Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Plenish — meal planning, nutrition tracking, AI estimates, and your account.
Getting Started
Plenish is a meal prep tracking and meal planning app. You log what you've prepped — meals, snacks, and pantry items across your fridge, freezer, and pantry — set daily and weekly nutrition goals, and Plenish builds a personalized meal plan around what you already have. It's designed to reduce food waste, simplify decision-making, and help you hit your nutrition goals consistently.
Yes. Plenish is free to use. Create an account to get started.
Most nutrition trackers ask you to log what you ate after the fact. Plenish works differently — it starts with what you've already prepped and builds your meal plan around it, prioritizing what's freshest and closest to expiring. You get a plan before you eat, not a log after. The nutrition tracking is built into that workflow, not the other way around.
Plenish runs in your mobile browser and can be added to your home screen just like a native app. On iPhone, open Plenish in Safari, tap the Share button, and select "Add to Home Screen." On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the three-dot menu, and select "Add to Home Screen." Once added, it opens full-screen without the browser bar — it looks and feels like a downloaded app.
Yes. Plenish is a web app that works on any device — desktop, tablet, or mobile browser. No app download required.
Nutrition Tracking
Yes. Plenish tracks calories, protein, and fiber for every meal and snack in your plan. You can set daily and weekly goals for each, and Plenish shows you how you're tracking against them in real time. Full macro tracking including carbohydrates and fat is also available — turn it on anytime in your nutrition settings.
Yes — and the weekly view is intentional. Hitting every daily goal perfectly isn't realistic for most people. Plenish shows you both so you can see that missing Tuesday's protein target doesn't derail your week. Consistency over time matters more than perfection on any given day.
Plenish tracks calories, protein, and fiber by default — the three metrics most important to GLP-1 users and people focused on fitness. Carbohydrate and fat tracking are also available and can be turned on in your nutrition settings if you want the full picture.
Plenish has a built-in AI nutrition estimator. Describe your dish — ingredients, portion size, cooking method — and Plenish will estimate the calories, protein, and fiber for you. It's especially useful for home-cooked meals, takeout, and restaurant food that don't come with a label.
The AI nutrition estimator uses a combination of AI and USDA nutritional data to generate estimates. Accuracy depends on how detailed your description is — the more specific you are about ingredients, portions, and cooking method, the better the estimate. For well-known foods and standard preparations, estimates are typically close to label values. For complex or highly customized dishes, treat them as a reasonable approximation rather than an exact figure. Plenish shows a confidence level with each estimate so you always know how much to rely on it.
Yes. Instead of typing out a food description, you can use your microphone to describe it out loud. Plenish transcribes it and runs the AI estimate from there.
Yes. Plenish keeps a history of your past meal plans and nutrition totals so you can see how you've been tracking week over week — not just how today is going.
GLP-1 & Fitness
Yes. Plenish was designed with GLP-1 users in mind. Appetite on GLP-1 medications varies significantly day to day, which makes rigid daily tracking frustrating. Plenish's weekly goal view accounts for that variation — a low-appetite day doesn't look like a failure. The focus on protein and fiber tracking also aligns with the nutritional guidance most GLP-1 users receive, and the meal planning ensures you're eating what's fresh even when appetite is low.
Yes. Set a daily or weekly protein target and Plenish tracks your intake against it across every meal and snack. The meal planning prioritizes foods that fit your preferred meal types, so your plan works around your training schedule rather than against it.
GLP-1 medications slow gastric emptying, which makes appetite unpredictable from day to day. A day with very little appetite isn't a failure — it's how the medication works. Plenish tracks your nutrition weekly rather than daily, so low-appetite days are absorbed into your weekly picture rather than showing up as missed targets. For more on how this works, see our post on why daily nutrition tracking doesn't work for GLP-1 users.
Because Plenish tracks protein and fiber goals across the full week, a low-intake day adjusts your remaining weekly targets rather than resetting to zero the next morning. You stay on track for the week without the pressure of hitting the same numbers every single day.
ADHD & Nutrition
For some people with ADHD, real-time logging keeps food in working memory long after meals end — amplifying food noise rather than reducing it. Plenish is designed around batch-entry tracking: you log food at grocery or prep time, not at every meal. During the day, meals are checked off with a single tap. There's no logging loop pulling food back into your attention throughout the day. For more on this, see our post on food tracking and ADHD food noise.
Food hyperfixation — eating the same meal daily for weeks — can create nutritional blind spots without awareness of what's actually in those meals. Because Plenish tracks your meal prep inventory and auto-schedules meals from it, your recurring hyperfixation meals are already in your nutrition picture. You get awareness of what you're actually eating without having to actively log it every time.
Many of Plenish's core features align directly with how ADHD affects eating and planning: batch inventory entry reduces daily logging demands, auto-scheduled meal plans handle decision-making in advance, weekly nutrition goals accommodate day-to-day variability in executive function, and quick one-tap check-offs minimize re-engagement with food throughout the day. Plenish wasn't built exclusively for people with ADHD, but the approach emerged from conversations with users who found traditional tracking apps made their relationship with food harder, not easier.
Meal Planning
Plenish looks at what you have in your inventory, when each item was prepped, and when it expires. It then schedules meals across your plan to use the freshest ingredients first, match each food to your preferred meal types (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and respect how many servings you have left. You can swap, skip, or lock any meal manually.
Between 1 and 4 weeks, your choice. Set it to one week if your schedule changes frequently, or up to four weeks if you batch cook and freeze. You can change the setting anytime.
Yes. Plenish has a dedicated snack section separate from your main meals. You can add snacks from your inventory or log a one-time snack without adding it to your inventory. Snack nutrition counts toward your daily and weekly totals.
Use Quick Add. Quick Add lets you log a one-off food directly to a meal without adding it to your inventory. It's useful for restaurant meals, spontaneous snacks, or anything that doesn't fit your usual prep routine.
Inventory & Food Waste
Plenish tracks expiration dates for everything in your inventory and prioritizes items that are closest to expiring when building your meal plan. You'll also see expiration warnings on individual items so nothing sneaks up on you. The goal is a freshness-first plan that uses what you have before it goes bad.
Yes. Plenish tracks food across three storage locations — fridge, freezer, and pantry — each with appropriate default expiration windows. Freezer items default to a longer shelf life, and the meal planner considers all three when building your plan.
Account & Privacy
Visit app.useplenish.com and sign up with your email or Google account. No invite required.
Yes. Your meal prep inventory, nutrition goals, and meal plans are private to your account. Plenish does not sell your personal data. You can review our full privacy policy at useplenish.com/privacy.
Yes. You can request account deletion by contacting us through the feedback form in the app. We'll remove your data promptly.
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