Just ask
Week gone sideways? Say what you want, snap what you’ve got, and the tomte does the fiddly part. Smart Actions are the bits of My Tomte that run on AI.
AI meal planner and recipe scanner
Plan by asking
Type what you’d say to a very patient housemate:
- “Something quick with chicken on Tuesday.”
- “No red meat this week, and nothing spicy for the kids.”
- “Use up the pumpkin before Friday.”
The week rearranges itself, and every dietary rule still applies.
Photo to recipe
A splattered cookbook page, a magazine clipping, a PDF. Snap it and it becomes a proper recipe. Recipe site being difficult? Screenshot it on your phone and the screenshots become the recipe instead. (Handwriting is beyond the tomte for now.)
Receipt reading
Snap the receipt and your kitchen fills itself in, prices included.
Food diary guesses
Had a Big Mac meal? There’s no label to scan, so ask the tomte for its best guess. It goes in the diary marked as a guess, so nobody mistakes it for a label figure.
Finding what’s in it
A food the tomte’s never heard of? It goes and finds the nutrition for you, or reads it off a photo of the panel on the packet.
Ask in plain words.
Say it like you’d say it to your partner. Allergies still count.
Photograph a cookbook page.
Grandma’s scone recipe, typed up for you.
Snap the receipt.
Forty items on the shelves before you’ve put the kettle on.
What counts as a Smart Action
Each of these uses one:
- Planning or changing meals by asking
- Turning a photo or screenshots into a recipe
- Reading a recipe link the tomte can’t make sense of on its own
- Reading a receipt
- Guessing what’s in a food for the diary
- Finding a food’s nutrition, or reading it off the packet
One thing you asked for is one Smart Action, however much work goes on behind it. If it doesn’t work, or it turns out not to need AI, it’s free.
Everything else is free to use as much as you like: planning the week, swapping meals, shopping lists, calendars and tasks.
How many you get
| Plan | Smart Actions a month |
|---|---|
| Solo & Couple | 10 |
| Family | 20 |
| Premium | 150 (fair use) |
Unused ones hang around for one more month, then wander off. Need more? Top up with 20 for $2.99, on any plan. Top-ups last six months.
Your data and AI
Smart Actions are powered by Google Gemini and Anthropic. Only what a request needs is sent (the words you typed, or the photo or receipt), never details about the people in your household, and neither provider trains its AI on your data. Data and security
Smart Action questions
Do I have to use Smart Actions?
Not at all. Everything else in My Tomte works without them.
What happens if I run out?
Everything else keeps working. Top up, or wait for next month’s allowance.
Do dietary rules still apply when I ask for something?
Always. Asking nicely doesn’t get around an allergy.
What’s coming next?
Finding and building recipes just by asking. It’s on the roadmap .