Aurella

Aurella

Plan recipes, price the shop, and cook smarter every week.

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Aurella for everyday cooks

Plan the week, price the shop, and cook from recipes you will actually make again.

Aurella helps Australian cooks save recipes, manage dietary needs, cost meals, and turn a plan into one cleaner supermarket run without the meal-kit markup.

Recipe box Dietary filters Plan and shop Community versions

Payments are handled with Stripe. Accounts, comments, analytics, and billing are covered by Aurella's legal pages below.

Aurella on a tablet in a home kitchen
Built for real kitchens

Yields, prep notes, substitutions, allergens, and week planning are first-class, not hidden extras.

Designed for Australian shops

Coles and Woolworths matching is mocked in-app now, with compliant integration paths planned next.

Useful before Plus

Free accounts can save recipes, plan the week, and build lists before deciding whether to upgrade.

Prepared meal ingredients Fresh weekly cooking prep Organised recipe planning
Free

Start with your kitchen basics

Everything you need to plan meals, save recipes, reduce food waste, and shop smarter.

  • Private recipes, weekly plans, and smart shopping lists
  • Pantry tracking, dietary filters, and price comparison tools
  • Recipe sharing and community participation
Plus launch pricing

A$5/month or A$49/year for early supporters

Unlock extra tools designed for power users while supporting the continued development of Aurella.

  • Unlimited saved meal plans and advanced pantry insights
  • Early access to new features, beta testing, and premium rollouts
  • Priority feature requests and a direct founder feedback channel

Annual pricing saves around 18% and will be the best-value option once the yearly Stripe plan is wired in.

Clear plan value

Know what is free, what is paid, and why someone upgrades.

Free gives people the core Aurella workflow. Plus is the paid layer for supporters who want a polished account, Stripe-managed billing, and first access to the premium features being built in public.

Feature Free Plus
Save private recipes Included Included
Create meal plans Included Included
Weekly meal planner Included Included
Smart shopping lists Included Included
Pantry and ingredient tracking Included Included
Dietary filters Included Included
Recipe sharing with community Included Included
Price comparison tools Included Included
Unlimited saved meal plans Not included Included
Advanced pantry insights Not included Included
Early access to new features Not included Included
Priority feature requests Not included Included
Access to beta testing program Not included Included
Direct feedback channel with founders Not included Included
Future premium features Not included Included

Who free is for

For cooks who want one better system before they commit.

Free is the right fit for people who want to save recipes, build meal plans, reduce waste, and shop smarter without hitting a paywall too early.

Who Plus is for

For power users and early supporters who want more and want it first.

Plus is for people who already feel the value in Aurella and want premium planning features, early releases, and direct influence as the product grows.

01

Create your recipe base

Add your own dishes, import rough drafts, and keep yield, allergens, and notes attached to the recipe.

02

Build a real week

Choose meals, scale servings, and work around gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, or coeliac-safe needs.

03

Turn it into one shop

Generate a list, mark pantry items you already have, then compare the rough spend before you buy.

Recipes 0
Planned meals 0
Matched items 0
Weekly estimate $0.00
Local kitchen SQLite-backed Docker app

Ingredients

Qty Unit Ingredient Category Cost Match

Method & chef notes

Weekly service

Build the week, then turn it into one clean shop.

Australian grocery matching

Cook from what you have

Perfect for young families, stretched budgets, and end-of-week cupboards. Add what is already in the house and Aurella will surface recipes that still make sense.

Weekly plan

Shopping list

Estimated to buy $0.00

Spend analytics

Total batch cost $0.00
Cost per yield unit $0.00
Scaled batch cost $0.00
Estimated weekly shop $0.00

Plus tools

Recipe network

Share useful recipes, then let cooks improve them.

Version-first community

Recipe collection

Shared versions

Import bench

Capture rough recipe text and clean it into Aurella.

URL import queued

Paste recipe draft

Build queue

Ready now: manual recipes, paste import, scaling, planner, shopping list, community forks, supermarket mock matching.

Next: URL import, user accounts, real product matching, public recipe moderation, saved weekly menus.

Future: partner/API supermarket carts, native mobile app, affiliate checkout, price-history intelligence.

Backend records

Built around the app

Aurella is for people who want their cooking life to feel lighter, cheaper, and more organised.

It is part recipe box, part planning desk, and part shopping companion. The goal is simple: help people cook well without feeling trapped by expensive meal kits, endless decision fatigue, or scattered notes.

Aurella in a different home cooking setting

Cook smarter. Spend less. Eat better. Together.

Aurella should feel calm, useful, and premium from the first screen. The product is being built in public for everyday Australians who want practical help, not noise.

For Australian cooks

Shopping intelligence is designed around the stores people already use. Coles and Woolworths matching are the early focus, with a compliant integration path planned as the product matures.

Meal kit alternative

Instead of locking people into a weekly box, Aurella helps them reuse ingredients, compare costs, avoid waste, and still cook meals they are genuinely excited to eat.

Chef-grade by default

Yield, batch cost, portions, notes, forks, substitutions, allergens, and dietary tags all matter here. The community should reward useful cooking, not just pretty photos.