Start with just a meal name
Type something like "Chicken schnitzel with salad" or "Butter chicken." Zuno asks only what it needs — mainly how many servings — then builds the full recipe. No long onboarding form.
Part of Zuno AI
Create and refine meals in a conversation.
Chat Meal Creator is the conversational part of Zuno AI. Tell Zuno what you want to cook — a dish name is enough to get started — then refine the ingredients, servings, budget or preferences until the recipe fits.
Food safety: Zuno AI can make mistakes. Always double-check ingredients, cooking times, temperatures and allergens before you cook or serve a meal. See our Terms and Conditions for full details.
Why users love it
Chat Meal Creator feels like talking to a cook
Start with a meal name, answer only what matters, and get a recipe you can actually cook — not a vague outline.
Smart, dish-specific questions
Before generating, Zuno can ask targeted questions that actually change the recipe — pasta shape, effort level, cut of meat, sides, and similar. The chat feels like talking to a cook, not filling in a survey.
Stuck for ideas?
New chats show meal idea cards to spark inspiration. Tap one and start planning immediately.
A complete recipe
Not just a list — everything you need to cook
Every plan includes the details that turn an idea into something you can make tonight.
- Ingredients — metric quantities, Australian ingredient names, dish-specific items (not vague placeholders like "main protein" or "seasonal vegetables")
- Cooking instructions — numbered, practical steps
- Utensils — method-specific equipment (e.g. baking tray, wok, colander), not a generic "knife and pan" list
- Cooking time and helpful tips where relevant
Example
Butter chicken for 4
450g chicken thigh, 400ml passata, 200ml cream, basmati rice, fresh coriander…
Utensils
What you actually need
Large frypan, wooden spoon, rice cooker or saucepan with lid.
Built for Australian kitchens
Local naming, metric units, optional preferences
Familiar ingredients
Recipes use metric units and local naming — capsicum, coriander, plain flour, and so on.
Preferences when you mention them
Dietary needs, allergies, dislikes, cook time, and budget are captured if you volunteer them. You're not forced through extra steps.
Budget-aware planning
Ask for a meal "under $30 for 4 people" or add a budget check to an existing recipe. Zuno can estimate cost using matched supermarket products so you know what the meal might cost before you shop.
Saved chats
Pick up where you left off
Chats are stored so you can return later and keep refining.
Create Meal
Save to your library
When you're happy, save the recipe — ready for shopping lists and product matching.
Planner Chat
Reopen anytime
Meals created via chat include a Planner Chat button so you can keep adjusting the recipe from your saved meal.
Saved chats and saved meals
Plan once, shop from it, come back anytime
Your conversation doesn't disappear when you close the app. Saved chats and saved meals work together so planning and shopping stay connected.
Hit Create Meal when the recipe is right. It joins your meal library with supermarket product matches ready to go — and you can reopen the chat from the meal itself whenever you want to tweak it.
Refine your meal in chat
Once a recipe is on screen, the conversation doesn't stop
Adjust it in plain English — the planner updates ingredients, steps, and utensils while keeping the rest of the recipe intact. Small changes update the existing recipe; ingredient lists, instructions, and equipment stay in sync.
Examples of what you can say
Make it gluten free
Swap chicken for tofu
Add more spice
Remove the onion
Add a garden salad on the side
Make it cheaper
Budget this for $25
The chat understands edits like add, remove, replace, swap, and make it… — so you iterate naturally until the meal fits your taste, diet, or budget.
No need to start over
If you've added a budget check, it can recalculate after edits too.
Ask questions without changing the recipe
You can also ask about calories, nutrition, or serving sizes without accidentally rewriting the dish.
Manual Meal Builder
Prefer to build it yourself?
Not every meal starts in chat. Zuno's Manual Meal Builder (Create Meal) is for users who already know what they want on the plate.
How it works
- Enter a meal name — e.g. "Classic Spaghetti Bolognese"
- Add ingredients — type them manually (quantity + ingredient), or search and add real supermarket products from Zuno
- Let AI fill the gaps — with just a meal name, tap Suggest from meal name to generate ingredients, cooking time, and utensils
- Generate instructions — once ingredients are in place, use AI Instruction Generator to write step-by-step cooking method from the meal name and ingredient list
- Save — the meal joins your library with shopping matches ready to go
Flexible control
Your recipe, your way
Paste your own instructions, edit AI-generated steps, or mix manual ingredients with AI suggestions. Zuno just helps with the heavy lifting.
Free and Zuno+
Included on every plan
Manual Meal Builder and Chat Meal Creator are both part of Zuno AI. Upgrade to Zuno+ for more chats and unlimited list products.
Zuno+
Need more chats or unlimited lists?
Every plan includes Zuno AI and Chat Meal Creator — free users get up to 3 chats per week. Zuno+ lifts that to 25 chats per week, removes shopping-list and watchlist product limits, and adds early access plus up to 6 months of price history.
$5 / month
- Everything in Zuno User
- Unlimited products on shopping lists
- Unlimited products on your watchlist
- Up to 25 Zuno AI chats per week
- Save meals to your library and shop from them
- Up to 6 months of available price history
- Early access to new Zuno releases
Free
For everyday supermarket shopping — search, up to 5 watchlist products, up to 10 shopping-list products, up to 3 Zuno AI chats per week, barcode scanning and up to 8 weeks of price history.
Upgrade to Zuno+ when you need unlimited list products or up to 25 Zuno AI chats per week.
Compare all plansTurn tonight's idea into a shoppable recipe.
Start free with up to 3 Zuno AI chats per week — or upgrade to Zuno+ for 25 chats, unlimited list products, and a longer price history view.