Welcome to PrepSmart — What You Can Do Here
Welcome to your new home for cooking. PrepSmart takes the recipes from the creators, brands, and stores you follow and organizes them around the one thing that matters most: what you actually want to eat. Whether you follow a specific diet, work around allergies, cook for a household, or just want dinner to feel easier, PrepSmart turns recipes you love into a personalized plan, a smart shopping list, and step-by-step cooking — all in one place, and 100% ad-free.
How PrepSmart Works
Everything starts with your Food World — your personalized, diet-filtered universe of recipes and creators. Your diet is the organizing principle here, not just a filter: it shapes what you see across the whole app. You pick your diet during setup, and you can change it anytime — nothing is deleted when you do, your Food World simply reorganizes around your new choice.
From there, recipes flow through a simple loop:
- Find recipes in your Food World and in Explore (discovery), from the creators, brands, stores, and appliances you follow.
- Save the ones you love to your Recipe Box (your saved recipes).
- Plan your week on a Weekly Plan — a freeform canvas, not a rigid calendar grid. Group meals into Meal Tiles you label yourself, like "Taco Tuesday" or "Sunday batch cook."
- Shop with a Smart Shopping List that builds itself from your Meal Tiles — quantities combined, organized by aisle, aware of your store, and it cascades automatically when you edit your plan.
- Cook from your Cook List with clear, step-by-step guidance. Use Flex Steps to divide cooking tasks across your household so the work gets shared.
A couple of helpers along the way: Smart Convert adapts recipes to fit how you cook, and your shopping list stays in sync no matter how much you rearrange your week.
Free by Default, Plus Two Optional Upgrades
PrepSmart is free to use, forever — and it's 100% ad-free at every level. On top of the free foundation, there are two completely independent upgrades you can add: PrepSmart+ and creator subscriptions. Add either, both, or neither — they're separate, and you never need one to get the other.
The Free Foundation (free forever)
- The full Plan → Shop → Cook loop
- Your Recipe Box and sortable Smart Shopping Lists
- Starter Recipes — a small, fixed, diet-matched set included with every account so you can start cooking right away
- All recipes from the brands, grocery stores, and appliances you follow
- Plus 3 free recipes from every creator you follow — yours to keep, forever
- Ad-free, always
PrepSmart+ ($4.99/month or $39.99/year)
PrepSmart+ adds the power features that make a busy week effortless. It comes with a 7-day free trial (a card is required to start). The four headline features are:
- Save & reload any week
- Import any recipe
- Shop smarter
- One pass, many hands
PrepSmart+ also includes cloud sync, household sharing for up to 5 people, and offline access.
Creator Subscriptions
Following a creator is always free — and gives you 3 of their recipes to keep. If you want more, you can subscribe to unlock that creator's full catalog beyond the 3 free recipes. Each creator sets their own price (most fall between $2.99 and $9.99/month). Creator subscriptions are completely independent of PrepSmart+ — you can subscribe to a creator on the free foundation, and you never need PrepSmart+ to do it. You decide whether to subscribe right inside the app, not during setup.
Follow (free) and Subscribe (paid) are different things — following costs nothing and always gets you those 3 free recipes per creator.
Getting Set Up Takes a Couple of Minutes
When you create your account, setup walks you through a few quick steps:
- Pick your diet from a single list of 25+ diet types and growing. This filters your Food World — and you can change it anytime, nothing is deleted. Don't see yours? There's a row to request a diet.
- Follow at least 3 creators, brands, or stores. (Your Starter Recipes count as one of those follows.)
- Set your household servings — choose 2, 4, or 6 (the default is 4).
- Set a weekly planning reminder — pick a day and time, and you'll get a real reminder when it's time to plan.
- Claim Your Picks — one free recipe from each creator you followed. The first is their top-rated recipe; the rest you can swap.
By the end of setup, your Recipe Box and your first Weekly Plan are already built — before you ever see a price.
Why Creators Matter Here
PrepSmart is built so the people who make great food actually get paid for it. When you subscribe to a creator, your money goes to them — not to a platform repackaging their work. Following is always free, subscribing is always your choice, and the creators set their own terms. It's a fairer deal for the people whose recipes power your kitchen.
Always Ad-Free
Every feature, every level. No ads, ever. Cooking is personal, and we keep it that way.
Ready to Get Started?
Create your account with just your phone number — we'll text you a one-time code to confirm it (no passwords to remember). Then set your diet, follow a few favorites, and PrepSmart will have your first week ready to go.
Questions? Browse the rest of this help guide or reach out to our support team.