Filipino recipes priced in pesos, a weekly planner and a palengke list that writes itself, and Kaldo, your AI kusina helper. All on your phone, even without signal.
Free to download · No account needed · Works offline · English and Tagalog
Core The five you’ll use most
440+ Filipino recipes with ingredients, steps and the cost per serving, in pesos.
Every meal of the week with its estimated cost, or let Kaldo suggest the dishes.
One list for the week, grouped the way the palengke is, with a running total.
Your AI kusina helper, in English or Tagalog. 3 free chats a day, unlimited with Pro.
Snap it, and Kaldo names it and tells you how to cook it. Free scans Filipino dishes, up to 5 a day.
Free Also included
No account and no time limit. Every Filipino recipe in the app is yours to browse and read.
By dish or ingredient, with budget and regional filters.
Set what you can spend; the planner fills the meals.
Add one dish to the list, priced and grouped.
Collections, favorites and every dish you’ve cooked.
Your family’s recipe, typed in or scanned from a cookbook.
Who you cook for and what they eat come first.
Matches your phone, or your choice.
Dish names stay Filipino in both.
Free: today’s dishes on your wrist, view only, with the next dish marked and the Ulam ng Araw when nothing is planned. Pro adds cooking mode on the Watch (the step with its progress, Back and Next, and the step’s timer) and the palengke list, tick by tick. Your iPhone stays nearby.
Opened flat, Home, the Planner and Saved use both halves: today’s dish beside the shortcuts, the days in two columns.
Pro Ulamin Pro
Everything in Free, plus what’s below. Starts with a 14-day free trial.
One big step at a time, with the timer built in. Recipes stay free to read.
Tick what you have and see what to cook tonight.
A party menu for any number of guests, with one market list.
Next week and any week after, repeating meals ahead.
Not just Filipino dishes, and no daily scan limit.
Unlimited AI chat, under fair use.
One meal plan and Palengke list for the whole family, in step on every phone. Joining is free.
Switch between your own plan and the family’s, and see who added or changed each meal.
Subscribe inside Ulamin, with the price in your currency shown before you do. Cancel any time in your phone’s settings. Recipes to read, this week’s plan, the list and the Apple Watch glance stay free. If Pro ends, nothing you made is deleted.
Every phone screen on this page is the real iPhone app, captured in the iOS Simulator. The iPhone Duo and Apple Watch screens are captures from their simulators. Recipe and ingredient photos are credited on the Credits page.
Plans Free and Pro
Both include browsing and reading every Filipino recipe, this week’s plan, palengke lists, your own recipes, automatic backup to iCloud or Google, the Apple Watch glance and the iPhone Duo layouts.
| Where they differ | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| World kitchen dishes | Not included | Included |
| Cooking mode | Not included | Included |
| What’s in your ref? | Not included | Included |
| Dish scans | Filipino dishes, up to 5 a day | Any cuisine, no daily limit |
| Apple Watch | Glance (today’s dishes) | Glance, Cooking and Lists |
| AI chats with Kaldo | 3 new chats a day | Unlimited (fair use, up to 100 new chats a day) |
| Meal planning | This week | Any week, and repeat meals ahead |
| Your own versions of a recipe | 3 | Unlimited |
| Handaan planner | Not included | Included |
| Family Sharing | Join one | Start one and share your meal plan and palengke list |
| A backup file you keep yourself | Not included | Included |
Pro starts with a 14-day free trial, monthly or yearly. Plans and prices in your currency are shown in the app before you subscribe. Scanning a dish is AI too, with its own daily allowance by plan, counted apart from your Kaldo chats.
Yes. The recipes, the planner and your palengke lists live on your phone, so they work with no signal at all, and so do cooking mode and its timers if you have Pro. Only Kaldo’s chat and food scanning need a connection.
Each ingredient has one price, from the Department of Agriculture’s Bantay Presyo daily price index for Metro Manila where the DA tracks it, or an Ulamin estimate where it doesn’t. Every cost in the app is an estimate. Open an ingredient to see its source, and set what you actually pay: every recipe, plan and list uses your price from then on.
Kaldo is Ulamin’s palayok and your AI kusina helper. Ask him what to cook with what you have, how to swap an ingredient, or what’s in a dish. He only talks about food: recipes, cooking, ingredients, nutrition and allergens. Free gives you 3 new chats a day (follow-up questions in a chat are free); Pro has unlimited AI access under fair use.
A scan sends the photo to Ulamin’s server so Kaldo can read it, and it isn’t kept there. Photos of dishes you finish cooking stay on your phone.
The person who starts a family (Pro) invites everyone else, who join for free with no sign-up. The family then shares one meal plan (almusal, tanghalian, merienda and hapunan, for any day or the whole week) and one palengke list. Anyone can add or change a meal or an item, tick off what they bought, and see who did it, and everyone’s phone stays in step, even after being offline. Your own plan and lists stay on your phone, and you can switch between them and the family’s.
No. There’s nothing to sign up for. Your data stays on your phone, and it backs up on its own to the iCloud (iPhone) or Google (Android) account the phone already uses, free. A backup file you keep yourself, to save anywhere, is part of Pro.
A chat is one conversation with Kaldo, and follow-up questions inside it are free. Free includes 3 new chats in any rolling 24 hours, and the app shows how many are left. Ulamin Pro gives you unlimited AI access under a fair-use allowance of up to 100 new chats in any rolling 24 hours; Pro never shows a counter, and if you ever reach the allowance the app tells you when it comes back. A chat that fails to get an answer doesn’t count, food scans aren’t counted as chats (they have a daily allowance of their own), and reinstalling the app doesn’t reset it.
Cooking mode with its step timers, What’s in your ref?, the world kitchen, scanning any dish with no daily limit, Apple Watch Cooking and Lists, unlimited Kaldo chats (fair use), planning next week and beyond, the Handaan planner, as many of your own recipe versions as you like (Free keeps 3), and a backup file you keep yourself (automatic backup to iCloud or Google is free). Browsing and reading every Filipino recipe, this week’s plan, the palengke list and the Apple Watch glance stay free. Pro starts with a 14-day free trial; prices in your currency are shown in the app before you subscribe, and you can cancel any time in the App Store or Google Play.
No. Scanning a dish is an AI feature with a daily allowance of its own, counted apart from Kaldo’s chats. Free scans Filipino dishes, up to 5 a day; Pro scans any cuisine with no daily limit, under fair use. Your plan decides the allowance, and a scan that fails to get an answer isn’t counted.
Nothing you made is deleted: your plans, lists, notes, saved dishes, cooked history, your own recipes and the ingredients you ticked in What’s in your ref? all stay. Cooking mode, What’s in your ref?, Apple Watch Cooking and Lists, the world kitchen and planning beyond this week lock until you subscribe again, and they are all back when you do.
The whole app is in English and Tagalog; switch any time in Settings. Dish names stay Filipino in both. Bisaya is planned.
Yes. The glance is free for everyone: today’s dishes on your wrist, view only. With Ulamin Pro the Watch also follows cooking mode with the step, Back and Next and the step’s timer, and lets you tick off the palengke list as you shop. Your iPhone does the work and stays the one place your data lives, so the Watch needs it nearby. On Free, the Watch’s Cook and List pages show a lock and a short note.
Yes. Opened flat, Home, the Planner, Saved and the List use the extra room: today’s dish beside the search and shortcuts, the week’s cost beside its budget with the days in two columns, baskets side by side. Closed, it keeps the usual iPhone layout.
On iPhone, Ulamin is on the App Store as “Ulamin AI: Pinoy Meal Planner”, free to download: tap the App Store badge on this page. Android is next.
Plan your first week in a few minutes, and let Kaldo help with the rest. Your recipes and lists stay on your phone.
