Sadya Planner · quick guide

Plan your function, step by step

Each step shows the app's own screen and what to tap. Stuck somewhere? Jump to Stuck? at the end.

1

Pick your country, your region and the occasion

  • The first time you open the app it asks where you are cooking or shopping. Tap your country: India North America Europe UAE Australia or New Zealand. It sets your currency, units, local shops and prices.
  • Changed your mind, or travelling? On Home, tap Change next to Region and pick another country.
  • Tap your region: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka or Andhra & Telangana. It sets the menu and the dish names.
  • Tap the occasion: a festival, a wedding function, an observance or a family ceremony.
  • About Sadya Planner is at the top of Home. The Play the Sadyoku puzzle link at the bottom opens the puzzle in a new tab. On a free trial, the last line shows the days left. Delete my account, beside Privacy, removes your trial account.

A Tamil family in New Jersey picks North America and Tamil Nadu: a Tamil menu at US prices. Australia and New Zealand have their own shops and price estimates too.

The home screen with Kerala selected
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Dishes / Beverages: check each dish

  • See every chosen dish with its calories and allergen tags (dairy, gluten, nuts, mustard and more).
  • Change where a dish comes from with its Source box.
  • To add or remove dishes, go back to Menu.
  • Tap a dish name to open its recipe.
The Dishes and Beverages tab
4

Grocery: what to buy, and how much

  • Quantities are worked out for your guests, in your market's units.
  • Type what you already have in At Hand. To Purchase goes down.
  • Untick To Buy to leave an item off your prints and messages.
  • Prices are estimates for your country. Type your own price to replace one. Australia and New Zealand estimates come from India At Home and Vel Spices (Australia) and Mandi Bazaar and The Food Land (New Zealand). Items those stores do not sell, such as fresh vegetables and milk, start empty: type your own.
  • Tap Pooja Samagri for the pooja items, flowers and shops in your market.
The Grocery list
The Pooja Samagri list
5

Swaps: for allergies and diets

  • Open Swaps for substitutions that keep each dish tasting like itself: ghee, dairy, wheat, nuts and more.

Prasadam is always home-cooked, with the Sattvik recipe: no onion, garlic or asafoetida.

The Swaps tab
6

Save and share your plan

  • Tap 💾 Save. Saved plans are in History to open and change later.
  • 📄 PDF prints the purchase planner. 📊 CSV opens it in a spreadsheet.
  • 💬 WhatsApp sends the whole shopping list in one message, to your spouse or the shopper.
  • Using a caterer? Quote and Send to Caterer share your menu and guest count.

Plans are saved on the phone or laptop you use. Open History on the same device.

The printed purchase planner
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Recipes: read it or listen to it

  • On Menu and Dishes / Beverages, tap any dish name that has a small book mark 📖 after it. Its recipe opens.
  • The recipe scales to your guests: change Cooking for and the ingredient amounts change.
  • In English, press 🔊 Listen to hear how to make it. First it asks “Have you kept all the ingredients as per the recipe ready?” Check the list, then tap Yes, ready.
  • It then reads the method one step at a time, with pauses. Back, Pause, Next and Repeat step keep you in control. It names the ingredients but never reads amounts: follow the recipe on screen.
  • The voice is your phone's own English voice and works without internet. Nothing is recorded, saved or shared.

Hear an American accent? On Android open Settings, then Text-to-speech, and install English (India) voice data, then press Listen again. The line under the buttons shows which voice is speaking. Listen is for English only.

The Menu tab with a small book mark after each dish that opens a recipe
A recipe with the Listen button at the top
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Weddings: one function at a time

  • Pick the function in Wedding function type, from the engagement to the reception.
  • Choose its dishes, then tap Complete selection, or Skip if you are not hosting it. The next function opens.
  • Set the meal time once for the whole function. The Grocery tab shows an estimated caterer cost.
The wedding menu for the Wedding Day, Kalyanam

Stuck?

The app looks old, or a fix isn't showing

Tap the ↻ button at the top right. On a laptop you can also press Ctrl + Shift + R.

My grocery list is empty or short

Enter your guests and tick dishes on Menu. Only Home dishes are on the list: Caterer and Store dishes are ordered, not cooked.

A Navratri day is still red

Type that day's guests, then tap Make my Prasadam Choices, or tick Full meal and tap Make my Menu.

The wedding stays on one function

Tap Complete selection to move on, or Skip if you are not hosting that function.

A price looks wrong

Prices are estimates for your market. Type your own price over it. Local taxes and service charges are extra.

I can't find my plan

Open History on the same phone or laptop you planned on. Plans are saved on that device.

Still stuck?

Write to info@sadyaplanner.app with your region, the occasion and what you tapped. We'll help.