Fast Facts
NAME:
Plantry
PAID / FREE: Free
CATEGORY:
Food and Drinks
AVAILABLE IN:
App Store
WEBSITE :
www.plantry.app
What is it:
Plantry is an app that helps you plan, shop for, and cook vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free meals.
How it works:
After downloading the app you can choose whether you are looking for vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free meals. Choosing all three options is also possible. The app provides shopping lists and cooking instructions for all the available recipes. Additionally, it lets you plan when to prepare different meals which is made easier through a timer feature for each recipe.
If you like what the app is offering there is also the option to subscribe to a premium version for either 19,00 SEK per month or 185,00 SEK for one year. A premium subscription will let you access all recipes Plantry has in store and provide full nutritional values for all of them.
Best for:
Anyone who is looking to adapt their diet to benefit their health, animals, and the environment.
Value Offering:
Today more and more people take steps to reflect environmental awareness within their daily routines. Plantry makes taking these steps easier through creating an incentive to buy, cook, and eat food in a sustainable way. Especially when considering that the app helps you to buy only what you need to avoid food waste. The developers place weight on creating a fun user experience that eases answering the ever-recurring question of “what’s for dinner?”
Hype Level:
Plantry has been available in the app store since October 2016 and currently has about 2000 monthly active users of which 10% are paying subscribers.
The development team consistently makes the app’s interface more user friendly by, for example, adding the dark mode or making use of Siri Shortcuts to draw out the full potential of Plantry’s compatibility with the latest versions of iOS. Moreover, the app has recently been released for the iPad and is consistently being worked on to support more iPad specific features in the future.
