A household food OS for Indian kitchens
Meal planning, as simple as buttered toast.
Decide the week’s food once. Then just cook it.
Buttered Toast plans what the house eats, keeps track of what the kitchen already holds, orders only the groceries you are actually out of, and talks you through the cooking in the language your kitchen runs in.
The film of the app is not made yet.
It goes here once recipe search and the eight-language voice guidance are finished. Rather than mock one up: the screenshots below are the real working build.
How it works
Four screens, one week of food.
Plan, pantry, cart and cook are the whole app. Everything else exists to keep those four honest.
Plan the week
Pick the week’s meals from a catalogue of Indian home cooking, sized to how many people are eating and how many servings each adult takes. Swap anything you do not like.
Know the pantry
The kitchen’s own shelf, category by category, in stock or low or out. It is what makes the cart short — and anything running out joins the next one on its own.
Buy only the gaps
The plan is checked against what the pantry already holds, so the cart contains only what is missing. Works with Swiggy Instamart. You place the order yourself, in the Swiggy app.
Cook hands-free
Big steps, spoken guidance and timers, with the screen kept awake, so you are not wiping dal off your hands to scroll to the next line.
These are unretouched screenshots of the working iPhone build, taken in July 2026. Nothing in them has been altered, blurred or composed. The app is still changing, so the shipped version will not look identical.
The difficult parts
Built for how Indian kitchens actually work.
Most meal planners assume a Western pantry, a supermarket run and a cook who reads recipes in English. Every one of those assumptions breaks here.
The pantry is the hard problem
A household already owns most of what a recipe needs. The useful question is not “what does this dish require” but “what is this house out of” — so the cart is short and nothing arrives in duplicate.
Groceries in packs, not grams
Recipes are written in grams and spoons; shops sell 500 g packs. Every ingredient has to be resolved to a real product before a cart means anything, and the ones that are ambiguous are shown to you rather than guessed at.
Cooked food, not calorie logs
Dishes are structured recipes with real steps, timings and equipment, scaled to how many people are eating and how many servings each adult takes — not photographs to be scanned after the fact.
The kitchen’s own language
Guidance is written and spoken in eight Indian languages, because the person at the stove is often not the person who downloaded the app.
Eight Indian languages.
Cooking guidance is written and read aloud in each of these.
- English
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Marathi
- Gujarati
- Kannada
About
Why this exists.
The question “what are we eating this week” gets asked in every house, every week, and answering it well takes more work than it should: deciding, checking what is already on the shelf, ordering the rest, then remembering how to cook it. Buttered Toast is an attempt to make that one short routine instead of four scattered ones.
It is built for Indian kitchens first, not adapted to them afterwards. That means the pantry a household already keeps, groceries sold in packs rather than grams, dishes from Indian home cooking, and guidance in the language the person at the stove actually speaks. Those are the parts a Western meal planner gets wrong, and they are the parts that took the longest to build.
It is made by one person, in the open about what works and what does not — there is no team, no funding and no launch date to announce. The honest state of it is listed below, and that list is kept current rather than tidied up.
No spin
Where things honestly stand.
- In development. Buttered Toast is a working prototype being built by one person. It is not on any app store.
- iOS first. The first release will be for iPhone. Android is not scheduled.
- No launch date. When there is one, it will be posted here rather than promised in advance.
- Independent. Buttered Toast is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of Swiggy or any other company. The cart feature works with Swiggy Instamart; that is a description of the integration, nothing more.
- You do the paying. The app builds the basket. Checkout happens in your own Swiggy account, by you. Nothing is ever bought on your behalf.
Hear when it opens up.
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