Start from the craving
Type "something charred and sour" and get three builds that hit it, ranked against the axes your palate scored highest.
Your cravings and pantry copilot
Palatis maps how you actually taste, then turns tonight's craving, your goals and whatever is already in the pantry into a chef-curated meal build. Dinner decided in 90 seconds.
Free plan, no card. 40,000+ home cooks and 120 partner kitchens build here.
Hand your missing ingredients to the grocers and kitchens your city already uses.
Solve dinner four times faster
Most nights you already have one fact: a craving, a macro target, half a fennel bulb, or six people at eight. Palatis starts from whichever one you have and works out the rest.
Embedded chef expertise and AI, all in one app
One app doing three jobs: it learns your palate, it reasons over your pantry and your goals, and it borrows judgement from people who cook for a living. No recipe search, no scrolling, no fourteen open tabs.
Palate profile
Your flavor map, drawn in five minutes
Answer thirty quick pairings — lime or honey, char or cream — and Palatis scores you on acid, umami, heat, fat and bitter edge. Every build after that aims at your map instead of an average eater. Recalibrate whenever your taste moves.
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Craving to plate
Three taps from a craving to a build
Say what you want in your own words, or send a photo of the shelf. The flavor coach answers in seconds with a build, a pan, a timing order and the two swaps that keep it honest.
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Ask the chef
Something sour and charred, twenty minutes, one pan.
Ask the chefUpload a photo
Half a fennel, farro, anchovies, a tired lemon.
Upload a photoPantry sync
Cook what you already own
Scan or type your shelves once and Palatis keeps count. Builds lead with whatever is closest to turning, so the fennel becomes dinner instead of compost. Cooks cut food waste 31% in their first month.
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Flavor coach
A chef reading over your shoulder
Every build carries notes in plain kitchen language: salt now, not later; the pan is not hot enough; swap the yogurt for tahini and the acid still lands. Eighteen partner chefs wrote the playbook those notes come from.
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Grocery hand-off
Send the list, skip the shop
Palatis subtracts your pantry from the build and hands the remainder to Freshcart, Umamiya or whichever partner you already use. One tap, one basket, no aisle math. On every plan, including Free.
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Advanced flavor science meets real chefs
The map is math. The judgement is not. Palatis pairs a palate model trained on 2.4M meal builds with 18 partner chefs and registered dietitians who review what it recommends.
Pricing
One palate, or six around the table
Start free and stay free if the free tier fits. Pro unlocks macro tracking and unlimited weekly plans. Table covers a whole household without six subscriptions.
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Free
$0 forever
Enough to decide dinner every night without paying anything.
- Palate profile and full flavor map
- Three meal builds a day
- Pantry sync for up to 40 items
- Grocery hand-off to every partner
- One saved weekly plan
- Allergen flags on every build
No card, no trial clock, no build you have to pay to read.
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Pro
$9 per month
For cooks who plan the week and watch their macros.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited meal builds and weekly plans
- Macro tracking with per-meal targets
- Flavor coach notes on every build
- Pantry sync with barcode scan, no item cap
- Grocery hand-off with price comparison
$84 a year if you pay annually. Cancel any time.
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Table
$16 per month
Up to six palates, one pantry, one grocery list.
- Everything in Pro, for up to 6 palates
- One shared pantry and one merged list
- Per-person allergen and diet guardrails
- Builds that satisfy two diets in one pan
- Kid portions and swap suggestions
- Household week, printed or texted
Up to 6 palates under one roof. A seventh is $2 a month.
Pro is $9 a month, or $84 a year if you pay annually. Cancel any time from the app; your palate profile and saved builds stay exportable for 30 days afterwards.
What cooks are saying
40,000+ home cooks, 120 partner kitchens, and an average 11 minutes from an empty answer to a pan on the heat.
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I stopped shopping for recipes and started cooking what was already on the shelf. The first week Palatis found four dinners in a pantry I would have called empty.
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The flavor map explained something I never could: I need acid, not more salt. Every build since has landed on the first try.
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Sunday batch cooking used to take three hours of planning. Now I set the macros, sync the shelf, and the week comes back as six builds and one list.
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Three kids, one of them off dairy, and forty minutes. Table builds one pan that works for all five of us instead of two dinners and an argument.
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We test builds at volume and send back what breaks. Palatis is the first tool that shipped our corrections the same week we sent them.
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Marathon block means 140 grams of protein and food I actually want. The macro targets sit per meal, not per day, so I stopped eating chicken at eleven at night.
Learn more about flavor, macros and meal building
Short reads from the kitchens and from the model. No listicles, no thirty-ingredient hero shots.
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The five axes your palate actually runs on
Acid, umami, heat, fat, bitter edge. What each one does to a dish, and how to tell which one your last failure was missing.
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Six dinners hiding in an empty pantry
Farro, anchovies, a tired lemon and half a fennel is four dinners, not zero. The substitution logic Palatis uses, written out by hand.
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Macro math without a food scale
Why per-meal targets beat daily totals, how we estimate a portion from a photo, and the three cases where that estimate goes wrong.
Questions cooks ask before they start
Straight answers. If yours is not here, write to [email protected] and a person replies.
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Does it work with allergies and intolerances?
Yes. You declare allergens and intolerances during setup, and Palatis excludes them at the ingredient level rather than filtering finished recipes, so a build never arrives with sesame hidden in the paste. Registered dietitians sign off every allergen rule before it ships. It is still a planning tool, not a label reader: check the packet, because manufacturers reformulate without telling anyone.
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Do I have to log everything I eat?
No. There is no food diary and no daily streak. Palatis learns from the builds you cook, the swaps you make and the ones you skip, which is enough signal to keep the map accurate. If you want macro totals you can confirm a meal in one tap, and if you do not, nothing nags you.
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What if my pantry is basically empty?
That is the case the model is best at. Give it five things — a grain, a fat, an acid, an allium and one protein — and it will return builds that need two items or fewer from the shop. Anything missing goes straight to the grocery hand-off, so an empty shelf costs you one tap rather than a trip.
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Do you sell my diet data?
No, and we do not run ad-tech on the site. Your palate profile, pantry and dietary notes are used to build your meals and nothing else, and we never hand them to a grocery partner. Partners receive only the anonymous line items in the basket you approve. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy, and [email protected] answers requests within 30 days.
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Can one household have different diets?
That is what the Table plan exists for. Up to six palates share one pantry and one grocery list while keeping separate maps, allergens and macro targets. Palatis looks for a single pan that satisfies everyone first, and when that is impossible it tells you which component to split and how to keep it to one extra pot.
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Is the free tier actually usable?
Three builds a day, the full palate profile and flavor map, pantry sync for 40 items and the grocery hand-off, forever, without a card. Pro adds unlimited builds, unlimited weekly plans, macro tracking and coach notes. Plenty of cooks never leave Free, and we would rather that than a trial that expires mid-week.
Ready to eat like you? Palatis.
Take the five-minute palate quiz, sync one shelf, and let tonight build itself. Free plan, no card, 90 seconds to a pan on the heat.
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