planchop.com

What It Is

PlanChop is an AI-powered personalized recipe book designed for home cooking. After users paste a webpage or video link, the system extracts ingredients, steps, and nutrition information, then automatically rewrites the recipe based on allergens, diet type, and taste preferences while keeping the original version for easy comparison or rollback.

Core Features

Its focus is not just on “saving recipes,” but on turning recipes from different sources into actionable, personalized versions. Typical use cases include replacing heavy cream with coconut milk, swapping pork chops for chicken breast, reducing spice levels, changing side dishes, and recalculating nutrition after adjustments. Pro also supports importing videos from TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram Reels. Cook Mode provides voice-guided steps, timers, and serving-size scaling, making it suitable for hands-free use in the kitchen.

Pricing and Trial

The free trial includes 3 imports and does not require a credit card. Imported recipes are kept permanently and can still be cooked, scaled, and used with Cook Mode. Pro costs $7.99/month, or $59.88/year when paid annually, equivalent to $4.99/month. It includes unlimited imports, video imports, full nutrition data, unlimited family members, and priority support. The price is relatively low for frequent home cooks, though the free allowance is quite limited.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are its clear positioning, especially for households dealing with dairy, peanut, or other allergy risks, or with family members who have different taste preferences. Its privacy policy is also fairly complete, stating that it does not sell or share data and does not use advertising or tracking cookies. The main limitation is that its terms clearly warn that AI may generate incorrect ingredients, wrong steps, or inaccurate nutrition estimates. Allergy-related and medical diets cannot be fully delegated to the system and must be reviewed manually. The specific AI model, nutrition database, and Chinese-language capabilities are not disclosed.

Who It’s For and Access From China

PlanChop is best suited to users who often save recipes from recipe websites and short-video platforms and want to automatically adapt them to household dietary preferences. It is less suitable for people who need strict medical nutrition management. Information on access from China, payment options, and Chinese-language support has not been disclosed. Given its reliance on sources such as YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, related video imports may be affected by network conditions in mainland China. Alternatives include Paprika, Samsung Food, or using Xiachufang collections and a self-built recipe library in China, though their AI-powered automatic substitution features are not fully equivalent.