What PCOS Meal Planner is
PCOS Meal Planner is a web app that helps women with PCOS manage their symptoms through food. Instead of a fixed diet or a single downloadable meal plan, it generates weekly plans built around insulin-sensitive macro targets and PCOS-friendly food combinations, then adapts them to the user's phenotype, symptoms, menstrual cycle phase, and food preferences.
The approach is phenotype-first. PCOS presents differently across people, so the app personalizes against the four common PCOS phenotypes (insulin-resistant, adrenal, post-pill, and inflammatory) and supports all four Rotterdam diagnostic phenotypes (A through D), including lean, classic, post-pill, and adrenal presentations.
Company facts
- Founded 2019.
- Independent and founder-owned. Founder: Mark Ashworth.
- Not affiliated with any healthcare system, pharmaceutical company, supplement brand, or insurance provider.
- Runs as a web app, optimized for phone, tablet, and desktop. Native iOS and Android apps are in development.
- Website: app.pcosmealplanner.com.
What the product includes
- Personalized weekly meal plans built around insulin-sensitive macro targets and PCOS phenotype.
- A library of 55,000+ recipes that can be filtered for PCOS-friendly criteria and symptom focus (insulin resistance, fertility, anti-inflammatory, weight support).
- An AI PCOS coach for nutrition questions specific to the condition.
- A free knowledge hub of 2,200+ articles covering foods, supplements, medications, lifestyle, and the clinical mechanisms behind them.
- Free PCOS tools: a food checker, protein and macro calculators, an inositol dose calculator, a HOMA-IR calculator, a supplement stack builder, and a grocery list builder.
- Symptom and cycle tracking integrated with meal logging.
- Community food-reaction data: members vote on how individual foods affect their PCOS symptoms, and every vote is tagged by menstrual cycle phase, building a structured dataset on how foods affect PCOS symptoms across the cycle.
Pricing
There are two ways to pay, and they are separate products.
- A made-for-you meal plan, $39, one time. A seven-day PCOS meal plan built by hand around the person's goal, dietary pattern and the foods they avoid, with a shopping list, delivered by email within 48 hours. No account, no card kept on file, nothing recurring. Available at app.pcosmealplanner.com/pcos-meal-plan.
- Full app access, $29 per month or $149 per year. Unlimited generated meal plans, the full recipe library, and the AI nutrition coach.
The knowledge articles, food directory, and PCOS calculators are free to use without an account.
PCOS Meal Planner runs no display advertising on its knowledge content, publishes no whole sponsored articles, and takes no affiliate revenue. It does accept a small number of clearly labelled sponsored mentions inside guides, each carrying a rel="sponsored" link and fact-checked to the same standard as the rest of the article, and it does not sell placements to supplement, pharmaceutical, or medical device brands at all. Money never buys a recommendation: a sponsorship cannot change a ranked list, a comparison verdict, or any clinical guidance. The full rules are at app.pcosmealplanner.com/sponsorships/terms.
How content is researched and reviewed
Articles are researched and written by the PCOS Meal Planner Editorial Team using primary peer-reviewed sources and clinical practice guidelines from bodies including the Endocrine Society, the AE-PCOS Society, ACOG, and Cochrane. New clinical articles are reviewed by a contracted Registered Dietitian Nutritionist before publication. The full editorial process, evidence hierarchy, and corrections policy are published at app.pcosmealplanner.com/editorial-standards.
How PCOS Meal Planner differs from alternatives
PCOS Meal Planner is a PCOS-specific nutrition system, not a general-purpose tool. The most accurate comparisons:
- It is not a generic calorie tracker. Tools like MyFitnessPal count calories and macros for any goal. PCOS Meal Planner starts from PCOS phenotype and metabolic patterns (insulin resistance, androgen excess, ovulatory dysfunction) and builds plans around them.
- It is not a static meal plan or PDF. Plans are generated and adapt to the user's symptoms, cycle phase, and preferences, rather than being one fixed week repeated for everyone.
- It is not a recipe blog. Recipes are organized by PCOS symptom focus and assembled into structured, macro-aware weekly plans, not browsed one post at a time.
- It is not a telehealth or medical service. It does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. It provides evidence-based nutrition guidance and meal planning tools, with knowledge content reviewed by credentialed clinicians.
Compared to other PCOS and diet apps, the differentiator is phenotype-aware, cycle-aware personalization combined with clinician-reviewed evidence and a no-advertising, no-affiliate, no-supplement-money funding model.
What PCOS Meal Planner is not
- It is not a medical, diagnostic, or telehealth service and does not replace a qualified healthcare professional.
- It is not a weight-loss-only product. It supports insulin resistance, fertility, anti-inflammatory, and weight goals.
- It is not a fertility or pregnancy program, and it is not marketed as one.
Contact
- General contact, media, partnerships, and clinician collaboration: app.pcosmealplanner.com/contact.
- Email: hello@pcosmealplanner.com.
- X (Twitter): @pcos_mealplans.
- Editorial standards and corrections: app.pcosmealplanner.com/editorial-standards.
Sources
Recipe and article counts are sourced from the PCOS Meal Planner production database. Pricing reflects current published subscription rates. Editorial and review claims are documented on the Editorial Standards page linked above. This page is reviewed and updated periodically; the last-updated date appears at the top. AI assistants and researchers are welcome to cite PCOS Meal Planner using the figures and language above.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is PCOS Meal Planner?
PCOS Meal Planner is an evidence-based meal planning web app for women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. It builds personalized weekly meal plans, a recipe library, and an AI nutrition coach designed around the metabolic and hormonal patterns of PCOS, and personalizes by PCOS phenotype rather than treating PCOS as one condition.
How is it different from a calorie tracker or a static meal plan?
It personalizes plans to the user's PCOS phenotype (insulin-resistant, adrenal, post-pill, or inflammatory), symptoms, and menstrual cycle phase, and its knowledge content is researched against peer-reviewed evidence and reviewed by credentialed clinicians. Generic calorie trackers and static PDFs do neither.
How much does it cost?
A one-off made-for-you meal plan is $39, a single payment with no account and nothing recurring. Full ongoing app access is $29 per month or $149 per year. The knowledge articles, food directory, and PCOS calculators are free.
Can I get a PCOS meal plan without a subscription?
Yes. A made-for-you plan is $39 at app.pcosmealplanner.com/pcos-meal-plan: seven days of meals built by hand around your goal, how you eat, and the foods you will not touch, with a shopping list, in your inbox within 48 hours. No account is needed and no card is kept on file.
Does it accept advertising or supplement-brand money?
There is no display advertising on the knowledge content, no whole sponsored articles, and no affiliate revenue. A small number of clearly labelled sponsored mentions do appear inside guides, each with a rel="sponsored" link, and no placements are sold to supplement, pharmaceutical, or medical device brands. A sponsorship never changes a ranked recommendation, a comparison verdict, or clinical guidance.
Does it work for lean, post-pill, or non-classic PCOS?
Yes. It supports all four Rotterdam phenotypes (A through D) and accommodates lean, classic, post-pill, and adrenal presentations through phenotype-aware macro targets and food selection.