SideChef: Recipes & Meal Plans

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About this app

Dinner has never been easier to prepare! In just 10 min - plan your weekly meals, build shopping lists & have groceries delivered right to your door!

Save time, money, and eat better (healthier). SideChef’s mission is to help you cook smarter, for you and your loved ones.

More than just curating 11,000+ step-by-step recipes and weekly meal plans from top food bloggers, writers, and renowned Chefs - SideChef gives you the simple tools to:

// COOK //
* Curated Meal Plans: Get inspired by weekly meal plans and add them directly to your meal planner
* Cook Better: Let step-by-step photos, video and audio instructions, and CookAssist technology guide you to amazing results.
* Search: Find recipes you and your loved ones enjoy that are delicious, healthy, simple to prepare, and easy to follow.
* Filter & Sort: Select recipes for your diet, and sort them by time and number of ingredients.

// PLAN //
* Meal Plan: Organize what to eat for the week using SideChef's recipes or adding your own.
* Be Inspired: Find new collections of cooking ideas twice a week to impress your family and friends!
* Create Cookbooks: Organize your favorite recipes for any given occasion.

// SHOP //
* Order Groceries: Create one shopping list from multiple recipes and have everything delivered right to your doorstep.
* Use What You Have: Get recipe suggestions based on ingredients you already have in your fridge or pantry.
* Share: Message or email recipes and shopping lists to your loved ones.

// CONNECT //
* Now with CookAssist technology! You can remotely control your compatible smart ovens and ranges with 2,000+ CookAssist enabled smart recipes. More CookAssist enabled smart recipes are added daily.
* Link your LG SmartThinQ account and let SideChef CookAssist technology remotely control your compatible LG smart ovens and ranges.
* More appliance partners are coming soon. Stay tuned!


Features to make cooking and meal planning easy:
* Recommendations for recipes and meal plan ideas
* Search recipes by diets (e.g. vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, paleo, low-carb, keto, atkins), dish (e.g. dinner, lunch, seafood, drinks. soups), cuisine (e.g. American, Asian, Italian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, French, Indian), and time
* Meal planner
* Shopping list
* Online grocery delivery
* Create your own cookbooks
* CookAssist to remotely control your compatible smart ovens and ranges


Featured by The New York Times, ABC News, Forbes, Wired, USA Today, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, Business Insider.

“If you’re always scorching the stew and you just can’t seem to achieve perfectly puffed chocolate chip cookies, let this free app serve as your new cooking companion. “ — Real Simple

“If you’ve ever ruined an entire meal because of a seemingly tiny mistake in timing or ingredient proportioning, then we have an app for you.” — Business Insider
11K+ Easy Guided Recipes, Meal Plans and Google's Best Apps of 2017
Updated on
29 Sept 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 3 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

8K reviews
s clc
7 November 2026
I love this app and recommendit all the time! You can create folders for recipes so that you can find your favorites or store recipes you'd like to try. they have step by step instructions usually with pictures. And my favorite part is being able to select ingredients in which I would like to cook with. they have enough great free recipes that you can utilize you don't need to pay for premium unless you are an avid cook (which I'm not).
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SideChef
10 November 2026
Thank you for downloading our app! We will keep working on it!
Kay
8 October 2026
There are some improvements this app could make but it's a good digital tool for recipe development, storage, and organization. One big improvement I'd love to see is when I'm creating a new recipe, I would love to be able to move the ingredients around while editing (to avoid deleting a whole list of entries to add an ingredient in chronological order). I need to use the app more to familiarize myself but this would hugely help quality of life
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L Arredondo
28 January 2021
Truly one of the best recipe apps I have used and during stay-at-home, I have tried a lot and none come close to sidechef. So many great recipes that can be curated by levels of difficulty, ingredients, cuisine, dish type, diet, etc. I've only used the free version and it's impressive. My only minor suggestion is if you could customize your grocery store. Currently it only offers Walmart, which is not my preferred store. Shout-out to HEB!
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What's new

- Supports Android 16
- Bug fix.
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Phone number
+8615618132485
About the developer
Sidechef Inc.
3413 Mira Vista Cir San Jose, CA 95132 United States
+86 189 3040 2793

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