Monday
Meal planning, finally solved Photograph your fridge.
Photograph your fridge.
Get a week of dinners.
Most meal planners hand you recipes for food you don't own. Arnie starts the other way around — with a few photos of your kitchen — and builds a week of dinners out of what's already in there.
Made to be simple enough for everyone — whether you're juggling three kids or you'd just rather not fight with an app.
It starts with what's already in your kitchen
Use what you have. Only buy what you need. Waste less of what you already paid for.
Show Arnie your kitchen
Open the fridge, the freezer, the cabinets — and take a few photos. That's the whole setup.
Arnie reads what's there
Chicken thighs, half a bag of spinach, the rice you forgot you had. It all goes on a list you can edit any time.
Dinner gets planned around it
Meals that use what you already own — starting with whatever spoils first — and a shopping list of only what's missing.
Found in your kitchen 8 items · scanned just now
- chicken thighs 2 lb
- baby spinach half a bag
- jasmine rice 3 lb bag
- black beans 2 cans
- cheddar 1 block
- eggs 1 dozen
- sweet potatoes 3
- garlic 1 head
Miss something? Add or remove anything by hand — Arnie plans from whatever the list says.
Your shopping list Only what you're actually missing
- Tortillas (1 pack)
- Limes (2)
- Shrimp (1 lb)
- Orzo (1 box)
You already had 9 of 23 ingredients Those nine never make it onto the list — no buying a second jar
of something you own.
A week of dinners, ready in about a minute
Tap once. Your week appears within seconds — real dishes with real names — and the recipes fill themselves in while you read.
Tuesday
Black Bean & Sweet Potato Tacos
Swap this meal
Wednesday
Garlic Butter Shrimp with Orzo
Swap this mealDon't like one? Swap it.
Tap Swap on any dinner and Arnie picks something else for that night — the rest of your week stays exactly as it was.
A photo of every meal
Every dinner comes with a picture, so you can see what you're making before you commit to it. The ones above are real.
A list you can actually shop
Grouped the way a store is, in amounts you can buy. A bunch of parsley, not two tablespoons. Each item says which meals it's for.
It remembers you
Who you're feeding, what you don't eat, how much time you like to spend. Answer once — next week really is one tap.
Texting program
Arnie can just text you
No app to open, no password to remember. Arnie lives in the Messages app you already use — which turns out to be the whole product for a lot of people.
- Tonight's dinner, at the right time. A text in the late afternoon with what's for dinner and what to take out of the freezer — only on the days you have a plan.
- Send Arnie a photo. A confusing bill, a prescription label, a letter from the county — or the inside of your fridge. Arnie looks and explains.
- "Is this a scam?" Forward a suspicious text and get a straight answer before you click anything.
- A morning weather note. Whether it's a coat day, in one line, before you head out.
Texting is strictly opt-in from inside the Ask Arnie app and confirmed with a verification code. You choose which kinds of messages you get, and each one is off until you turn it on. Message frequency varies. Message & data rates may apply. Reply STOP any time to cancel or HELP for help. See how the texting program works.
Arnie
Tonight's dinner: Lemon Herb Chicken with Spinach Rice. About 30
minutes.
Worth doing now: take the chicken out of the
freezer.
First step: heat the oven to 400.
The full recipe is in your Ask Arnie app.
perfect. what can I do with the spinach that's left?
Wilt it into the rice at the end, or use it raw in a salad tomorrow. It'll keep about two more days.
And plenty more besides dinner
One helper for the everyday things — simple enough for everyone in the family to use.
Explain this to me
Snap a photo of a confusing letter, bill, or prescription label and Arnie explains it in plain language — and helps you spot a scam.
Plan a great day out
Tell Arnie the occasion and he plans an outing around the weather, your pace, and the things you actually enjoy.
Gift ideas that land
Arnie remembers birthdays and anniversaries, then suggests thoughtful gifts for the people you care about.
Help with writing
A note, a letter, an email, even a toast — Arnie helps you say it warmly and in your own voice.
Your morning, sorted
A friendly weather note each morning, so you know whether it's a coat day before you walk out the door.
Ask anything at all
Type or talk to Arnie like a friend. Clear, honest answers — no jargon, no runaround, no judgement.
Built for real people, not gadget people
Big text. Big buttons. Plain words. Ask Arnie is made for busy parents with no time and for people who'd rather their phone just helped instead of asking them to learn something new.
Ask Arnie is in testing right now. Get in touch if you'd like to hear when it opens up.