Aaj Ki Rasoi launches free Hindi-English meal planning app for Indian households

Aaj Ki Rasoi is now available on the App Store and Google Play, offering Indian households a free way to plan breakfast, lunch and dinner without repeating the same meal for up to two weeks. The app also sends the day’s plan to cooks on WhatsApp in Hindi and English and includes more than 350 curated Indian dishes.

Why it matters: - Aaj Ki Rasoi is designed to remove a daily decision point for Indian households: what to cook for breakfast, lunch and dinner. - The app is built for family meal planning, not recipe browsing or calorie counting. - The plan can be shared directly with the cook on WhatsApp in Hindi and English. - The app is free, with no subscription and no in-app purchases.

What happened: - Aaj Ki Rasoi is now available on the App Store and Google Play. - The app has been on both stores since August. - The meal-planning app is available in Hindi and English. - Kanika Kalia founded Aaj Ki Rasoi and created the app to solve the repeated question in many Indian homes about what to cook. - The company says the app is named using the Hindi meaning of “today’s kitchen.”

The details: - The app builds a rolling breakfast, lunch and dinner schedule. - Households can open the schedule for the current day, one day ahead, three days ahead or one week ahead. - The app blocks repeats of the same meal for up to two weeks at the same meal slot. - If no eligible dish remains inside the selected no-repeat window, the app asks for a manual choice instead of repeating a dish. - Past days keep the planned meal, and households can mark what they cooked. - Meals can also be marked skipped or swapped, which changes future suggestions. - The app draws on two libraries: more than 350 curated Indian home dishes and about 6,100 additional recipes from the publisher’s catalogue. - The curated dishes include subji, dal-chawal and South Indian tiffin dishes such as idli and dosa. - Each curated dish includes a Hindi name and a full ingredient list. - The additional recipe catalogue appears in the dish list and can be added to the schedule manually, but those recipes do not carry Hindi names or ingredient lists. - Households can add their own dishes. - Users can choose vegetarian, Jain, egg or non-vegetarian diets. - Users can also exclude common allergens or set gluten-free or lactose-free preferences. - The app narrows suggestions based on those settings. - Aaj Ki Rasoi is a planning aid, not a medical or allergen-safety tool. - Anyone cooking for a diagnosed allergy should still read the recipe. - The interface works in Hindi, written in Devanagari script, and in English. - Language is a household setting, not a device setting, and the app switches without a restart. - Family members join a household with an invite code and share the same schedule. - Household size can range from one to 12 people, and that size appears on the cook’s message. - The day’s or week’s plan can be sent to WhatsApp as a bilingual message with each curated dish named in English and Hindi. - A grocery list feature that gathers ingredients across planned days and scales them to household size is in development.

Between the lines: - Aaj Ki Rasoi is aiming at coordination, not content volume, which puts it closer to a household workflow tool than a standard recipe app. - The no-repeat rules and household-level scheduling suggest the product is built for repeat use in homes where the same person often decides meals in advance. - The multilingual WhatsApp handoff is a practical fit for how many Indian kitchens actually communicate. - The allergy and preference filters add convenience, but the product stops short of claiming safety or clinical guidance.

What's next: - A grocery list feature is planned for a later release. - Kanika Kalia said the grocery list is the next natural step because the app already knows what the household will eat during the week. - The company also points to continued use of WhatsApp sharing as part of the meal-planning workflow.

The bottom line: - Aaj Ki Rasoi is trying to turn meal planning from a repeated daily question into a shared household schedule, with Hindi-English support and WhatsApp delivery built in. - More information is available on the company’s website.