week of family dinners — the timeline, the shopping list, and how to store it all.
- [Family Freezer Meals: What Freezes Well (and What Doesn't)](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/family-freezer-meals/): The categorised guide to what freezes well for families — plus how to label, defrost and reheat home-cooked meals safely.
- [The Best Meal Planner App for Families in 2026](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/best-meal-planner-app-for-families/): What to look for in a family meal planner app, and how Lilara compares to the most popular options.
- [Free Meal Planner Apps for Families: What's Actually Free](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/free-meal-planner-app-for-families/): How to tell a genuinely free family meal planner from a trial, an ad-funded one, or a single-user free tier — and what Lilara includes for nothing.
- [AI Meal Planner for Families: What It Can (and Can't) Do](https://www.lilara.co.uk/articles/ai-meal-planner-for-families/): What AI meal planners actually do for families, where they fall short, and how a review-and-confirm approach beats blind automation.

## Compare

- [Lilara vs other meal planner apps](https://www.lilara.co.uk/compare/): feature-by-feature comparison hub
- [Lilara vs Cozi](https://www.lilara.co.uk/compare/lilara-vs-cozi/)
- [Lilara vs Mealime](https://www.lilara.co.uk/compare/lilara-vs-mealime/)
- [Lilara vs Paprika](https://www.lilara.co.uk/compare/lilara-vs-paprika/)
- [Lilara vs Plan to Eat](https://www.lilara.co.uk/compare/lilara-vs-plan-to-eat/)
- [Lilara vs AnyList](https://www.lilara.co.uk/compare/lilara-vs-anylist/)

## App

- [Lilara website](https://www.lilara.co.uk/)
- [Pricing: what is free and what Pro adds](https://www.lilara.co.uk/pricing/): the full Free vs Pro breakdown, with every limit stated
- [Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/lilara-family-meal-planner/id6751917561)

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://www.lilara.co.uk/privacy.html)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.lilara.co.uk/terms.html)