№ 05/About
Web-first,
on purpose.
Forkboard exists because deciding a whole week of dinners deserves real room to think — a board you can see at a glance, on the screen where you plan everything else.
The thesis
Most meal apps treat dinner like a notification — a nudge, a quick tap, a single meal at a time. But “what’s for dinner?” isn’t a moment. It’s seven decisions that interact: the night you’re tired, the night you host, the roast on Monday that should become tacos on Thursday. That’s a planning problem, and planning problems want a board, not a feed.
So Forkboard is web-first and desktop-first, unapologetically. Think Trello or Linear for your weeknight meals: the whole week visible at once, on the screen where the rest of your life already gets planned. The board sees everything, so it can be smart about energy, pantry, leftovers, and the different tastes under one roof. And it’s the same full app on every screen — the iPhone app does everything the web does, in sync, so you can plan, rate, and shop from wherever you are. An Android app is coming soon.
What makes it different
Three things, mostly. It learns what you like from quick thumbs up and down, instead of making you scroll an endless recipe feed or sit through an hour-long quiz. It plans by energy — tag a fifteen-minute Monday and a two-hour Sunday and the week arranges itself around them. And it treats a household as a first-class idea: two cooks, two taste profiles, one shared board.
The longer version lives on how it works, and the numbers are on pricing — flat prices, real limits, and a trial that downgrades instead of locking you out.
Say hello
Ideas, gripes, or just want to follow along? Email hello@forkboard.app. We read everything.