What Spoon & Ledger does
One app for the whole of feeding a household, in place of six that do not talk to each other: meal planning, recipes and cooking, food and calorie tracking, the pantry, the grocery budget, and ordering with its receipts. They share one plan and one list of ingredients, so nothing is typed twice. Plan a week and the shopping list writes itself; cook from it and the pantry and the calories follow; import the receipt and every cost updates. It is in early testing: everything below works, the newest parts may still change shape, and it changes most weeks.
The spoon is the cooking. The ledger is the record: what was planned, bought, cooked, eaten, thrown out and spent, kept together so each can explain the others. Until September 2026 it was called Larder; only the name changed.
- Settled
- the shape is set; what changes now is fixes
- New
- landed this week; works, and may still move
- Early
- works, with known gaps listed on the roadmap
Log / PlanSettled
The week ahead, and each day as it happens.
- Plan dinners for the week from your recipes, leftovers and bought meals; it tells you when a main still needs a side.
- Mark a meal cooked and the pantry is drawn down by what you made; leftovers go to the fridge or freezer with a date.
- Log what each person ate, on the plan or off it, and see calories and macros for the meal and the day.
- Two lenses on the week: what should be eaten before it turns, and how the days ahead sit against each person's targets.
RecipesSettled
Import from almost any recipe site, then cook from your phone.
- Paste a link and it becomes a recipe, every ingredient line matched to your library — no retyping.
- A list, a table, tiles or a board, cut and sorted how you like: cheapest first, most protein, quickest, or not had in a while, with a mark on what the shelves can make tonight. Search reaches ingredients.
- Cooking mode at the stove (new this week): big steps, timers pulled from the text, amounts rescaled to the pot you are actually making.
- Cooked: everything that came out of the kitchen, where the servings went, and what each cook cost.
ShopNew
The list writes itself from the plan, minus what you already have.
- Every ingredient the week needs, added up across recipes, with what is already on the shelf taken off.
- Split it into trips by store and day: perishables bought when they are needed, the rest bought once. Tick things off in the aisle.
- Share the list to any app, copy it, or send it to Instacart; putting the trip away restocks the pantry in one tap.
- Receipts feed a price book — cost per serving and per calorie — that every cost in the app draws on, and a Spend page: twelve weeks of planned against shopped against the budget, and what was thrown out in dollars.
PantryNew
What you have, in the units you buy it in, and when it needs using.
- Use-by dates filled in from how long things keep where you put them; you only correct the exceptions.
- Five quick answers at the top: what it is all worth, what to use up, what to restock, what is still a guess, what got thrown out.
- See it as a simple list, a detailed table, a board to drag between shelves, or tiles with pictures.
- Audit a shelf in a minute: confirm what is right, fix what is not, and the list stops asking about it.
NutritionEarly
How the last month went, per person, against their own targets.
- Calories, protein, carbs and fat by day, for one person or the whole house.
- Packaged foods by barcode; whole foods looked up from the USDA; anything cooked here is counted from its recipe.
- Weight with a trend, and targets suggested from it.
SettingsSettled
Who eats here, and how the kitchen is set up.
- People, with their portions, preferences and targets; the household's budget and defaults.
- Storage places and how long things keep in each; the ingredient library, its units and its nutrition.
- Instacart, if you use it.
Good to know
- One copy is one household. There are no accounts: everyone with your copy’s password sees and edits the same plan, pantry and recipes, which is how a kitchen works. Two households get two copies.
- It lives on your phone. Open it in the browser and add it to the home screen; it opens full-screen like an app, and a phone on the counter stays signed in for a month.
- Numbers say what they are. A recipe cost with an unpriced line is marked as a floor. The pantry’s value counts only what has been measured and names what it left out. An amount the app guessed stays marked as a guess until someone looks at the shelf.
- What leaves your kitchen. Nothing, unless you ask. Looking up a picture sends Wikipedia an ingredient’s name; a nutrition lookup sends the USDA one; a scanned barcode goes to Open Food Facts; ordering sends your list to Instacart. No analytics, no tracking.
- Instacart is optional. Lists share and copy as plain text for any store. Ordering in one tap needs an Instacart developer key, and receipt import reads Instacart’s emails — receipts from elsewhere paste in.
What is coming, and what is rough today, is on the roadmap. To try it in your own kitchen, become a tester.