Ripe Planner
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Ripe helps food bloggers and recipe developers plan what to cook, when to shoot it, and why it's worth publishing. Keyword research is one piece of that, not the whole enchilada.
Follow seasonality, schedule your shoot calendar, track a recipe from idea to published, discover what to make next, and yes, still find the keywords worth chasing. All in one place. See full documentation.
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Open the app, enter your first name, last name, email, and a password of 8 or more characters, then click Create account. Check your inbox for a confirmation link, then sign in.
Your data syncs to the cloud automatically. Use Ripe Planner from any device, and every change saves as you type. Watch for the small Saved indicator in the top bar.
New accounts start with 10 sample keywords already loaded, so there's something to explore right away. Click + Add keyword in the top bar to add your own. The essentials
Everything above feeds a single rubric score from 0 to 100, blending volume, difficulty, timing, and SERP. How scoring works →
Open the Discover tab and type one seed keyword to explore ideas around it, with live volume and difficulty data on every result.
Click Import CSV in the top bar and upload a spreadsheet from Google Sheets, Excel, or your keyword tool. Ripe Planner matches columns automatically and shows you the mapping before anything imports. Tags generate automatically on import. Free plan imports are capped at 500 rows per file.
Tags group related keywords, for example chicken, cheesecake, thanksgiving, smoked, from over 185 built-in rules covering ingredients, dish formats, holidays, and cooking methods. Tags apply automatically when you add a keyword from Discover or import a CSV. For a manually typed keyword, click Autofill tags in the flyout to run the same rules on demand. You can add your own tags on any keyword too. Turning a rule off or changing what tag it applies is a Pro+ feature.
Singular and plural forms of the same word both fire a rule, but only the singular shows up as its own tag ("apples" and "apple" both tag as apple). When adding a new rule, type the singular form when one exists; the app will warn you if what you typed looks plural. More on plural handling →
Open the Recipe planner tab. Your unscheduled keywords sit in the left sidebar, sorted by due date. Drag one onto a month to schedule it. Click a month name for week view, or use day view for shoot day planning.
The Authority planner tab finds groups of keywords in your library worth tackling together, across four cluster types. Save a cluster to track it, or schedule the whole group to your calendar in one click. Details →
The Content Gaps tab compares your keyword library against up to 4 reference sites (your own plus up to 3 competitors), so you can see which recipes they've covered that you haven't, or which ones you have that they don't. The My Site view flips it around, showing how your own site's posts break down by dish format. Details →
Open any keyword and scroll to Recipes. Every keyword includes one free recipe. Track its name, status, and scheduled date. Novice+ unlocks additional fields on every recipe: published URL, publish date, Google rank, and traffic, plus the ability to attach more than one recipe per keyword. Details →
In Settings you can rename statuses and pick their colors, edit categories, adjust rubric weights, set lead times per seasonality, and choose what shows on your dashboard. Your plan and keyword usage live under Settings → General. See plans and pricing.
Ripe Planner never hides a feature you don't have access to: a locked feature always shows a lock icon and the tier name that unlocks it. What each tier includes →