What is Cauli?
Cauli is an AI meal planner for iPhone that runs your eating week. Tell it what your week looks like and it decides how every meal happens: a fresh Cook, a Batch cooked once for several meals, or a Leftover on a busy night. Every meal is portioned to your calorie and protein target, and one grocery list covers the week. When life changes, you tell Cauli and it re-plans the rest of the week.
Who is Cauli for?
Anyone with a body goal for whom food is the bottleneck: lifters who know their macros and are tired of deciding, beginners with a clear goal who don't yet know how to eat for it, busy professionals who want it handled, and people who meal prep. It is not a calorie logger, a recipe browser or a family dinner planner.
What goals does Cauli support?
Lose fat, build muscle, recomp or maintain. Cauli sets a daily calorie and protein target from your goal, body and activity, or you can enter your own numbers. Every day is planned to land within 5% of your calories with protein close to target. Days aren't averaged across the week.
Does Cauli plan meal prep?
Yes. Every meal is a Cook, a Batch or a Leftover, chosen from the shape of your week. A Batch is cooked once and says what it feeds, for example tonight, Tuesday lunch and Wednesday dinner. Busy nights get a Leftover from an earlier Batch or a quick Cook of about 10 to 20 minutes.
Where do Cauli's nutrition numbers come from?
From food data, not from an AI's guess. Every ingredient's nutrition comes from USDA FoodData Central, or from the label for a branded product, and Cauli computes each meal's calories, protein, carbs and fat from the actual quantities. The methods page explains how.
Does Cauli know what's already in my kitchen?
If you want it to. Snap up to six photos (fridge, freezer, pantry, counter) or scan a grocery receipt, and Cauli keeps a simple have and don't-have list. It prefers meals that use what you have and plans what spoils first early in the week. It doesn't count quantities.
Can I add my own recipes?
Yes. Share a recipe to Cauli from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or the web, paste the text, or add a photo or screenshot. Cauli shows the macros per portion before you save it, then plans it into your weeks. Saving and skipping meals teaches Cauli what you like, so later weeks fit you better.
Does Cauli make a grocery list?
Yes. One list for the week, sorted by store and aisle, that always matches the plan, with a cost estimate as a range. Dishes are chosen to share ingredients so what you buy gets used up. Change a meal and the list changes with it. Cauli doesn't order or deliver groceries.
Can I change the plan during the week?
Yes. Ask Cauli in plain words, like "Thursday's a late night" or "something other than chicken tonight". It proposes the change, shows how it affects your numbers and groceries, and nothing moves until you confirm.
How is Cauli different from a calorie tracker like Cal AI or MyFitnessPal?
Trackers look backward: you scan or log what you already ate. Cauli looks forward: it decides what you'll eat this week so you hit your numbers, then you tap Ate it instead of logging.
Can't ChatGPT just make me a meal plan?
It can write one from a good prompt. It won't keep the plan in sync with a grocery list, re-plan Thursday when your week changes, remember what you liked last week, or compute nutrition from food data. Cauli is built to do those things every week.
Why use Cauli instead of an AI assistant like Claude Duet, ChatGPT Dots, Meta Muse or Instinct?
They're general agents for your inbox, calendar and errands, and they can write a meal plan when asked. Cauli does one job: it runs your eating week. Every meal is a Cook, a Batch or a Leftover around your busy nights, every number is computed from USDA food data or the label, allergies are checked in code, What Cauli knows shows everything it remembers, and each Weekly Reset uses what you saved, skipped and swapped. Our why-Cauli page has the details and a test of three AI models' calorie numbers.
I used Mealime. Is Cauli a replacement?
For meal preppers, partly. Cauli plans the week for you, merges it into one grocery list by aisle and plans Batches and Leftovers so food doesn't go to waste. It isn't a chef recipe library and it doesn't connect to store carts. Mealime closed on October 21, 2026; our Mealime page covers what still works and how to bring your recipes into Cauli.
Where can I get Cauli, and what does it cost?
Cauli is on the App Store for iPhone, in the US and in English, and runs on iPad too. It's a subscription through the App Store; the price is shown on the App Store listing and in the app before you subscribe. There is no free trial and no Android app yet.
Is Cauli the same as Caullie or CauliBox?
No. Cauli (getcauli.com) is an AI meal planner for iPhone made by CW Frontier Innovations LLC. It is not connected to apps or products with similar names, such as Caullie, a meal planning app, or CauliBox, reusable food containers.
Is Cauli medical or dietary advice?
No. Cauli plans meals toward the targets you choose. It is not medical advice and doesn't treat any condition. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant or have an eating disorder, talk to a qualified professional. Cauli is for people 16 and over.