Local-first meal planning

Your kitchen.
On your machine.

Plan the week, build the shopping list, and get it to the shop — all on your own computer, with the wifi off if you like. Free to download and keep. No account, and nothing to sign up for.

Free to downloadWindowsOptional $25 unlock, paid once — never a subscription

How it works

Four steps, start to shop.

Recipe to calendar to shopping list to your phone. Nothing here is a mock-up — these are the actual screens.

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Build a recipe once.

Name it, time it, give it a photo, then pull ingredients straight from the offline catalog. Recipes are the source of truth — planning one adds its ingredients to the shopping list automatically.

Search 1,000+ offline ingredients, or look one up in USDA
Drop in a photo, or let an import fill the cover for you

Every screen

Seven screens. No filler.

Gather is one window with seven tabs. Here is what each of them actually does.

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Decide once what you are eating.

Meals sit on real dates, so Tuesday is Tuesday. Move one to Thursday and the shopping list follows on its own — you do not go back and fix anything.

Drag a meal from one day to another
Plan 15 days at a time for free; a full month with the unlock
Leftovers: say what is left and plan it into another meal
Plan My Week proposes a week from the recipes you already own (Premium)

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Paste a link. Keep the recipe.

Import from any recipe website and it lands in your library with its ingredients, its method and its nutrition — yours from then on, whether or not that page still exists next year.

Works on pages that have gone offline since you saved them
Nutrition per serving and for the whole batch
A cooking log of what you actually made
Free holds 60 recipes; the unlock removes the ceiling

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1,000 foods, before you type anything.

A category-balanced USDA SR Legacy catalog is seeded into the database at first launch, so the app is useful offline from the moment it opens. Every seeded row is editable exactly like one you created.

Spread across Produce, Dairy & Eggs, Meat & Seafood, Baking, Pantry, Beverages
Search USDA FoodData Central to add more, normalised per 100 g
Densities let a tablespoon of oil count toward the totals, not nothing
Ctrl+K searches recipes, ingredients, pantry and shopping at once

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Do not shop for what is already in the cupboard.

Track the staples you keep on hand, on separate Food and Home shelves. Gather subtracts them from what your plan needs in date order, so the list only asks for what will genuinely have run out by the time you shop.

Set a shopping window and see the projected balance
A what-to-buy view of only the genuine shortfall
Low-stock thresholds, storage notes, and parking staples you are not buying
Part of the one-time Premium unlock

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The list writes itself.

Everything you planned, added up into one list with real quantities. Two recipes wanting rice become one line, so you buy the right amount instead of guessing in the aisle.

Scoped to the trip you are shopping for, not to everything you ever planned
Log what you actually paid; the next estimate scales to the quantity you need
Live Kroger prices for your store, free
Send the list straight to your Kroger cart, in your store’s aisle order (Premium)

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Patterns, calculated on your device.

Averages across the days you actually planned — not a generic target, and not something computed on a server you have to trust.

Average daily calories, protein, fiber and saturated fat
Sodium and added sugars as upper limits; calcium, iron and vitamin C as daily-value goals
Highest-cost items, so you can see where the estimate goes
Your most common meals and most-used ingredients

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Take it to the store.

Send to Phone starts a small local server and shows a QR code. Your phone loads the list over your own Wi-Fi — no account, and nothing uploaded to anyone's cloud.

A service worker caches the list so it survives losing signal
Optional Cloudflare, Ngrok or Localtunnel link when you are off the network
Read-only: the mobile endpoint has no way to mutate your database
Or print a clean US Letter plan and shopping list

Local-first

Nothing leaves your machine.

No account, no cloud database, no telemetry, no advertising. One SQLite file on your own disk that keeps working with the Wi-Fi off.

No subscription

Software you buy stays bought.

One payment, and being offline never costs you it. Gather re-checks once a day that the key is still active — it sends the key and nothing else, and no answer is treated as a bad answer.

Dietary

Flags where you will see them.

Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, keto, allergens and daily caps — surfaced on the day, the recipe, the ingredient and the shopping row.

Optional AI

Your key, your model.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including a local one. You pay your provider directly, never us. While disabled it is absent from the interface entirely.

Your data

One file you can open yourself.

Everything lives in a single SQLite database on your disk. Copy it to back up, open it with any database browser to see exactly what is stored, and take it with you if you ever stop using Gather.

Pricing

Pay once. Keep it forever.

The free tier is not a trial and does not expire. Everything Premium adds is listed below — no more, no less.

Download

Free

The whole application, for as long as you want it.

Up to 60 recipes
Import recipes from any recipe website
Meal planning, 15 days at a time
Shopping lists with real quantities, combined across recipes
Allergen and dietary warnings
Nutrition per serving and for the whole batch
Kitchen mode — a full-screen, hands-free view for cooking
Leftovers: say what is left, plan it into another meal
A cooking log of what was actually made
Live Kroger prices for your store
Backups
Send your shopping list to your phone over your own wifi

Download for Windows

Windows 10 and 11

Premium · lifetime

$25once

Not a subscription

One payment
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3 devices
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Works offline forever

Adds exactly what is listed here. Nothing you already made is taken away.

Send the list straight to your Kroger cart
The whole shop, in your cart, without retyping it. Free shows you live prices for your store; Premium does the ordering.
Your store's own aisle order
The list sorted the way you actually walk the shop, so you stop doubling back. Compare prices between stores while you are at it.
AI tools, with your own key
Invent a recipe from what is in the fridge, import from pages that defeat a normal importer, and fill in what Gather does not know about an ingredient. You supply a key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, OpenRouter or a local model. Gather does not resell AI and charges nothing for usage.
Plan My Week, and a full month
A whole week proposed from the recipes you already own, and a full month on the calendar instead of a fortnight.
The whole household
Everyone who eats at your table, each with their own dietary needs. Plus unlimited recipes, pantry tracking and price history, Cookbook PDF export, and backups to a folder you choose — including a synced one.

Coming, and included

Sharing between computers in the same household
Reaching your own kitchen machine from anywhere, at your own address

Planned, not shipped. Anyone who buys now gets them when they land — there is no upgrade fee, and there never will be.

Unlock Premium — $25 once

Checkout by Lemon Squeezy. Your key arrives by email — paste it into Settings. No account, and no personal details are stored.

Free holds 60 recipes and plans a 30-day window — 15 days either side of today. Reach either and Gather says so plainly.

Guide

How to use Gather

From installing it to importing recipes, planning a month, teaching it your prices, and taking the list to the shop.

Read it

Answers

Frequently asked questions

What the $25 unlocks, where your data lives, how the offline licence works, and why two quantities sometimes will not merge.