Ripe Planner — Know What to Cook Next

What Ripe does

Every idea, scored. Every peak, timed.

No black box, no guessing. Every number comes from real search data and plain rules you can see and adjust.

01 — Rubric score

Know which ideas are worth your time right now

Every keyword gets a 0–100 score blending search volume, difficulty, timing, and SERP competition — weighted however you want, normalized against your own library. Higher is better: a 92 beats a 38.

Adjust each factor's weight in Settings, recalculates instantly
A factor weighted to 0% never counts against a keyword
Dashed ring flags missing data but still returns a score

Volume 30% · Difficulty 30%
Timing 25% · SERP 15%

smoked ribs92

lemon poppy seed cake67

white chili38

02 — Seasonality & timing

Publish during the ideal window before the spike

Auto-fill reads years of monthly search volume to find real peak months, then works backward from your own lead-time settings to a Go Live By date. Or set peaks by hand, on every tier.

Evergreen, Mild, or Major seasonality, each with its own lead time
Recipe Planner calendar drives straight off the same peak data
Click any bar on the chart to mark or unmark it as a peak, or let Ripe handle it for you

12-month seasonality

Peak: October–November · Go Live By Aug 15

03 — Discover & Remix

Find the searches you didn't know existed

Type one seed and get real related keywords with live volume and difficulty attached. Remix invents variations of a short seed and checks which ones people are searching for.

Cherry-pick mode: browse variations before spending a credit
Cached results never count against your monthly quota
Add winners straight to your library, fully filled in with keyword data, categorized, and tagged

Seed: pecan pie

pecan pie recipe135,000Medium

chocolate pecan pie8,100Easy

cheesecake pecan pie6,600Easy

mini pecan pie4,400Medium

04 — Recipe Planner

A calendar that already knows your deadlines

Drag keywords straight onto the month, week, or day they need to publish. Every card already carries its Go Live By date, so scheduling is a drag-and-drop, not a spreadsheet lookup.

Month, week, day and special 3-day mobile views
Google/Outlook calendars show alongside, read-only
Reschedule an existing chip by dragging it to a new day

05 — Content Gaps

See the recipes your competitors haven't covered

Compare your library against up to three reference sites' sitemaps (no AI crawl) to find what they've published that you haven't or where your own site has a thin branch.

My Site view breaks your own coverage down by dish format
Competitor Gaps compares post-for-post against your real competitors
Your first reference site gets a free sitemap scan and DA stats

My Site

Site 1

Site 2

blueberry waffles

Gap

Has

banana waffles

Has

Gap

pumpkin waffles

Gap

Has

chocolate chip waffles

Has

06 — Difficulty & SERP check

A difficulty score you can trust

0–100 backlink-strength read on the current SERP top 10. Set a Benchmark DA or your own site to see how you'd personally stack up before you write a word.

Let Ripe calculate it for you, or explore the full SERP yourself
The SERP check adds backlink-gap numbers automatically, no manual math
Every check is cached, so switching reference sites costs nothing

Can you rank it?

For your DA of 31, it will be:

Tough Mixed Easy

See full SERP breakdown →

07 — Authority Planner

Group related ideas into one topic

Bundle keyword variations under one shared dish so you build real topical authority instead of publishing near-duplicates. Ripe finds the clusters in your library automatically, or build one by hand.

Bundle score is the average of every keyword inside it
Each keyword still tracks its own slot, volume, and Go Live By date
Reorder which keyword publishes first without leaving the bundle

▾ Entrees — Meatloaf

Shared: Meatloaf

70 339KOct

#2 Main mini meatloaf recipe 71 12.1K

#3 Main chicken meatloaf recipe 70 4.4K

#1 Main italian meatloaf 70 2.9K

Know what to cook next.