Do you constantly ask yourself: What should I cook today?

With onceweek, you take a quick look at the list of your favorite dishes and choose:

1. Hamburger -> Monday
2. Spaghetti Bolognese -> Tuesday
3. Pancakes -> Wednesday
4. etc...

Would you prefer pancakes on Tuesday?

In the calendar you simply drag a dish from one day to the next. onceweek can do a lot more: For example, you can copy entire weekly plans back and forth.

And onceweek will compile a shopping list for the coming week (or longer) at any time.

Your family or flatmates can also use the app. Everything is shared live.

onceweek offers a

• recipe book (for your dishes)
• cookbook (for reference)
• calendar (the meal plan)
• shopping list

You can enter a dish directly in the calendar. As you type, onceweek tries to offer you the right dish from your recipe book or from the cookbook.

For a new dish, simply enter the name of the dish. If you add the ingredients, they will also be displayed in the shopping list. Without ingredients, only the name (and the day) of the dish is displayed.

You can find all your dishes in your recipe book. From here, you can directly populate the week that is currently displayed in the calendar.

Sign up with an email. The app starts in the calendar. Tap on a day of the week and start entering your favorite dishes.
If you have the time and inclination, enter the ingredients too, because then you'll also get a more detailed shopping list.

Your first week is done! Your dishes will automatically end up in the recipe book and your shopping list will be created immediately.

By the way, we recommend that you download the recipe database from the cloud at the beginning. This saves you having to enter generally known recipes (such as pancakes).

You can swipe up and down through the weeks in the calendar and enter a meal in the plan on any day. So you can plan as far into the future as you like. Theoretically, you can also plan into the past if you need an alibi, for example.

Or you can open your recipe book and select the calendar symbol at the top right. You can then assign a recipe to each day of the week (currently open in the calendar). This gives you a quick overview of what is possible and you can click together your weekly meal plan.

You can copy entire weeks using the copy & paste function. If your family loved last week's menu, simply copy the week.

We have created an extensive database of recipes for you. If you like, you can download it to your phone.

When you start entering a dish in the calendar, you will be offered the cloud recipes as well as your own. If you choose one, the recipe is automatically transferred to your recipe book. There you can also modify it as you wish.

Everyone in your household can log in with your email and (like you) check and change the calendar. The whole thing can be seen in real time on all devices.

You're at the supermarket and don't know what's left at home? Let someone at home to go through the shopping list and cross off what's already there. You can follow the whole thing live in the supermarket...

If we take the quantity into account, the whole thing becomes much more complicated: How many people does the quantity apply to? Is there anything left at home?

To estimate the quantity, you can see in the shopping list on which days the corresponding dish is planned.
For example:

Thursday -> Grandma always eats with you -> you have to buy more than usual

However, we can well imagine adding quantities to onceweek in the future. Let's wait and see how high the demand is...

For now onceweek doesn't cost anything. As long as we can keep our IT infrastructure in the free tier, it will stay that way.

If we ever go beyond the free tier, then that's a good sign: There is obviously a great demand.

Then we will start charging fees. Presumably only for live synchronization. Because that incurs costs. The fees will initially only have to cover the infrastructure costs and later (if required) the staff costs for the further development of the project.

It is difficult to say how much this will be. It depends very much on how many users share the costs and how much we want to invest in further development. Perhaps a few euros a year?

As we don't want any investors, there's no pressure to make a profit. It should be a permanent product at cost price. Take a look at our white paper for more details.

But we are also dependent on your help: We have no budget for advertising. Please recommend us to others!

Normally:

profit = income - expenses
Onceweek:

income = expenses

We don't want to pay capital gains. We want to pay our team well and still need some money for the infrastructure. We probably also need to put some money aside for emergencies and larger investments in the long run.

What we don't need to do: Maximize profits to make investors happy.

Take a look at our white paper for more details.

1. we offer you a product at a very fair price: the cost price.
2. we work for you and not a company that places ads.
3. the more users share the costs, the cheaper we become for everyone.

Take a look at our white paper for more details.

If you want to support us, write us a good review in the App Sore and recommend us to others.

1. write us a good review in the App Store (5 points please 😬)
2. recommend us!
3. recommend us!

We work non-profit!

We have no investors and don't need to maximize profits.

We don't want to become rich, we just want to be paid fairly.

Take a look at our white paper for more details.

Things always turn out differently than you think. The current app was actually intended as a prototype (proof-of-concept). Google Firebase is a simple, capable with a free tier.

But even in the prototype, we made sure that Google Firebase could be removed. We are already looking in various directions for replacements. For example, we find MongoDB and the Veilid framework interesting.

To delete all your personal data, there is an revoke privacy consent function in the app settings:

Home tab > Settings (cog at the top left) > Click Revoke Privacy Agreement

If you no longer have the app installed, you can also simply log in in your browser.

This will also delete your account. Some anonymized data will not be deleted immediately. Please refer to our privacy policy for details.