--- title: "About Cronch: the personal agent for meals, water and breaks" description: "What Cronch is, why it exists, what it will never do, and who makes it. A personal agent that plans meals, water and breaks around your calendar." canonical: "https://cronch.io/about" last-updated: "2026-10-07" --- # About Cronch. Cron jobs for your body. Cronch is a personal agent for developers. It plans meals, water and breaks around your work and your calendar, and checks in on a schedule you choose. Here is why it exists, how it works and what it will never do. updated october 7, 2026 ## What is Cronch? Cronch is a personal agent for developers that plans meals, water and breaks around your calendar and pings you when it’s time. It is made by two co-founders, it is in private beta, and it is free during the beta. ## Why it exists Flow state is great until it’s 4pm, you’ve had three coffees and zero meals, and the headache arrives before the fix does. People who work at a computer all day skip lunch without deciding to, forget water for hours and stop taking breaks once the afternoon fills with calls. The usual fixes miss. Reminder apps nag at the wrong moment, often in the middle of a meeting, so you learn to dismiss them. Diet apps want you to log every almond. Cronch takes the other route: it runs on a schedule, knows your calendar and stays out of the way. It is a crontab for lunch. ## How it works 1. **It learns you once** A one-minute conversation covers your diet, allergies, budget, how much you want to cook, your work hours and when you don’t want to hear from it. You can edit all of it later like a config file. 2. **It plans the day around your work** Breakfast, lunch and dinner, water and short breaks are scheduled around your hours. Add meetings in plain text or with a calendar link and meals move to after a call instead of landing in it. 3. **It checks in, and you answer in one tap** Pings arrive by email or on the Today dashboard every 45, 60, 90 or 120 minutes, never in quiet hours. Each one is Done, Snooze or Skip. That is the whole input. 4. **It works where you already are** The same day is inside ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code and Cursor through a remote MCP server, and in your terminal through the CLI. Developers can use the [REST API](https://cronch.io/docs) too. ## What Cronch won’t do - **Order or pay for food.** “Order it” opens a search on Uber Eats, DoorDash or Google Maps. You choose and check out yourself, and Cronch never stores a card. - **Count calories.** You mark a meal done, skipped or snoozed. Nothing else is asked of you. - **Sell your data or show ads.** Cronch keeps what runs your day, uses no third-party analytics or tracking cookies, and you can delete your account and everything tied to it from Settings. - **Ping you during quiet hours.** Pings never fire in quiet hours, and they route around the meetings you add. The full details are in the [privacy policy](https://cronch.io/privacy). ## Where it stands Cronch is made by two co-founders and is in private beta. Invites go out in small batches from the [waitlist](https://cronch.io/#join), and everything is free during the beta. Paid plans are planned for after it; see [pricing](https://cronch.io/pricing). To reach us, email [support@cronch.io](mailto:support@cronch.io) or see [contact](https://cronch.io/contact) for what to include. ## Cronch at a glance - **What it is**: Cronch is a personal agent for developers that plans meals, water and breaks around your calendar and pings you when it’s time. Each meal, glass of water and break is one tap: Done, Snooze or Skip. - **Who it’s for**: Developers and anyone who works at a computer all day and forgets to eat, drink water or take breaks. - **What it plans**: Breakfast, lunch and dinner (plus an afternoon snack on long days), water pings and short breaks (stretch, a 20-20-20 eye break, a walk), and a wind-down at the end of the workday. - **Meetings**: Paste meetings in plain text or connect a calendar link. Meals and pings move to after a meeting ends and never fire during quiet hours. - **Pings**: Every 45, 60, 90 or 120 minutes during work hours, by email with one-click Done and Snooze links, or on the Today dashboard. Snooze is 15 minutes by default. - **Food**: Each meal fits your diet, allergies, budget and how much you want to cook. “Order it” opens a search on Uber Eats, DoorDash or Google Maps. Cronch never places orders or charges you. - **AI apps**: A remote MCP server with 17 tools works in ChatGPT, Claude (web, desktop and mobile), Claude Code and Cursor. There is also a CLI and a Claude Desktop extension. - **Price**: Free during the private beta. Pro ($8 a month) and Teams ($6 per seat a month) are planned and not on sale yet. - **Status**: Private beta with a waitlist. Invites go out in small batches. - **Made by**: Two co-founders. Contact: support@cronch.io. ## Keep reading - [How to remember to eat while coding](https://cronch.io/remember-to-eat): Why lunch disappears in flow, and a schedule that brings it back. - [Water reminders for developers that skip meetings](https://cronch.io/water-reminders): Hydration pings that wait until your call ends. - [Break reminders for programmers that fit your day](https://cronch.io/break-reminders): Short breaks you’ll actually take, on a cadence you pick. - [How to plan meals around back-to-back meetings](https://cronch.io/meals-around-meetings): Where lunch goes when the calendar is full.