Scope note: This PRD is based on the product information provided for the landing page and Play Store draft. It describes intended user-facing behavior, not verified implementation. Validate all requirements, privacy statements, and supported capabilities with the actual app before treating this document as final.
1. App title
WeeklyMealBudgetPlanner
2. Full app description
Make mealtime planning feel a little easier with WeeklyMealBudgetPlanner—a friendly place to organize your meals, grocery list, and weekly food budget.
Planning the week can help you spend less time wondering what to make and shop with a clearer idea of what you need. Keep your meal ideas together, plan ahead at your own pace, and bring your grocery list along for the trip.
PLAN YOUR WEEK
Lay out meals for the days ahead and keep your ideas in one place. Start with a favorite recipe, make room for a busy evening, or leave a day open—your plan is yours to shape.
KEEP YOUR BUDGET IN VIEW
Set a weekly food budget and see your planned spending as you organize meals and shopping. A little visibility can make it easier to make choices that fit your week.
MAKE A SHOPPING LIST
Gather the groceries you need for your planned meals in one handy list. Review it before you shop and keep your trip focused on what you came for.
A SIMPLE ROUTINE, YOUR WAY
WeeklyMealBudgetPlanner is designed to help bring meal planning and grocery budgeting together without making the process feel complicated. Update your plan as life changes, try something new, and make the most of the ingredients you choose.
Plan a little. Shop with intention. Enjoy more good meals with WeeklyMealBudgetPlanner.
3. Product overview
WeeklyMealBudgetPlanner is an Android app intended to help people plan meals for a week, organize groceries for those meals, and keep a self-managed food budget visible. The central experience connects a weekly meal plan with a grocery list and planned spending, helping users prepare for shopping and reduce dinner-time guesswork.
4. Problem statement
People often decide meals, track grocery needs, and think about spending in separate places. This can make weekly food planning feel repetitive and disorganized. The product should bring these related planning tasks into a clear, approachable routine without implying that it predicts store prices or manages a user’s finances.
5. Goals and success outcomes
- Help users create and revise a plan for meals across a week.
- Make a weekly food-budget target and planned spending easy to find.
- Help users collect grocery items in one list for a planned shopping trip.
- Keep the core planning flow understandable for first-time users.
- Clearly explain data handling and permissions before release.
6. Intended users
- People who plan meals for themselves or a household.
- People who want to keep a weekly food budget in view while planning.
- People who prefer a simple grocery list tied to meal ideas.
- Users with different budgets, cooking routines, dietary preferences, and levels of planning experience.
7. Core user journeys
- Set up a week: Open the planner, choose or view a week, and add meals to days or meal slots.
- Set a budget: Enter or adjust a weekly food-budget amount and review the planned amount against it.
- Prepare a grocery list: Add grocery items for planned meals, review or edit the list, and use it while shopping.
- Adapt the plan: Update meals, budget, or grocery items when plans change.
8. Functional requirements
8.1 Weekly meal planning
- FR-01: The app must present an identifiable weekly planning view.
- FR-02: Users must be able to add, edit, and remove a meal entry from a day or meal slot.
- FR-03: Meal entries must show enough information for users to recognize the planned meal; optional details must not block basic planning.
- FR-04: Changes to a plan must be reflected in the current weekly view.
8.2 Budget planning
- FR-05: Users must be able to set and edit a weekly food-budget amount.
- FR-06: The app must display the budget and the planned amount or remaining amount using clearly labeled values.
- FR-07: The app must make it clear that budget figures are planning estimates based on user-entered information, unless a verified pricing integration is added.
8.3 Grocery list
- FR-08: Users must be able to add, edit, and remove grocery-list items.
- FR-09: The list must be readable while shopping; item completion state should be visually distinguishable if supported.
- FR-10: Meal planning and grocery-list content should be easy to navigate between. Any automatic conversion of meals or ingredients into list items must be confirmed as an implemented capability before it is advertised.
8.4 Data and privacy
- FR-11: The product must explain where meal, budget, and grocery information is stored and how users can delete it.
- FR-12: The privacy policy, Play Console Data safety responses, permissions, and behavior of included SDKs must agree with the release build.
- FR-13: If information is stored locally only, the app and policy must not imply cloud backup, sync, or cross-device access.
9. Non-functional requirements
- Usability: Primary actions—view plan, add a meal, view budget, and open the grocery list—should be easy to locate and labeled in plain language.
- Accessibility: Support Android text scaling, adequate contrast, meaningful labels for controls, and touch targets appropriate for mobile use.
- Reliability: Saving or changing user-entered plans should provide clear confirmation or error feedback; avoid silent loss of edits.
- Performance: Core planning screens should become usable promptly on supported Android devices; set and test a measurable launch target before release.
- Security: Minimize collected data and protect any data transmitted or stored according to the final architecture.
- Compatibility: Define and publish supported Android versions and device requirements in the release configuration.
10. Out of scope for this draft
- Automatic grocery price lookup, retailer integrations, or guaranteed savings.
- Medical, nutrition, allergen, or weight-management advice.
- Meal delivery, online checkout, or payment processing.
- User accounts, shared household collaboration, or cloud synchronization unless separately specified.
- Recipe database or automatic nutrition calculations unless verified in the shipped app.
11. Acceptance criteria
- A user can identify the selected week and add, change, and remove a meal plan entry.
- A user can set a weekly budget and understand how displayed planned and remaining amounts are calculated.
- A user can create and maintain a grocery list without losing track of list items.
- Empty, invalid, and interrupted states provide understandable guidance.
- Core screens remain usable with accessibility text scaling and mobile assistive technologies.
- Release listing claims and the privacy/Data safety disclosures are verified against the signed build and its SDK inventory.
12. Dependencies and open questions
- Confirm the actual feature set and supported Android version with the release build.
- Confirm whether groceries are manually entered, generated from meals, or both.
- Confirm how planned spending is calculated, which currency or locale is supported, and whether item prices are optional.
- Confirm persistence, backup, export, account, analytics, advertising, and crash-reporting behavior.
- Provide genuine screenshots and store-ready creative assets before Play Store submission.
- Confirm the distribution method and replace the temporary APK download target with the published store URL when available.