Release notes

This is where I write down everything I change in Cleo Plan: the big features and the small fixes. I update it whenever I ship something.

July 17, 2026

Weekly roundup
Cleo PlanNew

Recipes that remember where they came from

Add a link when you save a recipe and Cleo pulls the title from the page for you, so it always shows where a dish came from. Grocery lists also got quicker to use, add an item right inside its section, and click any item's name to edit it in place.

Here's everything that landed in Cleo Plan this week.

Recipes that remember where they came from

Add an optional link when you save or edit a recipe and, if you don't set a title yourself, Cleo fetches the page and fills one in from its title. The recipe library and editor both show a small "From {source}" line so you always know where a dish came from.

Faster grocery list editing

Grocery lists now work the same way packing lists already do: every section ends with its own "Add to {Section}" box, so you can add an item right where you're looking. Click any item's title to edit it in place, change its quantity or store section, and save without leaving the list.

Improved

  • Design: tightened up colors, casing, and the wordmark, plus a calmer error color and warmer surfaces, to match the Cleo look more consistently throughout the app.

Fixed

  • Trips: clicking "Add existing task" on a trip's page could crash it if the task or member list came back malformed. Fixed.
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July 3, 2026

Weekly roundup
Cleo PlanNew

Plan trips, right in the app

I added a full trip planner to Cleo Plan, a date-range trip with its own to-do list, linked groceries, and a packing list your family can assign and check off together, plus a branded PDF you can actually take with you. Recipe-backed meals also now scale to how many people are actually eating, and there's a new place to jot what's in your fridge.

Here's everything that landed in Cleo Plan over the last two weeks.

Planning a trip with a packing list in Cleo Plan

Trips, to-dos, and a packing list that's actually yours

A new Trips section lets you create a trip with a date range. It pulls in the meals you've already planned for those days, links to your grocery lists, and lets you assign existing tasks to it instead of only creating new ones there. Every trip also gets its own packing list: free-text sections, items assignable to a family member, checkable as you go, with a "hide packed" toggle to keep it focused on what's left. Edit an item's name or section in place, no need to delete and re-add.

It downloads as a real, Cleo-branded PDF now too, organized by person, with a page at the end for anything you think of after you've packed. A much better fit for an actual suitcase than a browser print job.

A recipe's grocery list scaling to the number of people eating in Cleo Plan

Recipes that shop for the right number of people

A recipe says it serves 2, but your family is 5. Until now, the grocery list only ever shopped for the recipe's stated serving size. Now it scales every ingredient to how many people are actually assigned to eat that meal, plus any extra guests you add, so a dinner for the whole family actually shops for the whole family. Quantities that can't be scaled, like "salt to taste," are left alone.

Fridge & pantry

Settings has a new "Fridge & pantry" card: a freeform, family-shared note of what's on hand. Jot it in yourself, or check off a grocery item and it gets added automatically. It also feeds meal planning, so suggestions can take into account what you already have.

Improved

  • Family: everyone can now have a real photo instead of initials, wherever they show up across tasks, meals, and packing. Set it once in settings and it's shared across Cleo.
  • Settings: a new "Family & Personal Context" section (About you, about your family) that Cleo factors into its suggestions. You can also add a child to the family directly from Plan settings now.
  • Tasks: AI suggestions now look consistent everywhere they show up, the same dashed badge and check-to-accept treatment across tasks, recipe links, and grocery items. The feedback form also has its own page now instead of being buried in Settings.
  • Actions: suggestions tied only to a task that's since been closed now clear themselves automatically.
  • Tasks: the task detail page shows a subtle "last updated" timestamp.
  • Desktop sidebar can now collapse for more room.

Fixed

  • Actions: a suggestion could tell you to text yourself about your own task ("Text Scott" for something already assigned to Scott). Cleo now knows who's asking, and only suggests messaging someone else.
  • The task assignee picker's selection ring rendered as a subtle oval instead of a circle. Fixed.

Scott

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June 19, 2026

Weekly roundup
Cleo PlanNew

Cleo now suggests your next move

When the week is full and you're not sure what to tackle next, that's what Actions is for. A new feed reads your family's meals, tasks, and grocery list and surfaces what to do next, with one tap to act.

Here's everything that landed in Cleo Plan this week.

Cleo Actions

A new Actions page (and a card on the dashboard) reads what's on your family's plate and surfaces suggested next steps. Each suggestion has an executor: copy an AI prompt to paste into Claude or ChatGPT, draft an email you can send in one tap, or pull up the grocery list as a full Instacart ordering prompt. Complete or dismiss any action, and the list updates as things change. Actions are linked to the specific tasks or grocery lists they're about, so tapping through takes you straight there.

Dietary preferences

Settings now has one plain-text field per family member. Add whatever fits: restrictions, preferences, the things people won't touch. Cleo folds these into AI suggestions for meals and actions, so it can take each person's needs into account rather than guessing.

Improved

  • Meals: AI meal suggestions now cover breakfast and lunch, not just dinner, and only propose meals that are still ahead in the day.
  • Meals: Tap any dish to open its detail page: nutrition, who's eating, when it was added, and a delete button that asks you to confirm first.
  • Grocery: The "Copy for LLM" button on a grocery list now produces a full Instacart ordering prompt you can paste into Claude or ChatGPT.
  • Grocery: New Grocery Stores page in settings. Add your family's stores and link each list to one.
  • Sign-in: If you're redirected to sign in while heading somewhere specific, you now return there after signing in instead of the dashboard.

Scott

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Cleo PlanNew

Links on your tasks

Adding links to a task in Cleo Plan

The recipe, the school form, the registry page. Now they can live on the task itself instead of in a note to yourself.

Here's what's new in Cleo Plan this week.

Links on your tasks

Open any task and add the links that belong with it: a title and a URL, plus a short description if it helps. They're one tap to open, and you can remove one anytime.

Fixed

  • Nutrition: If a calorie or protein estimate ever doesn't come back, there's now a small re-estimate button to try again. Your logged meal was never lost, it just needed another pass.
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June 5, 2026

Weekly roundup
Cleo PlanNew

Nutrition in plain words

"One hard-boiled egg" is enough. Log a meal the way you'd say it out loud, and let Cleo work out the rest.

Type what you ate in plain words and Cleo estimates the calories and protein in the background. Your daily totals add themselves up, and you can pull today's planned dishes straight into your log. Your nutrition log stays private. Meal plans are shared; what you eat is yours.

Scott

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May 22, 2026

Weekly roundup
Cleo PlanNew

Meet Cleo Plan

What's for dinner, and who's doing pickup? Cleo Plan puts the week's meals and to-dos in one place, so you're not holding it all in your head.

Plan the week's dinners on a simple grid, tap a family member onto any dish so everyone knows who's eating what, and keep the to-dos somewhere you can all see them. It's free on the web at plan.cleofamily.app.

Improved

  • Tasks: Family tasks are shared with everyone; personal tasks stay private to you.

Scott

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