Busy parents are turning to AI-powered apps to manage the logistics of family life, such as meal planning, grocery planning and scheduling appointments. Getty Images/iStock

The first time Brit Kwait, a vegan mother of three in Chicago, outsourced her meal planning to AI, she felt like a 1950s housewife who’d just used packaged dough for the first time.

But in 2025, her kitchen shortcut was an app called Ollie that used artificial intelligence to help her branch out beyond stir-fries and grain bowls.

Every week Kwait, 40, types into the app what’s on sale at her local grocery. Ollie comes back with recipe ideas, tailored to Kwait’s family, the rest of whom are vegetarian. “They’re picky on what they’re going to eat,” she said, estimating that the app saves her as much as five hours a we

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